team teaching demo class

sorry, my attempt at cooking korean will have to wait! i had a great day (the best so far) at school today... and i thought it would be the worst! today Jay and i had our team teaching demo. basically this means that we had an "open" class where a bunch of teachers from other schools (as well as our own) come and watch our class. we've been working on it for a few weeks. i may have mentioned it before... i'm not sure. it was all about Halloween, which is one of my favourite holidays. anyway, it was a hit, the kids were on their best behaviour, and all the teachers told us they had a great time... here's a rundown.

Jay and i went over our halloween vocabulary: Halloween, trick or treat, ghost, jack-o-lantern, werewolf, vampire, mummy, witch, skeleton, haunted. the kids repeated it after me and jay held up pictures. later in the class they had to fill in a halloween word scramble of the days' vocabulary... the first three to finish got chocolate!

the poster board was a bit small... as were the pictures, but at least it's something to look at... as were the devil horns i was wearing. the homeroom teacher of this class surprised me and jay by decorating the class and getting the students to wear "costumes" so i took a set of horns to wear!

then we went over the history of Halloween (a handout i found online) with the students reading along with me.

after reading it over, i asked them a few questions like "when is halloween?" and "where does Halloween come from?" whoever answered got candy and the usual sticker. (i give out stickers for participation - after five they get a prize.)

then we showed them the jack-o-lantern and how to make one. we made one the other day as an example.


we even made baked pumpkin seeds to share with the class and our guests. the kids really liked them! they're one of my favourite parts of jack-o-lantern making.

Then we played the "trick or treat game". we had a box (see the orange thing on the desk) with "tricks" in it. students came up to the front, and said "trick or treat", then they picked a trick from the box (read the vocabulary list, read from the history of halloween, do the chicken dance...etc) and after performing the trick they received a treat - a mini snikers bar, a peice of 'ghana' chocolate (korean), a peice of candy, and a sticker... the stakes were big enough to get enough of them up and actually do the trick. in our practice classes this was really hard - buut we didn't have candy then!

this is another student doing the trick - he had to sing a song to the class. they all joined in with him and clapped along - it was great!

here are the "big wigs" assessing our every move... we got pretty good grades as far as i could tell... the sheet was all in korean... so i won't find out until jay tallies them up.
all in all, it was a great class. all of the teachers at my school who came to watch told me they loved it, and it seemed like the students had a great time too. jay and i worked really well together and it all worked out. i don't know what i was so worried about ... cause i was really worried about it for some silly reason... it's a massive weight off my shoulders... yay!

coming up... liz cooking korean and gayaland! (the amusement park up the street - tomorrow is picnic day!) so keep reading!