Journal Week 8

Journal #8

In this week the students reviewed the adverbs of frequencies and habits. In one of the activities, the students classified healthy and unhealthy habits. The advantage of this theme is that students will become aware of the life habits they have. So these activities help children learn new vocabulary that is used daily and in their environment and how they can modify their habits of a healthier way.

This week I put a text for students to learn to understand the texts and thus have the ability to take general ideas. The paragraph is about a boy named Roberto who had unhealthy habits. Then the students wrote a paragraph about the healthy habits Roberto should have to always be healthy and energetic.

Students learn to code information and be a little more critical of the reality around them.

Journal week 7

Journal #7

When you are a child, you always dream of being a professional person, for example, I want to be a doctor to help the sick. This has been one of my favorite classes because the topic motivates students to obtain a goal. Start the class by asking them Do you like to help? How would you help someone? It is good to make students aware of the importance of helping others through community work.

We analyze some types of jobs, for instance, being a firefighter, helping to put out fires or lowering cats that are trapped in tall trees. Through this exercise, they can identify their skills to help others. For this, I asked them to choose a profession and why they decided to choose it. Some students wanted to be a police officer, to lock thieves in jail; They drew themselves like cops.

And for the students to live the role of that work, I asked them to create a dialogue and to act as that community helper.

It was a very cool activity because the students lost their fear of acting and had fun. 3 groups could not present due to lack of time, but I qualified them for the effort they made and during the break, they presented me with their dialogues.

Students who speak English but with family activities must be encouraged to feel safe and motivated to work in class.

Journal Week 6

Journal #6

My students like to play a lot, and I thought we could play in the playground and put English into practice. Taking advantage of the fact that in that week students were learning the interests and hobbies in English and of course using the "I like" (Example, I like swimming). I decided to play "The king likes". The king likes running and all the students ran; but if a student was wrong, he had to say an interest or hobby in English.

Students liked this activity and I noticed that they learned a little. Sometimes we as teachers are a bit selfish and do not share with students in a more playful way and not necessarily be in the classroom. We must bear in mind that students are children and they need to be entertained with some activity, this is due to their imperative.

One of my students told me "Professor, I like English classes", it is a good reward for the teacher to know that his students are motivated and that they enjoy the classes.