#1 DRAW THE CULTURE ! MEMORABLE Thanksgiving LESSON.

Hi!

In this quick post I want to show you that a marker is enough to create an AMAZING and MEMORABLE LESSON for kids. 

Wanna introduce CULTURE & HISTORY to your students but you don't wanna bore them to death? Use drawings! It's really important, especially with ESL young learners who don't understand much of a language yet, to SUPPORT YOUR STORIES WITH DRAWINGS. You will make your story easier to understand and more interesting to listen to. Avoid too many details - focus on the most important things. Don't tell it to fast, be energetic and use gestures. Ask questions while telling the story, they can be obvious and easy, just to keep the students attention. You can look for some music related to events you wanna tell kids about and play it quietly. This will help your students to go deeper into the atmosphere of what you're saying. After telling the story try to think of one particular symbol your kids should remember and let them draw this. You can show them how to draw the symbol step by step, they like it very much and listen to instructions in English carefully. The amazing fact is, that we apparently draw the same thing, but at the end each picture is different and unique. If you can't draw something yourself, use 'how to draw' videos from Youtube like me:)

Thanksgiving - Pilgrims by Kamilka

This way you teach your kids language, culture and develop their artistic skills. I love such lessons, and my kids love it either.

Watch how we did this:

Use this scrip to draw and tell the story: 400 hundred years ago there were some people in England. There were also some other people who wanted to hurt these people. So these people had to run away. They  decided to go to America. How did they go to america? By plane? By cars? Of course by a ship, ship named Mayflower. They sailed and sailed… and sailed… and then they saw the land. They were very happy but they had a biiig problem. There was winter! Is it easy to built houses in winter? Nooo.  Is it easy to grow vegetables in winter? Nooo. Many people died because they were cold and hungry. But soon spring came, sun was shining and it was warm again.  People were happy again, they could build houses and grow vegetables. Oh Look – said one pilgrim – Indians are coming! Do you think Indians were good or bad? Of course they were good, they wanted to help pilgrims! This is a corn for you, you can grow it – said squanto, one of the indians. Now let’s make a big dinner and eat together and celebrate together! This dinner was the first thanksgiving dinner ever!  Now, every year peple eat a big turkey every fourth Thursday of November to say thank you to God, to their family and friends!

xoxo

Mrs Edi

POLISH VERSION

Opublikowałam ten króciutki post, aby pokazać wam, że wystarczy marker aby stworzyć niesamowitą i pamiętną lekcję dla dzieci. 

Chcielibyście opowiedzieć waszym uczniom o kulturze i historii krajów anglojęzycznych i przy okazji nie zanudzić ich na śmierć? Rysujcie! To bardzo pomocne, aby wspierać wasze historie czy inne wypowiedzi w j. angielskim rysunkami, szczególnie jeśli chodzi o młodsze dzieciaczki, które jeszcze nie opanowały na tyle języka, aby zrozumieć wszystko co macie im do przekazania. W ten sposób wasza historia będzie dla nich łatwiejsza do zrozumienia i tym samym stanie się bardziej interesująca. W trakcie opowiadania od czasu do czasu zadawajcie pytania. Niech będą to oczywiste i łatwe pytania po to, aby utrzymać uwagę uczniów. Nie mówcie zbyt szybko a zarazem bądźcie energiczni, dużo gestykulujcie. Możecie wcześniej przygotować muzyczkę, która oddaje klimat historyjki, którą opowiadacie. Ustawcie ją cichutko niech stanowi odpowiednie tło do waszych słów. To sprawi, że uczniowie zanurzą się w niej jeszcze głębiej. Po skończonym opowiadaniu pomyślcie o jakimś symbolicznym aspekcie dotyczącym omawianego tematu, który według Was powinien zapaść im najgłębiej w pamięć. Pozwólcie go dzieciom narysować. Najlepiej jeśli krok po kroku poinstruujecie dzieci jak rysować, samemu rysująć rysunek na tablicy i pozwalając, aby dzieci śledziły Wasze kroki. Dzieciaki to uwielbiają i bardzo fajne jest to, że rysujemy niby to samo, a każdy obrazek jest inny i wyjątkowy na swój sposób. Jeśli nie potraficie rysować wykorzystajcie dostępne choćby na Youtube filmiki zatytułowane 'How to draw... '. Wystarczy wpisać wspomnianą wcześniej frazę i to co chcecie narysować. Jestem pewna, że coś znajdziecie.

Święto Dziękczynienia - Pielgrzymi 

Tym sposobem wasza lekcja uczy języka, kultury no i zyskuje również wymiar artystyczny. Uwielbiam takie lekcje, moi uczniowie z resztą też!

Obejrzyjcie naszą lekcję:

Możecie śmiało wykorzystać moją historię do narysowania i opowiedzieć ją swoim uczniom: 400 hundred years ago there were some people in England. There were also some other people who wanted to hurt these people. So these people had to run away. They  decided to go to America. How did they go to america? By plane? By cars? Of course by a ship, ship named Mayflower. They sailed and sailed… and sailed… and then they saw the land. They were very happy but they had a biiig problem. There was winter! Is it easy to built houses in winter? Nooo.  Is it easy to grow vegetables in winter? Nooo. Many people died because they were cold and hungry. But soon spring came, sun was shining and it was warm again.  People were happy again, they could build houses and grow vegetables. Oh Look – said one pilgrim – Indians are coming! Do you think Indians were good or bad? Of course they were good, they wanted to help pilgrims! This is a corn for you, you can grow it – said squanto, one of the indians. Now let’s make a big dinner and eat together and celebrate together! This dinner was the first thanksgiving dinner ever!  Now, every year peple eat a big turkey every fourth Thursday of November to say thank you to God, to their family and friends!

xoxo

Mrs Edi