September 2008 - Posts

21 September 2008
Go Shopping

This last week I used my class' theme time to allow them to learn on their own. Using my "Go Shopping Cards." I created a set of cards with a food beginning with each letter of the alphabet. Students play like GO FISH, however I only let them have one Read More...

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06 September 2008
PE and Music reinforce language

During PE and Music and Movement: PE time was focused on body part recognition and movement words. Stretching before activities I would reinforce right hand and left hand, right leg and left leg, for one month I even had them wear a bracelet that spelled Read More...

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06 September 2008
Sticker Charts

I started sticker charts without the goal of adjusting behavior. Instead, I felt the learning of the words was a good goal for them. In addition, I use it to help them master the phrase, “May I have a sticker please?” then I reinforce words being learned Read More...

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06 September 2008
Articles from the start!

While I expect most students to continue to make mistakes in the area of article usage, I make it a point with every noun to say ‘a’ or ‘an’ and reinforce the idea of vowels. Very early I told the students ‘a’ is the first letter of the alphabet and it Read More...

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06 September 2008
Sight Words and Reading

Sight words and reading: the first book students read was My books appendix E which I remade from a Scholastic reproducible resource. Concepts big, small, head, English, math ... were presented as words and ideas. I focused on MY and BOOK. I reinforced Read More...

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06 September 2008
Math

After using various worksheets and a laminated card with numbers to 170, color coded for students to count by 2’s, 5’s, and 10’s, I began using a 1st grade math book, ‘Steck and Vaughn Core Skills’. Math gave some of the students a difficult time at first, Read More...

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06 September 2008
Color Color Color

As a note about writing and using black and white pages even for math, I use color pencils/crayons to make it more interesting and to help develop accuracy in writing. Students are excited to write letters when they write in rainbow colors. I also use Read More...

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06 September 2008
HABA Games

At the school I am at the director includes HABA and HABA type games in the schedule. Using these games to reinforce, game playing phrases, such as “Your turn” “Is it my turn” “ Roll the die” as well as teaching a phrase for each game. Such as “Don’t Read More...

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06 September 2008
Duck, Duck, Goose

Many incarnations of “DDG” have developed. Most recently, we played it as “Olympic Ring.” Students would touch a friend’s head and say a sport we learned when they said a sport twice or said ‘RUNNING’ then the student touched would begin chase. Other Read More...

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06 September 2008
My family/ My Day theme

During the “My Family/ My day” Theme, I taught by repeating a few simple phrases explaining a child’s day. “I wake up.” “I get up.” “I get out of bed.” ... see appendix D As I said each phrase, I would make a unique action for each. After they became Read More...

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06 September 2008
Beginning Phonics

Through July we worked on Alphabet letters only during Phonics time. using MCP phonics level (A) ... however, I did not merely tell them the names of the words they didn’t know. I had them spell out the names under the pictures. Even though at first they Read More...

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06 September 2008
Theme

) Theme time has been a good learning experience for the students, mainly because, I focus not merely on the theme for the month but on simple phrases. As we learned each theme topic, (toys, spring/ my day, family, farm animals/pets, wild animals, sports/Olympics, Read More...

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06 September 2008
Show and Tell update

9/6/2008 I haven’t written in a long time. As a summary, I will highlight some of the point I have noticed about the last 5 and a half months. KINDER *6yr old The students (now 12) of Rabbit class can now with only a prompt of a waving hand say the phrases Read More...

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06 September 2008
Show and Tell

3/26/2008 Today, I had several students give a “show and tell.” Now, the students didn’t know what the name of their toy that they brought was, in English. So, I had to tell them. Not only tell them the names of the toys but also the way to say every Read More...

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06 September 2008
Educator Journal of Donald Ruhe

03/24/2008 Today is the first entry. I have been teaching EFL in South Korea for the past 2 years and 4 months. My most recent job began at the beginning of this month (March), which is the beginning of the school year here in Korea. First, I will explain Read More...

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