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What to do with a kindergarden class?

 
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 23, 2003 1:34 am    Post subject: What to do with a kindergarden class? Reply with quote

I am struggling and hoping for some help. I have been teaching a kindergarden class, thank God only one, for a while now, and feel I really have no idea what I am doing. Some reason, the parents continue to bring their kids back to our school, so my boss believes I am doing a good job. I would like to be a better teacher, so if anyone has any ideas, activities, games, how to teach them in general, I would greatly appreciate it.
Thanks again and Happy Dog and Lichee(sp?) Day (summer solstice!)
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 23, 2003 1:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Try a PM to Roger. He is THE resident expert in this area!
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 23, 2003 7:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Have you tried the genkienglish website, a must. Good Luck I did it for 3 weeks and quit.
Regards Carol
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 23, 2003 2:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

genkienglish IS good! Another website is www.eslkidsstuff.com
And, Dave has a SEPARATE forum called Elementary Education. There you are likely to elicit more responses.
Meanwhile, let me just add my two cents worth.
My kids seem to love motion, writing and VCD's. MOtion comes from doing sports (how they get excited over a race!).
Writing: Just teach them the ABC. They will still write letters backward one year later, but at least they will recognise them, which means they have formed geometric concepts! This helps their memory and stimulates their imagination! They love it, especially if combined with drawing.

Don't teach them ABSTRACT things! They don't understand things like "do you like tea or coffee?" (I have seen this in my kindergarten!). Teach them things which they can readily identify by looking at them, not translating from or into Chinese!
At age 4, they are beginning to realise there are many opposites: Up, down, left, right, boy, girl, bad, good, I, you, he, she - and you can drill simple grammar structures such as the use of the negatives, the simple past tense and the present continuous tense as these tenses do have a direct relationship with their everyday experience!
WIshing you good luck
Keep in mind that you do not need to TEAXCH them so much but rather make them curious about and interested in English. NOw is the time to motivate them!
Don't listen to their parents who might say "my child MUST STUDY (sic!) 20 words every day..."!
Roger
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 23, 2003 9:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I told you Roger is THE man in this area and i told ya right!
Thanks Roger for assisting, again!
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