Lesson Plan: Monday, June 4th

Language Arts

Teachers: Miss Stephanie and Miss Angel

Samuel Ntsiko Grade 6B

On Monday, June 4^th, the first day of our second week of teaching, we had all thirty-seven students present in the classroom. Our objective was to have a few students share their stories that they wrote over the weekend for homework using the WWW W=2 H=2 and POW methods and to introduce the vocabulary words for “The Magic Horns.” Students will remember the vocabulary words by creating flash cards with the English word and Xhosa word on one side and the definition on the other.

We began to present the vocabulary for “The Magic Horns,” the story we would be working on for the rest of our time teaching here. We made a list of the ten vocabulary words and presented them to the students in English and also in Xhosa, followed by the definitions in English. After that, the students really enjoyed making up movements and actions as a visual aid and to remember the meaning of the vocabulary. They have quite an imaginative set of minds. We also handed out index cards so the students could make flashcards that they can review on their own and quiz one another. Again, the students are incredibly artistic; they really take pride in all of the work that we ask them to do.

Materials:

-           index cards (for flash cards)

-          pencils/erasers

-          coloured pencils

-          word chart

-          definition chart

-          sentence charts

After the students created and decorated their flash cards, they copied down some model sentences that we prepared for them that showed the meaning of the words.

For example:  There was a famine because the crops died in the bad weather.

This proved to be especially useful when we later asked the students to create their own sentences using the vocabulary words.

-Stephanie Cerniauskas and Angel Salisbury