Photos from First Term

Here are the photos from first term.

These are the first graders in oral communication class.

Here are the first grade students in grammar class.

Here a student in first grade is looking for worksheets in our self-access library.

Here is our board after a first grade reading class. The drawings were actually a reading comprehension activity to see how well the students understood a description of Cliff Young, a famous Australian marathon runner we studied about in class.

Here the first graders are working in their special projects class. We were making a book. The most important part of the class is not the actual product (in this case, the book), but rather the process of using English in a cooperative work situation. Most of my students think we're simply coloring, and don't really think about the give-and-take language, cooperation language, the negotiation, agreement, disagreement and resolution that goes on in special projects. I told my third graders recently that I'm often teaching them a lot more than I tell them I'm teaching them, and that they sometimes won't know exactly what it is I'm teaching them. Another point of our special projects class is learning independence, since I don't actually help them very much: Mostly I moderate.

Here are the second grade students doing some reading comprehension drawing as well, this time drawing Bob McIntosh from "Getting a Haircut in the Army", an amusing story about an unfinished haircut during the US Civil War, taken from Henry Steele Commager's excellent book The Blue and the Gray.

Here are the second graders taking one of our many quizzes.

Here are the third grade students having a discussion about one of the readings.

Here the third grade students are preparing powerpoint presentations for reading class.

Finally, here one of my high school first graders is trying to sneak away with our class mascot.

There are a few more pictures I would LOVE to put up ... such as when the first grade moms came, or when the second graders were giving dance lessons ... but I swore I wouldn't, so you'll just have to use your imagination.

Date: 2009⁄08⁄14 11:57｜Permalink｜Author：nelp

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