We went to the Flora Gardens today with Primary 3's English Camp. I was somewhat nervous about this one as this class is very loud, talkative, and crazy! But overall, it was a fantastic day & there weren't any real hiccups.
I had group A which consisted of Benny, Kevin, Joyce, Ally, and Kelly. They were a great bunch & so cute! We did a tour of the gardens first, which I knew wasn't going to take very long (it's no Calgary zoo.. :) so we played some games in between. I got them to play 'stella stella ola' but with 'row row row your boat', they loved it! We also played 'evolution' which is a variation of rock paper scissors, & we played lots of the animal game throughout. You call out an animal name as you're walking & they have to imitate that animal. I hope this helped them remember the english words! After the tour was finished, we all got together as a class to sing their outdoor song. It was a song that is a part of their English instruction pack, it was cute, they all knew it. We played a version of hot potato with the song, but they didn't like that very much. I had something backfire on me during this activity. There was this one boy who kept throwing the ball at kids or holding the ball & not passing it on. So I took him out of the group & said that he had to sit & watch for 2 minutes & then would be able to re-join. This completely back fired on me because when it came time for him to re-join the group, he refused. Which is not what usually happens. Sooo.. that tactic doesn't work very well when they don't speak the language, and can't get the information they need to make a good choice about going back to the group. Darn! I will have to try something else.
After our singing, we went to the restaurant for lunch. We all had rice, eggs, sliced ham, & a porkchop. The porkchop didn't taste anything like pork, it had quite a funny taste actually. But I ate it anyways.. I was so hungry. The kids were absolutely starving! There were these two boys that had demolished their meal before I was done half of mine.
We did a sketching activity after lunch & my group just loved this part. We stayed at this one enclosure for about an hour & a half while they drew everything in detail & coloured it all in. They were so focused. They wanted to go sketch the turtles, so I took them there to do that, but they only had a few minutes there before we had to meet up with the rest of the class. With the whole class, we tried to do some sharing of our sketches. The kids were tired & the boys were chatty. It didn't work very well. That's ok... they got some English words in for the day.
After the field trip, Hong & I met with Miss Mou (Virginia) to discuss our schedule. For the next couple of weeks, we will just be floating around the various classrooms to watch & participate. (I'm sure we'll be planning some things, I just don't know what yet). For the first week of March we will have it off for our 'reading break'. Yeah! I'm hoping to go somewhere during that time, travel a bit. Once the second week of March hits, I will be teaching Mon-Thurs & will have Fri, Sat & Sun off. They may ask us to do some saturday activities, but hopefully it's not every week. It would be very nice to have 3 days off in a row to go travel!! :)
After our meeting, the three of us went to that killer noodle place for some tao fu fa (the tofu dessert.. mmmm), and soup! Hong & I ordered it ourselves with the new words we learned :) We were so proud. The waitress knew what we were saying!
Well, I think that is all for now. I need to throw my ipod on & do some reading. I can't ever focus without music in my room... the dog upstairs barks ALLLL the time!
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