How it works

I got this email from the Summer camp organizer:

The English program to be used will be our new e-Study curriculum, which is online and uses Smartboard/mimeo boards.  Much of the program is interactive, so students can physically participate in the lesson.  Lessons focus on reading, listening, speaking and writing with aspects of grammar and pronunciation integrated. 

The creative/physical activities will include art, digital music production, film making and drama balanced with Aikido, volleyball, dance and swimming.  We will also use the cinema and bowling alley. 

Naomi, you mentioned before that you have a plan for what to do for the younger and older students regarding drama.  I just have a few questions for you both:

1.       Can you drama plan be applied to all ages (although not together) from grade 1 and up?

2.       Can 20 students participate in a drama class at one time?

3.       Can you apply the plan separately, as separate teachers working with different groups of students on different days?

4.       Would 6 hours over 2 weeks be enough time to produce a result that could be watched by others?

a.       I ask this because my idea is for students to alternate between 2 different creative and physical activities for 2 weeks, then they switch to what a different group has been doing

b.      For example, see below:

We are going to holding the camp at the Maple Leaf Centre this year. 

Sample 1 week schedule that runs for 2 weeks

Time / Day	Mon	Tue	Wed	Th	Fri
8:00am – 8:45am	Skill: Reading 1a	Swimming	Skill: Reading	All day field trip	Skill: Speaking
8:45am – 9:30am	Skill: Reading 1b	Swimming	Skill: Reading		Skill: Speaking
9:30 – 9:45am	Snack	Snack	Snack		Snack
9:45 – 10:30	Skill: Writing	Skill: Speaking	Skill: Writing		Skill: Listening
10:30 – 11:15am	Skill: Grammar	Skill: Listening	Skill: Grammar		Skill: Listening
11:15am – 11:45pm	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch		Lunch
11:45pm – 1:15pm	Drama	Art	Drama		Art
1:15pm – 2:30pm	Volleyball	Basketball	Volleyball		Basketball
2:30pm – 3:00pm	Journal & depart	Journal & depart	Journal & depart		Journal & depart

  

So it looks as though Kim and I will each have our own homeroom in the morning and then in the afternoon we will have a variety of different grades cycling through like in high school. I am not sure about putting together a performance in six hours and I told the organizer that, maybe it could be done in a pinch. Kim was very excited when she found out that the school has a bowling alley. I am looking forward to the field trips, last year I saw a lot of Saigon that I would not have normally seen on those trips. There are water puppets that the other grades got to go and see that I really wanted to see but because it was kindergarten we were sent to a ball park instead.

Photo credit: Valerie Harrison

note: I couldn't edit the schedule down so that is why it overlaps the menu.