Habemus magistrum!

Hello! This week has been quite warm, the weather makes us all excited for the upcoming spring! Another season to spend with our students! Trees and flowers are blooming, and so is my hope for the better tomorrow :) Today I would like to focus on something I found interesting and surprising. Some time ago I had an opportunity to conduct a CLIL lesson on trees for 2nd graders. To my surprise I found it fun and fascinating, planning it was more challenging but at the same time it was much easier to activate students during the lesson and make them use the language authentically. The lesson was a part of the"In the forest" unit. It was about what do we have from trees, why are they needed and so forth. There was a reading planned and a short writing exercise. A the beginning of the lesson I asked my students to come to the carpet and sit in a circle. When they were ready I put a bag in the middle of the circle and told random students to go and pick one thing from the in...

Hello! It's been a long time, I know. But here I am, back and ready to tell you something about the micro-teaching that we've been obliged to conduct in our practicum school. My very first experience was conducting 10 minutes activity for a warm-up during the lesson about birthdays. It was quite fun but also very stressful. Even though I've been already teaching my own groups it was quite difficult for some reasons such as: being observed by the mentor teacher, university peer; the first try to use names of all the kids in the classroom;  new language level of students, as my own students are total beginners, while practicum kids are already sort of fluent. Coming back to the lesson. It happened in grade 1, on the very morning, the first lesson of the day and there is me, standing in front of the group, scared and unsure how should I go on. At the beginning, I've decided to make a choral drill with flashcards, both pictures and words. Children had no problems with ...