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saint_moi · Posted: Sun May 02, 2004 6:57 pm Post subject: Kids classes warmup

For your elementary / middle school classes, how do you usually 'warm-up'? Or break the ice?

All round greetings and how-are-you's? A 'question-for-the-day? A song?

Songs to start each lesson appeal to me, specifically kindy or elementary. Any of you guys do this? What songs you use?

And it is apparant that pubescent middle-schoolers would not really be into singing (even if it's a funny song) to get them into the lesson. Agree?

katydid · Joined: 02 Feb 2003 Location: Here kitty kitty kitty...

I usually just say the standard "Good morning" or "How are you?" then get into the lesson I have planned for the day. I teach middle schoolers, and though I haven't tried it (and so have yet to be proven wrong) I am not sure how well the kiddies would take to singing. They do like chanting though.

just because · Joined: 01 Aug 2003 Location: Changwon - 4964

Yeah I usually do a structured how are you followed by a question of the day (always try to make it different and relevant to what we are learning).

Grotto · Joined: 21 Mar 2004

At the start of class I always start off with how are you? What day is today? What is the weather like?

Settles the class down as they realise class has started.

I did songs for a while but the mind numbing monotony of it drove me insane(r) Question

I am a stickler for pronunciation so have a group of students continually mumble through a song even after several weeks made me drop the sing a long.