My Body

MY BODY

Names of the Teachers:Iliana Escobar and Juan Carlos Henriquez.Date:October, Friday 11 ^th, 2013.

Lesson 5                 

Vocabulary: Mouth, nose, tooth, teeth, eyes, ears, hands, feet, foot.

This was an amazing class because they could manage the class in a perfect way; the activities that the teacher did were fantastic and perfect for the children. Furthermore, I could see that all the students were very enthusiastic to participate, so they enjoyed a lot all the activities and at the same time were learning vocabulary about the body.

The teachers began with a Song ¨How are you today¨, in which all the students were participating making body movements, also it lets students remember and get ready to start the class.

WARM-UP:

The teacher Iliana did a Warm-up called ¨Looking the letters¨ to help students to review alphabet, number, colors and family members. She used a pool with small ball with some letters, and then they had to form words that represented family members.

As you can see in the picture they were working in group running in order to get all the letters to for a the word, the first group had to for the word FATHER, the second group was forming the word MOTHER, and the last group formed the word BROTHER.

Here the teacher asked the students what color is this, and they were able to do it so well.

PRESENTATION:

In the presentation the teacher put a puzzle body on the board where the first the teacher modeled and then the students did the same; this helped to the students to encounter the parts of the body, then they teacher called one by one to took a part of the body from a bag, then they had to said what was the part an then put in correct position of the body that was on the board.

Here you can see to Allison putting a foot in the correct position, it shows that she understood the activity.

When the body was finish the teacher made a circle in front of her and showed some body's part, at the time she showed the picture they were repeating the vocabulary words

PRACTICE:

1. As first practice the teacher did an activity called ¨ roll the dice¨ to review numbers, colors, and family members. Firstly the teacher made a circle, the told a student to rolled the dice, and according to the number they had to choose a the color's paper that was on the wall, this paper had a picture related with the vocabulary, so when the student took, he had to say the vocabulary word

This were the numbers and the colors that contained the vocabulary words

2. Simon says: the students touch their body according what Simon says. For example, if Simon said touch your head they had to do it. I enjoyed the way that the teacher Juan Carlos used the Monkey because he caught the student’s attention.

3. Shake your body song: according to the song the student moved their body, for example: head, hands, feet’s, so on. I like the way the teacher did because he used strategies to make it works.

The students at the end of the class

MY CASE OF STUDY

In this class, Alison participated in all activities; she looked very motivated to learn more. I have noticed the growth experienced during these classes because every time that the teacher tell her to do in the activity, she is able to do. As evidence I always ask her about what she has seen in class, and she responds on that saying vocabulary, this shows that she is acquiring the language skills through visual, auditory and tactile activities  because she caters the indications given by the teachers. In this learning process the children are going to develop skills through the imitation and practice, only in this way they may be gaining developing their language skills.