Welcome Winter Week 2

Week Nine: Welcome Winter 2

Example of Holiday Card

 

Time allotment	Activity	Materials Needed
5 minutes	Greet students; review the words from last week with the “Welcome Winter: Week 2” PowerPoint Presentation. Stop at the end of the first part.	·         Welcome Winter: Week 2
10 minutes	(2nd part of PPT) Focus on the new words “favourite” and “holiday.” Use a spider map to brainstorm different Ukrainian holidays on the board and then translate them into English. Ask the students “What is your favourite holiday?” Show students how to answer with a model sentence: “My favourite holiday is….”	·         Chalkboard and chalk
25 minutes	Many students will say that they’re favourite holiday is New Year. Tell them that now, we are going to make cards to give to our loved ones for New Year.  See these Holiday Card How-To instructions for details.   When students are done, they are to take the cards home to give to loved ones!	Each student receives: 1.      A sheet of blue paper 2.      3 circles of white paper 3.      3 triangles of green paper 4.      A very small orange triangle 5.      A small yellow star 6.      A small black rectangle 7.      A half sheet of white paper



Making holiday cards

 

Adding finishing touches!
 

 

Week Nine: Welcome Winter!

 

Week Nine: Welcome Winter

Making Mittens

 

Time allotment	Activity	Materials Needed
10 minutes	Greet students; give them each a sheet of paper and show them how to make their own origami books.	·         Paper ·         Origami book instructions
10 minutes	Show the PowerPoint presentation “Welcome Winter!” and help students to create their books. Tell students that they are not allowed to translate;  they must draw the meanings of the words.  (see examples below)	·         Welcome Winter! PPT presentation
15 minutes	On the board, draw a stick person. Name him “Dima.” Tell the students that Dima wants to play outside, but he is not ready. Ask them “What does Dima need to play outside?” As you ‘dress’ Dima, by taping his clothes to the board, have students say the words in Englishàtrousers, boots, sweater, coat, hat, scarf. And what does Dima still need? Mittens! Dressing Dima	·         Clothes
10 minutes	Students will now make mittens for Dima. Each student will get some construction paper (I found that a half-sheet was more than enough). Use the template and have students cut out a pair of mittens.       Then, using the cotton swab, they can paint on one half of the mittens. (Cotton swabs are great to keep things clean; the kids can choose two different colors and use the two different ends, without mixing the paint.) When they are done, they are to fold the mittens together again to create an identical pair. When the mittens are dry, cut them in half and insert one end of a string in each mitten. For complete instructions on the Mitten craft, click here.	·         Construction paper ·         Cotton swabs ·         Paint ·         Scissors ·         String ·         Mitten template

 

Making Mittens

Week Eight: Take a Break for Thanksgiving!

Week Eight: Take a Break for Thanksgiving!



Student examples of gratitude

Time allotment	Activity	Materials Needed
10 minutes	Review introductions; get all kids in a circle to introduce themselves. Review Weather and Seasons; ask each student “What is your favorite season?”	·         Weather words ·         Season words ·         Model sentences
10 minutes	Introduce new material: Tell students about Thanksgiving in America (день подяки). It is a time when we think of all the things we are grateful for (Я вдячний за ...). Have students think about the things they are grateful for. Create this spider-map on the board:    Each student will come to the board and write what he/she is grateful for, in Ukrainian. Then, as a group, translate each word into English. Then, write the complete sentence on the board.       For example: Я вдячний за мою сім'ю.  I am grateful for my family.	·         Chalkboard and chalk
15 minutes	Each student receives a piece of paper. He/she must write a full sentence about what they are grateful for, and then draw a picture of it. For example: “I am grateful for ________________.”	·         Paper ·         Markers ·         Glue ·         Model Sentences        written on the board
10 minutes	Each student tells what he/she is grateful for and then glues his/her illustration to the larger class poster. Together, the group hangs the class poster in the classroom as a reminder for everyone of all the things we have to be grateful for!	·         Blank white paper ·         Markers ·         Class poster

 

Class Poster