Summing Up (2) Ireland

I have collected all the blog links describing the teacher's work at this Summer Camp at the lessons.

Closing Ceremony: Green Irish Emerald's Lessons

Green Irish Emerald parodied the teachers and their lessons. That's another me and my huge list of words!
Those are smiles of the parodied authorities.

Closing Ceremony: Songs through Pictures

The Summer Camp listened to three more songs and watched splendid illustrations made by the campers at the lessons "Ireland Through Comps". Just one e-picture from Mergen A. (Yellow Submarine)!
"Molly Malone"

The campers sang along here too. Then the rest of the pictures will be published.

Beauty Contest With Irish Song

Today's lesson was devoted to the song "The Rose of Tralee".
After the first listening the students read the story offered by the Rose of Tralee festival. Then they compared this story with the facts at Wikipedia.
Of course, the texts had been shortened.

Creativity in Action

While playing 'volleyball' there was one damage - to the Yellow Submarine Mergen's flip-flop/thong. The side strap flew out of its place and the boy had to use a stick, a stone, a pen and two pencils to put it back.

Sports

We read some facts about hurling, the world fastest game. But we played 'volleyball' in the school yard. By the way, I did not find the description of this popular type, that is , playing without the net, standing in the circle. I suspect there is a special name of this game?!

Ireland Through Video (3)

The campers were watching the silent - without any comment, accompanied by music - videofilm about Ireland. They were commenting it, using the words and phrases from the previous video. Of course, there wasn't any exact matching, but in most of cases the picture and the comment matched perfectly. For example, enchanting beauty...love for horses...sophisticated shopping...greatest tresure...experience the warmth of the Irish welcome...
Photo

Ireland through Skills: Irish Americans

Starting again with "Dear Old Donegal" song we went on to discuss hardships of the Irish immigrants in the 19th century. The tasks were very hard.

'Irish-Americans had moved from the position of the despised to the oval office.'
We tried to understand the idea of this final phrase. Only one boy - Danzan L. from Yellow Submarine - knew the exact meaning of the phrase 'the oval office'.

Ireland: E-Painting and Singing

As I had guessed there was no Internet connection and the students e-painted the characters from the Irish songs learnt earlier.
Blue Bikini Amulya e-drew, then together with Blue Bikini Altana D. sang "Molly Malone".
Red Brats Ghylyana, Vanya O. and Temir K.were the only campers who managed to e-paint a horse from "The Wild Colonial Boy".

Ireland Through Comps (5), or Let's paint

On Saturday there were created wonderful illustrations to the Irish songs.
Now I want the campers to use Paint to create e-pictures to the songs.

Follow this route:
Пуск - Все программы - Стандартные - Paint.

Open Lessons. Ireland Through Comps (4)

Our guest teachers were shown the two blogs of Access School and Summer Camp. We were exploring various gadgets, links, labels and words of the day.

Around English-speaking Countries...Ireland

The teams were to work together and fulfill five tasks, based on our lessons “Ireland through Music”: Crying Cockles and Mussels and Travelling with Irish Songs.
In some teams their counselors organized the work successfully, though they didn’t attend my lessons, but they asked questions and the campers explained to them what they remembered after my lessons.

In some teams ( Yellow Submarine and Blue Team) the campers managed to do everything by themselves.
Green (Irish Emerald) surprised me by their Gaelic greeting Fáilte!
Among the song characters Molly Malone was Number One. The Wild Colonial Boy was Number Two. That’s why, most teams mimed their meeting. Orange Canada Cheetos remembered the lucky immigrant from Dear Old Donegal.

Red Team received the highest marks in this ‘Irish’ contest.

The tasks were performed in different ways. Look through my Photo Album!
All the teams were accompanied by our guest teachers, sometimes being outnumbered by the guests. The teachers were enthusiastic like our campers, some gave some advice.
Everybody did their best!

Poster Contest

The teams presented their posters with their countries profiles.

Stories of Indigenous People

All five teams presented their dramatizations of stories of indigenous people from their respective countries. The guest teachers were the jury.

Travelling With Irish Songs

One more lesson of "Ireland through Music". The campers were offered to listen three songs, one by one, without the lyrics. The Big Question was written on the board: "What is the general idea of the three songs?"

"Dear Old Donegal"

"The Wild Colonial Boy"

"If We Only Had Old Ireland Over Here"

The students' suggestions were the following: love for Ireland, travelling, English-speaking countries,love.
Then the lyrics were read and discussed. The lucky and unlucky fates were mentioned.

Open Lessons

Our guest teachers attended our lessons.
Mine was Sports.

Ireland Through Video (2)

The second part of the video was devoted to the enchanting beauty of Ireland. We discussed love of song, dance and laughter and compared it with love for horses.

Ireland Through Symbols

The students read and discussed the ancient Irish symbols. When we touched upon 'the deer being the oldest creature...', I got surprised to hear that the boy from "Ireland' had read about the Celtic mythology. The board shows the words that the students were eager to put down. One boy tried to come out several times!
Do you know the Irish symbols? What is the most fascinating for you?

Around English-speaking Countries

Dear kids and teens,
Be active and careful at any lesson! Learn as much as possible! Get ready to the game "Around the English-speaking countries"!
By the way, what does this rose remind you of?

Ireland Through Comps (3)

Today we are going to explore one of the Irish cities - Cork.

Click the green link, Go and watch the images. Choose the image you like, read the caption, answer the questions and publish your comment.
1. Choose 1 image to learn about the river in Cork. What kind of river is it?
2. Choose 1 image of President Kennedy in Cork. Which one did you select?
3. Choose 1 image of St.Finbarr. What or Who is it?
4. Choose 1 image of the Blarney castle. Why did you find it the most exciting?
5. Choose 1 image of the stone circle. How old is it?
6. Choose 1 image to learn about a bridge. Would you like to walk there?
7. Choose 1 image of Maguire. What did you read about him?
8. Choose 1 image of Famine Pot. What does it symbolise?
9. Choose 1 image of the marsh. What is its name?
10. Choose 1 image of the ferry. Which did you like best of all?

How many tasks did you cope with?