Once again as an observer...

This time I want to start with a phrase that caught my attention. "If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea." Antoine de Saint Exupery. I choose this phrase as a message to our minds for the moment we teach our students because it is important not just giving a class but building knowledge inside of them.

my next point is to talk about the vocabulary and grammar class I observed last friday 6th, I consider that teaching grammar is a little more hard than vocabulary but the two groups did it well.

the first group that teach vocabulary was Esmeralda, Grisel and Rony. I liked the technique the group implement in order to make the kids pay attention. It was a gift for each one putted in a little box. the class was separated into two grous of kids and they will recieve some candys at the end of the class as a gift for their good behavior. The gift were some candies put in two boxes, one for group one and the othe for group two. If the kid was breaking the rules he lose their candy and it was given to the ones from the other group, put in their box and it was like that during all the class.
Then, Esmeralda introduces the topic and the vocabulary with a creative activity with flash cards and making them repeat it s many times as necessary and putting away one flash card each time they started repeating.

Following, was Grisel´s turn. She continuos with some others activities to make them memorize the words. As the one in which she past one kid to the front and pasted different words from the vocabulary on kids forehead to make him guess the words with the mimics the others did.


For the last part of that class Rony conclude with an activity about matching and then a game with a cube that made teachers confirm that kids had memorize the words and that they did a good job.

TIME FROM GROUP 2
That time the teachers were  Isabel, Nancy and Nathaly. they developed the grammar topic "present perfect"
This time I forgot to take pictures of Isabel but, she introduces the topic to the kids. first she explains some examples on the board, the she used a signboard with some sentences and asked the kids to repeat it.

Then, was Nancy´s turn. She made them work on the floor. the activity was that kids had to look for the corret words in order to make a sentence. The group who finished first was the winer and the looser lost a candy from their box.

finally was Nathaly´s turn. She developed some funny activities that made kids keep away their tiredness and made them feel funny and exciting! she asked them to passed around their bodys an ula hoop and during that time she was counting from one to ten. When she stopped counting the one who had the hoop lost and had to made a sentence using present perfect.

To conclude, at the end of the class kids received their corresponding gifts and some snaks. I consider that both groups put in practice very good techniques and activities in order to develop a comprenhensible class. I like to observe my classmates because it helps to improve myself.