A NEW STEP TO CLIL( Content and Language Integrated Learning)
Ruhsar Tümay Çelik
İlknur Oktayer
A NEW STEP TO CLIL( Content and Language Integrated Learning)
Our Kindergarten English class started the year off with a boom, a volcano boom that is. We didn’ t waste any time because it is a brand new year with a brand new agenda. There is so much to learn in such a short time. This year with our English maths, science, and social studies lessons, our brains are working at full speed.
In our social science lessons we discovered and learned about volcanoes, natural disasters, and other weather conditions. We were fascinated with the experiments we cooked up in class. Did you know that volcanoes erupt? We saw first hand what a eruption looks like when we placed a mint into a bottle of diet coke, but we didn’ t stop there. You can easily construct a tornado out of a plastic bottle and some water, and even generate a cloud in a jar. We didn’ t know that we could have the rain in our hands and listen to it from a tube. It was amazing to put black eyed peas, rice and foil altogether in a paper towel tube to form the sound of the rain which we call‘ rainmakers’.
Plus, equals to, not equals to, greater than, and less than are all things math and when you add them up they equal our class. We are not only learning numbers but we are also matching, grouping, and adding them. We do this by using blocks, cubes, beads, and other objects. And now we know 5 + 6 = 11 and that 15 is greater than 5. And there is only more to learn in the future.
We can’ t stop now because learning is so much fun. Who knew songs, projects, games, and experiments would teach and develop us so much. I wonder what kindergarten English has in store for us next?
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