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[lsbooth]

I have kindergarten- 6th grade students. Next month the theme at our school is "Korea Fest", meaning that during certain classes we teach them about Korea. Does anyone have any good lessons, or websites for this? I feel kind of wierd teaching them about their country so I need something to work with ... Thank you in advance for your help.

[sheba]

Ive never done anything like this before!!

Though the first thing thats comes to my mind is teaching them about some festivals... Most Koreans I know have never been to any of the hundreds of festivals they have here.

Go to tour2korea.com and they have lots of info. might give you some ideas too...??

[Juregen]

You could do the popular route

Korea has four seasons and stuff.

[Ya-ta Boy]

You might take one holiday, Chusok for example and work with the students in comparing the harvest festival in Korea with the harvest festival in other countries. Give them pictures of people from different countries and have the students make simple sentences following a pattern:

In America, Americans eat turkey on Thanksgiving, but in Korea, Koreans eat songpa on Chusok.

[schwa]

I think its a great idea. Theyre not asking you to teach the kids about Korea, but how to express their own traditions in english.

I see a lot more relevance & practicality in a student being able to explain Chuseok or Seollal rather than an abstract (to them) concept like Halloween or western xmas traditions.

[rokgryphon]

Korean folk tales in English?

[ttompatz]

[nobbyken]

The Korean folk tales is a winner, I think I saw something on the web (pm if you can't find any).

An alternative.....excuse my cheekiness
Ride a scooter round the classroom and without warning deftly swerve in and out of the desks while greeting everyone; "Welcome to Korea".

Should kill some time, but nothing else hopefully.