Week of February 24th to 28th

Whats your favorite game? Art Activity: The students painted a picture of their favorite  game we have played this month. Most of the students decided to paint Buwan Buwan(The Phillipino game)!!

Vehbi loves to paint!

Irma's with her beautiful painting of Buwan Buwan!

Continuing our discussion on same and different, the students created their own same and different chart. They had to color, cut and paste different shapes into the right column. 

Busy coloring! Good work !! :)

Emre and Nissanur are working together :)

Comic Yoga class:I decided to incorporate  yoga as a means to help improve the students ability to listen and follow instructions while moving and stretching in different positions.  This video was really, really great as the whole class participated!! I plan to continue to use these videos as a class activity every week!

http://youtu.be/_Zvu1AgGJwQ 

Reach for your toes and then stretch your arms up to the ceiling!

We had so much fun with this activity! We practiced action verbs( stand up, sit down, on your knees, on your back, on your stomach, stretch, reach, lift, release) and the parts of the body (arms, fingers, hands, toes, legs, knees, back, stomach).

What's the time, Mr Wolf? game and art activity.. Lets make a clock and ask the wolf what tıme ıt ıs!

Shhhhh .. The students are sneakıng up on Emre wolf !! What tıme ıs ıt.. It ıs DINNER TIME!!! RUN RUN RUN!!!

Happy Wednesday Everyone!

Here is the Picsa album link where I will upload all the photos I take during class so you can see what activites we are doing and how much fun we are having together! I will still post some of the photos on the blog page for you to see along with the video and song links. 

https://plus.google.com/photos/105991457774241944678/albums/5981634396367987537?banner=pwa

Welcome Back: February 10th to 15th!

Hello Parents!

My name is Kate and I am the English Teacher for your children this semester. I'm from Canada and I'm very excited to be here teaching in Turkey!

Our theme this month is Children's Games. I have organized a lot of fun and engaging activities for this unit. I will post on my blog as frequently as possible!

Lines of Inquiry:
1. The games that they play and the objects they use while playing
2. Their feelings while playing (empathy, win or lose)
3. Their responsibilities and roles during the games (cooperation, teamwork)

Concepts:
Empathy
Cooperation
Entertainment

This week the theme was introduced. I asked them “What do we need when playing a game?” Vocabulary: ball, dice, board etc and some verbs such as: run, jump, stop, and go. 
For a pre-assessment activity, the students drew 4 of their favourite games. We acted them out afterwards together.

Throughout the week, the students learned how to active games such as:

Tic Tac Toe ( Also known as X's and O's= A board game where two people play against each other  and take turns to get 3 in a row either horizontal or vertical)

Musical Chairs (Listening to music and instructions such as stop and go! The last one to find a chair is out so you better be quick!) 

Hopscotch (Jumping game where we also reviewed counting from 1-10 during the games)

Buwan, Buwan ( A Phillipino game where the children my stay on the lines and run away from each other without getting caught!)

Lastly, I introduced and discussed 3 different sports: baseball, basketball and football.  
The students colored and pasted the balls onto their appropriate playing field.      

                  

The children really enjoyed listening and doing the actions to this song:

Pancake Manor link:

SPORTS BALLS (Song For Kids ♫

I also introduced a new song called “Do you like?” Anna Teacher and I plan to sing this song for our recital in the spring time.

"Do you like?" link:

Do You Like Broccoli Ice Cream? | Food Song

I'm looking forward to the rest of the month! Have an excellent and safe weekend!

Week of February 17th to 21st!

 Let's make our own puzzles! Draw, cut and put back together!

 

Yusuf is putting the puzzle pieces together!

Let's work together to solve the puzzle!

Élanur and Selen are busy drawing their sports puzzle!

Bowling time! Try to get a strike or spare. How many pins can you knock down?

Irmark is trying here best to knock all the pins down and get a strike!

 Let's play a risk taking game. Be careful not to knock down the Jenga tower! The students worked together in groups to build their towers and slowly removed the pieces one by one. They took turns and worked together to make sure it didn't fall down!

Build the Jenga and carefully remove each peıce!

We also read a story called Froggy Plays Soccer  which can be found in the One More Story library collection. We reviewed the action verbs within the story

This weeks homework: Reread Froggy plays Soccer storybook from The One more Story online library collection.  If you do not have the user name and password it is just :Coskun (for both user name and password).

Carnival game day was a great success!  

Bobbing for apples a game where the children must use only their mouths to retrieve an apple from a bucket full of water!)

Bobbıng for apples! Do not use your hand or arms.. only your teeth!

We also played pin the tail on the donkey (a game where the children are blindfolded and have to listen to directions to put the tail right on the tail target) 

You can do ıt Affon! You are very close to hıttıng the target!

Muazzez.. turn the other way!

Song and Story Links:

Dream English: What can you do? Action Verbs continuation 

http://youtu.be/IzVrYdb6B6s

Fitness Songs for Kids- Cool Sports link:

http://youtu.be/tIORtqkZoFk

I introduced the concept of same and different.  We played a matching game on the smart board to match certain images together or to identify them as different. The students were engaged and enjoyed being able to say if the pictures were the same or different. 

Here are the links to the same and different song: There are two songs... See if you can do it together!

http://youtu.be/Gng5a5FCSZc

http://youtu.be/WYFElYZwTRY

I have also started to get the students to practice request for permission such as...

Water: May I please get drink some water?

Toilet: May I please go to the bathroom (or use the toilet)?

This helps to expand their vocabulary and start to develop sentences in English. 

I will frequently pose on the blog page photos of our activities, videos and songs shown within class so you can watch and listen at home!

Take care and have a great weekend :)