Fishery

Summer English Camp has started and at the suggestion of my co-teacher, Seoyeon, our first week is a movie camp.

It makes the work, planning, and follow through for me rather easy, but it is also a bit brain numbing at times too.  Especially when I didn't have to create the worksheets to correspond with the movie.  The BMOE did that and a right job that did!  OMG kill me!  They are terrible!

So to add a bit more to class than just watching 'Finding Nemo' for 80min; I've come up with art and craft projects that would allow the students to get involved, moving, and thinking - because trust me the BMOE movie sheets aren't stimulating much of anything.

Yesterday (7/24) my 3rd and 4th graders learned that a group of fish was called a school and were given fish coloring sheets to design and color.  We practiced design words (pattern, zigzag, wavy lines, etc) and talked about how their fish should "be creative".  Most of the fish came out looking exactly like Marlin, Dory and Nemo - but points for trying.

Today (7/25) I tried another craft project with them.  Origami.  It was meant to only last the first 20mins before we moved on to the movie, but what was called a "not very difficult" origami fish turned into the hardest folding paper project I've ever done!!  Instead of taking a mere 20mins, it took the entire 80mins of camp!!  And most of the fish didn't turn out looking right!

On Monday (7/23), one of the girls in my English camp made me an origami rose!!  A freaking rose!!  Yet even she was stumped by the flopping fish!

It was not my best-laid plan.  But now I know for next time that if I want to do an origami project - I should watch BOTH set of instructional videos!

Here's the youtube videos I used for my "20min art project".  

Give it a try and see how well you do!

Hopefully you do better than I did!