The How Are You Debate.
When someone asks YOU, “How are you?”
How do you respond?
It is the recent trend in Japan to STOP using, “I’m fine”
And start using:
I’m hungry
I’m happy
I’m hot
I’m cold
As an American from California, I have always said, “I’m good,” or “I’m OK”
This is NOT the section of a conversation where I tell my true feelings, unless it was a really close friend.
I could be really sad, and I would STILL say: “I’m OK”
So, while I DO want to teach children the different feelings that we express, I also want to make sure that it falls into a natural type of conversation.
What do you think?
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Giving directions is one of the more difficult lessons to teach.
Because it is difficult it should be seperated into two or three lessons.
The first time I like to play a “map” game with two people… You know your average maps with missing locations that students direct eachother to.
Read the rest…
What do you think about using familiar words that sound similar to new words, in order to remember the new words?
I used to think that I wanted the students to learn the correct pronunciation, so I got upset (inside my head of course) when the Japanese teachers would say Mouse to teach students mouth.
Now I’m not sure.
Is it just plain confusing? Or does it help students remeber a NEW word while helping them differeciate from the old word at the same time?
As long as we show the students the difference during the lesson, I believe the similar word HELPS.
Don’t you remember learning something new by making associations?
I know I still do it everyday when I meet someone and want to remember their name.
What do you think?
Anyway
I really want to know, what songs are lacking in your school?
Need a song with numbers past seven?
Need a song that reveiws colors?
Need a song that just says:
“What sports do you play?” And “soccer”?
Or do you need “I play soccer”?
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Today I taught face parts, and also thought of characters for each part.
Ice cream eyes, earring ears, no no nose, mouse mouth, and cheese cheeks.
I didn’t teach the rest of the body parts, so more when I do.
We played “fukuwarai” the Japanese face version of pin the tail on the donkey.
We sang head shoulders knees and toes, and it was great! …Why come up with a new song when the traditional one is perfect.
But it might be nice to have a new face song for 5th and 6th grade
I’ll put it in the works.
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21 August 2009 - by admin
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Why?
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