Volunteering at School
Today we actually got to use the lesson plan that we came up with at the elementary school! Our goal is to give these Kindergarteners a little boost for when they start formal English classes in school next year. So what we're doing is taking a theme and creating lessons for a full-immersion experience.
The first theme that we did was about greetings. So we showed them the difference between greeting someone in Costa Rica versus greeting someone in the US. Then we practiced greeting each other with a "Hello, my name is ______. What's yours?" and "How are you today?" "Nice to meet you!" After about 20 minutes of that, we played a version of Duck, Duck, Goose in which we said, "Hi, Hi, Hello." They loved it! They kind of already knew how to play the game, so making this small change was pretty easy for them to do.
Next week's theme is hygiene, so we'll have to come up with some activities to help them with that.