Week 4- Grammar

Zoo Animals' grammar.

Teachers: Rebeca Beltetón,  Ariana Díaz, Federico Echegoyen.

Hello everybody today I am sharing the experience of the second class of grammar, this was an amazing class they were teaching "they are" and "It is". The teachers developed an exelent class. Lets start with the class, at the begging of the class I was impressed  the class start at time also because when Rebeca Start the class was not difficult for her break the ice maybe because was the second time that the kids saw a familiar face anyways Rebeca did an exelent job she give a little and fast review to the kids using the material they have paste in the walls all the time she was in front of the class she was modeling that really help to the kids to understand what Rebeca was saying, another thing that really help is the fact that she use all of material, visual material that catch up children's attention, the wram up activity was exelent the kids enjoyed every moment of the activity they were so motivated, when Rebeca ask for a volunteer the kids were so comfortable and they did not think twice to participate in the activity,  the objective of this activity was complete.

Suddenly she start with the introduction of the grammar lesson that is one of the most importats parts of the class she used papers pasted in the board to explain "they are" and "It is" she explain the difference between both expressions and she give clear examples, the kids were playing attention all the time they were so interested in what Rebeca was saying when she was giving the example for "It is" she used "a" but she took the time to explain what means "a" and then she give 3 minutes of the class to the kids to coppy the grammar structure and the examples that was exelent, all the time she was monitoring if the kids were coppyng after all she did another activity that help to see if the topic was clear, she give differents littles imagenes to the kids and then she ask to paste them in the correct place in the area of "they are" or "It is".

Ariana did the next activity, at the moment she start the class givin peaces of papers with differents words like "they" "are" "bears" "it" "is" "a" "monkey" then she ask them to pasted the papers in the board in the correct place, I consider that this activity was exelent because in this ways the teachers could see that they internalize the grammar structure some of the kids pasted the word in the incorrect place but I could observe that others classmates realize about that and they help each others, moreover she continued with her second activity giving  simple woorksheets to complete sentence with "they are" and "it is" this activity was according to the class the kids finish the activity very quickly I guess that they did this activity faster that the time expected. Something that ariana must improve is how she catch the attention of the kids in the begining the studensts lost the attention and started to talk and others things but with the time she was in front everything change, another thing is that in some moments she give instructions and look just a part of the class and the rest of the class was a little bit lost in what they had to do.

To finish the class Federico get into the role of teacher and he catch up children's attention quickly, he ask for children's favorite animal and then he explained the meaning of draw using modeling to have a good explanation, then he give clean papers to the students and ask to draw 3 favorite animals, he was monitoring the work of the kids all the time, he took enough time to make shure that every student did the activity which is good, then he give intrusctions to share with the partner next to them what they had been drawing, after all he did the last activity "memory game".

Things to improve: 

• Clap or speak louder when the kids are not playing atention to the teacher.
• At the moment of organize who will develop theactivities make shure that all the teachers have the same number of activities or the same work od the rest of the teachers. 
• Control the feelings.
• Try to look all the kids when you are giving instructions.
• Don't take all of time to do just an activity.
• In the production part try to do an activity acording to the skill that the teacher is developing for example give some zoo animals' pictures and ask to the students to describe what they see in the pictures in that way they will speak and practice the grammar instruction. 
• When the teacher finish the class give instructions to the kids to stay in the desk in that way give the snacks will be easier.

To sum up, this was an amazing class the students learn the difference between "they are" and "It is" and the use they have in English, the teachers did an exelent job they improve all of in comparison with the first time they past in front, nevertheless there are a little details to improve, thanks for being in front sharing your knowlege and at the same time sharing the experience with us.

Thanks for reading my blog. :) 

Until we meet us again in another blog.