Show-n-Tell

I couldn't just let my family sit back and take it easy while they were in Korea.  It's not all about sightseeing here!  They had to do some work.  Especially if they were going to "get" my life.

So I took them to school!  I used them as my own special "meet-and-talk-to-some-more-foreigners" show-n-tell activity for my 6th grade students.

I was extremely concerned going into it that my students would clam up and not talk to my parents (perhaps I worry a bit too much).

However, in order to try and prevent that from happening; I gave my students 8mins to write down three questions they would like to ask my family (my mom, my dad and dear ol' Aunt B).  They could ask whatever they wanted, but they had to keep in mind that the questions they asked would later help them with the game - so it might be helpful to stick to topics we had learned in class (birthday, age, favorite things, job, wants, etc).

It went amazingly!

Sure, not every kid talked.  Really it was the same 4-5 students asking questions the entire time, but it worked!!  They even asked my family more questions when they had them on their teams during 'Redding Jeopardy'.

We also got juiced and cookied (Korean school time version of soju-ed and fed) by the Principal.  Twice!

More foreigners should come to work.  How about it?!  Any takers?