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celticjay
Joined: 27 Aug 2005
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 Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 10:39 pm Post subject: Public school summer camps. Oh what fun! |
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I'm curious what genious ideas you have for your summer camps.
I'm having three 4-day camps at 4hours per day. I'm not sure on how to structure it.
These ideas I got from a brainstorming session. Our classes are going to have 20 students that are all different levels. Last year I tried to teach more of a content based camp and it bombed. It was either too difficult or too easy. It was impossible to keep everyone happy. This go around it's all about fun and games and hopefully the students will pick up a bit of English.
Water fight
Make DVD cover and watch movie
Poster presentation
Make a trip to Mcdonald�s or store and order food in English
Cooking: Hamburger, pancakes, Salad, cookies, snacks
Getting books from the library using English expressions (I will be the Librarian)
Outside activities: park, soccer, bump (basketball game), badminton
Music: singing room class, use software
Boardgame; Monopoly, card game using English.
Free talking time where students are penalized for speaking Korean (20 mins per day)
Throwing the ball: classroom tennis conversation.
Icebreakers: personal information
Games: Pictionary, charades, Jeopardy
Dialogues: role-plays, play/skit
English names, Rules, Groups, Points, Coupons
If anyone has anything to add I would appreciate it. |
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jinju
Joined: 22 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 10:57 pm Post subject: |
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| Nothing serious. I have to do 3 50 minute classes. They divided it up by grade levels but if history is any indication it will be all highr level kids. Play games, sing songs, do puzzles etc for a couple of weeks. |
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Peter Jackson
Joined: 23 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 11:12 pm Post subject: Ideas |
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I like your ideas celticjay!  I think I will steal some of em.
I, too, am looking for camp ideas. Does anyone know any Jeopardy sites etc with good esl questions? I've found plenty of them geared toward native speaking classes. They were either way too difficult or too easy.
Have fun, |
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rothkowitz
Joined: 27 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 11:17 pm Post subject: |
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You guys sound a lot more optimistic than I do about the "summer camp' thing.
I've been told I'll have 7 students,4 hours a day for 10 days.
From experience,I can expect 3 or 4 to turn up,none of whom will have any idea why they're actually there.They'll just wander in because their parents don't want them in the house and stay till lunch time.
.Not looking forward to it at all.Grrr...... |
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schwa
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
Location: Yap
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| Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 11:40 pm Post subject: Re: Ideas |
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| Peter Jackson wrote: |
| Does anyone know any Jeopardy sites etc with good esl questions? I've found plenty of them geared toward native speaking classes. They were either way too difficult or too easy. |
Easy enough to knock off a set of your own questions -- I'm sure you've got a good sense of what your kids might know.
I make about half my questions open-ended so other kids can jump in after with different answers for bonus points (more fun than just waiting your turn). Questions like: Name 5 pizza toppings. Name 3 kinds of dance. Tell me 5 things you can do at the beach. Etc.
Some personal questions add a bit of fun too (ones that low-level students can take a stab at answering too). I teach MS girls & they got a kick out of: Describe your future husband (3 things). Here's $100 -- what new clothes will you buy? Tell me 3 good things about your school. Tell me 3 bad things about your school. Etc.
I keep low-point questions silly, just for a laugh. Say the months of the year quickly (time the student, then others can volunteer to try for quicker). What color are blue jeans? Which is cuter -- a spider or a snake?
A well-designed customized set of questions & a fast pace should generate a lot of vocabulary & laughs. |
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riley
Joined: 08 Feb 2003
Location: where creditors can find me
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| Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 12:01 am Post subject: |
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| I'm trying to think of theme ideas. One is to have the kids make menus and then use them in a restaurant, or make a store and have kids take turns buying and selling things. |
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Len8
Joined: 12 Feb 2003
Location: Kyungju
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| Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 2:16 am Post subject: |
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Chess is a good keep em busy game. Most elementry school kids can play the game. I'd ask the school to foot the bill for a number of sets. Good sets can be bought cheaply at stationary stores.
Balloon animals. Pumps are W2000 and a pack of balloons is W10,000. Instruction books are sold with the smaller sets of balloons.
Wire for making animals and what have you is cheap, and plyers are a dollar a piece at the W1,000 stores.
You can only teach English for so long at those kinda camps, so you have to have a lot of games and activities to keep em busy.
Play pigu or dodge ball with them.
Prepare some pop songs with blanks in the scores that they have to fill in when you play the music on a cassette player or CD player. |
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Matman
Joined: 02 Jun 2006
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| Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 9:18 am Post subject: |
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| How bad are these camps? I've been offered a Seoul public school position but I'd throw it in if I'm expected to sleep in a tent or dormitory for 3 weeks. Can someone who's had the experience spill the beans? How bad are they in terms of accomodation and conditions? |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 10:46 am Post subject: |
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| Matman wrote: |
| How bad are these camps? I've been offered a Seoul public school position but I'd throw it in if I'm expected to sleep in a tent or dormitory for 3 weeks. Can someone who's had the experience spill the beans? How bad are they in terms of accomodation and conditions? |
They are DAY camps at held the school. The best way to think about them is like the city Parks and Rec. summer day programs offered in your town back home. The only difference is that we use English instead of Korean for our communication.
The one at our school runs daily from 9am -1pm.
We have 2 camps of 1 week duration each starting after August 15. Gr. 3/4 and Gr. 1/2.
We get our summer vacation just before the "camps".
It is just like your normal job except that most of the rest of the staff are gone for their summer vacations and we won't have books or a curriculum to follow.
This is very different from the typical hakwon's Summer Intensive programs.
Hope that added some clarity. |
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ddeubel
Joined: 20 Jul 2005
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| Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 1:41 pm Post subject: |
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Peter Jackson wrote:
Does anyone know any Jeopardy sites etc with good esl questions? I've found plenty of them geared toward native speaking classes. They were either way too difficult or too easy.
Easy enough to knock off a set of your own questions -- I'm sure you've got a good sense of what your kids might know. |
Schwa is right. I have quite a few already made. Now just finishing a thousand question Golden Bell powerpoint.
PM me with an email address and I can send you a template (actually have 2 different ones) and some already made games. I also have a DEAL or NO DEAL I've made. Cool and the kids love the numbers.....I hope in the next month to put all my stuff up on the teaching part of my website for teacher download. But I need more space and am in the process of redesigning it into one inclusive thingeeeee...
Cheers,
DD |
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TheUrbanMyth
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
Location: Retired
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| Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 4:02 pm Post subject: |
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| ttompatz wrote: |
| Matman wrote: |
| How bad are these camps? I've been offered a Seoul public school position but I'd throw it in if I'm expected to sleep in a tent or dormitory for 3 weeks. Can someone who's had the experience spill the beans? How bad are they in terms of accomodation and conditions? |
They are DAY camps at held the school. The best way to think about them is like the city Parks and Rec. summer day programs offered in your town back home. The only difference is that we use English instead of Korean for our communication.
The one at our school runs daily from 9am -1pm.
We have 2 camps of 1 week duration each starting after August 15. Gr. 3/4 and Gr. 1/2.
We get our summer vacation just before the "camps".
It is just like your normal job except that most of the rest of the staff are gone for their summer vacations and we won't have books or a curriculum to follow.
This is very different from the typical hakwon's Summer Intensive programs.
Hope that added some clarity. |
Depends on the public school though
I get my vacation after the camps.
And I use the same books I do for the ordinary term. |
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laogaiguk
Joined: 06 Dec 2005
Location: somewhere in Korea
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| Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 4:04 pm Post subject: |
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| TheUrbanMyth wrote: |
And I use the same books I do for the ordinary term. |
Do you have to? Personally, if I was a child, I would hate you (not saying it's your fault though). Back when I was a kid, I went to art camps and a French camp, but they were fun (mostly). |
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TheUrbanMyth
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 5:34 pm Post subject: |
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| TheUrbanMyth wrote: |
And I use the same books I do for the ordinary term. |
Do you have to? Personally, if I was a child, I would hate you (not saying it's your fault though). Back when I was a kid, I went to art camps and a French camp, but they were fun (mostly). |
I don't HAVE to, but there's not much else I can do. The TV in my classroom is broken, and I have to keep the kids in class. As for my school buying resources, they don't have the budget. It's a small country school. Not to mention most of the parents are quite conservative...if the children aren't in the classroom studying, there'll be a few raised eyebrows. I'll try and get away with a few games, but that's about all I can do...we don't even have proper cooking facilities on the premises. |
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laogaiguk
Joined: 06 Dec 2005
Location: somewhere in Korea
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| Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 5:50 pm Post subject: |
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| TheUrbanMyth wrote: |
| laogaiguk wrote: |
| TheUrbanMyth wrote: |
And I use the same books I do for the ordinary term. |
Do you have to? Personally, if I was a child, I would hate you (not saying it's your fault though). Back when I was a kid, I went to art camps and a French camp, but they were fun (mostly). |
I don't HAVE to, but there's not much else I can do. The TV in my classroom is broken, and I have to keep the kids in class. As for my school buying resources, they don't have the budget. It's a small country school. Not to mention most of the parents are quite conservative...if the children aren't in the classroom studying, there'll be a few raised eyebrows. I'll try and get away with a few games, but that's about all I can do...we don't even have proper cooking facilities on the premises. |
That sucks! |
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xtchr
Joined: 23 Nov 2004
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| Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 6:15 pm Post subject: |
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[quote="ttompatz"][]
They are DAY camps at held the school.
Not always, it depends on the school/Office of Education. My camps are 3 days/2 nights staying with the kids and Korean teachers at an 'education facility'. Not sure about this year, but last year one was in the sticks at an old unused ex-elementary school. Was a good group of kids but the facilities were rudimentary to say the least.
And another camp was at a purpose built place near the beach, so on the second day the kids were kept occupied in the afternoon by a rafting/boating company, and then by a paid entertainer/singer kind of guy in the evening. |
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