Winter Camp

When I got back to Korea I had Winter Camp with my 5th graders. I love my 5th grade. They are truly smart kids. I think teachers in Korea don't give the students enough credit for what they are capable of. On Tuesday we did introductions and some American sayings and slang. I loved some of the sentences they came up with, with the slang words they had. They sounded like American teenagers. Wednesday we did travel and childrens books that were turned into movies. Childrens books that were turned into movies was another fun topic. We read parts of books and watched parts of the movie. Then we compared and contrasted the two. Then we read Jumanjii out loud . Which if anyone has read Jumanji is quite different from the moive. Thursday we talked a little bit about food and where different foods came from. Then we made pizza. It was so much fun and such a mess. We had one cheese and one sausage pizza. The first pizza came out ok. It was pretty burned at the bottom. I used a pizza pan and there were no instructions in the pizza pan. So it was trial and error. The next pizza came out better than the first. While making and eating the pizza we watched Jumanji the movie. This was my favorite day. Toward the end of class I gave my students the sausage I had bought for the pizza. This sausage was very strange. It was this like rose colored pink and it was very soft almost like clay. Then the smell was even worse. It smelled like tuna fish. It was strange and I wanted no part of it. I gave it to one of my student, after he bit into it he wanted no part of it either. I told him he'd have to cook it so we greased up the pizza pan and they cooked the sausage on it. It still tasted nasty. Sidenote- When I went to the store with my co-workers I asked them what kind of sausage it was. They told me there was pork and beef, squid and fish in it. Gross ... just gross. Friday was my second favorite day. We did writing. We did Venn diagrams about Jumanji. Then they had to choose which they liked better the book or the movie and give 3 reasons why. Some of the answers I got were awesome. Sure some of them used their dictionaries on their phone but they gave well written and thought out answers. Next I taught them the basics of writing a paragraph. Gave them topics on which they had to write one paragraph. All in all I think it was a good camp. The next week I had 3rd and 4th graders. Ji-Hye planned this camp . It was fun I got a fun game out of it to play with the students. We also made pizza with them. This time it was cheese and bacon and pineapple. They turned out way better than the pizzas from the week before. I had perfected the dough and how to make more pizza and stretch it to the pan.