English Winter Camp – Week 1

I am excited about this English camp because I have planned so many fun activities and I know these 7 students a lot more than when I did my summer camp in August. For the first week, I took it a bit easy on day 1 and 2 but and ended Friday with a movie!

Monday:
I did introductions, greetings, and discussed about what each of us like to do. I have a total of 7 students and one of them was from my summer camp as well. She finished 2nd overall in the score sheet from that camp and I have a feeling she's going to win this camp easily. Anyways, we did self-portraits, learned new vocabulary words (Winter Theme), and we also did a word search and sentences using those words. We also played a quick trivia game at the end too.
Tuesday:
This was purely an art day! The students first made Reindeer masks using their hands as antlers. I bought crafts from a stationery store and they turned out really nicely. The students also made a winter scene artwork using paint or pastel. I decided to make one as well while the students were being busy. The last assignment was a Geography English Project (which was 75% art related too). The students had to a choose a country and create a little poster showing the audience certain things such as population, flag, and fun facts. One student event chose Canada! I was happy about that.
Wednesday:
The students finished off their Geography English project because many of them needed more time to use the Internet for resources. When they finished, they presented it to the entire class. They were really nervous but their posters turned out really good. Next, they had to write a short story using at least 7 of their vocabulary words and be related to winter. Another catch is that it has to have 3 characters (one boy, one girl, and one wildcard). After they did their rough drafts, we went and did a Superhero activity and game. They really enjoyed the game! I included some of my favourite superheros too (example: Gambit from X-Men).
Thursday:
The students did their final copy of their short story. They presented it to the class and did another geography activity. This time, they had to fill in the blanks. I gave them a blank map of Asia, and told them to find 20 different countries (India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Thailand... etc). They did a small comic strip, created their own superhero (part 2 of the Superhero activity) and finally they did their spelling test! In the extra time, they finished whatever they didn't finish or use the computer quietly until 12:30pm when the camp day ends. So the last 10 minutes was useful for the students and for me. I got to see what kind of activities these students like and feel comfortable with.
Friday:
We met at 10:20am at Seomyeon Lotte Cinema because it was our field trip day! We watched, "The Darkest Hour" and ate caramel popcorn! It was a lot of fun but personally the movie was not good. Horrible acting, a really weird plot, and the actors weren't that impressive. Lion King was playing in 3D but it was more expensive. Oh well, the students enjoyed it so that's all it matters to me.

After the movie, I was able to leave earlier than the usual 4:30pm. So, I decided to go to the bank and exchange my won to pesos for my Palawan, Philippines trip. Also, I was able to meet up with May (who owns a store that customized shirts). I decided to make 4 customized shirts! I hope it turns out good because I really wanted to do this for a very long time. The weekend is coming up and it's going to be really hectic!