Why I love my 1年生 JHS students!
Yesterday, my JTE told me that last week, the first-year students were asking for me and sad I wasn't teaching them. The one class had seen me walk past their room because I taught another first-year class that day, but they didn't have me. When they asked why, my JTE said it was because I was with the third-year students and they got really sad! They thought I should always teach them and that I was their own personal ALT. <3
They were so thrilled when I came today, apparently.
And, honestly, I love my first-year kids. They have such enthusiastic personalities!!
Oh, and in the hallway this afternoon, I was going down the stairwell and encountered a couple of first-year boys on my way up. I asked them how they were and one goes, "I'm good. I love you!" and I look at him and go, "Oh, yeah?" and him and his friend start giggling and take off. It was amusing.
I've been teaching the first-years a lot lately because the new JTE likes to have me come and help teach. It makes me happy. On Thursday, she'll have me make Christmas cards for the second-year students who chose English as a special elective class (now that we're done preparing skits for Culture Day). Next week, I'll be doing holiday stuff with the first-year kids. I'm going to show them a music video of the "Christmas Shoes" song that all the kids saw and liked last year. I'm supposed to be looking for a new song for the second and third year kids. (Any suggestions? One that has a good video that helps with understanding what the song is about?)
This past week, I've been teaching the third-year students about the JFK assassination. They're learning complete sentences. Instead of saying, "I don't know," they have to learn, "I don't know why Amy's angry," etc. I made an activity where I wrote a short news article about the assassination and about the death of Lee Harvey Oswald. The assignment was to pretend they were journalists (newspaper, Pulitzer Prize, etc. were vocab words this unit) and writing the article. They had to "re-read" what they wrote, and then their "boss" was going to ask them questions. They worked with partners, and for, like, five questions, they had to know the answer from the reading, and from the other five or so, they had to use the grammar point if they didn't know the answer. They seemed to really enjoy the lesson and learning about real history.
They started the assignment last week, and finished yesterday and today. I grabbed a video of both events from YouTube (making sure there was nothing graphic), and converted them to AVI, but they didn't play on the school comps, which are monitored by the Board of Education, and my computer wouldn't hook up to the projector, so we wound up having groups of kids (six at a time) come up to watch the videos. After three class periods and countless watches, I felt like JFK and Oswald were probably frowning at me!!!
[Ah, and before you say so, nooooooo, I'm not morbid. I came up with the JFK idea b/c when I went home in Oct, I saw the musical Assassins with my dad, and afterwards, he was talking to me about conspiracy theories he knew, and then the anniversary was last month. Due to all that, it was fresh in my mind and the first thing I thought of when looking for a good topic. Plus, my JTE really liked it b/c he likes JFK, too. So yeah. I'm not morbid. REALLY!]
They were so thrilled when I came today, apparently.
And, honestly, I love my first-year kids. They have such enthusiastic personalities!!
Oh, and in the hallway this afternoon, I was going down the stairwell and encountered a couple of first-year boys on my way up. I asked them how they were and one goes, "I'm good. I love you!" and I look at him and go, "Oh, yeah?" and him and his friend start giggling and take off. It was amusing.
I've been teaching the first-years a lot lately because the new JTE likes to have me come and help teach. It makes me happy. On Thursday, she'll have me make Christmas cards for the second-year students who chose English as a special elective class (now that we're done preparing skits for Culture Day). Next week, I'll be doing holiday stuff with the first-year kids. I'm going to show them a music video of the "Christmas Shoes" song that all the kids saw and liked last year. I'm supposed to be looking for a new song for the second and third year kids. (Any suggestions? One that has a good video that helps with understanding what the song is about?)
This past week, I've been teaching the third-year students about the JFK assassination. They're learning complete sentences. Instead of saying, "I don't know," they have to learn, "I don't know why Amy's angry," etc. I made an activity where I wrote a short news article about the assassination and about the death of Lee Harvey Oswald. The assignment was to pretend they were journalists (newspaper, Pulitzer Prize, etc. were vocab words this unit) and writing the article. They had to "re-read" what they wrote, and then their "boss" was going to ask them questions. They worked with partners, and for, like, five questions, they had to know the answer from the reading, and from the other five or so, they had to use the grammar point if they didn't know the answer. They seemed to really enjoy the lesson and learning about real history.
They started the assignment last week, and finished yesterday and today. I grabbed a video of both events from YouTube (making sure there was nothing graphic), and converted them to AVI, but they didn't play on the school comps, which are monitored by the Board of Education, and my computer wouldn't hook up to the projector, so we wound up having groups of kids (six at a time) come up to watch the videos. After three class periods and countless watches, I felt like JFK and Oswald were probably frowning at me!!!
[Ah, and before you say so, nooooooo, I'm not morbid. I came up with the JFK idea b/c when I went home in Oct, I saw the musical Assassins with my dad, and afterwards, he was talking to me about conspiracy theories he knew, and then the anniversary was last month. Due to all that, it was fresh in my mind and the first thing I thought of when looking for a good topic. Plus, my JTE really liked it b/c he likes JFK, too. So yeah. I'm not morbid. REALLY!]