February 24th - greetings

 As always, I taught the same class for both 4th grade 4 and 4th grade 5. As always, class goes better on the second group, and I wonder if it is because the others are still warming up as my class is the first one of the day, or if it is because I am testing my class plan, so I usually make some mistakes with the first group and correct them with the second. I am grateful that I am teaching more than one group of same age kids, so I can improve my class plan and check what works and what does not.



With the first group, I started playing the song and asking them what they understood. As the sentences are really simple, I thought they would understand most of them, but I was wrong. Then, with the second, I wrote all the sentences of the song on the board out of order and asked them to translate to Portuguese. If they did not know before, I would help.


The greetings song

Good morning. Good afternoon. Good evening. Good night. Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you, too. Goodbye. See you. (x3)

See you later.


The only one that was not possible even though I tried hard was “Nice to meet you (too)”. So I typed the translation on my telephone and played “Prazer em te conhecer”. Then I played the song. Then asked “what is sentence number one?” and we were organizing the song on the board as long as we were listening to them. I asked them to pick their notebooks and copy the song. I erased the board and rewrote the song in the correct order, because I know that for kids that age, it would be difficult. Before the song lyrics, I wrote the date on the board, because it is a good chance to learn the months and review numbers in real communication. From a next few classes, I intend to introduce the day of the week as well.



As we still got some time left, we counted from 1-20 again, counted reverse and I asked them some easy math questions like “What is two plus two?”

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