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

[heffneh]

The Disney themed presentation covers comparative adjectives: tall, taller. For games, I used a team flashcard game. Two teams. Two players start in back of the class. When I show picture, they run/skip/hop/walk backwards to dice. First person to grab the dice answer the question: "Who is taller, who is meaner, ect.Then they roll the dice to see how many points they get for their team. For applied practice, there are pictures attached at the end. Students get in pairs and have to say five comparisons they find in the picture using the comparative rules we just learned.

This was used with a smaller afterschool 5th/6th class.

[heffneh]

Introduces future tense: What willl you do tomorrow? in form of fortune teller story. Activities can include retelling the story, and having students be fortune teller and tell each other's fortunes.

[callanan3]

Hi chunsa88!

I know how you feel about running out of ideas. Are you required to use the book?
I teach at an all girls middle school and I can teach whatever I want; a blessing but also a curse. Last week I did a lesson on Guatemalan Worry Dolls and actually had my students make the dolls. My school gave me a budget so I was able to buy all the necessary things, pipecleaner and yarn. It's culture and creative. They really loved it.
The last slide has a video of how to make the doll with the pipecleaner.
Anyway, I hope this helps a little!

Good luck,

Cas

[sonja135]

Just taught this to my 3rd & 4th graders.  We'd introduced the vocab at the end of the previous lesson, but not all students remembered it.

Lesson objective: Students will learn the titles for various family members
Key vocab:  Sister, brother, mother, father, grandfather, grandmother, aunt & uncle

• Begin with normal routines (in my club we exchange greetings and write today's date on the board)
  
• Play and sing the Finger Family song 2-3 times (I've decided to ignore it when they flip the bird because most of them don't get it anyhow): First preview, then review each finger's family member, then sing again (maybe 2 more times depending on interest)
  
• Pass out family tree and review each family member, asking students to write the Korean translation next to the English word (I speak a little Korean so I'm able to keep tabs on this)*
  
• Have students push the desks back and make a circle of chairs.  Have one student (probably one of your higher level students; they can help you model the activity) stand in the middle and take his/her chair out of the circle (so you have n-1 chairs)
• Play this variation of the camp game "The Big Wind Blows" (http://www.ultimatecampresource.com/site/camp-activity/the-big-wind-blows.html) - for this variation, give each student a slip of paper cut out from the family members list.  Before you begin, help students who can't read their slips.
  
  • Write this (or a similar) sentence frame on the board: "Will my _____ please get up?"  Give a few examples of what the student in the center could say.  Model for the students what you would do if you heard your family member role called.
    Let students use the family tree papers they just filled out for reference.
    Play several rounds.  This gets noisy, and you may need to move students if two "uncles" or two "sisters" are sitting right next to each other and just quickly switching spots when they are called.
    
  • You can wrap up this lesson in several ways.  One would be to simply call out and quiz the students (Korean/English); another way would be to have students fill in a blank version of the family tree with the same pictures.

*A quick note, students may give you several Korean names for the single English term of "aunt" and "uncle" (amongst others) because Korean has more specific terms based on whether the relative is on your mom's or your dad's side, whether the aunt or uncle married in or is a blood relative, whether the sibling is older or younger... and other nuances I don't really understand.

Enjoy!

(apologies for the bizarre formatting, I can't figure out how to properly bullet this list)

[jinjerale]

You could do - transportation, vacations, what you find on a farm (in the ocean, at the school, etc.)

I love doing games that you would do at bridal/baby showers - put lots of items in boxes - everything the same in each box and then give them only 1 min to look.  Then they need to label what they saw.

I play scategories and test their vocab.

The hot seat game is great.

Make a music video.

I do a scavenger hunt that is fun - gets them moving around the school.

Also, try a murder mystery game!

With advanced students i like to give them lots of worksheets!  Crosswords and also matching/decoding. 

http://www.eslprintables.com/
 
or

http://www.toolsforeducators.com/

These are great sites!

Hope those ideas help!

[KDY]

I know its a bit late to reply to this post! But these PPT's might help someone else.

[sallyafc]

this is the mrio game i will use for my after school class soon but i think ll levels could do it

[teacherjenni]

...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 can relate to this. Although my club activity students are not too violent, about 5 out of 7 are really excellent at English, one is so shy he will not speak, and the other is so aloof that the building could be burning down and he would just sit staring at his ipod (which he plays out loud almost the entire class time). I've not been strict with them, so whenever I come in with something they don't like I usually get a bunch of whining and they beg me to let them find KPOP songs on the internet - as they don't like whatever music I try to find for them (I'm not a big fan of KPop). *Sigh* Anyway, I've asked them what they prefer to do, and they just say "games." I've figured that much out, but when I ask "Oh, did you like the ____ game" it is usually met with a big "NO" I'm at a loss as to what type of games to play. I most of them like more physical games instead of ppt ones, but I only know a couple to play with 7 students. Any ideas?

[injuredeagle]

Crafts, maybe?
If you weren't expected to present any syllibus (sp?), then maybe you can take it easy with them. I had one similar class, which I ditched my lesson plans and showed them funny little youtube movies and then got them to talk about it. Then, I got one of the optical illusion ppts from this site and showed that to them. It got them interested, quiet and more likely to talk with me (which is the learning part, I guess). Now, we do some lessons and I tell them if they listen, we'll watch the "panda video" or "magic tricks" again... Just a thought.

[andrucer]

Here is a very simple powerpoint I made for my after school class.

[teacherjenni]

Thanks, injuredeagle. Mine don't want movies or videos because the last NET did a video/discussion every week. I've also done the optical illusions, tongue twisters, music clozes (which they dont like unless they choose the songs), and others.

However, yesterday I decided to do one of my favorite games: Taboo. I didn't make many slides for it, so we also did charades. We did boys vs girls and everyone participated and said they liked it. So here is my taboo game.

[toniyellow]

Try games with running.  Running dictation - tape a story to one wall, and a blank sheet of paper to the other wall, and they have to run to the first, read a sentence, run back to the second and write it.

Pass the ball powerpoint game. Super Mario powerpoint game. I play lots of long powerpoint games in english club that we don't have time for in normal class.

Write a follow the clue /scavenger hunt around the classroom - look under the tv, look under the window. Then get them to write their own scavenger hunt in teams, and swap with another team and complete theirs.

As someone suggested Charades can be heaps of fun.

I have tried drawing comics and playing board games with 4th grade and they start off super successful but end up with kids throwing dice and comics full of 'shut up, you die'. They're a difficult age to work with.

[Nina]

I teach grade 1s and 2s after school once a week, and the majority of them can't speak English, and only know the simplest of vocabulary words.

I've had a lot of luck with them with "target practice"-type games. I tell them to form a line and they take turns throwing a ball through a hoop, while standing up, dropping a coin into a jar that's on the floor. My school also has a dart board and velcro darts. I gave them a sticker every time they hit the bulls-eye.

You could also work on their English numbers - if they hit "5" on a dartboard, they get 5 stickers or if they hit "10" they get 10 stickers. Before you give them stickers, ask them how many stickers they are supposed to get.

[claire]

Hi all,

So, with the school year winding up, I've been doing some more laid back, fun lessons with my kids, as opposed to learning more new vocab and grammar...  I felt like they needed a bit of a break and a bit of fun!

So these lessons might not be the best for teaching new things but they should get the kids talking and listening in English, as well as review some past vocab.  I hope they're helpful and fun!

I found a lot of these ideas in other posts on the site, but they were aimed at middle or high school kids, so I've modified them for elementary level.


Lesson One - Music Video Lesson

I played two music videos - Taylor Swift 'You Belong With Me' and Justin Bieber 'Baby'.  After they watched them once, I then played the videos again and asked the students to raise their hands when they saw a certain thing.  I've attached the Justin Bieber questions I asked as an example, but you can add/change/amend them to suit you and your students.  The first person to put their hand up/answer the question got given candy.  They loved the songs, the videos - and especially the chance to win candy!!

NB. - Taylor Swift has a big kiss at the end of her video, so I stopped it right before that part as my students go nuts when they see kisssing, haha.


Lesson Two - 'Up' by Disney Pixar

I played the kids a section of 'Up' - a montage of the couple's married life...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GroDErHIM_0

I then watched it again and went over the worksheet questions one by one with the class, asking them to circle the correct answer.  I made 2 worksheets - one has pictures for lower level/younger students.

Another NB - This film is so sad - me and some other teachers cried when watching it with our students!  Have tissues ready if you're a crier!

Lesson 3 - Disney Pixar - Lifted

I did a hangman with the students and they had to guess the word 'alien'.  I then showed them the alien powerpoint so they knew what the word meant.
I watched the film Lifted and again, had worksheets for the kids to answer.  We went through each question as a class.  Same idea as 'Up'.  Again, 2 different worksheets for the different levels.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maR5JEDBltc



Lesson 4 - Predictions Lesson

So you've probably seen this lesson on here already - but in case you haven't - here is the link to the topic. 

http://waygook.org/index.php?topic=2455.msg11118;topicseen#new

Although my elementary students don't understand the vocabulary of 'predictions', the grade 5 and 6 students could easily understand what they had to do when I explained it, and I used the vocab 'What happens next?' instead of 'I predict....'  The lesson worked really well and they loved the videos.  I've attached the picture worksheet here again.

Also, scroll down in the post to see some other videos - the eskimo video and dinosaur ones are particularly funny to watch if you have time to fill at the end of the class.  I just watched the first 2 seconds of them and asked the students to guess what happens next.  The scary ghost car one is amazing if your students can handle it!  Mine screamed like crazy but loved it :-)

This lesson also worked really well with my grade 3 & 4 students, as I had a co-teacher's help to explain the worksheet.

Again, I gave out candy to the students who predicted the outcomes correctly and they really got into the lesson.

Think that's it for now - I had another one but the video has now been removed from Youtube - grr!

Hope these ideas help :-)

[meganl.dwyer]

I've spent hours and hours creating this material for my 4, 5, and 6th grade after school English Club but I think it can probably be useful for upcoming English Camps too.
Hope somebody can get something out of it...

The Memory Game is my favorite thing and the kids loved it. Kept them busy for a really long time. Use the Describing Food PPT first to discuss adjectives.

[adamblue]

Thanks so much for your hard work, this is great!
I've uploaded a .zip version with all of the files bundled together on a filesharing site.
http://www.filedropper.com/foodlesson1
Thanks!

[skim23]

thx a lot  it's great for one full day of camp.

[Sunshinex0o]

Thanks for the Powerpoint. One of my classes for Winter Camp is very low level so this presentation works perfectly. I also created a "Flick the Coin" game to go along with the Simpson family theme. Students are in groups of 2 or 3. They take turns flicking the coin, if it lands on a Simpson character the other students must say "Who is he/she?". The student should say "He/She is my...". If they're right they color in the square (each student has their own color). When all the squares are colored the students should count the colored squares to see who is the winner. Most colored squares = winner. I laminated the board for multiple use.

[lizteacher10]

So, I have been searching the site for some information on after school courses. I have yet to find a topic started on it. (To the moderator: sorry, I don't know where to place this question, as it is not a camp)
Here's my situation. I have been teaching after school course for about a year now. I will start again at the new semester. The problem is that I have gone through about every topic I can with the students from our English curriculum to Barry-funEnglish. Most likely I will get back most of the students next year, so I need some ideas for After School English courses. They aren't at a level to take on a real English fiction book, but they are beyond Backpack English. Any ideas, suggestions?? I need your creativity and brains here.

[dchrzano]

Try some of the winter camp activities, you can also get a textbook and follow that as it has lessons by Unit. My school uses after school textbooks, they are much better than the basic curriculum.