Our First Official Class

This day was officially the first day of classes of our children. We are group number one, so we give this first class. In our first class with them we developed these topics: The present continuous and also activities in the classroom. We started with the song that we chose as a group to start the classes.

  First we did the activity “sharks are coming”. This activity had the purpose of choosing a child to complete a word. These words were related with classroom objects. We did this because in the diagnostic class we could see that they know some classroom objects. However we wanted them to write in the correct way the name of those objects.

After that we were explaining about the present continuous. Most of the things were practice in an oral way. For some activities we were acting in order to reinforce what students saw in the pictures that we presented to them. My activity was about to make groups and the group ‘A’ has to make mimics about the activities that we explained in classes and the group ‘B’ had to guess what they were doing. This activity was really nice. I really enjoy it because all the children were willing to participate. All of them give ideas and all of them speak and make mimics. I could see that they enjoyed this activity. After this activity they did the wrap up activity and then we sang the song for the end of the class.

In the feedback part we listened to our classmates. They had some observations. For example they notice that some visual aids were a little small, so they told to us that we could improve that part the next time.

Our first class was successful and I think that the kids learnt something that they. We have things to improve and we will do it. Teachers have to look for the best way for teaching because it is in our hands if our students learn something or not.