https://padlet.com/anitacmauro/6d91mtae0hcz I have never taught young learners but this is what it come out of it ♥ en-us 2018-10-26 17:46:08 UTC 2025-11-30 16:59:34 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Lovecoffee.png anitacmauro https://padlet.com/anitacmauro/6d91mtae0hcz/wish/297519566 If when I was 12 I would had been asked where did I see myself 16 years later, there is no way I would have said:"Carrying on my Residency as a Teacher in this school". 

That's right, I'm teaching in the school that once upon a time saw me run, grow up, learn, shaped me into who I am today. 

So I couldn't be happier to have the chance to share this wonderful profession side by side with teachers that not too long ago were my role models. ]]> 2018-10-26 17:53:35 UTC https://padlet.com/anitacmauro/6d91mtae0hcz/wish/297519566 anitacmauro https://padlet.com/anitacmauro/6d91mtae0hcz/wish/297521499 Day 1:
As I was walking to the school ( I live 3 blocks away from it) on a Thursday morning I was thinking about how would the children respond to my presences in the classroom. I was worry maybe they wouldn't like another grown up in their class. 
However, I walked in, and sat behind the class, I was hoping to be invisible for them. But as we know children are curious by nature.. So as I was taking down notes and appreciating the teacher's lesson, one by one ( in pairs) came up to me and ask me ramdom commun questions like : What is this? (at they pointed at my pencil box) or What's your name? Do you want to see what  Im doing? 
And just like that they took me in as one more in their "crew". ]]> 2018-10-26 17:56:47 UTC https://padlet.com/anitacmauro/6d91mtae0hcz/wish/297521499 anitacmauro https://padlet.com/anitacmauro/6d91mtae0hcz/wish/297522368 Day 2
It's Tuesday morning (11.30am) and I'm walking to school again. 
By now students know who I am (especially because they have seen me walking around the school, as I'm a teacher there now too) They see me and say Hello! some of them came up to me and give me a big hug! I'm stunning, I can't believe it, children have such a gentle soul! 
The teacher carries on with her lesson, but some of the kids can't help they urge to speak to me again, they look at my hair, my back pack, my notes....They can't help their curiosity!
I play with them, I help them with their assignment and just like that time flies! And it's time to say goodbye! I can't wait to put into practice everything I have learnt]]> 2018-10-26 17:58:07 UTC https://padlet.com/anitacmauro/6d91mtae0hcz/wish/297522368 anitacmauro https://padlet.com/anitacmauro/6d91mtae0hcz/wish/297523933
I have to be honest, I wasn't nervous before but now I am. What if I am not good enough? What if I made a mistake choosing this profession? Ok. Don't panic, the children like you, just go ahead an enjoy this time in your life!
I enter the class, the kids said hello but their teacher isn't there yet... They ask me about her and I say, she is coming now, let's all hold hands and sing the hello song!
We sing, the teacher arrives, and she helps me with the warm up activity, I ask the children: How is the weather today ? (pointing at  the window) Is it cold (I gesture shiver) or is it hot (I gesture hot)? 

As a transition we watch a video about hot and cold. (we only watched until minute 2.21)

Then we move to the tables and students open their student book. 
We learn about cold and hot and the type of clothes we wear according to the weather ( jumper, coat, hat, sandals) 
The students divided into 4 groups make 4 poster with the image of hot and cold and the clothes images given to them.
After we finish, coloring, cutting and pasting it was time to say goodbye! 

This first experience was very intense! I felt a bit confuse and I realized that team work can be a bit of a problem when all the children want the same image and there is only 3 .... Let's hope for the best for class 2!]]> 2018-10-26 18:00:57 UTC https://padlet.com/anitacmauro/6d91mtae0hcz/wish/297523933 anitacmauro https://padlet.com/anitacmauro/6d91mtae0hcz/wish/297524542 2018-10-26 18:02:06 UTC https://padlet.com/anitacmauro/6d91mtae0hcz/wish/297524542 anitacmauro https://padlet.com/anitacmauro/6d91mtae0hcz/wish/297525826 2018-10-26 18:04:32 UTC https://padlet.com/anitacmauro/6d91mtae0hcz/wish/297525826 anitacmauro https://padlet.com/anitacmauro/6d91mtae0hcz/wish/297527583




]]> 2018-10-26 18:07:44 UTC https://padlet.com/anitacmauro/6d91mtae0hcz/wish/297527583 anitacmauro https://padlet.com/anitacmauro/6d91mtae0hcz/wish/297529386 2018-10-26 18:11:24 UTC https://padlet.com/anitacmauro/6d91mtae0hcz/wish/297529386 anitacmauro https://padlet.com/anitacmauro/6d91mtae0hcz/wish/297533111
It was great to see my self relating to the kids soo well! I was super worried about that at the bigining but they liked me and they seemed very interested on what I had to say or show to them so that help me keep up my motivation 100% up! ]]> 2018-10-26 18:19:27 UTC https://padlet.com/anitacmauro/6d91mtae0hcz/wish/297533111 anitacmauro https://padlet.com/anitacmauro/6d91mtae0hcz/wish/297534031
My first class started a bit messy, I had a hard time trying to get them all to hold hands and sing the hello song. There was also the detail that Santi, a kid with special needs seemed a littlle off that day, so keeping an eye on him and working with the rest of the class was a bit of challenge for me. 
There was also the video, after they watched they wanted to play it again and again, so it was interesting to turn off the video and have them start with the activity I had designed. ]]> 2018-10-26 18:21:39 UTC https://padlet.com/anitacmauro/6d91mtae0hcz/wish/297534031 anitacmauro https://padlet.com/anitacmauro/6d91mtae0hcz/wish/297536949


]]> 2018-10-26 18:28:07 UTC https://padlet.com/anitacmauro/6d91mtae0hcz/wish/297536949 anitacmauro https://padlet.com/anitacmauro/6d91mtae0hcz/wish/297537160 Class 2
On this class, the aim was for stuednts to exemplify and understand the difference between cold and hot...
We started the class with the routine song. Then I ask the students about the weather and invite them all to gesture cold and hot. Then I showed them two pictures, one picture of fire and another of and icecube and ask them is the fire cold or hot? (hot) is the ice cold or hot? (hot). 
As a transition i show them a picture of their book and ask them what they saw... (they could see hot and cold) This time I didn't pronounce the words myself but instead I gesture so that they could produce the target language themselves. This was success as they guess right and then we move on to a sticker activity on their books, Here they had to place the stickers on the ice picture or the fire one, the new vocabulary was ice cream, chocolate and snow. ]]> 2018-10-26 18:28:39 UTC https://padlet.com/anitacmauro/6d91mtae0hcz/wish/297537160 anitacmauro https://padlet.com/anitacmauro/6d91mtae0hcz/wish/297541659
This second class was a game changer! The kids were able to follow my instructions step by step and we all had a great time working together! Surprisingly the children were eager to communicate and try to use the language playing with gestures and enthusiasm!! 
The teacher commented that it had been a great lesson and that I would get a hand of it the more I practice so that was a cheerful comment! I could relax and start planing my next lesson. Yes, I got it right!!!]]> 2018-10-26 18:37:43 UTC https://padlet.com/anitacmauro/6d91mtae0hcz/wish/297541659 anitacmauro https://padlet.com/anitacmauro/6d91mtae0hcz/wish/297549953
For this class I decided to use a total physical response apprach. I thought that making the kids move around a use their body to learn it would be a good idea. 
I brought the images from the previous class "hot" and "cold" and also I brought a few clothes items (boats, sandals, jumper, shorts, -t- shirt) for them to pile them according to the image. This activity was fun, because they got to wear the clothes and recycle the names of all the items as they wore them. They also learnt new structures such as "yes I am" and "No I am not".
Needless to say they had a lot of fun!
As a follow up activity , we did the unit Project to close this topic : A winter hat! 

]]> 2018-10-26 18:57:46 UTC https://padlet.com/anitacmauro/6d91mtae0hcz/wish/297549953 anitacmauro https://padlet.com/anitacmauro/6d91mtae0hcz/wish/297556185
As time is passing by, I realize that teaching kindergarten is more of a playful environment in which planning activities that involve kinesthetic learning is one of the main ingredients to a successful planning recipe. 

The only down side I can see to this class, was that for a minute there the kids run out of control jumping into the clothes and taking off their shoes, but at the same time I believe that those 3 minutes of distractions is also a bit of a mind break for them that makes them laugh and enjoy of the class from a more relaxed view. So a tiny down side but it wasn't hard to get them to start working on the next activity. ]]> 2018-10-26 19:16:42 UTC https://padlet.com/anitacmauro/6d91mtae0hcz/wish/297556185 anitacmauro https://padlet.com/anitacmauro/6d91mtae0hcz/wish/297560445
A new unit!
In this class we had to start with a new Unit " I can see a Bee" 

For this, I started the class showing the students a number of flascards (the sun, a bee, a tree and a flower) I told them the names and we played with it for a few minutes. 
Then I ask them to pay attention to the bee and the sound (buzz) and played a video of a Bumble bee. 
Then we discover what other things we could find outside I brought a rock and leaf so that students could pass around.
As a follow up activity they had to cut, paste, and color 3 images a leaf, a rock, and a bee. Before we did this I asked: What color is the bee? and the leaf? and the rock?
Then we played with the images by putting them facing down and having the students face them up and call it by the right name. ]]> 2018-10-26 19:29:18 UTC https://padlet.com/anitacmauro/6d91mtae0hcz/wish/297560445 anitacmauro https://padlet.com/anitacmauro/6d91mtae0hcz/wish/297567372 2018-10-26 19:56:32 UTC https://padlet.com/anitacmauro/6d91mtae0hcz/wish/297567372 anitacmauro https://padlet.com/anitacmauro/6d91mtae0hcz/wish/297567847

]]> 2018-10-26 19:58:33 UTC https://padlet.com/anitacmauro/6d91mtae0hcz/wish/297567847 anitacmauro https://padlet.com/anitacmauro/6d91mtae0hcz/wish/297576760

This was a bit challenging. Especially getting the paper plates, therefore I got plastic plates instead and cover them with different colour papers. ]]> 2018-10-26 20:38:35 UTC https://padlet.com/anitacmauro/6d91mtae0hcz/wish/297576760 anitacmauro https://padlet.com/anitacmauro/6d91mtae0hcz/wish/299367923
So what materials should I use?
On one hand I chose I video, so that children could learn about insects (caterpillar, ants, firefly)
I also printed a few flashcards to introduce the topic and a worksheet to do a follow up activity. 


]]> 2018-11-01 13:58:05 UTC https://padlet.com/anitacmauro/6d91mtae0hcz/wish/299367923 anitacmauro https://padlet.com/anitacmauro/6d91mtae0hcz/wish/299371814

This class turned out to be my best class! I was so happy.
The children highly enjoyed the video, and the presence of Ceci didn't seem to be a problem for them. 

First I let them took from an envelop the flascards, once by one, they show them to their classmates.
Then we watched the video, the first time they just watched and I sang, the second time some of them sang with me!  (ofcourse they asked to watch it more times)

Then we work with worksheets, there was a lot of colouring involved so that made our time fly!

And just like that, it was time to say goodbye!]]> 2018-11-01 14:04:41 UTC https://padlet.com/anitacmauro/6d91mtae0hcz/wish/299371814 anitacmauro https://padlet.com/anitacmauro/6d91mtae0hcz/wish/299379790 This last class was a very interesting experience, especially because I had a visitor! Ceci Zamborain from Lenguas Vivas stopped by to watch my lesson.

As you may imagine, I was a tiny bit nervous for having one of my mentors watch me and also because it was my last class and I wanted to be fun and enjoyable for the kids so that they could keep a positive memory of me.]]> 2018-11-01 14:18:02 UTC https://padlet.com/anitacmauro/6d91mtae0hcz/wish/299379790 anitacmauro https://padlet.com/anitacmauro/6d91mtae0hcz/wish/299383904
Over the little time I spent in Kindergarten, the one thing that kept tumbling in my head was: "OMG Kinder is more difficult than I expected". 
I never thought that Kindergarten was going to be such a challenge! I thought that with games, videos, coloring and so on the classes were going to be very simple, but I was wrong! For the very first time I felt that I didn't have enough tools to teach English, or I was worry at all times that maybe I wasn't teaching well. 
Teaching English to children is not as simple as I thought it would be... I can't highlight enough how important it is, as a teacher to take extra courses and try to gain more insights, and learn new teaching strategies to be ready to provide our students with the best learning language learning experience. 
I used to think that once I graduate I was going to be ready to teach English, but now I came to realize that this is just the beginning of a life time profession. ]]> 2018-11-01 14:25:18 UTC https://padlet.com/anitacmauro/6d91mtae0hcz/wish/299383904 anitacmauro https://padlet.com/anitacmauro/6d91mtae0hcz/wish/299391224 2018-11-01 14:36:58 UTC https://padlet.com/anitacmauro/6d91mtae0hcz/wish/299391224