On the third day of teaching and today, it was punctuation and eight parts of English speech however, I only did nouns, pronouns and verbs. One step at a time!!
Having a new group of children today, we started learning about full stops, commas, question marks and exclamation marks. After explaining what they are and how we used them with some examples, we move on to the fun part of the lesson where we play an educational game don’t worry! All the children talk at school about this game. This game is called happy or not happy. I don’t think I need to explain what the game is I hope it’s quite self-explanatory! So I write a phrase on the sentence with missing grammar or grammar in the wrong place the children then have to come up and place the punctuation into the correct place. Then they all yell happy when it’s accurate! In some cases it’s not happy and we try again till we get it right.
After we have completed punctuation we move on to the Abbie version of the 8 part of English speech! After a quick Google search to get the correct definition and examples of verbs, pronouns and nouns. Again I write the definition and some examples on the board. Once they understand this we yet again play another game! This game has yet to have a name, if you have any ideas please send them to me. So this game is played like this we have 3 boxes with the headings verbs, nouns and pro nouns, the tricky part comes in I have to think of around 30 DIFFERENT words to fit into the boxes. The children come up and place the word in the correct box and then as a class at the end we check them with the happy or not happy game.
As you see with Magic Bus teaching it’s like an ordinary boring English lesson sorry for any English teacher, the children have fun with the games we play and can learn at the same time.
When leaving today I saw one of the children from the other day and the phrase which stands out to me today is “Teacher I told my classmates we had a proper English-speaking teacher and they didn’t believe me, you’re famous at my school and everyone wants to meet you!” This just shows you how much this means to the children and how privileged it is for them. This is why I want to inspire more people my age to do this as you will make a difference.
This was me getting a student to write an example of a noun.
This is what the classroom looks like where I am teaching.