Cutest 2nd Graders

I think the class that enjoys me the most is my 2nd grade classes. They are still cute but they can understand a little more than they could in 1st grade. They all always greet me and sometimes hug me before class starts. In our first lessons I taught them the phase, Is it a ball? 1st and 2nd grades are full of activities because the attention span is very small, lol. I remember those days. We would watch videos too. It's funny to listen to them sing along to these songs. Like ABC's with hamsters and the counting song. We always start class with a song like, How are you? Then we listen to a short dialogue and I always lead the pronunciation practice and repeat the phrases several times. Activities range from whispers with flashcards, bingo, mystery bag with blindfold, which students love.

Now after my first class with the students, some students came up to me and thanked me and said, "good bye teacher" One girl came up to me and gave me a cup and she filled it with her drink she brought. She said here, and I took it. It was a fruit drink. She thanked me and said good bye teacher. The next class she did the same thing she gave me a cup but her drink was all gone so she left and came back with more, lol. I gladly took it and thanked her. The next class she made me a colored a rock like a lady bug and handed it to me. It was so cute. I have the second graders once every friday. There are two classes.

The biggest hit for an activity in this class has to be the Pororo game I created. Pororo a little penguin and is a very popular cartoon for young kids here in Korea. I found this template for a game where you answer questions and points are awarded and there are ways to lose points as well. In my game, students answer questions on the target expressions and if they are right they will be awarded cupcakes. However, unexpected things can happen like a bomb showing up which a team doesn't get any points. The best one is the change points cupcake because it can change the course of the game very quickly. One team has a lot of points and the other doesn't but gets that cupcake, the teams switch points and students go crazy. They want to win so badly because I give out a prize to the winning team. I give out tattoos which look like stingrays. They really seem to enjoy that game because they request it a lot, lol.