Tuesday, May 13, 2014

Visual Aids for Elementary School

For the past year I was working at an elementary school as a school assistant for grades 1 to 7.  Here are just a few of the "visual aids" I made for the students to go with some of the activities we did in English (ESL) and Math.



 THE ELEVATOR GAME
Teaching the numbers in English from 1 to 20.


COLOUR BINGO
Learning the colours in English.  Matching the English word to the Norwegian word.


MEMORY GAME
Learning the body parts in English.  Matching the word with the picture.



THE FISHING GAME
Used a magnet at the end of the fishing pole line and a paper clip on each laminated fish.   You can choose just about anything to put back there; English words or phrases, songs, Math problems... etc.   You can use a white board marker and reuse the fish to suit each level or chapter.  (I actually made this for a daycare/barnehagen)

*Can also use other shapes and objects: apples on tree, flowers or vegetables in garden... just to name a few.  If you think it... create it!




THE QUESTION JAR
Had different questions in English written on each strip.  100+ questions to choose from. Each student takes a turn to pick a question from the jar and all the students in the group (4-6 students)  answer the same question using complete sentences.   If the student picks a blank strip, they must make up a question to ask.  
Examples: What is your favorite color?  What do you want to be when you grow up? What is your favorite subject in school?



You can click here to see what we did in my recorder class!
Recorder Fun!




Not pictured:
* I made a board game based on the concept of Balderdash/Kokkelimonke but instead of them finding the definition of a word, they were to find the Norwegian equivalent to the English word.  Examples: Balderdash = Kokkelimonke, competition = konkurranse 
* The 12 months game where they had to match the picture to the correct month. Example: red heart is February for Valentine's Day.
* Played the game, Charades-Telephone game.  Your team members line up behind you and each player describes the same object using actions. No speaking or noises allowed.  Last player in the line tries to guess the word. You can see how different each interpretion is from each player.