DAY ONE: welcome & learning instructions; prepositions & household objects
DOL: use a dictionary to look up five vocabulary words. Read, write, & Draw. Read aloud together for Fluency.
Pick English names, make nametags
CLASSROOM RULES: I am talking, you are listening, No eating/drinking in class, No handphones, ENGLISH TALKING ONLY, Everyone works, Everyone plays!
Name games I AM…HE IS…SHE IS….WE ARE (actions), ZIP-ZAP: using nametags & the mystery bag, THROW THE BALL
Classroom Scavenger Hunt: search for and write down household objects & Prepositions
Worksheets—See what they know (house objects & prepositions)
VOCABULARY: beside, in, on, under, through, in front behind, in between (SING the SONG!)
Discuss rooms in the house and the things that go in there (SLAP GAME)
FLASHCARD ACTIVITY: around the world
VOCABULARY GAME: SLAP GAME
Prereading worksheet: companion to One Snowy Day~
Pre-reading: look at a book cover and tell me about what you see. What do you think this book is about?
READ words for fluency
SNACK
Afternoon conversation: what is the best thing to do when it’s snowy outside?
Read a story.
PHONICS WAR game, listen to the sound of the letter, slap the letter before anyone else.
More name games: Name slap-tap, sheet drop.
ABC order with names & blindfolds.
READ together: One Snowy Day
END WITH A SONG: ~GING GANG GOOLIE~
CLEAN THE CLASSROOM .
Line up according to ABC order @ the door. We will sing a goodbye song and then go. See you tomorrow!
DAY TWO: ZOO animals & Can/Can’t
DOL WARM UP Worksheet—companion to the HICCUPS for ELEPHANT Read for Fluency
CONVERSATION: Can you…. count backwards from 10?
…. From 100
…. Walk backwards? (have a backwards walking race)
…. Run, fly,swim, talk, jump, write, climb
New vocabulary: elephant, hippo, monkey, giraffe, lion, alligator, penguin, eagle, pig, sheep
Worksheets. (CATCH UNIT 6)
Guessing game: it is/isn’t it can/can’t
Reinforce vocab activity PPt: BIG PIC & Remembery
ACTIVITY: groups of 2-3 Venn diagram in groups—give each student an animal, they make a venn diagram about things each animal can/can’t do. If they BOTH do it, put it in the space where the circles intersect.
SNACK
CRAFT ACTIVITY: It’s a ________ It CAN ________ It CAN’T _________.
(hang them on the Classroom Projects Wall)
ACTIVITY: LEMONADE
CONVERSATION: When you have the hiccups, what do you do? Does it work? (pretend to have the hiccups, and let them tell you how to cure it--it's HILARIOUS! The get so worked-up, trying to help you! )
READ STORY Hiccups for Elephant
CLEAN THE CLASSROOM. See you tomorrow!
DAY THREE: Weather, Clothing, He/she/they is/isn’t, are/aren’t doing
DOL WARM UP Worksheet—companion to the more or less a mess; Read for Fluency
VOCABULARY: learn using flash cards.
CONVERSATION: What are you wearing? Are you warm? Are you cold?
PRACTICE VOCAB & sentence grammar: BIG PIC & REMEMBERY (Is it a sweater? Are they shoes?)
SNACK
VOCAB flashcards: ACTIONS
FLASHCARDS: Play AROUND THE WORLD
Worksheets; reading, writing, comprehension.
GAME: BIG PIC again!
READ: More or less a mess together
SHEET DROP game (using action flash cards?)
Hands-on Creative Project: Give students a stack of carefully chosen “random” flashcards from what we’ve been studying all week. Students must create a comic from the vocabulary provided.
Vocab pre-reading worksheet: each Comic group will do 1~2 words and then we’ll get together and fill them all in. Write/create sentences together. (this is a great opportunity to work new vocab into conversation. Cafeteria example) do you like to eat in the cafeteria or the classroom? What do you do in the morning? Etc..etc…
Read words for fluency~slow-slow-fast
Read for fluency in pairs
Pre-Read cover TOGETHER fill out worksheet together
SNACK TIME
GAME: catergories snapping game
DISCUSS: Talk about the difference between Real & make-believe
Do the worksheets (3 pages)
Read THE WITCH GOES TO SCHOOL
1st) teacher reads, asks questions (students try to answer)
2nd) students read together aloud (teacher re-asks questions, students answer)
3rd) listen to E-book read. (teacher re-asks questions, students answer)
XTRA time activity: ACTION MINEFIELD
Clean the classroom really really well—it’s the last day!!!
Thank you for making Winter camp SO SPECIAL!!! ~much love, Susan
