Today was my first P.E. class with my kindergartners. I must say it was pretty uneventful, however I am very thankful for that. Just as with Music we have an outside Korean teacher come in to teach P.E. and he did a great job. We don't have many students, no joke we only have 7, so we just put all of the ages together in the class.
From what I can remember, and what I understood in English/Korean this is how it went:
We started out yet again with a song and dance, the Chicken dance to be correct.
Followed up by a jumping game where he put down on of these agility ladders and the kids had to be frogs, then kangaroos, and then some kind of animal that crawled as they went down the ladder
Then they played a cone game where they would hop around and then he would call out a color and the kids would have to grab a cone that color, put it on their head and then sit in one of the open spots on the ladder. The next game was a game where the girls were orange and the boys were green and whoever had the most cones of their color on top of the other teams won.
The next game that followed up was a smart clean up game of who can pick up all the cones the fastest.
Next we stood in a circle and kicked a huge ball (one of those workout balls) back and forth.
Then he had them all line up and one at a time would work on kicking the huge ball with them, and then headers, and well the headers was more of the kids leaning forward and just letting the huge ball hit them on the head.
We ended with one more song and dance (let me tell you this guy had killer dance moves, and I must be extremely uncoordinated if I cannot keep up with the moves the kids can).
He ended the class by giving everyone balloon hearts.
And well that was that, P.E. for the week was over! Whoo glad that is over sitting Indian style is not my thing! Tomorrow is Art and Music (Ryan and I don't sing so we will be doing art, we are making Lady Bugs this week, I have a photo of our demo Lady Bug I made today for tomorrow) and then Science. I look forward to telling you all how it goes tomorrow night! Wish me luck I am teaching both of the classes solo!
Oh and my cute little friend Hanna from last week was still all about holding my hand today. I won't lie I think some of our kids are the cutest kids around!
Monday, March 7, 2011
Friday, March 4, 2011
Oh...What Do You Do With A Drunken Sailor?
What Do You Do With A Drunken Sailor? What Do You Do With A Drunken Sailor Early In The Morning?-Now that I have that song stuck in your head I can tell you about my first day of kindergarten yesterday!
If my nerves and excitement yesterday was just from me having to show up and teach I don't want to know what all those moms all over the world go through when they send their cute little boys and girls off to kindergarten for the first time. I was a mess, and I was the teacher and even better there were only 7 kids and I had a Korean Woman that was coming to teach the music class with me. So why was I such a mess? Well I was worried they wouldn't like me, or that they would cry, or that one of them would break something and I wouldn't know what to do (you know because Korean and American emergencies are so much different, umm for those of you that don't get jokes they are the same in all countries). I was worried about everything, and I was scared of the kids. I know crazy right? Looking back now I guess they are like little spiders, they are more scared of me than I am of them. That saying never really helped me when it came to scary things but yea. Well, I guess that is not true either, they all seemed more or less happy just looking at me, then smiling and turning away only to turn back around and smile, and one little girl clung to my hand like it was the best thing in the world. Ok I guess I can stop rambling with my thoughts and try to get the class in order, I mean that is the point after all, yet here I am still rambling.
I got to school a little before my 1:00 class to ask Ryan how his classes had gone (being the kindergarten teaching pro he is after last year he was not worried at all and kept telling me I was crazy for being so worked up...he was right). The music teacher, a very sweet, and almost over the top cute little girl, came a few minutes after me. We gathered all 7 of the kids in the gym for an hour of music. She was very good with the kids and I more or less just acted as another child in the class doing as she did and taking part in everything that went on. She started by getting everyone in a circle (this is harder than you think it would be) and then we did a cute little song and dance (with a puppet no less). Well once we said hello to all of our "Friends" it was time to talk about different continents and do a nice little song and dance about where the puppet was going to land, and then when he land have the class tell us where he landed. After that we did a nice fun coloring sheet (I even got to do one) coloring all the different continents. We also got to learn about the "moon tambourine" with a cute little song. We got to tap them with our fingers, then tap them on our hands, then wave them in the air, tap them on our feet, tap them on our butts, and ended the little game of where can you tap it when a little boy went to tap it on his fact and hit himself to hard. The music teacher then had us all dance as we learned a song with different way to use the tambourine and then we sang our tambourines to sleep and gently (I was shocked at how gently she got the kids to do this) put them to sleep. We ended the day with a good old dance (do you see a pattern here? yes I should of stretched before class) as we sang the song "What Do You Do With A Drunken Sailor" (an odd song for kindergartners in my mind but hey who am I to judge). I got to dang with the littler girl who had earlier shown an interest in my hand, we held hands and spun in circles, jumped up and down slapping hands, swung our arms up and down, and went in and out (you know I pull my left hand back you pull your right hand back as you hold hands?).
Well that was the class. It was odd, and I felt oddly out of place, but I am looking forward to doing it again next Thursday.
Today I had Show and Tell with Anne teacher and Julie. The kids really didn't have any time yet to make anything in any of their classes for Show and Tell so they did their show and tell with pictures they drew of their family. The idea Julie and Kevin and behind this was that the kids would stand in front of the blue wall we have (used as a blue screen) and tell us about their families. Well the kids are 5,6 and 7 they are still learning Korean so that didn't go quite as planned. Most of the kids got up there and just waved at the camera, or smiled, or held their paper in front of their face and giggled. It was rather cute, well unless you were Julie who was trying to get useful video footage, but hey they are little kids. One boy could not sit still as he waited his turn, he was all over the place here there and then over there before you could even blink, but then when it was his turn he was as still as a rock. This class was scheduled to be an hour long but with the Show and Tells only taking maybe 10 minutes, followed by another 20 minutes of "Duck, Duck, Goose", which the kids didn't full understand as they ran off chasing the other all around the room, or some of the little girls would just laugh when they got called "Goose" and wouldn't get up and run, we called class and they went back to their rooms with the Korean teachers to do who knows what for the last 30 minutes before it was time for them to head home.
So far I have to say I really like music but could do without the Show and Tell class. On Monday I get my first whack at P.E. (with a Korean Teacher who comes in with all the P.E. stuff) Music and Art, and Science. I am a little bit nervous about the science classes but hey what could go wrong? I'll let you know how they turn out.
If my nerves and excitement yesterday was just from me having to show up and teach I don't want to know what all those moms all over the world go through when they send their cute little boys and girls off to kindergarten for the first time. I was a mess, and I was the teacher and even better there were only 7 kids and I had a Korean Woman that was coming to teach the music class with me. So why was I such a mess? Well I was worried they wouldn't like me, or that they would cry, or that one of them would break something and I wouldn't know what to do (you know because Korean and American emergencies are so much different, umm for those of you that don't get jokes they are the same in all countries). I was worried about everything, and I was scared of the kids. I know crazy right? Looking back now I guess they are like little spiders, they are more scared of me than I am of them. That saying never really helped me when it came to scary things but yea. Well, I guess that is not true either, they all seemed more or less happy just looking at me, then smiling and turning away only to turn back around and smile, and one little girl clung to my hand like it was the best thing in the world. Ok I guess I can stop rambling with my thoughts and try to get the class in order, I mean that is the point after all, yet here I am still rambling.
I got to school a little before my 1:00 class to ask Ryan how his classes had gone (being the kindergarten teaching pro he is after last year he was not worried at all and kept telling me I was crazy for being so worked up...he was right). The music teacher, a very sweet, and almost over the top cute little girl, came a few minutes after me. We gathered all 7 of the kids in the gym for an hour of music. She was very good with the kids and I more or less just acted as another child in the class doing as she did and taking part in everything that went on. She started by getting everyone in a circle (this is harder than you think it would be) and then we did a cute little song and dance (with a puppet no less). Well once we said hello to all of our "Friends" it was time to talk about different continents and do a nice little song and dance about where the puppet was going to land, and then when he land have the class tell us where he landed. After that we did a nice fun coloring sheet (I even got to do one) coloring all the different continents. We also got to learn about the "moon tambourine" with a cute little song. We got to tap them with our fingers, then tap them on our hands, then wave them in the air, tap them on our feet, tap them on our butts, and ended the little game of where can you tap it when a little boy went to tap it on his fact and hit himself to hard. The music teacher then had us all dance as we learned a song with different way to use the tambourine and then we sang our tambourines to sleep and gently (I was shocked at how gently she got the kids to do this) put them to sleep. We ended the day with a good old dance (do you see a pattern here? yes I should of stretched before class) as we sang the song "What Do You Do With A Drunken Sailor" (an odd song for kindergartners in my mind but hey who am I to judge). I got to dang with the littler girl who had earlier shown an interest in my hand, we held hands and spun in circles, jumped up and down slapping hands, swung our arms up and down, and went in and out (you know I pull my left hand back you pull your right hand back as you hold hands?).
Well that was the class. It was odd, and I felt oddly out of place, but I am looking forward to doing it again next Thursday.
Today I had Show and Tell with Anne teacher and Julie. The kids really didn't have any time yet to make anything in any of their classes for Show and Tell so they did their show and tell with pictures they drew of their family. The idea Julie and Kevin and behind this was that the kids would stand in front of the blue wall we have (used as a blue screen) and tell us about their families. Well the kids are 5,6 and 7 they are still learning Korean so that didn't go quite as planned. Most of the kids got up there and just waved at the camera, or smiled, or held their paper in front of their face and giggled. It was rather cute, well unless you were Julie who was trying to get useful video footage, but hey they are little kids. One boy could not sit still as he waited his turn, he was all over the place here there and then over there before you could even blink, but then when it was his turn he was as still as a rock. This class was scheduled to be an hour long but with the Show and Tells only taking maybe 10 minutes, followed by another 20 minutes of "Duck, Duck, Goose", which the kids didn't full understand as they ran off chasing the other all around the room, or some of the little girls would just laugh when they got called "Goose" and wouldn't get up and run, we called class and they went back to their rooms with the Korean teachers to do who knows what for the last 30 minutes before it was time for them to head home.
So far I have to say I really like music but could do without the Show and Tell class. On Monday I get my first whack at P.E. (with a Korean Teacher who comes in with all the P.E. stuff) Music and Art, and Science. I am a little bit nervous about the science classes but hey what could go wrong? I'll let you know how they turn out.
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