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Tepees!
Posted by Kathryn on 22nd September in Reading
My D3 Speaking and Writing class is currently reading “The Indian in the Cupboard”. It was one of my favorite books as a kid and I’m excited to be able to share it with a new generation of kids. In the spirit of the chapter we’re currently reading, I decided to have the class make [...]
Travel and Tourism Project
Posted by Kathryn on 5th September in Reading
D1 is one of the highly advanced classes in the school. It’s made up of 5th and 6th graders. They’re a lot of fun to teach. I do language skills with them. For me, that consists of a day of grammar, a day of writing, a day of reading and a day of project type [...]
Liberation Day
Posted by Kathryn on 15th August in Reading
Happy Liberation Day! August 15 is the celebration of the liberation of Korea from the Japanese. I recently read “When My Name Was Keoko” by Linda Sue Park. It’s a fictional account of a family living in Korea during the Japanese occupation. I highly enjoyed it and I think it would be a good book [...]
The Gingerbread Man
Posted by Kathryn on 8th August in Reading
I just finished reading “The Gingerbread Man” with a group of my 1st graders. It’s one of my mini-traditions to have someone ship me gingerbread cookies/gingersnaps so my kids can taste them. I took some my Dad brought with him last Thursday. They were a big hit with the class. I passed out the left [...]
Classic Tales
Posted by Kathryn on 12th July in Reading
One of my favorite series to use for teaching reading is Classic Tales by Oxford University Press. They are well written and illustrated. They are nicely leveled and reinforce vocabulary. There is a cassette tape and adtivity book for each title. They are fairly short, 18 pages of story text with a similarly sized activity [...]
