Novemver 2006
Hello Everyone, and Happy November!
I hope that everyone had a good Halloween. Halloween went really well here and I was quite impressed with how much Halloween vocabulary my kids knew by the end of the month. All of them knew the basic words--black cat, witch, pumpkin, etc. and about half of them even knew the harder words--skeleton, werewolf, and mummy! Starting the words early in the month was really effective.
This is the reason that the newsletter is coming out a bit late this month--I wanted to wait until I had the Christmas Lesson Plan up. I know that it seems a bit early to be thinking about Christmas, but if your school is anything like mine, your Christmas/New Year's holiday starts well before Christmas, so it's a good idea to get things started early. I plan on starting the Christmas vocabulary November 20.
Check out the Christmas Lesson Plan here.
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In other site news, I've been working on adding some of my best games to the site. You can check out the list at the main games page. I'm working on adding more and more games, so please check back often.
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Remember that you can ask for advice for your specific problems at the Ask Shannon Sensei page. Please feel free to ask any question that you may have!
This month's question comes from Anna:
Dear Shannon Sensei,
Click on the link below to see my response:
http://www.teach-esl-to-kids.com/one-boy.html
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As always, please let me know if there is anything that you'd like to see on the site. You can do this using the contact page.
Until next month...
Love,
I have a class with 7 girls and only 1 boy. I'm having a hard time getting the boy to participate. I know that it's because he's shy and embarassed to be the only boy, but how can I overcome this?
Thanks!
Anna
Shannon Sensei