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Atavistic
Joined: 22 May 2006
Location: How totally stupid that Korean doesn't show in this area.
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The Bomb Game and Connect Four are both great and you need very little material. |
You got me here.
What are the Bomb Game and Connect Four? |
I got both of these from the GEPIK orientation.
BOMB GAME
Bomb game...make pieces of paper with points of them. How many points you want, doesn't really matter. Also make one or two cards with one bomb on them, and make one card with two bombs on it. Put those cards on the wall in a grid so you can't see the points.
We'll imagine our grid is 4 by 4. Across the top write four things. I'm doing this next week with fourth grade. So... hat, pencil, jacket, puppy. Down the side write four more things. We'll say purple, small, cute, big.
Divide the class into teams. They have to make a sentence with one thing across the top and one across the side. Say they say "Is this your purple hat?" Go to purple, go to hat, where they meet, flip that card over. They get whatever points are on that card.
IF a team gets ONE bomb, they lose all of their points. If a team gets two bombs, BOTH teams lose their points.
You can also make some of the points a second color (like red) and the opposing team gets the points. Team A makes a sentence with a red point card--team B gets the points! Team with the most points wins.
CONNECT FOUR
This is like the game you played as a kid. Make a grid on the board, write words across the top (or put pictures up, whatever). Divide the class into two teams. Each team has to make a sentence (or use the target grammar pattern) with the word. When they do that, they drop all the way to the bottom, to the next empty square.
First team to get four in a row wins.
My kids LOVE this game, but saying the same words can get boring, so after the first link of four is made, I'll change the vocabulary across the top. After the second, I'll switch it again. It keeps it from being too easy or getting too boring.
A game that I "thought up" on my own, based on those two, was tic-tac-toe. Make a grid and put words across the top and down the side like the bomb game. When the student makes a sentence, put an X or O where the two words/phrases used meet. First team with four (or three for a small grid) in a row wins.
Let me know if I need to explain any of these more fully.
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I'm not as stern as Atavistic. I make Go Fish cards myself.
For each match, I put the word and picture on one card and the word only on the other card. |
I think I might teach older kids than you, Tomato. In any case, I don't always make them make them, but when they do make them, they tend to take more ownership.
BTW, a website I use a lot is ESL-Kids.com. http://www.esl-kids.com/ I think it's probably best for elementary and kindy, but others might find some ideas, too.
They have printable flash cards on a range of topics (hellllllo, Go Fish cards!), a lot of the "worksheets" are really games.
You know how Korean kids love rock, scissors, paper? You can make a game of that. I often mix two or three topics together, then print, cut, glue, etc to get a really big game board. I don't know why the kids love it, but they do. |
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Atavistic
Joined: 22 May 2006
Location: How totally stupid that Korean doesn't show in this area.
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| Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 2:53 am Post subject: |
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I did three things: I made homework sheets, so if they don't do their homework then they get and X. If they get three Xs, then there is a call home. If they get five checks, then there is a reward (ice cream, et cetera). |
I have another homework idea. You'll have to decide how to make this work for you, I'll tell you how it worked for me in the States.
I taught elementary, so I had the same kids alllll day long. At the start of the week, the board was empty. If the whole class acted wild, I wrote H on the board. The next time, O. At the end of the week, if they had HOMEWORK on the board, that's what they got. If they were especially horrible, I added checks, each check was another piece of homework.
You would have to make a chart for each class. Maybe at the end of a month if it doesn't spell HOMEWORK, you erase it and start over? I know that my kids could act crazy once a day without getting homework, which some teachers would freak out about, but I also had them ALL DAY. I'm guessing you only have your kids for one or two hours at a time, so maybe one month would be a good start.
Also, if they DO NOT spell homework at the end of whatever period you choose DO NOT GIVE THEM ANY! Give them a break.
I personally thought weekends should be for families and fun, not homework, and my kids and parents never complained. This being Korea, however... If you normally give homework, maybe you could do it backwards. Give them a letter if they are ALL STELLAR (this is a whole class thing) and when they spell the word (however long they takes), give them a day off. |
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Atavistic
Joined: 22 May 2006
Location: How totally stupid that Korean doesn't show in this area.
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| Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 3:02 am Post subject: |
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One more thing.
I know this will sound funny, but I think a lot of times teachers try to let the good kids do special things. Sometimes, get the bad kid to do it.
Minsu is pinching his neighbor. Instead of scolding Minsu, say, "Minsu!" to get his attention. Then redirect him, "Can you open the blinds for me?" (Sharpen these pencils, hold this book, dance with me, hand out these worksheets, whatever.)
He will be so shocked that you aren't screaming at him that he'll stare at you. Just pretend that you didn't see him pinching and nicely ask him, again, to do whatever you want.
If he refuses to do it, choose another student and then reward them with a sticker, candy, letting them leave early, whatever. MAKE sure Minsu KNOWS that that student is rewarded but DON'T rub it in. (DO not reward Minsu if he does it in the first place. Your goal is just to redirect him. You are rewarding the second student, in essence, for not letting Minsu rub off on them.)
You would think this rewards them, but you don't always do this. Just enough to redirect them sometimes.
Teaching is odd...kids NEED a routine, but YOU should not be a routine teacher.
If you sometimes randomly wipe out all of the bad points every student has earned ("because you've all been so good lately") or if you randomly reward students when they don't expect it, it tends to keep them all a little more aware.
Hope that makes sense. |
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Mr Freeze
Joined: 28 Sep 2007
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| Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 10:41 am Post subject: |
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Let's face it Incognito, if you can't teach these little brats, you never will be able to to. I had the same problem. It doesn't make you a bad teacher... a bad babysitter maybe, but not a bad teacher. These dumb games and disciplinary tactics don't work.
The best thing you can do is suck it up and finish your contract. Then, next time, avoid any job where you have to teach those little brats.
I think the best response was given by Ya Bum Suk. Go with that one. |
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