Last but not the Least

Tonight is the last day of my EL3A class with the toddlers. They are just so cute and brainy little girls who are trying to act like an adult. Grins. And now that the class has ended, I could really say that I will surely miss them and I would like to have them in the next level of their English learning at our school. I hope they would be my students next term. They are really worth reminiscing and I do really treasure those moments when all I could do is just whine and moan about their zero English skills. Now I can see that they are really have improved a lot so far with our almost more than half year being together of learning English. From zero they are now halfway to finish level one and I am taking this as sort of big accomplishment in my teaching career so far. As an overall, I really enjoyed my last class with my cute little girls tonight. I will surely miss you guys - Yani the picky, Venus the favorite and sweetest of all, Holly the spoiled little monster, and Pink the one with the smart and wit gifted. Smiles.

Hangman Revisited

Are you ready!? This is my usual shout everytime I get to play games with my early learner students. They are super energetic little girls and so cute with their witty tongues. Though they are speaking in their native language every now and then, I understand coz they are still learning. Their favorite game is the so-called Hangman Revisited or should we say 'Kill the Teacher' as what we call it at school. The kids love it so much that they would just play it the entire session. Playing Hangman Revisited is easy just like the tradtional Hangman but instead of the the stick drawn on the board like a man, we're using the shark's face at the bottom with a long stick with ladders at both sides of it which represents the numbers of mistakes/tries the students or the teachers could get before being swallowed comopletely by the shark, hahah. And this thought would keep them more awake and competetitive in playing this game. My little girls love this and so does my little boys in another early learner class on Sunday mornings. Smiles. Try this if it works.

Last Day with My EL3A

I really enjoyed my last day with the toddlers tonight. We did more games as usual and one of those that they like best is the musical chairs with chips or sticks. We play this using the vocab we have for the day with a music played while they are running around the circle of flashcards [the target vocab] in the middle of the room. They are so energetic and enthusiastic tonight that we extended for like 10 more minutes. Grins. Surely, I've seen them grow with me since November last year where we met for the first time. They were so small and now they have grown a bit bigger and grown smarter. Smiles. I am so proud of them when some of my colleagues would talk to them in English and they could answer some simple questions. It's more than a fulfillment for me.