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On September 12th<\/sup> our group (Rasmus, Kaisa and Sara) went to Nipsula to conduct an activity session teaching basic English to children. After the families had gathered to Nipsula, we got to know the children through free play. Our organized activity \u200btook place during our morning circle. We explained to the parents our intentions for the session so they could better guide their children as well. First, we introduced ourselves and got to know the children\u2019s names. We sat in a half circle and sang Five little ducks first in Finnish and then in English\u200b. Before we changed the languages we went over the numbers and the animals in the song. We watched the music video, which had subtitles and was slowed down\u200b. We used the same hand movements for both videos\u200b to help children keep track of the lyrics and timing. We taught them numbers one through five in both languages\u200b. Our intention was to continue our session, but ultimately decided it was best to cut it short due to the children\u2019s short attention spans. We felt the children were getting somewhat restless. <\/span>It was nice to receive positive feedback on subjects such as the duration of the session and that we included both Finnish and English in our instructions. The parents appreciated us using music as a means of teaching English.<\/span><\/p>\n On\u00a0September 19th<\/sup>\u00a0our group\u00a0(Josefina, Piret, Sanni, Anni)\u00a0assembled in Nipsula to\u00a0lead an English language activity session. Our activity of choice was a colour learning song. The purpose of the activity was to expose the children to basic English vocabulary, and in our case, to colours. Our audience was a group of children\u00a0whose age ranged from\u00a06\u00a0months to almost 4-year-old, and in total there were 7 children. The children were accompanied by their mothers, and they also participated in the activity.<\/span><\/p>\n The formal activity of the day started with a morning circle, during which we\u00a0introduced ourselves and\u00a0explained the\u00a0day\u2019s\u00a0schedule.\u00a0After that, we introduced the theme of the day\u00a0by showing coloured cards. We told\u00a0the names of the colours in both Finnish and English, but we left some time for the children to say the names if they already knew them.\u00a0<\/span>The next step was to gather in front of a big screen\u00a0to which we had connected a laptop. Our main activity was to show a\u00a0song\u00a0video on youtube\u00a0and sing along. The lyrics of the song introduced colours and we showed appropriate coloured cards along with it. First we listened to the song twice in this manner.\u00a0The children danced along with it.\u00a0After that we brought colourful instruments\u00a0and told the children and parents to choose ones of their liking.\u00a0The instruments provided were egg shakers and boom\u00a0whackers.\u00a0Then we played the song twice and let the participants to play along with their instruments of choice.<\/span><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blog.hamk.fi\/nipsula\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2023\/09\/IMG_20230919_101555984_BURST000_COVER_TOP-300x256.jpg\")
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