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le-paul
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 Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 6:26 pm Post subject: teaching, days, moths, seasons to kindergarden |
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ive been put in charge of teaching a kinderclass and i wouldnt wipe my nose with the phonics book ive been given so im trying to teach them some other stuff on the side.
My next undertaking is days, months, seasons and 'what ....is it?' but I dont want it to be too boring/dry. I also don't really have a lot of kinder experience.
Does anyone have any ideas that theyve used in class that worked when teaching these kind of things? most of what Ive found on the net is worksheets.
Any suggestions gratefully received, thanks. |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 6:50 pm Post subject: Re: teaching, days, moths, seasons to kindergarden |
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| le-paul wrote: |
ive been put in charge of teaching a kinderclass and i wouldnt wipe my nose with the phonics book ive been given so im trying to teach them some other stuff on the side.
My next undertaking is days, months, seasons and 'what ....is it?' but I dont want it to be too boring/dry. I also don't really have a lot of kinder experience.
Does anyone have any ideas that theyve used in class that worked when teaching these kind of things? most of what Ive found on the net is worksheets.
Any suggestions gratefully received, thanks. |
working with kindy kids... I assume once per week? (if every day then the process is a bit different in terms of execution).
Songs and actions. youtube is your friend.
Find some songs (weather, seasons, days of the week, months of the year, alphabet / ABCs,).
Make yourself a CD (or DVD if you have access to video playback).
Use the song, add some actions (get some more ideas from youtube) and teach it to the kids. One song, play, repeat, try with the words and some simple actions.
Next week repeat the process.
3rd week again, repeat AND add another song. Continue until they have 3 or 4 songs that they know.
Drop one song and add another every month.
The thing to remember when dealing with very young learners is to segment your class. Their attention span is about 10-15 minutes so so an activity for 10-15 minutes, change to another activity, change ... you get the picture.
Keep it moving, keep them moving and your class time will just whiz by and they (and you too) will have fun with it.
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stephorama
Joined: 19 Sep 2010
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| Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 7:14 pm Post subject: |
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Greg & Steve CDs.
We All Live Together: Volume 2 has Months and Vloume 3 has days of the week (and other great interactive songs the kids will LOVE).
http://www.gregandsteve.com/store.php
Their songs are available for individual download as well, I think. |
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SandyG21
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| Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 7:41 pm Post subject: |
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| There are fantastic colleges that offer Kindergarten Teacher certification courses - in 4 years you will learn all you need to know! |
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le-paul
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| Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2010 2:04 am Post subject: |
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thanks for all the replies.
Ill certainly be looking into some of your suggestions later today (especially the more comprehensive).
ShadyG21 - unfortunately I cant really reply to you because the moderators ill edit it out, suffice to say you obviously have more fingers than brain cells because you can type... |
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T-J
Joined: 10 Oct 2008
Location: Seoul EunpyungGu Yeonsinnae
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| Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2010 3:04 am Post subject: |
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| SandyG21 wrote: |
| There are fantastic colleges that offer Kindergarten Teacher certification courses - in 4 years you will learn all you need to know! |
Pretty cheeky for someone that hasn't even been able to land a job in Korea yet. I'm sure that if it has taken you almost 150 posts just to figure out how to get here, we can look forward to some really entertaining posts when or if you actually do get here. |
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InDaGu
Joined: 28 Jun 2010
Location: Cebu City, Philippines
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| Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2010 5:17 am Post subject: |
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I also teach kindergarten, and have done these particular themes. What I find works best for me is association. Associate the different months with holidays, their birthdays, etc. Make a calendar with them. When teaching seasons, try to associate those with particular months, the weather, and different activities you do in each.
In regards to the vocabulary for each, there are some great Bingo/word search/crossword generators available on the net. I've had a lot of success with these.
And remember, with kindergartners you're really just planting seeds in their mind. No matter how well you teach them, they probably wouldn't pass a test on these. But it will help them when they study it more intensely in the future. |
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northway
Joined: 05 Jul 2010
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| Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2010 5:25 am Post subject: |
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| le-paul wrote: |
| ShadyG21 - unfortunately I cant really reply to you because the moderators ill edit it out, suffice to say you obviously have more fingers than brain cells because you can type... |
After reading that, I'm more concerned with one of my fingers than how many the poster has... |
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interestedinhanguk
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| Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2010 5:45 am Post subject: |
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| where's tomato? |
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Nester Noodlemon
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| Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2010 5:50 am Post subject: |
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| T-J wrote: |
| SandyG21 wrote: |
| There are fantastic colleges that offer Kindergarten Teacher certification courses - in 4 years you will learn all you need to know! |
Pretty cheeky for someone that hasn't even been able to land a job in Korea yet. I'm sure that if it has taken you almost 150 posts just to figure out how to get here, we can look forward to some really entertaining posts when or if you actually do get here. |
Hehe! Good post T-J. I was thinking along the same line. |
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Nester Noodlemon
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| Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2010 5:52 am Post subject: |
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| interestedinhanguk wrote: |
| where's tomato? |
Oh no, not 'tomato!' He will turn this into a 'he has been disrespected for speaking Korean' topic. |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
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| Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2010 6:03 am Post subject: |
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| Nester Noodlemon wrote: |
| interestedinhanguk wrote: |
| where's tomato? |
Oh no, not 'tomato!' He will turn this into a 'he has been disrespected for speaking Korean' topic. |
Actually, if you search his old posts he has a tonne of information posted on here for dealing with very young learners (k-3).
Well worth the time to look back at his early posts.
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Nester Noodlemon
Joined: 16 Jan 2009
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| Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2010 7:55 am Post subject: |
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| ttompatz wrote: |
| Nester Noodlemon wrote: |
| interestedinhanguk wrote: |
| where's tomato? |
Oh no, not 'tomato!' He will turn this into a 'he has been disrespected for speaking Korean' topic. |
Actually, if you search his old posts he has a tonne of information posted on here for dealing with very young learners (k-3).
Well worth the time to look back at his early posts.
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True. I remember seeing these now, and the information is very good. |
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tomato
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: I get so little foreign language experience, I must be in Koreatown, Los Angeles.
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Hello, Interested in Hanguk!
Thanks for the herald.
Next time this happens, send me a private message.
Hello, Nester Noodlemon!
No, I won't hijack this thread.
Paranoia is only one of my many facets.
Hello, Le Paul!
Sorry, I missed this thread until now.
I hope it's not too late to help.
Since I joined the forum, there have been 48 threads asking for advice on how to teach kindergarten:
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The next time someone asks, this will become thread number 49. |
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murmanjake
Joined: 21 Oct 2008
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| tomato wrote: |
Hello, Interested in Hanguk!
Thanks for the herald.
Next time this happens, send me a private message.
Hello, Nester Noodlemon!
No, I won't hijack this thread.
Paranoia is only one of my many facets.
Hello, Le Paul!
Sorry, I missed this thread until now.
I hope it's not too late to help.
Since I joined the forum, there have been 48 threads asking for advice on how to teach kindergarten:
48 47 46 45 44 43 42 41
40 39 38 37 36 35 34 33 32 31
30 29 28 27 26 25 24 23 22 21
20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
The next time someone asks, this will become thread number 49. |
How the hell do you keep track of that stuff? You blow me away with your hyper-link integrated, and incredibly involved posts. Yet I seem to remember you claiming to be an technologically out of it older person with little knowledge of blogs, facebook and the like. What gives?
Anyways, at the ripe age of almost 25 I still have trouble with the months. Problem is I only learned them in order, so whenever I need to convert a month to its numerary form I must count on my fingers while starting from January.
So I suggest that you write the months with the number that they are(especially useful here as the korean system very practically names the months by the number they are), and past them around the classroom on sheets of paper. Say a month(or number), and have the kids run to the select month. Running is always fun for 5/6 year olds.
Considering their letter recognition/reading may not be up to par, then songs are great too. Then again I'm not 100% on the usefulness of these types of approaches(especially the alphabet song) as it leads to students who know the concepts, but only when presented in the correct order! |
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