Group 2
Part 2
Grammar: Question. Is that (your sister)? Answer: Yes, it is. / No, it isn't.
Vocabulary: cat, dog, turtle, fish, rabbit, bird.
This part of the class was taught by: Pilar and Karla

This class started in a very energetic way. Teacher Pilar started to play with the kids. Kids had to follow what Pilar did. "Sit down", "Stand up" , "jump three times" were the commands that Pilar said and the kids followed.
After that, she used stuffed animals to introduced the vocabulary for the lesson. She asked "What pet is this one? " So kids had to say "it's a dog" "it's a cat" and so forth.
Pilar challenged the kids by asking "is this a fish?" (as she showed a rabbit) Kids had to say "no, it isn't ... it is a rabbit" With her help, kids did it.
To practice, teacher Karla gave the kids images of animals. They had to fill the images with pieces of papers. When kids finished she asked "Is this a cat?" with her help, kids replied "yes, it is" or "not, it isn't".
Karla used some onomatopoeia voices (animal sounds in this case) to have students guess what animal she was referring to. Kids and Karla jumped like a rabbit, barked like a dog, meowed like a cat, moved slowly like a turtle and so on. After that, she told some kids a secret. They had to do what Karla told them in the secret. For example, she told one kid "bark like a dog" and the kid shouted "woof, woof"
Another entertaining activity was one in which students had to form animals by using some cubes. The teachers said "I's a dog" so kids formed a dog with the cubes.
Then, the animals were put into cages to simulate a pet shop. The students were given some money and pretended to buy the animals.
To finish the lesson, kids were told a story in which the animals and the grammar structures taught in the class were used. They received their meal and class was dismissed.
As teachers, Carlos and I believe that this class was very funny for kids. We think that they were motivated by the stuffed animals and by the energy that the teachers had. We only observed that in some cases, teachers could have used more the visual aids they had to compare and support the kids' work. By the way, the visual aids were very colorful and appealing for kids' eyes. Both teachers helped students by modeling the pronunciation of the words and repeating the grammar structures. In general, it was a great lesson!