Comments on: Love, Kindergarten Style

By: Shelly Terrell

Shelly Terrell — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:49:49 +0000

This was incredibly cute! I loved the video. I missed having a Valentine’s lesson with my students because in Germany we celebrate Fasching so instead we usually do a lesson on costumes and similarities of Fasching, Carnival, and Halloween.

By: Karenne Sylvester

Karenne Sylvester — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 06:05:23 +0000

Too cute!

By: Barbara

Barbara — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:20:59 +0000

Thanks, Valeria, for sharing how YL classes are organized in Brazil.

This isn’t a video of my class–I think it is from a class in Taiwan. My students are in the craft pictures.

However, the seating arrangement (and number of students) is fairly common in public schools here in Japan, too, and throughout Asia, for that matter.

I’m glad you enjoyed the song and craft!

By: Valéria França

Valéria França — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:57:14 +0000

Hi Barbara,

What a great post and wonderful video. What strikes me is that som many things we hold as “truths” in the field of EFL/ELT are sort of thrown to dust by your video.
YL sitting in individual desks???? How many of us have fought and fought for tables for group work? I suspect that when they got on with the art/craft part they may have worked in a different workspace, but anyway, loads to reconsider in terms of managing YL.

Another thing that struck me was the number of students in class!

Wow, I suspect they may be very well behaved (which is quite different here in Brazil, but not that bad if you have good classroom management skills). We feel that 14 in a class is ideal and we’ll add a helper for very YL (as we know we need someone to take them to the toilet, wipe noses, etc – the basic classroom things that happen when dealing with YL).

But I thought the idea of the task was great and really enjoyable.
Thanks for sharing,

Valéria