Ways of preparing food

We ( me and my partner Jorge) wanted to teach our 5th graders vocabulary related to food preparation. To do so, we needed to use the school kitchen, which was fully scheduled today. Having to teach this lesson, we had to come up with a solution. We went to the kitchen and got some pans, tray and food. But what about the stove? No problem! Jorge can draw very well, so we decided that he would be in charge of the it. He drew a very fancy one on the teacher's table. And the result was...

Students loved the idea of cooking on a fake stove. We did what we were up to and students had lots of fun!

My version of the same idea

For my first day of class, I decided to use the sunglasses project. I prepared a whole class for this simple project and I'd like to share it with you...

Material needed: one paper sunglasses per student, scissors, colored pencil. 

Preparation in advance: Take some flash cards or a PowerPoint  presentation with pictures related to vacation to the classroom.

Time: 60 minutes

I welcomed students and asked them to sit on a circle on the floor. Then, I showed them my paper sunglasses, very similar to this one...

By the way, This one, as I mentioned before, I took from Pinterest. 

So, I invited them to guess what  I did during my vacation. After that, I told them they were supposed to draw something nice that had happened to them during their vacation. But they couldn't tell anybody about it, since they would play a guessing game. 

After 20 minutes drawing and coloring things, I worked with vocabulary. 

I created this "page" on an Ipad app named Popplet. It has a free version (that you can only create one vocabulary cloud) and a paid one. I usually use this app to work with vocabulary, but I know there are many other uses of it. It's worthy downloading it. Take a look at the one I created for this class...

It took me less than 5 minutes to make it I elicited vocabulary and drilled pronunciation. To consolidate the new structures, I played a hot potato and a miming game.

When I felt students were familiar with the new vocabulary, I played the guessing game. In two groups, students discussed about their vacation. Then, student from group A showed his /her sunglasses to group B. Students from group B had to guess what he/she did during his/her vacation.

To wrap up, after playing this game, students were invited to write a paragraph about their vacation. The sunglasses and the paragraph will certainly become a bulletin board which pictures I post later! 

I hope you enjoyed this class!

Revising the semester

Last week of class... I wanted my students to revise all vocabulary and content we learned during the semester. I  was looking for a different activity when a student came to class holding a huge letter... My class was ready! I asked my students to open their books and hands on... This is the result!

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