Assessing kids

Assessing kids

I think that a good way to assess the kids is  first,

 know the level that kids have in order to know

 what stragies I can use in order to assess the kids

 because I consider that a good the teacher is not

 who ask many question or many ativities to kids,

 a good teacher is who knows the level of the kids

 in order to know which activities he/she can use 

with kids. 

I consider that one of the techniques that I can

 use with the kis is the " Role play" the important

 things is to kow how much students know in 

order to the the role play according with the level

 of the kids.

 learn and participate in the activity thet it will

 be develop , and kids will enjoy the activity, they

 can learn vocabulary in the role paly, colors,

 numbers, etc. it id depend about what things the

 teacher will do the role play. Therefore, 

this game is very helpful because it will help to

this game is very helpful because it will help to

 kids to situations in real life, they can laern

 kids to situations in real life, they can laern

 
number, and vocabulary.

"Children love games and  when they have fun,

 children forget  that they are practising English

 and are just happy to play"

One of the role play game  is  the "café game".

Here is the link for some useful role plays 

https://elt.oup.com/parents-hubs-resources/games?cc=cz&selLanguage=cs&mode=hub

REFERENCE

Assessment of Young Learners

by Kassim Shaaban

Week 16, November 15th

Teachers:Ingrid and Mercy

Topic:Food and drinks

Vocabulary:Donuts, vegetables, candy, soda, water, fruit, cereal, hamburger, pizza.

Grammar:Is it good for you? Is it bad for you? Yes, it is. No, it is not.

Review:Numbers, colors, alphabet.

The class started with teacher Ingrid who song the " how are you today?"  the kids really enjoyed the song.

In order to get the attention of the kids Ingrid used a puppet "TOTI" and kids were interesting in the class and they paid attention. Moreover, the  Ingrid taught the vocabulary to kids using a TOTI as strategy to teach, I think that it was a great technique for teaching and get the attention of the kids.

Another thing hat it is interesting to me, it is that Ingrid work in the grammar part with kids by asking them " It is good or bad for you?  using the secreat box  in order to get the attention of the kids. I consider that with that activity kids felt inspired to participate.

Then, It was the turned for Abigail who started the class by asking the kids whether the driks are bad  for the health or not. After that, Abigail, made groups in order to work in a puzzle. As a result, kids worked in order to formed a pictured related to the vocabulary, and then, kids had to answered questions.

After that, kids checked a lipleting the missing letter. Then, kids made the activity in which they had to go to the supermarket and  got the picture that  was related to the vocabulary  and finally, they had to put in the bag.

I think that this activity was  very useful for kids because they not only learnt the vocabulary but also  they felt motivated to participate in order to do the activity. 

My case of study

I consider that Jonathan has been

  improving a lot beacuse he tries to do

 the thing with no problem, and he tries

 to be sure about the activities that he

 will develop. Therefore, I consider that

 Jonathan likes to participate in the

 classes even though he is not totally sure

 about he is going to do.

Week 15 November 8th

Topic: Actions

Teachers:  Raul,  and Juan José

Vocabulary:Swim, run, jump, fly, climb, eat, drink, drive.

Grammar:I can/can’t , she can/can’t, he can /can’t , it can/can’t

Review:Animals, family members, alphabet.

Raúl started the class with the song " how are

 you today?" they really knew the song because

 they really internalized the song. Therefore, at

 the moment to sing the song, it was helpful to

 them all the movements that Raúl did when they

 were singing the song.

I think that it was helpful for kids to review what

 they have been studying during the previous

 classes. In addition,  all the kids were able to

 reconize their names  in the sheet of paper pasted

 on the board the instructions were clear

 beacuse Raúl was able to model them for kids

 had a better idea what they had to do. I think

 that all the kids enjoyed that activity. 

Another interesting activity that Raúl developed

 was in which kids had to do two lines , and the

 two students of the top had to take a hoop, run

, and look for the action that Raúl said. I think

 that the kids spent a good time doing this

 activity, and they felt happy when they got the 

ribbon.

Finally, it was the turned for  Juan in which he

 used a variation of the spinning wheel technique. 

In this activity, in which the kids had to choose a 

paper, look at the picture in its back,go to the 

front of their partners and finally,say what it was 

and paste on the wall. 

I  consider that this activity was useful for kids in

 which all of them participaed and developed the

 activity because. Moreover, If kids did not know,

 Juan tried to help them.

Finally, the other activity that Juan developed in

 which kids had to put the 

hats on the head

according with the action that Juan said, 

 I think

 that it was a very good activity that all the kids

 enjoyed beacsue the kids had to pass and pass

 the hat  while they  to music.In addition, when

the music stop, they had tochoose the word and 

say the name of the action , the letters of the 

words. Moreover, they put in practice the colors

 of the papers.

I think that Raúl and Juan did a very good job,

 they improved a lot.

My case of study

In this class Jonathan " my case of study" he

 participate in the whole class when he had to

 participate, he is not shy anymore, he is able to

 develop the activies in each class without feel 

embarrassed because in each class my classmates

 look for a way in which all the kids participate

 

 in the class in a funny way.s

Papalia, D., et al. A child's world. pp. 239-290.

 Mc Graw Hill. USA, 2006 

Week 14,November 1st

              Topic: Clothes

Teachers: Luis and Gloria

Vocabulary: Jeans, shorts, dress, blouse, skirts, t-shirt, socks, shoes, glasses, hat, cup, sweater.

Grammar:I am wearing, she is wearing, and he

 is wearing.

Whose _____is this? Whose _______are these?

The class started on time, the teacher Gloria

 started with a warm up in which kids had the

 opportunity to talk about their feelings "happy,

 sad ". Then, the kids sang the song" How are

 you today? ". It was nice to see how children

 enjoy singing everytime the song, they really

 like to sing that song, and they really know the

 lyric of the song because they have been 

singing in every class.

After doing this activity, the kids were presented

 by some  items of cloths. For example,Jeans,

 shorts, dress, blouse, skirts, t-shirt, socks, shoes,

 glasses, hat, cup, sweater. Not only Gloria

 presented the items of cloths in some cards but

 also she presented real cloth for kids can

 understand better the names of the clothes. I

 consider that it was very useful because kids

 learnt in a good way the names of the clothes 

 and they put in practice with some real clothes. 

Then, it was the turned to Luis, he presented an

 interesting memory game that all the kids

 participated. In addition, the memory game was

 well designed in order to put in practice

 numbers, colors and the principle purpose of the

 memory

 game the "item clothes"

I conside that Luis and Gloria did a very good job

 because they were very sure about the topuc and

 the activities that they developed. Therefore, they

 had control in the class. 

"MY CASE OF STUDY"

As I said in the other blogs that Jonathan has been improving a lot. In this class, he participated

 in all the activities with no problem, he was able to participate in the memory game and he guessed some pairs. He was happy doing the activities.

Papalia, D., et al. A child's world. pp. 239-290. 

Mc Graw Hill. USA, 2006 

week 13, October 25th

Days of the weekand numbers from 11-20 

Teachers: Gisselt, Cristela, Monica

Vocabulary:Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday , Friday, Saturday, numbers 11-20

Grammar:What day is today? What is your favorite day?

Review:T h e n u m b e r s , t h e a lp h a b e t (H o w d o y o u spell Sunday?), the colors (red, blue, yellow,green, pink, orange, brown, white, black) Prepositions (Monday is between sunday and

Tuesday)

LESSON PLAN:

Objective of the lesson:    By the end of the lesson,  SWBAT produce and identify the days  of the week, and the numbers from eleven to twenty in a calendar or planner and also in isolation through many activities like: spinning wheel, matching, modeling clay, answering questions and guided games, by the end of a ninety-minute lesson..
Time	Stage	Procedure	Notes
10 minutes	Warm up	Have Ss sing the “how are you today?” song to start the class. On the wall, there will be three vertical strips. Ss will see three posters in which adjectives, such as happy, sad, hungry, are inside. The whole class will be in line and run toward each poster every time the word is heard. (Twice) Let’s have a review of the previous topic. Have Ss make two line, one in front of the other. A colored box will be in the middle of them and on the stage. Encourage Ss to play the “spinning wheel”. The spinning wheel has four sections: alphabet, family, colors, and numbers. Teacher will spin the wheel and ask a question corresponding to the category to be answered by one of them. The first student that picks the box up will have the opportunity to answer. After this, each S will go back of the line.  If the category is color, what color is it? It’s black; if the category is number, what number is it? It is 11; if the category is family, who is he/she? It’s my mother/father…; If the category is spelling, how do you spell mother, and so on.	Aim of the activity: to demonstrate how much they have learnt from the previous classes by reviewing the target language and vocabulary through playing “spinning wheel” game. Type of learner: auditory, visual, kinesthetic. Interaction: teacher-student  Materials: posters, spinning wheel Responsible: Mónica Ponce
10 minutes	Presentation	Invite Ss to sit on the floor. T presents a weekly planner that has images of activities we can do weekly. The weekly planner will be pasted on the wall (in front of the windows; and next to this, the numbers from 11-17). Invite volunteers to select one number (or color) to be discovered by the T and inside the paper is the day of the week (7 days of the weeks). T reads the word and says the day of the week two or three times. Encourage Ss to repeat the word. Ask them: What does the word Monday start with?  Elicit their answers. Then, invite Ss to produce the sound /m/. T does the same with the rest of the days. Then, have student spell the day; each time they say one letter they have to give a clap. Next, invite Ss to count the letter from each day and teacher will paste each of them in the correct position. Finally, ask Ss to repeat the days of week by singing: “Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, What day is today, what day is today? Friday, Friday” Ask them, What day is today? T waits for the answer “Friday”.	Aim of the activity:  to encounter the target vocabulary by focusing on the pronunciation of the sounds: /m, t, w, f, s/. Type of learner: visual, kinesthetic, auditory. Interaction: teacher-student, student-student  Materials: a Weekly Planner, sheets of paper Responsible: Mónica Ponce
15 minutes 15 minutes 5 minutes	Practice Practice practice	Greet the students. Then, Present them the calendar that will be replicated on the board; however, the words of the days will be missing. Next, students will be asked what the first day of the week is. Each day will be represented with a different color. If they do not know, the teacher will help them with the first day of the week. Once the day is mentioned, it will be pasted on the calendar by the teacher; after that, every day that is mentioned by the Sts will be pasted on the calendar with the help of the teacher. Afterward, the teacher will make students practice the days of the week pronunciation, the colors and the numbers of the calendar emphasizing the numbers from 11 to 20. Finally, the students will be given some pieces of paper of different colors and the students will have to look for the days which represent those colors and paste them on those days (that is on the calendar which will be on the board).	Aim of the activity: to recognize the days of the week combined with the numbers from 11 to 20 using the calendar. Type of learner: visual. Interaction: teacher-students  Materials: board decorated as a calendar Responsible: Gisselt Romero
		Kids will be taught how to create a train. First, kids will be showed a train already done for them to visualize what they are expected to do. Then, they will be given the materials. The wagons will not have the days of the week because the kids should paste the days of the week on the wagon that they prefer. Next, kids will be given some wool to join the wagons of the train in the correct order according to the days of the week. This activity will be done individually.	Aim of the activity: to create a visual aid that will help them remember the target vocabulary at home. Type of learner: tactile Interaction: teacher-students, students-students  Materials: all the parts of the train in cardboard, wool, scotch tape, glue and the words of the week. Responsible: Gisselt Romero
		The class will be divided into two groups. These two groups will form two lines. Then, seven boxes with the days of the week in different colors will be placed in front of the lines. The students at the top of the lines will be given some paper balls. Subsequently, the teacher will say one day, and the students have to throw the ball in the corresponding box. The ones who have already participated should go at the back of the lines to wait for a new chance to participate if the time allows it.	Aim of the activity: to practice the acquisition of the target vocabulary in pronunciation to then connect it to its written form. Type of learner: kinesthetic Interaction: teacher-students  Materials: boxes with the days of the week on them, and balls of papers. Responsible: Gisselt Romero
15 minutes		The teacher will greet the kids, and asks “how are you today”, and also what day is today? Then, on the wall the teacher is going to have some cards with some of the days of the week, but not all of them. For example, Monday ……  Wednesday…….Friday.. Sunday. One student will be asked to pass to the front to paste the days that are missing according to the correct sequence. Then, When the first kid fills with the correct days, the teacher should ask “how many days do you have? What colors do they have? How do you spell them? Furthermore, next to the days of the week, there will be some cards with the numbers from 11-20   because the teacher will say for example; Sunday has the same color than the numbers fifteen and sixteen. Once the students get the gist of the activity, the teacher will ask for example: what numbers have the same colors than Sunday. After the first kid has done all this process, he will come back to his seat and the teacher will ask everyone to close their eyes while she removes other days of the week, then, another student should pass to do the whole process again, and if the student is not able to do it alone, he will receive the teacher’s help and also his classmates’ help.	Aim of the activity: To have students remember the days of the week in isolation without the neighboring days. Type of learner: visual Interaction: teacher-student, student-student Materials: cards of different colors with the letter s of the days of the week and the numbers from 11 to twenty, all pasted on the wall. Responsible: Cristela Navarro
15 minutes		The kids will be presented with some pieces of paper containing the days of the week. They have to fill with clay the word that the teacher says. For example, the teacher says paint Sunday with orange; students have to paint it with that color. Then. The teacher will say another color for another day and the students have to look for the word to fill it with the day that the teacher said. Finally, kids should arrange them in the correct order. Next the teacher, will ask Wednesday is between?	Aim of the activity: to make a final review of the target vocabulary to see if the main objective was achieved. Type of learner: tactile Interaction: teacher-student, student-student Materials: pieces of paper, different colors of clay Responsible: Cristela Navarro
5 minutes		The kids will be standing up in order to sing and mimic the goodbye song together with the teachers. This will be done three or four times depending on the kids’ need.	Aim of the activity: to recognize that it is time to say good bye. Type of learner: Auditory Interaction: teacher-student Materials: nothing Responsible: Mónica Ponce Gisselt Romero Cristela Rubio
Assignments and announcements

Materials using during the class: 

The class started with the Monica's warm up, it was the song How are you today? She presented a different strategy how to do the warm up, she presented  three different posters in each of the posters hd the faces according to the song: happy, sad and Hungry,so kids were very happy doing that  warm up beacause  they had to move every time that they listened the words.

I consider that it was a great way how to do the warm up in order to know how much  the kids  have learnt from the previous classes by reviewing the song's vocabulary through playing. Then, monica continued with her presentation class in which she used the Spinning wheel in order to teach the family members, the numbers and colors.The kids were very exicited with the activity. 

According to Vygotsky, "the most effective

 learning happens when the new skills and

 concepts being taught are just on the edge of

 emergence—in the Zone of Proximal

 Development. When this happens, the child does

 not simply acquire new knowledge but actually

 makes progress in his or her development" The kids were familiar with the topic, they had abackground knowledge, it was great to see how they know more and more in each class, they really show more progress in the class, they really want to participate even though you don't ask about volunteers they raise their hands and say that they want to participate, they are not shy anymore even the once who did not participate at the beginning like Jonathan who is my case of study, he really participates and answers in the correct way.  

Monica was very confident when she developed the class, everything was great. Moreover, when she started to presenting the numbers from 11- 17 and then, presenting the days of the week was great because Not only kids put in practice the numbers, colors, the correct  sequence of the days of the week but also the correct pronunciation 

of the words.

Gisselt

Gisselt started with a little warm up in which she used two faces in order to show the feelings happy and sad. Then, she started to present the calendar 

According to Vygotsky theory ( Cultural-

Historical theory),

 is the idea that child development is the result of

 interactions between children and their social 

environment. These interactions involve people

—parents and teachers, playmates and 

schoolmates, brothers and sisters.

In the case of Gisselt, she used the calendar in

 order to have interaction between students and

 teacher  for learning the correct sequence of the

 days of the week, the numbers and colors with

 this activity kids were able to interact with the

 other kids by listening and observing what the

 other kids did. As a result, kids learnt by the 

interection that they had in their enviroment, in

 this case by observing and developing what the

 teacher did in the class with the purspose that

 students learnt the days of the week, numbers

 and colors.

One of the activities that kids develop with

 Gisselt was in which they had to paste the days

 of

the week in a tain with the purposes of learning

 the days of the week and their correct sequense.

 I consider that it was a meanful activity in

 which

 students could work and put in practice what 

the

 teacher explained before. 

Finally, It was my turne Cristela.
Well, it was a difficult experience for me because the time was not respected  and that's made feel worry about how I was going to develop my activity, and I consider that this made feel unconfident when I developed my activities because It were 10 minutes less out my time, I felt very bad. However, after analized I can see some good aspects of my practice as a teacher that make me feel better.

The first activity was in which kids  had some of the days of the week with some missing days with the purpose of  kids put in the missing spaces the correct days of the week. For example, Monday---- Wednesday------Thursday----Saturday, Sunday. So what they should do was to put the missing days  in the correct space. The purposes of this activity were that kids learnt the days of the week in the correct order, the colors,spelling, and numbers from 11-20.

They were able to do the activity, they were able to put the days of the week in the correct order, they learnt the colors, they spelled some of the days of the week, and they learnt the numbers

The final activity was in which the kids had to use the clay in order to paint inside of the letters of the days of the week using different colors.

I think that the activity was great because the clay is a good tool for teaching, all the kids love to play with clay. Therefore, when the kids saw the clay, they were very happy to develop the activity. However, they didn't have much time to develop the activity.

My case of Study.

I could observed how Jonathan participated in all the activities.

I consider that this topic was difficult to teach 

because It was knew, and kids only had a

 prior knowledg. However, kids were able to

 learnt by the strategies that we used in order to

 teach the kids. Even though this topic was knew. In addition, 

 in each activity Jonathan was able to participate by himself, he raised his hand in order to participate and that it is something that he did not do before, he really has been improving a lot

 because According to Vygostky kids learn by the

 enviroment and teachers need to create a social

 base in order to help them in the cognitive

 development. I consider that Gisselt, Monica 

and I tried to help kids by giving them examples 

about how they should do the activities. I

 consider that these examples helped to 

Jonathan to do the activities.

I feel happy to see the progress of Jonathan.