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[shifter2009]

For winter camp my school is forcing the 2nd graders in three days earlier then the rest of my camp students. That puts me with only two girls for three seventy minute classes this week. The following three weeks of camp is all planned out where the class size goes up to seven but I am a bit stuck on what to do with these girls the next few days. I am used to teaching classes of 15-20 students so I guess I am a bit rusty on the smaller class sizes.

[Illysook]

I've done this and I wasn't a very experienced teacher at the time. I did my best to pull conversation out of them and learned a lot from the experience. Even though the group is small, they will be shy. Sometimes they are even more shy than they would be in a larger group. You can introduce a compelling topic and they won't say anything until you give them some examples. You can tell stories from your own experience and they may enjoy this, but what I think they really liked was having a series of dialogues to play with. I used the English Baby website a lot. I have no ties to it but it has a lot of fresh topics and related vocabulary lists that you can print out or modify. One of my students wrote to me a year later and said that the study sheets that I made for those classes helped her immensely. I feel proud of that.