How to learnn the concept of 'matching" a menu with the table setting.

 

 

Fun activity about table settings.

1-      Each student cuts a set of little paper glassware, silverware, chinaware, and linen.

2-      Then, they must match them with a menu

3-      Or they must guess what id the menu looking at a table setting.

 

 Learning should never be boring! Using this game will definitely help the students to understand the concept of “Matching the table setting with the menu”

Teaching Photosynthesis using Rap Music?

Yes! We did it!

I am filling in for the Agriculture English teacher who is absent for around a month. I was a little worried about teaching that class because the teachers told me that they didn’t want to speak. 

Furthermore, each time I asked some of these year 3 students at the center how they were doing in English, the answer always was “ពិបាក”.

Nevertheless, it went outstandingly well! I even managed to have them “rap” about the photosynthesis, and more generally around the life cycle of a plant!

It is not perfect yet, as you can see on the video above, but it was only the first time! 

So, what is the problem? 

Pedagogy for sure, lack of teaching techniques…

My job here is to train the teachers and it’s a great mission, but definitely not an easy one!

My main challenge it to get the teachers into a new spirit. It is not easy because they have to realize, by themselves, that what they are doing now is poor, boring, not effective what so ever. I don’t blame them, they just teach like they have been taught with the same low results.

Of course I will never tell them that way, I don’t want to upset or discourage them…

Great mission but again, not easy at all.

Public speaking in grade 3: I am a superhero!

Student: Hi, my name is__________	Class: Hi, __________________
I’m a Superhero	No, no, no, no, no…
I’m a Superhero	Superhero?
I can _____________________	Good
I can _____________________	Great
I can _____________________	Wow
I’m a Superhero	Yeahhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!

Here is a video:

And another one:

These kids in grade 3 are making their first public speaking practice… Their speech follow the pattern above. All the class is involved answering and even contesting them… It was the first time this class did this activity and it went very well, and it will soon get even better!

 

A few minutes before that class I was talking with M. Ny. He was asking me “How to get the kids to speak?”

Here is one possible answer!