Today was a really great day, I've gotta say. The kids are really warming up to Shauna and I and are giving us great participation, listening, and asking great questions. We started off the lesson by showing a YouTube video about values in communities and had them respond with ways the video connected to themselves and what we have been working on. They definitely did not let us down with their reflections and created a perfect transition into our value skit activity!
We had the students perform a "whip" around the room and share the value they had previously chosen to write about and had them draw connections to similarities and respect any differences.
This set them up great to start working in their groups writing the scripts for their skits- they are each defending their value and explaining why it is important to them.
They have a field trip tomorrow so we sadly won't be going to th school, but I am excited for Thursday to hear what they are creating within their groups!
Oh as a side note- my favorite part of the lesson was when a student pronounced Aung San Suu Kyi's name as "sushi". We corrected him and wrote the proper pronunciation on the board :)
Sushi! Hilarious. I love that you are using creative ways to get students engaged. Talk about values can get preachy and heavy-handed, but you're making it fun and worthwhile. Nice work!
ReplyDeleteI love whips, how you can quickly and efficiently hear every voice. There's not much pressure either because EVERYONE is sharing, not just them. And they know it's coming. They are able to hear what each other is saying too, rather than just handing something in to you. Their audience increases so many times over!
ReplyDeleteSmooth move, my friend! :)