Listening, Oral work, Reading and Writing

My challenges when I was teaching listening, speaking, reading and writing activities to kindergarten level were: first, that the kids were very indisposed at the beginning because they felt insecure with my presence but then when I give them the confidence to behave normally without fear and they started to participate and give opinions about the topics that we were studying.

       

The second challenge that I faced was that I felt very insecure because it was the first time that I taught to someone, and that I was with children. However, I faced that challenge with the best attitude that I could have and it  did not seem not so difficult than I expected that could it be.

Some of the activities that I used related to the book were:

• Songs: I put many songs related to the topics of the colors, the alphabet, the shapes, the numbers,etc. It was very entertained for the children; they liked the songs and also they learned many things from them. Songs were very important in my teaching experience.
• Putting things in order: I made them to do some puzzles in order that they would put things in order, this tool was very useful to teach the parts of the body because the kids learned were the parts of the body are and also they learned its names.
• Identifying exercises: It was useful to use exercises like those in order to teach the shapes to the children. I made the children to identify in a serie of drawings what the names of the shape were. It was difficult at the beginning because the children were so little but I tried to make the activity fun and at the end the children learned and had fun at the same time.
• Drawing: The drawing activities were very useful for teach them the topic, the children used their imagination and creativity to express their ideas about the topics that we were studying.
• Mime stories: I tried to use this technique but it wasn´t useful because the kids were to little and they did not understand the point of create a mime story.
• Telling stories: Telling stories was also a little complicated because I lost the attention of the children very fast; so, I realized that I have to improve my creativity in order to catch the attention of students and use this technique properly.