Revision Lesson

As there was no Internet connection, the students revised the vocabulary on Ireland.

Compare this peony from the school greenhouse with the peony rose from Ireland.

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.

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.

Summer Camp Open Days

Professional Development Seminar Programme

One more great project! The Summer Camp opens the doors to the school and university teachers of English from the whole republic!

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?

SPORTS CLASSES

Summer camp is in full swing and all the students as well as teachers are literally "bursting" with ideas of making our camp a better place.
Here's something I came up with during my sports lessons: to jazz up your lessons you don't neccessarily need to reinvent a bicycle- you may combine and mix the existing ideas and get something new and fresh.
That's exactly how we got "FREEBALL" (combined version of frisbee and football) and "FREELING" (frisbee + bowling). Full description is viewable here.

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?

Music: Old and New

On Saturday students had a relaxing day listening to some old and new American music. They learned the famous African-American spiritual 'We shall overcome' in addition to 'Listen to your heart' and 'the YMCA.' While learning and singing the YMCA, the students performed the dance that accompanies the song!

Ireland Through Comps (2)

Three groups ( a short day on Saturday)explored the Irish symbols. The wolfhound is the most fascinatiing.

No Lessons (3)

Russia Day

Compare:

Australia Day

Canada Day

Independence Day (United States of America)

Are these holidays different?

St.Patrick's Day
(Ireland)

St.George's Day (England)

'Thank You' to Substitutes

This day three teachers were to leave their classes at the Summer Camp.
Our colleagues substituted us. This hibiscus from the school greenhouse is for you!