Lesson 3

And the time for giving our class arrive. 
My teacher compound by: Yeniffer Avalos, Wnada Carranza, Deyanira Castro, Luis Oyarbide, and me, Vanessa Aguilar.

I expected to have more students, to integrate them in all the activities and make them feel comfortable and part of the class, but even if we have few students, I can say that they learn what my teacher colleagues  and me taught.

We started with the hello song, but we make it different, this time we sang it with the students, we were arrange in two lines so we could face each other and sing the song as a whole group, we made the mimics and we played the song, so they get familiar with the rhythm. It worked perfectly and I felt that make students enjoy it even more!

We were encharged to teach playground objects and prepositions, and since I started the class, and want them to feel enthusiastic and into the class, I decided a very unique and dynamic activity that includes realia.  The activity was that each of the students have to pass a real playground object, but when they have the object in their hands, they had to say the name of the object. The object pass twice in their hands, so they repeated the word twice.
Some of the objects were: Skateboard, baseball, basketball, rope,  soccer ball.
I think that  students enjoy the activity, and something that I really like was that, they were very enthusiastic at the moment of participating and saying the name of the object. 

After that, teacher Wanda started to present them the prepositions: next to, behind, in front of, and between. In order for Teacher Wanda present this, she used some visual aids where she was demonstrating them where and how were the objects arranged to be in that specific place. Teacher Wanda did an excellent job, she made  students repeat, she explain it with the playground objects also so students were in touch with the vocabulary and the prepositions, and also the pronunciation of it.
It was a good explanation because the students acquired  and they were enjoying and participating when teacher Wanda asked them something.

Teacher Luis came out with some commands, integrating the prepositions with the playground object using the realia. He said different commands and the students need to perform the command. He performed and example before the activity starts.
The commands were like: Touch the rope behind the soccer ball.
I think this activity was a good practice for students, because they had already seen the playground objects, and then the prepositions, but now they had to integrate them both, and actually the students were paying attention and were participating when he was doing this.

But we wanted t to see how much students were understating, and  teacher Yenifer made students feel more comfortable, when she said that they were going to play a competition game. Since it was a competition game, they were asked to make two groups, each of the groups took their turn to perform the action. Group A was the first, they had to read the command to group B, hence they had to perform the action, and voiceovers. since the groups were not complete, teacher Yenifer asked me to join group B, so we were 4 and 4. I think this is one of the best strategies a teacher can use without make them feel stressed, because she notice that students really acquired when she asked them to start playing.

When its almost time to go, teacher Deyanira concludes the lesson with The musical chair game, the purpose of it was to review the whole class. The game started when the song started, they had to walk around some chairs, and the music stops, they had to find a seat, the one that has no seat, was asked to answer a question. She used realia in order to asked students. So, the students were asked to say a preposition or a playground object depends on what the teacher asked them to say. I really like this activity because its how you know students had acquired the knowledge of what they were taught.

And now its time to say goodbye.

I enjoyed this first experience, and having my colleagues make it more meaningful for me, of course at the end of the class we received some feedback, which will make us improve next class. 

One of the most insightful comments that we receive was that all the activities were really good, they had a good idea and they were well developed, but we had to made some changes in the moment of the practice, we were giving command like: “Touch the soccer ball next to the baseball.” and the suggestion was that we could have said: “ Touch the playground object that is next to the baseball.” Another comment we receive was that the name of the object should have been pasted on the object rather than on the floor, but we didn't make it like that because since the first activity the students had to pass the object around the name would have provably fallen. But those things make us grow as teachers, and know that we receive that feedback, we know how we can improve for our next lessons.