Hello everyone and Happy New Year!

It was great to see all my students happy and relaxed after the holidays.

During our EFL classes this week my Grade 2 students began to think and discuss the concept of change. To support them during this process I prepared pictures of various phones - from the very first ones up to the smartphones.  The task was to look at the pictures in groups. After a meaningful discussion my students had to paste pictures of the phones in the correct order from the oldest to  the most modern ones. Then each group had to choose a presenter and share their thinking with the rest of the class providing reasons for their opinions.

After the heated discussions I was surprised to see that only  one group managed to complete the task without mistakes.

The other two groups were guided by their peers during the presentations and corrected their mistakes.

In the end we all talked about change again and made personal connections. It was a fun activity to do and it was not as easy as I thought it would be.

Samir is presenting the result of his group work.

During our EFL classes this week with the Grade 3 students we discussed the concept of needs and wants. All the students had to discuss what makes them healthy and happy and then draw as many of those things/places/people as possible. The next step for us was to stick the cards with needs on one poster and the cards with wants – on the other.  My students felt very enthusiastic about the activity and shared their explanations and reasons with their peers.  We had to agree about each item before sticking it on the poster.

I was surprised to see that mostly students drew food. It seemed to be challenging for some students to apply critical thinking skills and compare, categorize and rank independently.

Jade, Sofia, Thida and Mahin worked enthusiastically drawing their needs and wants

Boys also tried hard and Miss Kim was supporting Minato and Thomas.