Lesson 7

My expectation for this lesson were high, we create a lot of material so students can enjoy and can feel part of the class, eager to participate and to learn more. I can say that i fulfill my expectation, because I really enjoyed every stage of this class.

We started with the hello song, we sang it with the students, we were arrange making a circle as a whole group, we made the mimics and we played the song, since they already are  familiar with the rhythm. It worked perfectly and I felt that students enjoy it even more, because they already know the lyrics!

The class started with the game “ Snake follow”, and it consist on having students asked by the teacher to line up behind each other to form a line, simulating a snake. Then students were asked to say  “ Where do we want to go?” and them teacher Deyanira said sentences like : I want to go to the gas station. After that, teacher and students started to walk to a different part of the classroom until they get to the place in which the name of the place shouted before by the teacher is located at. When they get to that part, they repeated the name of the place 2 times.

I really think  that this was a great way to start the class since students were active and they were focusing and enjoying the game and the learning at the same time.

We were encharged to teach the structure “WANT TO + VERB”, but before teacher Luis start to present the key structure, he made a reinforcement the personal pronouns. ( I, She, He, They.) 
After that, the structure Want to + verb (go) was presented using flashcards. and students were asked to repeat the sentence.
I think this part was very insightful for us as teacher, because students get it really quickly and that made things a little bit easier for us.

Teacher Yeniffer came out with two activities. In the first activity, students were asked to work in pair to arrange in the correct order the structure of a sentence. When students finished  arranging the papers, teacher Yeniffer passed an object and when she said stop, the pair that has it was asked to read the sentence aloud.
 I really like this activity since cooperative learning is something really important, and we could notice that students really enjoy working in this way.

The second activity was with the spinning wheel, students were asked to spin the wheel, and  the space where it stops, it has an image of the places in the community and a pronoun. After that, when they already had it, they were asked to write it on the board and then read it aloud to check it with the classmates.
This was a really good practice because you could notice where students were having troubles.

But we wanted to see how much students were understating, and  teacher Wanda had two activities prepared as well.  A word search was carry on at first, and students were asked to work in pairs, they received a sheet of paper and they had to enclosed the words. When students finished, they had the same word search chart pasted in the wall and they were asked to pass in front and enclosed one word.
I saw how much students enjoy this activity, they were really engaged on it.

The second activity was a worksheet, this time was individual, the worksheet contains 5 pictures of the places in the community, and student were asked to choose 3 of them and write a sentence. When they were done with it, they were asked to pass in front and share one sentence.

Something i really like from this activity is that students were volunteering and they were eager to participate

When its almost time to go, it was my turn to conclude the lesson with a spider web game. In this game a ball of wool was passed to students, when the student had the wool they were asked to answer a question and then trow the wool to a different classmate to form an spider web.
This activity was fun, I had some inconvenience at first because of time issue, but then it was really fun and really excited to see how students were into the topic, because they wanted to form a sentence even if they were asked to say just a place of the community. And with this I learn that sometimes we need to let students participate and not stop them.

And now its time to say goodbye.

I enjoyed this 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, and those things make us grow as teachers, and know that we receive that feedback, we know how we can improve for our next lessons. Personally, I learnt a lot in this lesson, specially what I just state before, its really important to let our students participate and not stop them when they are into it anad really eager ti participate.