As an “auxiliar de conversación,” I can almost guarantee that you will hear some version of:
“When are you going back to England?”
“Can you take me to England with you?”
“Is it cold in England?”
And the list goes on…
If you are, in fact, from England, this is not really a problem; however, if, like me, you are most definitely not English, this can start to grate on your nerves after a while, especially when it’s the director of your school asking if you’re going home to England for the long weekend.
Last year, I decided that I was going to figure out a way to get my students to remember where I’m from, so I decided to create some activities to drill it into their heads.
Little kids tend to struggle with abstract ideas, such as city, state, country, etc., so I wanted to create an activity that would help them visualize these concepts, and, as usual, Pinterest did not disappoint. I combined loads of different ideas (mostly from preschool and kindergarten teachers) to make the craft that I did with my students.
The students traced the names on the top of each circle (PLANET and TEACHER aren’t pictured, but they were the biggest and smallest circles), and they colored the planet, the continent, the country, and the state; drew a dot for the city; and drew my face on the TEACHER circle. Then, I stapled the circles together together, so they had a little visual of where I come from!
With my older students, I made task cards, and the students each made their own small map in stations (1 card per station, 2 minutes per station, 9 stations total). They drew in my city, the capital, the mountains, and the rivers.
If your students can’t seem to remember where you’re from, maybe these activities can help!
¡Buena suerte!
Inglés con Christina 