Winter Camp at MWG!!

Monday, was a very tiring day because I only got three hours of sleep after the concert and since getting off the plane and I had to start my week of camps at my school. I was glad that I had my lesson plans sorted out and ready to go because being that tired I was not prepared to have to sort out my lesson that morning. My first class was grade 3's, second class was grade 4's and my last class was the grade 5's. The grade 5 camp classes consisted of 15 girls, so I decided to do a comparison of North American music with Korean music. The girls were really quiet and not interested in being at the English camp, but I tried to make it as enjoyable as possible.

The camps actually went by faster than I had anticpated. The classes were only 40 minutes long, so they were just long enough. Of course, teaching the grade 3's was the most fun because they are just so cute and they love all sorts of games. I also taught a parents English class for two hours in the afternoon at camp, which I thought would be worse than it actually was. There were only three parents in the class and each one had a very different level of English.

These are some of the cute little grade 3 girls that were at camp. These were the only two grade 3 boys at camp, but they were so adorable and they liked the camp. The kid on the left, his mom was in my afternoon parent's class. The second day of camp started off with a rather foggy morning. This is how the skyline looked from outside my English zone window.

One of the lessons I did was on Canadian Holidays, so I had the grade 5 choose one of the holidays I presented and make a card for it.

These are the best cards that were created by some grade 5 students.

Since the grade 3's are so easy to please I would start with a game at the beginning of each class. Musical chairs is always a big hit with the students because they get to listen to the latest K-pop song and dance around chairs. The last day of camp I just played games the entire 40 minute class with each grade. The grade 3's played Twister and loved it and we played a bunch of rounds of musical chairs.

Korean's don't really like to have their pictures taken a lot, but the grade 3's had no problems posing for this picture during musical chairs. I mean, how cute are they?!?!

I also made each grade get a group picture with me at the end of camp, however, the grade 5's weren't so keen, so I don't have one with them :(

This is me with my grade 3 campers who are too cute for words and I cna't wait to teach them in grade 4 this coming school year. This is me with a much larger group of grade 4 campers. It's funny how there are always more girls than boys.

My winter camps were only 4 days and I got a 90 minute lunch break, which was nice and the school paid for my lunches. It was rough having to come back from winter vacation and having to jump right back into teaching the next day, but camps are easy and the 4 days went by rather quickly. Thursday after my parents class Jiny took me to get a new cell phone, which was one of my requests upon renewing. My new phone is beautiful and in English and it has a SIMcard, which my last phone didn't because it was so old. The best part of my new phone is that it doesn't weigh a thousand pounds and will no longer be referred to as "the tank."