Grade 6 - the nice ones!

Tomorrow, due to a rehearsal of the English song contest, that I am hosting (but will not be attending the rehearsal of.(???)..) I will be teaching Grade 6 by myself, without my co-teacher...  I am very much looking forward to it as if all goes to plan I will teach classes 2, 3 and 4:;These are the best behaved, most fun and easiest to talk to students. Class one is always asleep and they NEVER, EVER, EVER want to talk and this makes them extremely hard work... and Class 5... they are just noisy and disruptive.

Should be fun - I am looking forward to it!


UPDATE

As  expected had a great day teaching grade 6 I taught classes 1 - 4 and even the quiet ones spoke... yey.
'on the fly' I implemented a discipline system.  Basically when they wouldn't listen or were talking to each other while I was talking I put 1 mark on the board and at the end of the lesson I they had to stay behind 1 min for each mark on the board.

Class 1 - 3 mins
Class 2 - 4 mins
Class 3 - 2 mins
Class 4 - 4 mins

So the most number of times I had to stop the lesson to tell them off was 4... result! As this usually eats away at about 10 mins of every co-taught lesson!

Anyway I enjoyed it, a lot so now thinking seriously about what to do next year.

Dance like a chicken... boys!

Getting  a whole class of 5th grade boys to dance like a chicken as a punishment - priceless

Family Time

I have had my parents come to stay for the last couple of weeks - It has been great and my Kids, especially have loved having their grandparents here...

Will write a new post soon - just far to busy at the moment!

No playing games during break!

No playing games during break!

Another Korean funny today... We have a new poster in my classroom - all about classroom rules. Rules for during class and rules for during break.

The rule During Break : 

"You should not play games with your classmates." 

Seems a little harsh!

Not just a jester!

Ok, a bit of fun for today... and the social commentary that is the genius of PSY!

Probably the artist least expected to break the US music scene and probably causing a few ruffled feathers through the 'ministry of tourism and promotion of South Korea' (the official department name is somewhere close to this!) due to mocking of the high credit socety that is South Korea

With Psy currently breaking records around the world for a Kpop artist and with the song being totally in korean, I thought I would share with you the English subtitled version.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUk69c72UlY&feature=youtu.be

Using your Head

Using your Head

Another classic today as well we played a blindfold telephone game where one student is blindfolded and the sit back to back with each other, the blindfolded student has to guess who the other person is, but they can disguise their voice. In one round the blindfolded boy suddenly threw his head back and head butted the other guy paused for a moment then guessed his name correctly... we gave him 25 points for his correct guess.

Another classroom classic

Another classroom classic this week

Grade 5 text book - write a short telephone dialogue based on the picture... 
Model Dialogue:

"Hi, we are playing basketball can you join us?", "Sure I can!"

Grade 5 student: