Two Weeks Was Long Enough!

Last week was my last week of winter camps. This week was with the grade 5's and 6's and just like the week before there was the really good English speaking students and the not so good English speaking students.

This is James and Henry. They were from another elementary school and their English was GREAT! This is Kelly (left) and Diana, we had our love for Big Bang in common, which made me cooler. These two never wanted their pictures taken, but I manage to get them to take a cute one together. The Big Bang fans, Diana, Kelly and me, together discussing K-Pop and the lesson of the day. They were actually trying to cheat for one of the activities, by looking up the answers in the teacher's guide book. Cheeky! I'm such a good teacher. This was a lesson on the past tense that I had to teach. It's nice to know that the students were actually paying attention, for the most part. I'm such a good teacher making sure that the students understand the activity. This was one of the not so good English speaking students who was taking another class during this camp. She was a smart girl, but she didn't speak a lot, so I'm not sure how her English speaking ability is.

On the very last day of the camp we introduced the students to Canapes for the first part of the class and the last part of the class was spent making their own Canapes and then eating them for a snack.

Diana and Kelly are busy creating their Canapes. Henry was awesome and he was a crazy Canape maker and spoke great English. This girl was adorable, but she spoke no English and understood no English. However, her Canape making was good. Enjoying her Canape's she just made. We ended the camp with a Golden Bell Competition.

We asked the students a variety of questions and they had to write their answers on the white board. Then when time is up they hold the board up and we check their answers. They keep track of their score on the board and the winner(s) received a box of crackers...woot!

The students enjoying the Golden Bell Competition.

Since the camp only ran Monday - Thursday 9:00 a.m. - 12:30 a.m. I didn't have to work Friday because my school gave me it off and I got to leave every day of camp after the four of us teachers ate lunch together, which was around 3:00 p.m. The two week winter camp went by pretty fast, but the students English levels made it really painful to teach them, except the ones that understood and could speak it. I'm glad the camp is over because now I have my winter vacation to Indonesia for two weeks to look forward. I leave on Saturday night. WOOT!