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blunder1983
Joined: 12 Apr 2005
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 Posted: Sun Apr 09, 2006 4:25 am Post subject: Easter class |
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Anyone got some corking ideas for Easter?
I gave some thought into egg painting but the idea of buying and blowing 900 eggs for the kids to paint is not gonna happen. Anyone got any less time and cost intensive fun crafty ideas which I can do in a big korean school? |
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crazylemongirl
Joined: 23 Mar 2003
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| Posted: Sun Apr 09, 2006 3:08 pm Post subject: |
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| Get them to draw them instead... also if you have access to costco they have a great deal on construction paper. Something a huge ream of colored paper for 9k. |
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ilovebdt
Joined: 03 Jun 2005
Location: Nr Seoul
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| Posted: Sun Apr 09, 2006 9:15 pm Post subject: |
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http://www.britishcouncil.org/languageassistant-easter.htm
Here are some interesting ideas from the British Council website.
I particularly like the Easter Egg Hunt idea where you hide 10 numbered cardboard eggs around the classroom and the students have to find them and go back to their partner and whisper the location to them without anyone else hearing. The first team to find all the eggs wins.
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blunder1983
Joined: 12 Apr 2005
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| Posted: Sun Apr 09, 2006 11:13 pm Post subject: |
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| Ironically I found out an identical idea, like an hour ago and was just about to post it! Yours is a much nicer link however so thanks for sharing! |
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ilovebdt
Joined: 03 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2006 8:33 pm Post subject: |
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| blunder1983 wrote: |
| Ironically I found out an identical idea, like an hour ago and was just about to post it! Yours is a much nicer link however so thanks for sharing! |
Hey Blunder
If you do the egg hunt let me know how it goes.
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pauly
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Location: Incheon
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| Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2006 8:39 pm Post subject: |
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| Who says you have to buy all the eggs yourself? Tell the students to bring a hardboiled egg to class. Make sure you tell them not to peel it. Count the egg as a school supply. If they bring it, great. If not, they don't take part in class. They can do homework or work on an assignment. |
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ilovebdt
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| Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2006 10:58 pm Post subject: |
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| How are your Easter Lessons going guys? |
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blunder1983
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| Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 12:30 am Post subject: |
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Well, we're doing "use the right easter verb", "rearrange the sentence" and playing tictactoe making sentences to place the X and O.
The kids get to win loads of chocolate which is all they care about  |
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schwa
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 2:57 am Post subject: |
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Am I the only one who largely ignores western holidays in the classroom? Maybe a passing mention, never anything more.
Sure, teaching our culture is part of our mandate, but I dont see where reenacting the rituals of our childhoods has any real benefit for our students. I'm especially wary of promoting strictly christian occasions.
"Culture" is a hugely encompassing word, & for sure we need to convey something of the western mindset if our students are going to "get" the language. But I really dont think that has much to do with eggs, pumpkins, or candy canes. |
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coolsage
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
Location: The overcast afternoon of the soul
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| Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 8:58 am Post subject: |
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| schwa wrote: |
Am I the only one who largely ignores western holidays in the classroom? Maybe a passing mention, never anything more.
Sure, teaching our culture is part of our mandate, but I dont see where reenacting the rituals of our childhoods has any real benefit for our students. I'm especially wary of promoting strictly christian occasions.
"Culture" is a hugely encompassing word, & for sure we need to convey something of the western mindset if our students are going to "get" the language. But I really dont think that has much to do with eggs, pumpkins, or candy canes. |
You are correct, sir, but every temperate-zone-dwelling culture has some kind of spring ritual. You're no doubt aware that Easter is just another pagan festival usurped by the Roman Catholic church. Far be it for me to endorse a christian holiday (there's far too much of that in this country already), but some sort of marking of the changing seasons is potentially happy and harmless. And eggs are jam-packed with cheap protein. |
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crazylemongirl
Joined: 23 Mar 2003
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| Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 8:21 pm Post subject: |
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| schwa wrote: |
Am I the only one who largely ignores western holidays in the classroom? Maybe a passing mention, never anything more.
Sure, teaching our culture is part of our mandate, but I dont see where reenacting the rituals of our childhoods has any real benefit for our students. I'm especially wary of promoting strictly christian occasions.
"Culture" is a hugely encompassing word, & for sure we need to convey something of the western mindset if our students are going to "get" the language. But I really dont think that has much to do with eggs, pumpkins, or candy canes. |
Because it's a chance to have some fun.
I've long forgotten just about all of my high school french, but I remember our trips to the french bakeries to learn about how they make baugettes and our culture days where we got to eat pain au chocolate in the morning. It's an experience. Hell my kids might not remember anythign about easter terms, but they'll remember making easter eggs, because it was something new and different. For some of them it might be a little pin *beep* in their midset to go and try something new. |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 8:42 pm Post subject: |
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| schwa wrote: |
Am I the only one who largely ignores western holidays in the classroom? Maybe a passing mention, never anything more.
Sure, teaching our culture is part of our mandate, but I dont see where reenacting the rituals of our childhoods has any real benefit for our students. I'm especially wary of promoting strictly christian occasions.
"Culture" is a hugely encompassing word, & for sure we need to convey something of the western mindset if our students are going to "get" the language. But I really dont think that has much to do with eggs, pumpkins, or candy canes. |
You'd have loved my December lessons - we did Christmas carols every week (including overtly Christian ones), I had them make cards and gave them a bunch of examples of pictures, many with overtly religious themes, and anyone with a few English sentences on her card got candy. Halloween was a blast - we played a great story game, the idea for which I actually got from the OP, and then everyone got candy. In my smaller vocational classess we made Jack-o-lanterns, something none of them had ever done.
There's nothing wrong with teaching a bit of culture, too - K-kids need it as much as they need conversational English skills, and like the latter they're probably not going to get it from anyone but us. |
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