Miss Disa's Motivational Podcast

 My classes flow freely and to the naked eye have very little structure, but they do. What should never be skipped is a warm up. A warm up serves to bring everyone to the same place. It should never introduce a new subject and the students should find it challenging but fun. I shake things up a bit by modifying it now and then and by listening to feedback I decide whether to bring it back or keep the new warm up. Since we went online I have been looking for word games that don't take too long and don't need you to sign in or sign up or worse still download the APP. I began with TYPESHIFT  but after a year this became unavailable and although I have the app on my phone we don't do it in class any more. It was very popular with my students.   Then I discovered  WORDLE  and this worked well for many reasons for the whole year we had classes online. This is the second year of online I'm referring to. I am still tying to forget the first year....

Let's see how long this lasts! I have been meaning to write a daily blog now for the past 10 years. A daily what we did and to what degree it worked or whether I need to scrap an activity or two. Today was a quiet and laid back one as all the students are working towards tomorrow's midterms. My subjects don't have midterms at the moment so we were just finishing our project. Project description: Write an appreciation letter; for real to someone after reading this article .  ARTICLE HERE . Yes this was a success, as well as challenging my students' English, finding non' cheesy' ways to say things, it fitted in well with my theme for this year which is connectivity. We are focusing on re-socializing, on celebrating being together and the learning, the academic part is a byproduct of this. The boys struggled the most with this project but all in all it was very successful. Here is a link to student feedback. PADLET In art I have scrapped the just pick an object beg...