Daily+Reflections+-+June+17

Jia Jia: How generous Ms. Hong is! -- Thank you for sharing your small group language arts activity folders! The ideas lit up me. The activities almost covered most areas of primary level Chinese language learning. It was an amazing exprience of seeing Ms. Hong's crativity in years. I will definitely use those ideas and try to make some others for my students in Fall!

Sherry Lam - The Folder Gaames are so interesting to me that give me a lot of ideas and I'm going to creat some more games to fit my 3-year- old class in Aug. Thank you very much for sharing/ Mrs. Hong !

Norman Kao – week 2-3, today I learned so many activities about teaching new words, such as go fish, I have who has, fill the jar, word order, the best combination, etc. it is too bad that I was not able to write down all of them. The list of anchor activities is also important. It is a lot of information, and I hope I have the time to use absorb and use them in class.


 * Shelley week2 Day 4**: Going through Ms. Hong’s magnificent activity game folders was like looking at a marvelous kaleidoscope! It was breath taking!!! I wished that I could have all of them : ) I know that someday I will have them plus a lot more from myself. Instead of giving us the “fishes”, Ms. Hong has showed and taught us the priceless “fishing” skills. Thank you so much Ms. Hong!

Amy Lu: Thanks for sharing your folders to us, Mrs. Hong,they are valuable experiences. They really will save me a lot of time to think fun activities in teaching. Activities from your folder such as Matching Initials and Finals ,I'm gonna ask students to make their own. In the past week days, we were busy with learning new teaching techniques, it's like a full time job and we didn't have enough time to think about our lessons for the practicum week, it's a whole day class, we need time to think about lots of details ,can we make use of tomorrow morning to prepare the actual lesson for next week? It might be diffcult to discuss the lesson paln with our cohorts on weekend.

Veronica Garrido - June 17: I truly appreciate all the activities Mrs. Hong has provided us with, together with her wise advise on how to adapt some of them to either a different age group or language group. An idea to share in here for any room teacher could be to ask parents to help working on some folder's preparation or even putting together some of the activities.

Grace Hu: I learned some new strategies and lots of small group activities. Especially, the 10 folders Ms. Hong shared with us gave us lots of hands-on experience on how to design and prepare small group activities. Many thanks to Ms. Hong again!

Amy Hilbert—Day 9—6/17: Again, Thank you, Mrs. Hong, for the wonderful small group strategies and practical vocabulary activities. I particularly liked the word to sentence pyramid, race to the top, and Show-Don’t Tell activities. The mind reader and pantomime-a-word activities are fun ways to engage students in writing and speaking or reading and acting. They could also be quick assessments of the students’ understanding of the vocabulary/phrase (who’s really understanding, who’s still looking at others to make a decision, who’s not answering at all or seldom responding, and are there any words/phrases I need to re-teach because no one is able to guess).

Jie Ding: I really appreciate the games and activities that Mrs. Hong created. I have learned a lot of ideas and teaching strategies from them. I love the game to practice measurement words, as well as the question and answer connection and match games. "... And ... compare with ... and ..."(for example: Teacher and students look like captain with sailors) could be used for high level students to review vocabulary and sentence structure. Thank you Mrs. Hong for sharing with us. Tomorrow, it would be great to work hard and efficiently as a team and use the time wisely on teacher planning, so that we will be ready to teach next week.


 * Fang Liang-June 17: ** Use Context Clue is not only useful to my teaching, but also helpful to my own reading. Strange words are not that scaring now. I like today’s activities. They are all very practical. I think for most of them, we can add Tiering strategy in and make them meet the needs from different levels. Moreover, we can add one or two steps such as sentence making to some activities so that the activity can become a more complex task.

Shaohua Chen: So many activities to take away with today, the highlight to me is the Tic-Tac -Toe and show don't tell, as Ms. Hong said that I could always use the same format with different content in the classroom. A suggestion for tomorrow, could we work with our expert or base group on our teaching plan and get all the preparation done on tomorrow morning?

Chaoqiong Wang: I love the One word has many meanings game, it is a great way to try to understand the meanings of the word. I will try this game in my classrrom.

Aura Reyes - June 17: This week have brought many resources to use in the classroom, it is very important learning about Differentiate Instruction, connecting with activities to make more understandable and accessible to all the students, having in mind the different learning styles; finally giving to the students several oportunities to catch concepts and express themselves in their own way. All the activities have been awesome, even I'm Kindergarten Teacher I think I would adapt many of them to practice in my classroom.

Fang Yuan: Thank you for sharing all the activities (Folders) which Ms. Hong created. All the folders game can give me a lot new ideas for my students. I love the match game for the vocabulary, like V. and N., Adj, and N., V. and Adj. This game can help students to learn how to use the words.

Qiongzi Wang:Today i already learned how to use the words strategies and a lot of other activities, I like the game called mind reader.We can use the students talent use act and guess the meaning .I know they will love it ! Classroom management is very important, but the only way we can really do that very well is teaching and collecting the data and change it all the time!

Belinda Liu--I really like the activities today. Thanks for sharing the folders. I will use some of them in my daily classroom.

** Yunn Pann ** – I like different ways of grouping. It can be connecting adjectives with nouns. The adjectives can focus on certain pattern, such as … I also like…, …?

Yanni Sun: I realy liked today's activity in the class. The folders we shared with different groups full of interesting ideas and materals, they are an eye opening exprience for me. Thank you very much Mrs. Hong for sharing your wonderful work with us!!!

Zhe Zhang: Thank you so much for sharing the folders, Ms. Hong! They are so helpful! Most of them can be adapted to my class. My favorite is the Mind Reader. Compared to Show Not Tell, it allows students to give clues through speaking, which I think makes it more suitable for students of a higher level. At the same time, since students can still act it out if they cannot describe it, everyone can be engaged in this game without feeling being ignored.