Category Archives: Teaching

Winter Camp- That Cup Game

Posted on February 15, 2012 by se0ulsearching

With my older students, I taught them that one cup game I once learned at church camp when I was a 6th grader.  I still remember it!  The game serves no english language learning goal in particular, just a good … Continue reading →

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Winter Camp- Making Sandwiches Day

Posted on February 14, 2012 by se0ulsearching

This day of winter camp, we made egg sandwiches.  A budget-friendly, yet fun cooking project where I caught basic vocabulary through the recipe.  The learning vocabulary of the day: peel, mix, mash, spread, cut, and put.  (Not my original lesson … Continue reading →

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Skype to USA!!

Posted on January 12, 2012 by se0ulsearching

This week for winter camp I prepared my students to do a video skype session with my family back in California!  I think it’s sooo important for the children to have a successful english speaking experience!  I hope that this … Continue reading →

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Quick lesson on vowels

Posted on December 29, 2011 by se0ulsearching

“A wise man can acquaint himself with them before the morning is over; a stupid man can learn them in the space of ten days.” (about learning Hangul) Oh how I glad I am that I learned to read Hangul!  During my … Continue reading →

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Merry White Christmas!!

Posted on December 27, 2011 by se0ulsearching

   Hope everyone is warm and in good health for the holidays!  I had a lovely white Christmas here in Korea!  Christmas is not a big holiday here in Korea but you still see signs of the Christmas spirit out … Continue reading →

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Summer Camp

Posted on August 29, 2011 by se0ulsearching

Today the new school semester began!  Back to teaching each lesson 7 times and sitting at my desk all afternoon lesson planning, youtubing, and facebooking. I spent the last 3 glorious weeks teaching summer camp, only teaching until noon and … Continue reading →

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Let’s Sing Songs!

Posted on July 15, 2011 by se0ulsearching

So, Korean people love to sing, and children are definitely no exception!  It was the last day of teaching for the semester so we wrapped up our lessons with time review time singing some songs we had learned through our … Continue reading →

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GUESS WHO

Posted on June 29, 2011 by se0ulsearching

I wanted to blog about this lesson I did today to give it an honorable mention.  I definitely want to remember how cool it was to do this game.  I was really excited to play Guess Who with my students … Continue reading →

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Open Class

Posted on May 27, 2011 by se0ulsearching

Tuesday was a big day for my coteacher and I as we had our first “Open Class”.  Open class is something that is done in all the public schools here in Korea where the teacher gives out a written lesson … Continue reading →

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Lesson Planning

Posted on May 14, 2011 by se0ulsearching

This past unit was “What a Nice Day!” and it was all about expressions and describing nouns with adjectives. This is a word map with the grammar structure that we did.  The students came up with all the words on … Continue reading →

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