Teaching them a song...

Hello all and yes we are still alive and doing well. Ellen and I celebrated our one year anniversary on Monday, September 8th. We treated ourselves to dinner. No big gifts....we gave each other paper. She gave me a card (brought from home) and also the book "The Little Prince". We had a reading from this book at our wedding. It's in english and on the flip side Korean. Good memory of where we were on our first wedding anniversary. I wrote Ellen a poem and wrote it on paper that were the colours of our wedding day.

To my story about teaching them a song. My grade threes are learning "I like _____" and "I don't like ____". Most classes are tought from a textbook complete with a CD-ROM from which I show them videos, songs, etc. Today I had an open class, which means no textbook and I have to make up material. Tought them some fruits and had them guess and read (on Powerpoint). Also tought them a song. I finished class with an exercise sheet I found on the net about things they like and don't like. Had them circle and said if they wanted to write they could. 4 kids of 40 wrote words and 3 of 40 wrote.....I like and I don't like. The videos are sound only. For those of you who know the song Apples and Bananas....for those who do not....it's a way to teach the kids the vowels. So the kids sing:
I like to Eat Eat Eat Apples and Bananas
So for U they will sing
I like to Ute Ute Ute Upples and Bununus.

The first video is me teaching the song, then them singing. The second video shows some students singing/giggling along towards the end of the video. Could not get laptop all the way around to show entire class, and well not sure about videotaping class anyways, so here are a couple clips. You might want to get your volume really loud to be able to hear it. Laugh all you want that this is what I do now.....

The kids are really great and I am learning everyday about how to keep their attention, keep them motivated, and also how to get their attention when needed. And for those paying attention during the 2nd video's...that stick in my hand is for pointing to the board only.