Summer Camp

 July 25th - 29th I taught an English summer camp for 3rd through 6th grade. I really like teaching summer camp! It was so fun. I wish I could teach like that all the time. The first day we made English names for everyone and made pinata's. Here I am going over the directions.

I split the kids into groups with one 6th, 5th, 4th and 3rd grader so that they could all help each other out. It worked really well and I could spend equal time with each group. Here the kids are beginning to make their paper bag pinata.

Ally, my co teacher came the first day to help me out. Jenny would come the last two days so, I only had to teach one day myself.

In my after school classes we learned about Native Americans all summer. I made dream catchers with them out of sticks and yarn. I tried to find crafts with stuff I had lying around because I don't have a budget for this class....only my brain!

This is the day that I taught by myself. I was trying to teach them phonics with worksheets that used Korean pronunciation. I think the kids had more fun laughing at me trying to read Hangul than they did doing the games.

On the third day of camp we taught the kids colors and did tie dying. It didn't get too messy and went a lot better then I thought it would.  Here I am showing them how to tie the shirt for a spiral pattern.

Me mixing the dye.

AHH too many shirts to keep track of! Who's is this???

Nice job!

Next day we learned about international foods and made french toast. I brought my maple syrup for everyone to try. It was a hit! But Jenny and I were so busy that I didn't get to eat any french toast =( One of the first things I told them to do is go wash your hands. Here are some girls coming back to the classroom. Most Korean bathrooms don't have paper towel so you just have to let them air dry.

Next step, crack the eggs.

Now heat the pan. Jenny was helping with this step. We had four groups to watch! Luckly some of the 6th grade girls were really good cooks so we didn't have to help their groups too much.

One of the fourth grade girls with her toast. MMmmmmm looks so good.

Who ever heard of eating french toast with chopsticks?

I think it was the maple syrup that won their approval.

Chow time!

The last day of camp we had a review quiz where the students could win some prizes.

They were really excited to get their shirts back. I think they came out pretty well. It was funny because when we were dying them we didn't know that there were different size shirts, so a bunch of the younger kids got big shirts and the older kids got shirts that were too small! haha

After we passed out the shirts we hit the pinatas. They really got a kick out of that.....an I almost got hit!

Candy pile!

Here is the group.

We made certificates and I had to hand them out and try to pronounce all the names. =P  Yay summer camp is over and time for my vacation!