Props

Props always make a lesson more engaging.  Children do not like to just sit around and read straight out of their workbook.  So today when I took out the slow learners group; after having gone over the entire lesson with extra time to kill, I thought of a way to make things more interactive. What did I do?  I took out my cell phone and picked out short text messages that they could read.  They thought this was very funny.  I would have them read the text message and then decipher it by telling me its meaning in Hebrew.

Another prop that goes over well is the light up microphone I bought from the liquor store across the street.  I test my students by asking them how to say a word in Hebrew and only when the microphone gets passed to them are they allowed to answer the question.  This teaches them to be patient and not shout out the answers all at once.

Hanging out with my 1st grade student singing into the microphone.