Working with kindergarteners has been a great experience of my life. Very young learners are extremely affective. Receiving a hug when I am entering to the classroom is one of the things I enjoy the most. I have received many pictures from them and that make me feel special. One of the most difficult aspects of teaching very young learners is preparing material to work. As I am working with 36 students I not only have to spend a lot of money in paper but also a lot of time. But I have realized that when I prepare materials that involve coloring and pasting, students learn better and enjoy the class. I remember that when I was teaching the weather I made a work for them where they had to paint a circle and pastae pieces of paper around it to form a sun. It was to represent the weather "sunny".

When the kids saw the material they had to do, they became happier and said that the son was prety beatutiful. They started to work but the yellow paper was not enough and I had to ask my tutor for more paper. I remember that some kids were happy of working and when they finished they were showing it to me asking if thier work was good. They were showing the sun to each other. Every work was different but every work involved a big effort.

When we talk about disiplin the story is different one day when my tutor was in the principal´s office the kids started to miss behaive. They were fighting for a car. I separated them and it was pretty difficult. There are some students whose learning is faster that the others. In my class I have to intelligents students. One of them is Roberto. He is a six year old student and he learns the vocabulary only listening it one time. He works fast but the problem is that when he fihishes his tasks he starts to annoy other students, so I have to give him extra work. I have used origami as a technique to teach English. Last week I was teaching the colors and I had made one bird of each color and I placed them in the classroom. Kids were suprised when they saw the birds and they easily learned the colors. I have realized that the visual factor is the most important when we are teaching kindergarteners. My students love coloring pictures, so I made some pictures for them to paint. Usually I prepare a pattern for student and ther trace the pictures on their notebooks. After that they paint it and whe make a feedback. When I have to leave the classroom, they run to hug me and ask me not to go.

"IF WE DONT HAVE A KID´S HEART, TEACHING KINDERGARTEN IS ALMOST IMPOSIBLE."

The kindergarten in COMPLEJO EDUCATIVO COLONIA RIO ZARCO has a classroom to work approximately with thirty five students. It is equipped with six tables for six students each and with a whiteboard and a green board. It also has enough ventilation with 4 big windows and two doors. The restrooms are next to the classroom and those are only for kids using.

The kids are exposed to some danger because in the classroom are about one hundred bricks that were saved there by the principal. One of the disadvantages is that the classroom is somehow messy and it is not decorated in a way that makes students feel in a comfortable environment. There is also another danger the teacher has a big glass on her desk and it can be crashed easily. Another problem is that the floor is almost always dirty, the resources for working are not organized the teacher spend a lot of time looking up the materials when she needs them. Behind the teacher´s desk is a furniture where students save their notebooks that is very old.

The kindergarten has 35 students, 20 girls and 15 boys that are very communicative and have a good disposition to work and learn English. The activity they enjoy the most is painting but they are accustomed to sing too.

Every day students start classes with a short pray and then they greet the teacher after that they start all their activities such as cutting and pasting, drawing or working with colors.

Something interesting is that they show love as much as they can. I was surprised when I saw two boys fighting. Then the teacher asked them to stop. After that she punished them with standing next to the wall raising their hands but after the break they were crying because they thought that the teacher was still angry. When the teacher noticed that, she walk and talked with them then they hugged her.

THE HELLO SONG

When I had my first time with kids in the kindergarten, I was wondering what to do with them. As that was their fisrt contact with English I did not know what to do. Then I started to look up on internet for a song and I found the hellow song

This is a very powerful song. Children love and learn easily. They enjoy singing this amazing song. when I could observe this song I observed:

• The kids learned it easily.
• They enjoyed singing it.
• They have been askign for that song to her teacher everyday.
• We sang that song about 10 times and they didn´t get bored.
• Afer singing the song, I asked them "Hello how are you" and some of them answer good, others answer great and some others I am wonderful

That song help me a lot that day and I use it to start every class.