Tuesday, September 29, 2009

teachers class

so i just finished another wonderful teachers class and found out all sorts of interesting things. like... school is out for winter break on December 30th, but they dont celebrate the regular new year, just the lunar one.. so apparently i don't get that time off unless requested... but, it does mean that i CAN get this time off... just an FYI to those interested. 
my teachers class is kind of strange and interesting, it satisfies my hours of teaching, yet... i sit in the break room and drink coffee and mostly listen to my co workers speak Korean. none of them want to participate in the class either, its like pulling teeth and bribing people to join the class with promises of sunshine and basketball....

im starting to plan my lessons for the next month. i think next week, being the week between their thanksgiving and ours, im going to talk about the difference in traditional thanksgiving things. perhaps have them make a menu... learn some thanksgiving vocabulary, make paper turkeys with different words on the wings.. haha who knows. anyways, will be interesting to see if i can come up with something. hopefully i can. 
i need to come up with something for the reast of the month though, i have two weeks where i have no ideas.... this is one of the very frustrating things for me here, coming up with ideas for lesson plans that are going to be interesting for the class... 

2 comments:

  1. I am sure that paper turkeys will be a HUGE hit! Who doesn't love paper turkeys. You can have the children trace their own hands for the wings...oh yes...paper turkeys...and the children will think, "what's a turkey?" Or are there turkeys in Korea?...hmmmmm...
    I like to hear about what you are up to.
    Love you.

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  2. p.s. that was me as anonymous...Lis

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