In the Classroom

We started teaching English on September 20th and it has been going very well so far. We teach with an English curriculum called Ohana that uses a variety of DVDs for teaching phonics and dialogues. We are finding that using games and activities in the classroom is the best way to go. Our students seem to enjoy learning new games like “Pictionary”, “Charades” and “Telephone” to enhance their English. We definitely enjoy teaching this way as well.

The four of us (Sam, Sarah, Aaron and Michelle) are taking turns teaching so we all get to teach with each other and prepare lesson plans for different days. We have class on Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings for two hours. This week we took some photos of one of our classes to post on our blog.

We taught the students the game “Charades” with their new vocabulary words for the day and it was hilarious to see how they each chose to act out their word

Most of the class was so enthusiastic about guessing the answer that they forgot to raise their hands. We were always reminding them to raise their hand before shouting out the answer and it caused all of us to laugh a lot.

Each student had to write their own dialogue this day using the phrases they had learned the previous week. After writing their dialogues, they performed them in front of the whole class. We are planning on having them write and perform short skits in the future when they know more English because they are so great at performing.