June, 07 – SPACE FOR KIDS.Summer for students – is not only leisure time and entertainment. DOUNB Library works without vacations, it prepares various educational attractions.
Dnipro Window on America Center renewed the "Summer with the WOA Center" project.
Three groups of the summer camp kids from the school No.23 visited the Window on America Center today. They were offered a slide show “The Ukraine’s Space Capital” which reminded them about Dnipro as the Center of space research and space manufacturing (rockets, engines, etc.). The kids answered the quiz about the Dnipro city streets and monuments connected with the topic “Space”.
The American cartoons were offered to the groups to introduce the English names of Solar system planets and drill them. The videos about International Space Station presented the work of astronauts and their everyday routines.
The presentations were customized to the age of students and were funny and educational at the same time.
We also plan to play board games and to answer quiz questions!
Participants’ number: 81 persons (75 kids + 6 teachers)
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14. 06. 2016Mixed Four Corner Game
Today we applied unconventional framework techniques and did the speaking activity with 45 children (7-9 age range)!!! 45 children sounds terrifying even for a conventional class but the summer camp leaders (we invited summer camp scouts) said “all THREE scout unions at one time or none”.
Started with WARM-UP. We played “noise” and “silence” game and “clap hands or stamp feet” while watching video about animals and pets – a kind of introduction to stand-up English. We show with our activities that the participants are not obliged to sit.
Then, we played FOUR CORNERS and watched funny video cartoons after each set of four corner game, trying to involve children in dancing and singing along with the video. Some attempts were very successful!!! Some of the children are shy to put up hands and move but the main rule of this work is “NO ANY FORCI!!!”
How do you find a shark as a pet? Let’s see how a shark family lives! Famous American SHARK SONG breaks the ice and stimulates to move!
We will confess. In each corner we had a facilitator to support childeren’s activity in the corners. And the microphone helped a lot! The child’s desire to be heard loudly with a microphone did its job. Even the shiest ones wanted public speaking. We gave microphone to the children to pass it to each other. The summer camp leaders were very afraid that the children would destroy it. Ha-ha! They tried to take it away from the children!
As we do not do streaming per English speaking skills and never have prior testing, we expect the participants with various levels of English. For everybody’s understanding, we developed the slide show for FOUR CORNER game. If poor listening or lack of attention, reading will help and the friend standing nearby. You are welcome to use our slide show. It covers a small number of questions but some activities children ask to repeat again and it takes about an hour to complete the total game.
Oleksandra Myrgorodska
Academy English teacher and Dnipro WOA volunteer
Svitlana Usenko
The head of Dnipro Window on America center
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We continue working with summer camp. Two of our yesterday’s young visitors decided to join the different group and do the same activity again!
Reduction in the number of young players had certainly a positive effect. We are happy that the summer camp leaders started to follow our advices to us! Children could better listen to each other and we managed to reach even the youngest and the shiest.
We had more space for dancing and singing!
Our two yesterday’s visitor became the insiders in the corner games. I they facilitated speaking in the corners better than the adults! “I speak good English, I can be a leader,” – said a little girl coming to me.
Oleksandra Myrgorodska
Academy English teacher and Dnipro WOA volunteer
Participant Number: 23 children (age range 7-9)
Materials and equipment:
Camera for photos, laptop and beamer for visual aids, sound equipment, microphone
Summer for students – is not only leisure time and entertainment. DOUNB Library works without vacations, it prepares various educational attractions.
Dnipro Window on America Center continues the "Summer with the WOA Center" project.
The group of the summer camp kids from the school No.23 and group of summer camp from Center of out-off-class activity visited the Window on America Center.
Today, our young learners were not inclined to have active work – tired after out-of-doors active games. They asked for film watching. We choose library excursion and the videos with easy English to enhance listening and brush up the memory of the vocabulary.
Participants’ number: 60 persons (57kids + 3 teachers)
June 16 –
A Library Tour was organized for the children from the summer camp that belongs to the Children Hobby Center №1 in the Shevchenkivsky district of Dnipro city.
At the Art Department the DOUNB librarians told the kids about the book collections of the scientific libraries, demonstrated a video about the book history and rules of conduct in the library.
At the "Window on America" Center the students examined the gifts from the American people - books and computer equipment. They learned about the iconic symbols of America – the Statue of Liberty, the "Golden Gate" bridge, the National Avenue in Washington. The group watched a film about 10 most attractive tourist sites of the United States of America.
The children shared their ideas about the importance of the English language .They were informed about the government programs that help Ukrainian students to improve their English skills - FLEX Work & Travel.
Participant number - 28.
June 21 –
A Library Tour was organized for one more children group from the summer camp that belongs to the Children Hobby Center №1 in the Shevchenkivsky district of Dnipro city.
At the Art Department the DOUNB librarians told the kids about the book collections of the scientific libraries, demonstrated a video about the book history and rules of conduct in the library.
At the "Window on America" Center the students examined the gifts from the American people – books and computer equipment. They learned about the iconic symbols of America – the Statue of Liberty, the "Golden Gate" bridge, the National Avenue in Washington. The group watched a film about 10 most attractive tourist sites of the United States of America.
The children shared their ideas about the importance of the English language .They were informed about the government programs that help Ukrainian students to improve their English skills - FLEX Work & Travel.
Participant number - 29.
Within “Window on America” framework, Oleksandra Myrgorordska and and Galina Pidvysotska started new project Young speakers’ club - ”. We hope that kids will visit our club, communicate with each other, and gain new knowledge.
Today, we had Mixed Four Corner game and speaking club with young club members. The problems to discuss were very “serious”: What is your favorite fruit? Do you have pets at home? What do you like to do? and so on. People who accompanied our young members also participated.
Zhenya was the best speaker today.
And Daniella and Myroslava – the best dancers. Daniella showed good skills of an organizer and speaking was also quite good.
The boys became active after videos.
Instructor: O. Myrgorordska and G. Pidvysotska
Number of participants – 15 persons.
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