After School Class Lessons/Resources Grade 3, 4, 5, 6

[amycock]

Hey guys,

Here are some of the classes i'm doing this week if your stuck.

Under the sea

Simpson day - me/family/home

Bugs life

Superheros

Fairytales.

I will add the materials as i finish them but here is some!

 

[amycock]

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Superheroes - clothes lesson materials

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Fairytales day

[clairegaunt]

Hi everyone, I just need some teaching advice, please. I've started at an elementary school and I'm taking years 4 and 6 with two different co-teachers. I also have a speaking class with the same fourth graders. I haven't been told it's a speaking class, I just assume it is! I have been lucky enough to take over from someone who is good at their job, but it means that I'm not really being checked on much. I have, however, been asked for a curriculum and I'm not really sure if it's going in the right direction. Could someone please take a look at what I have already and let me know if it's getting there? What should I add or change about it so when I show my bosses they don't think I'm a complete idiot? (I'm not, thankfully, but I have never taught before). Note: I've already planned and taught the first lesson and while there were certainly mishaps, everything went okay for the most part).
Also, as you can see, I'm having trouble finishing it... Can anyone help? Please?

MONTH 1- Describing physical appearances and parts of the body.
Week one- body parts
Week two- emotions
Week three- Describing what body parts look like
Week four- Clothing

MONTH 2- The house. Students learn the names of the parts of a house, also learn some simple prepositions. Ongoing project- students design their dream house.
Week one- Parts of a house/building
Week two- Rooms in the house
Week three- Objects in the house
Week four- Putting it all together, describing the whole house/building

MONTH 3- Animals and pets
Week one- animal colours and shapes
Week two- Do you have any pets?
Week three- Farm animals
Week four- The zoo


MONTH 4-Food
Week one- Names of different foods, students learn how to ask each other what they like
Week two- describing food, how it feels, tastes etc
Week three- breakfast, lunch and dinner
Week four- How to order food in a restaurant


MONTH 5- Where are you from?
Week one-

MONTH6- Telling someone your hobbies and interests.

[pickle]

Why don't you write your curriculum to follow along with the textbook?  If you find the students are low-level, you can make sure they learn the material they're responsible for, but it they are high-level you can teach them in more depth.  Grade 4 grammar points are very simple, so if you have the extra time it would mean you can help them to use the phrases in longer dialogs, with more advanced vocabulary, or in more situations.  Or even teach a completely new (but related) grammar point.

I was asked to write a curriculum for the English Club, and I was at a loss for what to do (not knowing what the kids knew... I hadn't even met them yet at that point!) and it ended up looking a lot like yours.  I make sets of three lessons that kind of went together on usual kinds of topics.  But after I started teaching, I realized that many of my students knew what I was trying to teach anyway, but the curriculum started to feel like it lacked aim.  I will have to completely re-write this term's curriculum because it hasn't been working for me.  If you base your curriculum on the textbook (or even a textbook you buy) it gives you a good baseline.  You can always choose to change the focus if it's not quite right for you.

Hope this helps!

[complex303]

Your curriculum looks pretty good.  Maybe it'll work for you.  But in my 4th grade English club (speaking class), the students are more proactive about doing things they like to do.  So this semester I let them make the schedule.  Here it is:

26 Aug - English test (this is a level test to see if they know how to read and write.)
2 Sep - Build a schedule, go over rules, introductions
8 Sep - Treasure Hunt
16 Sep - NO MEETING!  School Sports Day
23 Sep - NO MEETING!  Chuseok Holiday
30 Sep - Speed game, pictionary, word games
7 Oct - Treasure Hunt
14 Oct - Sports Day - Baseball, foot baseball, soccer
21 Oct - NO MEETING! Field trip
28 Oct - Treasure Hunt
4 Nov - Technology Day - Make a video, English computer games
11 Nov - Food Day - Pepero, pizza, popcorn
18 Nov - Mafia game/ Create an Annoying Orange game/play
25 Nov - Treasure Hunt
2 Dec - Running Games - Red light, green light
9 Dec - Sports Day 2 - ...
16 Dec - Christmas Party
23 Dec - Last day of school. Probably no English Club meeting.

As you can see they love treasure hunts...and I've got a nice bunch of lively boys.  I've attached the level test I used.  Most 4th graders don't bother to answer the last few questions.  Also, I've attached some materials I use for the treasure hunts. 

[KiwiInKorea]

My stance on English Club is for the students to have fun and to increase their interest in the English language. I will often have students play a game (which requires the use of the English language). A 'Go Fish' tournament is low prep and great for lower level students as the rules are easy to demonstrate and once you've given them the relevant answers and questions (Do you have any 1s? Yes, I do. Here you are./No I don't. Go fish!), they're away racing. Scrabble is also good.

Other things I've done is make a scavenger hunt across the school (you can break them into two groups and use walkie talkies for listening and speaking practice) and practicing pronunciation/wh-questions etc and then skyping people that I know back home. Some students were a little horrified at first but really felt they'd accomplished something once they'd finished.

[hjh]

Teaching English songs (even if it's pop songs) works. Students will learn natural pronunciation, get to try out speaking the language rapidly, or with emotion.

Pronunciation drills are also a good idea. Admin really love it when you say you're going to share cultural tips- so any time a holiday's coming up, prepare activities such as mock trick-or-treating, or a May pole, or Valentine's Day activities (writing valentines to their parents, friends, etc.)

It depends on the age you're teaching, but you could also show movies and have discussions about the themes, or show videos until a certain gripping point then turn the tv off and have students form groups and finish the film with a script and play-- and then show them the real end of the movie.


Just some ideas...

[korr]

I teach fifth and sixth graders, so these might not be appropriate for younger students:

- Tongue twisters.

- Fortune tellers or M.A.S.H. (the girls LOVED these)

- Bad jokes. My students' favorite was "What do you call cheese that isn't yours? Nacho cheese!"

- Make your own country. I taught the students some key vocabulary and had them design a map for their country. Once they realized I didn't care if they did silly maps, they came up with some pretty awesome countries like Never Study Land.

I've passed a lot of these off as cultural immersion or speaking practice, which my administration seems to like. Hope some of them work for you.

[Nick Crewdson]

Hi all,

I have just created a catch phrase game using the same principle as the bomb game only in the style of UK quiz show catch phrase. hope you think it is usual.

Thanks
Nick

[moc-moc-a-moc!]

Once a week I have to teach "club activity."

What this involves is me pleading with a room full of eight year old sociopaths to refrain from hitting each other and carving their names into the walls for forty minutes.  It doesn't take place in my usual classroom, there's no syllabus and no expectation of one, and the desk arrangement isn't conducive to... anything, really.  Basically I need some simple ideas that can occupy a class of fourth graders of massively varying English ability. 

Trying to come up with ideas for it is far and away the worst part of my week.  Actually, no.  Teaching it is the worst part of my week.  I was just about able to keep the peace last time with a cobbled together vocabulary power point game, but I've reached the bottom of that particular well.  The fact that four of the kids in the class may as well be fluent English speakers, while two more are fully fledged ADHD pinballs and at least one is in a persistent vegetative state makes it impossible to plan for.

I throw myself on the mercy of the forum, ideas juseyo?

[redeyedjedi]

sounds similar to my Grade 1 and 2 classes that i teach twice a week each.  I took some scanned dollars i found on google and made them really small (about 4 to a line and 10 or so down).  I'd post it but not sure of the legality.  Then when the kids are good, answer questions, raise their hands, win a game, do any homework I might give, not be late for a month, I give them a dollar and they write their name (in English) on the back.  If they are bad, I take them away.  At the end of class, I collect them and choose 2 to get a small candy.  (i never did this before, but for my sanity and a controlled class, I decided 1 or 2 pieces of candy weren't going to ruin anyones teeth)

It has worked wonders.  Eventho only a couple get candy, they all seem to feel rewarded when they get a dollar.  It helps me to see who has participated in the lesson. 

If someone gets 5 I have some pencils and things from home they can get as a bonus. 

If kids have been really bad, I make them stand in the back and then give their names and class #'s to my coteacher and she calls the homeroom teacher.  Havent had to do that in a while.

Good luck.

[MattPierce]

This is a quick powerpoint and worksheet I made for my after school class review of How Many/How Much, countable nouns and quantity stuff.

[jaytung]

Hello~
here is a Cookie Monster Game I made for my after school class of 5-6th graders ^~^

The topic is on Ordering Food but you can always change to add your own questions for which ever topic you are teaching

There are 5 topics such as "Do you like.." "Breakfast lunch dinner" "I ate __ on Monday" "I would like to order.." "I like to eat.."
& instead of numbers or alphabet, each question is a Fruit/Veggie so they can practice their fruit and vegetable words when picking a question~

I hope this is helpful for some of you ^~^

[jaytung]

In addition here are some other versions of Cookie Monster Game with variety of Questions - I used this during summer camp :]

Topics are : Korean Pop, Movies, America Culture, Spelling bee, and MIX

There are different levels from 3rd to 6th grades~

[candice3]

Thank you! This seems awesome... just what I need for tomorrow 

[heffneh]

I'm sure many others teach after school. I have a schedule of broad topics to cover, and here's one of them: Family adjectives for a 3rd and 4th grade class.