Lessons on Holidays

During my time in the schools I have taught my own lessons, observed several different teachers as well as co-teach english grammar and literacy almost everyday of school. After my 2 days of my scrabooking lesson I taught two more lessons concerning holidays celebrated in America.

I taught the studetns about the history and traditions, activities and food conected to Independence Day and Thanksgiving. For the Independence Day lesson I read aloud for the students the information I had gathered (the information was also printed out on a worksheet for the students). The students were asked two questions where they stated what they would do and what they would eat if they were in teh United States during the 4th of July. Then I sang the National anthem and they filled in teh missing lyrics on their worksheet. IF was difficult for them (and me! – I was so nervous to sing inf ront of them) so I also read through the lyrics twice.

For the Thanksgiving lesson I did thesame thing for the first solida lesson by reading aloud (it is nice for them to hear a native speaker) and then the students answered questions based on facts from the reading. We did not have time to make “turkey hands” because we had a small party. I brought some dessert and gifts for the students adn they gave me a wonderful picture of their class w7 signature, and a very sweet messgae on a poster. I will treasure it!