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A moment that was important for me during the lesson was when I entered to the classroom because the children hugged me and said hello very happily. Later, when they were singing, they made visual contact with me like inviting me to sing or waiting for an smile.

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A moment that was important for the students during the lesson was when, after singing the song What's your name?,  the teacher asked the same question to all of the students and they answered. Next, they asked each other and it was when they most used the language and they also interacted.

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Another moment which was important for me was when I heard the children with special needs (there are three in this group) answering to the teacher in English, singing the songs, enjoying etc. Because it made me think something which can be summarizing with this quotation:

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What aspects of the lesson require change / improvement?

The lesson was quite similar to the previous one. After the Hello Song the teacher presented animals through flashcards, as she did in previous lesson (she presented 3 animals in the last lesson and she added about 6 more in this lesson). Next, children named the animals, but just those kids who knew them and finally they spent more than fifteen minutes with a colouring sheet about animals. Before ending the class they sang a song about numbers.

I think that the lesson requires improvement because there are not any new materials or strategies. The students were no encouraged to use the language or identify vocabulary through images (especially in those cases in which is difficult to acquire the speaking ability). Children did not play, did not do physical activities during this lesson, neither the last one. The materials were songs, flashcards and a colouring sheet, as well as the previous lesson. I also observed that during the colouring activity, children did not use the language and the activity seemed not to carry any teaching purpose. I think that it would had been better that children point the animals and say them, or that they count them, or say what colour they were, etc. I consider that giving a free colouring activty is possible because children enjoy it, but not two consecutive lessons.

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What do you find useful of this lesson that will help you plan the next one?

What I find useful of this lesson is that one of the materials that the group most enjoys is the song. In the latest minutes they sang a song about numbers and they were pretty enthusiastic: Counting 1 – 10 (It’s a son to count from 1 to 10 and from 10 to 1).  I only found the video: https://youtu.be/DR-cfDsHCGA but the teacher used an mp3 version).

It helped me to notice that children like songs and singing, so I know that it will be good to include songs in my future lessons. I also would add more play and physical activities since they are effective strategies which are not including so far, as I can see.

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Choose a quotation that represents an event, knowledge, insight in this lesson:

I choose this quotation to represent the most part of the lesson

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The teacher displayed the flashcards of animals that children learnt in the previous class. She asked which ones were farm animals. After that, children coloured a farm animal’s worksheet.

When they finished they sang 2 songs: Yes, No, Please, Thank You Song and What’s your name Song.

The sequence of activities is the same as previous classes, the material are the same too and the strategies used did not changed, that way I felt I was living a deja vu. I think there was no opportunity for playing, for surprising or for using the language in a natural environment.

I consider that there are some routines that are good for children (Hello song, for example at the beginning of the lesson) to anticipate them what is coming, however what I observed, is that the all the lessons seem to have the same routine.

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I would like to share this photo of a moment in the lesson and describe it:

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Here the children are colouring farm animals. They have a ringed notebook with colouring pages with the different topics and vocabulary that children are supposed to learn during the year. The teacher used this notebook in this lesson and in the previous ones too. The students spent between 15 and 20 minutes colouring, in the three lessons which last 30 minutes each. The teacher said to me that she uses it almost every lesson. In this page we can see farm animals in a small size. I think that the drawings should be bigger because children of that age do not have a very sure stroke of pencil to color small details and even more taking into account the 3 children with special needs, for who is most difficult that skill.

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Include a photo of a moment in the lesson, (...) you would like to share, and describe it:
In this lesson students enjoyed making two farm animals finger puppets. I share these pictures in which we can see the materials and the final production of children. The teacher provided scaffolding to stick and assemble the puppets. I helped her with this task and also writing the students' names behind each puppet. When they finished she asked them what colours they used and they answer in L2, In this activity I also participated asking to some of the children. After that, the teacher encouraged children to invent a name for the puppets, so then we both asked them "What's your name" and they answerd using the puppets.
Children took the puppets home.

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Choose a moment that was important for you during the lesson. Describe it and say why it was important:
The moments were the times in which I assisted the teacher s' course:
I felt perfectly well helping her. I felt comfortable and naturally connected with the children because they are very affectionate and above all, because children know me from last year, since I worked in the Institution.

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What aspects of the lesson do you consider successful?:
This lesson was quite similar to the previous one, since it was a continuation of it. Children completed the activity colouring and making two finger puppets more. I think that a successful part was when children finished assembling the puppets and they spontaneously started playing with them (they did it in the previous lesson too). They freely played but in L1, so the teacher took the opportunity and supported them to use L2 .

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What do you find useful of this lesson that will help you plan the next one?
What I found useful of this lesson is the consideration of timing. The duration of each lesson is the 30 minutes, so they are pretty short. The whole activity, as the teacher explained me, was making four finger puppets and later use them to make dialogues, so the teacher planned it divided into two classes. During this lesson students made two puppets and next lesson they will make two puppets more. I think it's important to consider that activities shouldn't be long if I want to use varied strategies in each lesson.
Another thing that I found useful is that the teacher reserved the puppets for the students which were absent. Next class she is going to give the materials to each child and they will make them at home with family's support. It is also important to have in mind this aspect about absent students, especially when the activity will continue the following class.

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How did the students react to your teaching, to the activities and the materials? How did
they react to the lesson?
The students reacted really well to my teaching. It was like natural for them to see me teaching. I guess it is because I were their English teacher last years. The showed themselves happy with the activities, they participated a lot, they answer or gave their opinions (generally in L1 for which I took advantage to encourage them to use L2). Most of them were engaged with the story and the new vocabulary and, they loved the puppets.

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What aspects of the lesson do you consider successful?
I consider successful the activity with the puppets. At the time they saw them, they already know what they were and they wanted to use them. I think they enjoyed a lot that activity. They developed listening skill almost unconsciously while they played. The activity also resulted well organized, since children performed in turns: one group and then the other one. But, the group which was not acting were sitting pretending they were in a theatre. I spontanously asked them for the "tickets" and they gave them to me using the imagination. It was fun!

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What aspects of the lesson require change / improvement?
In this lesson I felt not as confident as in the first one. I think that it was because children were a bit more distracted or unquiet. I noticed that fact from the beginning and it affected my nervs, I guess. If I have to be honest, I should have use a song, just for fun and to catch children's attention, before starting the first activity but as I wanted to fulfill my planning, I did not do it. I had in mind that the duration of the lesson is only 30 minutes... Well, this situation was something that I would like to improve. Another aspect that I detected while I was giving the class, is that this planning kept the children always seating. They had to paste on a poster and name vocabulary with the Happy birhtday rythm, but anyway they were all the lesson seating, which I think is not entirely favourable.

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What aspects of the lesson do you consider successful?
A successful part in the lesson was the second activity which I share here and I recommend because children enjoyed a lot, they laughed out loud!
Activity description:
Display the flashcards on the board one next to the other (cloud, moon, rainbow, sun, stars, lightning). Ask children if they remember the Happy birthday song. Sing it. Explain that this is a game with the Happy birthday. Children must listen and repeat. I Start naming the flashcards using the Happy birthday tone. Do it twice. Take out one flashcard from the blackboard. Sing the chant again and where the flashcards is missing, say “mmm”. The game continues until there is not any flashcard on the blackboard, so everybody ends singing mmm mmm mmm with the happy birthday tune.

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Choose a moment that was important for you during the lesson. Describe it and say why it was important.
I use 3 questions this time because I had a enriching situation and I want to share. When we started the first activity, after singing the Hello song, one of the student with special needs (he has autism) started shouting and getting a little nervous, he asked for "his Miss". The Special Education Aide went next to him and she calmly told me that the problem was that she forgot to anticipate him the situation (he had been absent the previous class). Children with these kinds of pathology are structured so they need, above all, to be anticipated of any new activity or change.I got a bit nervous, I must say, but I reacted and I try to help him. So, I said to   Miss Santina to seats next to him or next to me, what ever was better for him. He started feeling calmer. I also went next to him, asked him if he wanted to listen to some Miss Santina's song and tried to still him. Then his Special Education Aide showed him a photo of me from when I worked there, so he could assimilate the change easily. Finally, the bad moment passed.
I hope to had acted well with this boy. I tried to do my best, following my heart, my emotions, my mind...I started speaking in Spanish when this situation arised, everything is recorded. Anyway I never thought of my lesson, the timing or something like that, I only thought of the child which needed help. This  all happened in five minutes, but was a great and important experience for me.

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Describe this lesson in terms of a metaphor.

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"I was drowned by the situation until I managed to get something out of the galley and finally found the way to go forward and achieve the goal"
This pictures represent what I felt and what I did in this lesson. I had a nice plan with a game using a big dice to practice the target vocabulary and get fun. The second activity was a Video.
While we were singing the Welcome song I realized that I had forgotten my bag with the dice at home.  I got crazy! I wanted to run away and I was angry with myself, but I could not do anything! and the children had to have their English lesson. So, I improvised one part of the lesson. I presented the Video first and later I spontaneously invented an activity (look for the hided flashcard)  related with some expressions from the song. The game was successful, the children were excited and they enjoyed it. I am not totally conform with that activity for the children with special needs because they dispersed a little their attention and it was a bit difficult for them to find the flashcards before the rest of the students

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At the beginning I felt as the worst of the teachers! Later, I understood that these kinds of situations can happen and they are part of the real life (although I never forgot a materials during the 5 years that I taught English in the kindergarten and it just happened in my practicum! Ha, ha, ha!)

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Choose a quotation that represents an event, knowledge, insight in this lesson:

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What teaching strategies did you use? Which ones were effective? Why / why not?
As warm-up I picked a marker as a microphone and I started singing the song that children learnt the previous class and they sang after me using the "microphone". It involved multimodality. Then, I used a game to recall the vocabulary. It fostered the development of listening, speaking, cognitive and effective skills. As well as a TPR activity in which students represented a story that was related to the topic of these lessons. This activity allowed the development of children’s expression through, movements and gestures too. I also included an activity in which children made their own books through drawings (they created their own stories using the vocabulary learnt).  Finally, children made their own story on little books drawing and telling their ideas.
I think that the strategies in general worked because children responded to them. They sang after me with the "microphone marker" and the game to discover the word with the flashcards caught  their attention. The TPR Plus activity was nice and I noticed that they enjoyed a lot to express themselves through their bodies. They moved freely. However, it was a bit difficult to keep the order. My voice is not so loud and when I said a different command to follow the story, children were not totally attentive and I had to repeat and find the way to they to listen to me and to look at me in order to understand better the action. Anyway, the activity lent itself to that, to children's movements around the classroom and to some chatters, though they talked about what they were doing. The creative activity when children made their stories was really enjoyable for them, they like drawing and colouring and some of them could invent some ideas to tell me. They used L1 and I reinforced repeating their ideas in English.

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Choose an audio / video segment from the lesson, and reflect on what is viewed or heard.

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In this short video we are starting the TPR Plus activity "we are beginning a trip to space in our spaceship...". I could not share the whole activity because the file is too long for the Padlet.