Sunday, June 26, 2011

My students dig that crazy bee-bop

A lot of the classes I teach are young children, ages 3-6. I've started incorporating random pieces of culture into my lesson. For example, to teach the "w" sound I tend to do an impression of Richard Nixon or Kyle's Mom from South Park, "y" is Bono and so forth. If i'm using a puppet, the puppet will sound like Louise Armstrong or Skwisgar Squiggles. Of course the kids just think "look, the teacher is making funny noises again", but they enjoy it. Sometimes at the beginning of class I'll just spend like a minute or two having the kids scat, and they really tend to get into that.

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