Activities in the classroom

Hello everyone! Welcome again to my blog. 😀

We started by talking about our previous class, which was about lesson planning. It is important to know that a lesson plan can also look like an agenda and should have a main objective. 

We also talked about how to write an objective for lesson planning. Teaching and lesson planning require a lot of observation. Sometimes, when we teach how to teach, we realize that we may not set the best examples as teachers.

Then, we discussed about which activities we can do for some scenarios: .

* Activities to group people

Name tags can help group people together so that students can share with other students who are not their friends. We can also group people by their clothing color, their initial letter, etc. 

We can also use objects for students to pass around and when the song stops that person becomes part of a group, or use something like this magic hat to pick out name tags. 

* Activities to measure time 

To measure time, we can simply use an online stopwatch, play some music and stop it, counting numbers, etc. 

* Activities to promote participation

For this, we can also use objects. Teacher Orlando used 2 different objects and gave them to 2 students who were on different sides of the classroom. Then, he made sounds with the board so that they started to pass them to the others. When he stopped, the student with object 1 had to ask a question and the other student had to answer it. It was fun because of the excitement of passing it out in time. 

* Activities to make sounds for classroom dynamics 

The most common example is clapping for a specific amount of time for a specific objective during class. 

* Activities to wake students up when they're falling asleep.

We can randomly ask students a specific question about the topic to make sure they are paying attention. We can ask them to stand up and discuss the topic or what they learned in the previous class, etc.  

* Activities for praising students, etc.

For this, I consider that giving a compliment is essential, letting them know when they have done something well, congratulating them for small improvements, or if possible we can give them candy for answering something correctly, etc. 

At the end of the class, we sang happy birthday to Miriam, as it was her 23rd birthday. And teacher Orlando did another activity, in which he gave out the objects again and the person who got them had to say something good about Miriam. I was one of the chosen ones, but my nerves played a trick on me and I couldn't say many things, lol. 

So, that would be all for this entry. See you after vacations!