Third Group 

Topic: Playground Fun

Teachers: Luis 

              Wanda 

              Jennifer 

              Deyanira

              Vanessa 

The topic presented for the third group was “Playground fun”. This topic allowed to this group use realia in their lesson and it was awesome. My expectation for this class were that children could learnt through play.

The class started up and so the learning. Students sang the   “Hello-Hello” song as usual in the class. They enjoyed it because teachers perform the mimics. Then, there were some colorful circles pasted in the floor in which students had to sit at, and I was wondering if they will adapt to their spot during the whole class. However, that was just my concern because students respect their spot and they felt more relax.  Every eye was on the teachers and I could notice that students were anxious to start.

The first step was present the vocabulary and it was presented by teacher Vanessa. She just focused on the vocabulary that students will use during this lesson. Something interesting about this group was that 

they spoke just in English and when students notice that teachers were talking in English they could not stop stared directly to them because they wanted to understand what they were saying. They looked as though they understood, that is why teacher Wanda continued talking in English through the whole lesson. She explained four prepositions next to, behind, in front of, and between. The explanation was great because children understood what the meaning of each word was. Besides, she transmitted her enthusiasm to the class. The next step after the presentation and some teaching about prepositions was practice. During the practice teacher Jennifer asked students make two lines and she gave a piece of paper to each student. Then, one student gave a command to one students of the other line. The command included touch the ball nest to the bath, touch the jump rope behind the bicycle, etc. 

In this activity students practiced the prepositions and vocabulary; however, some of them could not read the sentences written in the paper and they needed the teacher’s help. The last activity was the warm up developed by teacher Deyanira and it consisted on played the hot chair game.  Students walked around the chairs and when the music stopped they had to find a chair and those left standing answered a question. Students enjoyed this activity because it was interesting they had to run and pay attention to the music in order to find a sit and not to be the one that answers the question. There were many meaningful activities that helped both students and teachers achieved their goals.