Lesson 2

During this lesson, I was expecting the class to be more creative and more catching, not only for the students, but also for the other teacher that was observing the class. 

The class started with the the  hello song, as all the classes will start, but the way that the teachers did it was really fascinated, they decided to sing the song along with the kids, they include mimics that make it even more interesting, and they were arrange in a circle so all of them can see each other. And in fact, even if the song was sang by them it was very interesting they way they arrange it and the mimics they did. I think the next group of teachers, including mine, will include the same mimics as this group did.

Remember the last group taught classroom activities right?. Hence teacher Yaneth  started the class with a review of classroom activities with a very unique and dynamic activity.  The activity consist that students needed to make a human chain, and they had to pass through them a hula hoop with out braking it, it was very challenging because the students didn't have to separate their hands, but despite that they enjoy it a lot. When teacher Yaneth says “Stop” the student with the hula hoop needed to answer a question about last class, they did it great they remember the classroom activities they studied.
 Students enjoy the activity, and something that I really like was that, they were very enthusiastic at the moment of participating in class. And since teacher Yaneth had a great energy, the students adopt the enthusiastic mood she transmitted.

After that, teacher Gloria started to present them the key structure that was: “ There is/There are.” In order for Teacher Gloria present this, she used some visual aids where she was demonstrating them where and how they needed to ask for classroom objects. Teacher Gloria did a great job pointing out the differences in when they needed to use “is” and “are”.
It was a good explanation because the students really acquired that for two or more object they need to use: “There are” rather than “There is.”

Its time to practice, and teacher Nancy came out with two different activities, both of them were really interesting. I really enjoy both of the activities, but for me the best of them was the first one, because if they know how the words of a question are arrange, they will know how to use it, and so does with the answer.

The first activity was  really interesting for cooperative learning, the group of students were divided in two,  the first group needed to arrange a question and an answer of it, and when it was turn for the second group, they did the same. What it was interesting for me during this activity was the constant monitoring that teacher Nancy had for the students.

The second activity was for each student, they were asked to pick a piece of paper, it has a number, so when each of the students had their number, they needed to go to the chart that matches the number.  Some of them were asked to write an answer, and some of them were asked to write a question.

  

When it comes into the production part, teacher Brenda made students feel more comfortable, she asked them to sit on the floor to reduce anxiety; what for me was the exact moment to do that. When students were on the floor, teacher Brenda gives them a flash card to each of the students, she asked them to write one sentence and to look for another two classmates and write two more sentences, so at the end they had 3 sentences. When they were done with the sentences, they were asked to pass in front and read one of the sentences.
I think this is one of the best strategies a teacher can use, because she notice that students really acquired when to use “There is” and “There are”.

It is almost time to end the class, and teacher Jackelin concludes the lesson with a game, the purpose of it was to review the whole class. She used realia in order to asked students. So, the students were asked to pass a ball and when she says “stop” the one who has it, needs to answer a question. Some of the answers were:
-There is a computer.
There are 3 notebooks.

I really like this activity because its how you know students had acquired the knowledge of what they were taught, besides that it was more meaningful for them because real objects were used to carry on the activity

And now its time to say goodbye.

I really like this lesson, and even I was observing the class, I felt part of it. It starts with a good energy, and it ends with a great energy. The hula hoop  was something really different, and something that I really enjoyed, I think that in the future this might be an activity that I will incorporate, it brings such a good energy to the class, and since its something different it reduce the stress and let the class carry out with an enthusiastic mood.

 I really like the way each of the teacher monitor what students were doing. And it is something very crucial in the students learning process.