English Club

This trimester Luc has been giving supplemental English lessons to our most motivated kids Monday afternoons. It does mean three more hours of work per week in our already crammed schedule, but with the smaller group size we can experiment with a lot of the more participatory activities that are just too hard to pull off in the 50+ student classroom environment. We do a lot of talking and dialogues, reading magazines, or at least describing the pictures, and the kids’ favorite, singing along to music. They really like Justin Bieber. At first all they could get was the baby, baby, baby, but after a couple weeks they’ve got the whole first verse down. They want to perform it at the morning assembly, but I don’t know if they have the base skill level to pull it off. Our main goal is to get a core group of kids ready so that we can put together an English Theater group for this September’s provincial competition, which we’re in charge of organizing, and not coming in last place, like last year. Actually, as long as we do a good job and get kids excited about learning, last place is fine.