Today, the Kinder 2 class started their English lesson by saying “hello.”
The children then talked about how they were. Mostly happy, but hungry. Once they had changed today’s date they sat down to talk about Halloween.
First, we went over Halloween costumes. The instructor acted out a costume and the class guessed what it was.
Some enjoyed playing along.
When the card was revealed, the class practiced the phrase, “Let’s be (an astronaut).”
This repeated for the remaining costumes.
The children especially enjoyed the “superhero,” bringing up the likes of “Batman” and “Spider-Man.” They found wearing your pants on the outside to be particularly funny.
Once the cards had been introduced, we sang a song, “5 Creepy Spiders.” They remembered the song from last year, and knew what to say. Excellent.
So, after a small demonstration, the children stood up, sang, and performed the actions for crawling spiders, dancing skeletons, running cats,
flying witches,
and haunting ghosts. Finally saying “Happy Halloween.”
To finish off the Halloween theme, the children played a game. First everyone made, and sat, in a big circle.
The cards were then placed in the middle of the circle. One person then chose a card.
For this game, if the person chose “Ballerina,” they were out and everyone had to dance like a ballerina. For all other cards, they would say, “Let’s be …” In the beginning everyone had fun with safe picks.
However as the cards were whittled down, the tension increased. Each card was slowly turned over,
Safe! Eventually, only one card remained.
“Let’s be a ballerina.” Everyone got to dance, though most not like a ballerina. Not to worry, everyone had fun. With that, time had come to an end and everyone sang “Goodbye.”
Today, the class was busy with final Sports Day practice, but did very well with their English. They spoke well, and enjoyed talking about costumes and actions.
Great job, everyone.
