Sixth class

Teachers: Gisselt, Cristela, Monica. 

Topic: Days of the week and numbers from 11-20. Vocabulary: Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, numbers 11-20. Grammar: What day is today? What is your favorite day? Review: T h e n u m b e r s, t h e alphabet (How do you spell Sunday?), the colors (red, blue, yellow, green, pink, orange, brown, white, black) Prepositions (Monday is between Sunday and Tuesday)

 

Teacher Monica start the class as usual with the HELLO song, but this time with some different movements. This time children had some faces that refer to happy, sad and hungry and they jumped to the face according to what the song said. Children enjoyed this song and with the new adaptation.

  

Then, teacher Monica did a warm-up activity with a technique that were presenting on class, it was “spinning Wheel” in which kids reviewed the previous topics, those topics were: Family members, numbers, colors, and spelling. I like the activity and the way that teacher Monica developed the activity and I guess we can use it in order to review some topics.

 

After that, she continued with the presentation of the topic: "Days of the week and the number from 11 to 20”. She started presenting the numbers from 11-17 whose purpose was just they had a little knowledge, thereby children had the chance to call them at the time they were completing the chart. When they took a number, they discovered a day of the week in which they started to practice. Then, she said the days of the weeks with by singing a song:
"Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, What day is today? What day is today? Friday, Friday." 

I can say that this presentation was an interesting one and I can use most of the ideas for my next classes. And according to Piaget’s Assumptions about Children; they learn many things on their own without the intervention of older children or adults. That was perceived in the class because kids to a good job during the presentation, they were very active during the presentation and that helps for the practice stage. 

 

The practice time was in charge of teacher Gisselt and teacher Cristela. Teacher Gisselt use a calendar to practice the days of the weeks and she reviewed the colors and numbers at the same time. As Vygotsky suggested, the calendar is a good tool to teach the day of the weeks because children can associate the calendar that they had at home and make the interaction with theirs parents saying the days of the weeks in English according to what they learned in class and I consider that is a good idea to practice at home using objects that they had in the real world.
 
 

Then, teacher Gisselt present a train with eight wagons, she presented one, but then children needed to their own train with the days of the week. In this practice we can see how well the fine motors skills work because children needed to paste the day of the week in the wagons in order to form a train. Also it helps students to internalize the target language and when the students finished she asked to say the days of the week that they had in the train. I like the activity and I consider that I can use with different topics in order to know if children acquire the target language. After this activity, they had to perform another task with the boxes another activity that we presented in the workshop, teacher Gisselt asked the kids to take a balls and they threw in a box and then they said the day of the week that corresponded to that box.

 

 
















 

Teacher Cristela presented a missing word game by skipping some days of the week in order to have children complete the missing days of the week by saying aloud. I like the activity and I will use it in my futures class because they were full of color and children had the opportunity to review the colors with the day of the week. Also, she did the final practice and it was painting with clay. In here students were challenge to painting with the clay the days of the week they were also improving their fine motor skills and when they finished painting they spell the day of the week to the teacher. To sum up, in this class students practice their fine motor skills in different activities and they learned new vocabulary that they can apply it in their lives.