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[yjo086]

I'm here in Korea and while I'm having no huge trouble figuring out what to teach in class during school hours, I'm having some difficulty trying to come up with what to teach for after school. I have to teach 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th graders all with various levels of English ability, for 40 minutes. So, far I've been doing simple sentences with powerpoint, games, coloring, and reviewing the basics (i.e. ABC's 123's, Colors, Fruits, etc.) however, I feel that at times its too much for the younger kids and not enough for the older ones. Not to mention, I also feel like these kids are with me all day in class learning english, talking english, thinking english, and while I believe this is good, I do feel like that after school, they could use a break am I wrong?

If anyone could tell me perhaps their lesson plans for after school or just give me ideas for what to do with the children for 40 minutes. I would appreciate it.

[maingman]

http://greetingsfromtheworld.wikispaces.com/

[maingman]

http://greetingsfromtheworld.wikispaces.com/

[lifeinkorea]

Nice to see another wikispace out there, here's mine http://englishlessons.wikispaces.com

[ChilgokBlackHole]

Hollywood Squares (but they need to pick how hard the question will be, so they can go over their level or under it, depending on their confidence level or ability, at that point, to care).

It's tic-tac-toe. Two teams. Rock, paper, scissors to start.

Do you want to go for 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 points?
3!
Then name three animals that live in the jungle! Ten seconds...GO!
Lion, Snake, Dog!
No, Dog is not right, 5 seconds left!
Uhhhhh... Spider!
Correct! Lion, Snake, Spider! X gets the square.

If they get it wrong, circle gets the square. The winning team...I dunno... gets to ddong-chim the other team or whatever, you're on your own there.

[Kikomom]

Let them break out their homework from other classes and pick out words to translate into English. Helping them with pronounciation and spelling.

[DavidVance]

YJO,
Go to http://sites.google.com/site/multifactoreslenglish
Plenty of material to print and hand out or bring up on the screen.
i.e. Animals, their characteristics - make and speak and write short sentences about different animals, from the vocabulary (with Korean) provided. Ditto for some of the easier maths. See also the Food chapter re grouping food types. See also the easiest physiology material. Etc.
Regards,
David Vance.

[different]

In most after school programs, are there big differences in level between students in the same class? Or are students somewhat divided by level?

[lifeinkorea]

Depends how the school is set up. I taught 3 classes of 1/2, 3/4, 5/6

Now, I teach 10 classes (5 each day) which are mixed only by level. So, we have 2/3/4 or 3/4/5

For the most part, you will have 2 groups in each grade level, high level and low level. Often times, in the high level classes you will have students who are either overworked as a student or have learning disorders so you have a subgroup which might get confused with being another class.

[yjo086]

I'm sorry, this site acts a little funny on my computer as in sometimes, I lose the server's connection so I been having some trouble responding. In any case, I wanted to say thank you to everyone for the suggestions and websites!

[Oliver]

Because after school classes are smaller I try to focus on conversation with the students. I make sure there are lots of pictures and some games to reinforce words, concepts and sentences.

I theme it as well. So things like family, daily greetings, being polite, directions.

[yjo086]

I think I should mention that this afterschool program is more or less a babysitting program that the school has so that parents can keep their children in school until they get off of work. So, the kids really don't do anything but play, eat, and do some arts and craft activities.

I'm expected to do...stuff...with them in English. Yea...