I was on a journey this last week to find new activities I wanted to try and stumbled on a bunch from Martina Bex that I hadn’t seen before. I will be writing about each, but today’s focus is on Musical Vocabulary. Martina calls it Musical Flashcards and you can read her write up here. Prep WorkFor this game you will need enough sheets of paper or poster (use half sheets or the smaller size) to cover all the students in your class. I made enough to cover each chair in my room. On each paper, write one of your vocabulary words. You can laminate words you’ll use often/every year! You’ll also need a playlist of songs to play during the game. I have a playlist I make each year of songs I know kids like and song requests from students after I vet them. Another optional thing is to use Classroom Screen to make the following:
Game PlayPass out a paper for each student. I also put papers on any empty chairs. When students hear the music play, they need to stand up, leave the paper in the chair, and walk around the room. They should be looking at each paper and remembering which vocabulary they know. When the music stops, they need to quickly sit down with a paper. Call on 5 different students (If you are using a randomiser, this is the time to use it!). If they can tell you the word in the target language AND what it means in their language (I have Spanish speakers in my class, so I played the game with them in Spanish and in English with my English speakers), then they are done and ready for the next round. If they cannot tell you what the word means, they have a little work to do. Here is what I required of students: If you don’t know what the word means, you need to take these steps before you can play again:
Final ThoughtsI did this today with both my Latin and ESOL classes. It was a MAJOR hit. The kids really enjoyed the movement and speed at which they needed to sit down. When they didn’t know the word, they wanted back in, so they quickly followed the steps and rejoined the game.
In my ESOL class we had some extra time, and so we went over all the words at the end of the period. Each student had to bring me their word when they heard it called out and we went over what it meant as a class. We will DEFINITELY play this again.
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Many of you may already know me, or you know part of me, so this is less of an introduction and more of an introduction: the remix (insert your favourite DJ’s tag here). My name is Miriam Patrick and I am one of the founders of Scroll and Grove. I was also one of the founders of Pomegranate Beginnings (PBP). A lot has gone on since PBP was founded back in 2015. If you are interested in my academic profile, you can see that here! In this post, however, I want to consider the changes I’ve gone through as a teacher, a Classicist, and as a writer. When PBP was founded, and we published the first Latin novella, I had no idea what would come after. There were great things, but also not so great things; people loved our work and people hated our work. This is true for anyone who ever puts their work into the public sphere. I think, however, that the good far outweighed the bad. While I greatly appreciate all the feedback and engagement from my Classicist community, what will always remain true for me is that I do what I do because I like helping students succeed. They are the reason I get up every morning to go into my classroom and teach. Back in 2015, I was nearly finishing a master’s degree in Classics with a thesis focusing on proto-racism in the ancient world, particularly working with how the Romans treated the tribes of what we call Ethiopia and the tribes of what we call Ireland. This is still a passion of mine and my research in this field is never ending. But, my passions have expanded and evolved. While I still use Comprehensible Input (CI) in my classroom, I no longer only teach Latin. I also teach English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) and I now have a second master’s degree in Special Education. Latin was and is my first academic passion. A lot of what you will see from me in Scroll and Grove will be on the topics in Latin I love, but you will also see new things from me. I have always been social justice minded, but I am now in a different place than I was nearly 10 years ago. I think it is a better place and I am so excited to share it with you! Here is just a taste of what is to come in future blog posts from me:
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