Following up on Seungyeon's suggestion about field trips - a great video
from Heide Wrigley et al on a field trip, and related classroom work for
elderly refugee students in the Chicago area

http://www.clese.org/videos.htm  (look for, Excuse me, where are the
peppers?)

Janet Isserlis



> From: Seung Yeon Lee <selee at lagcc.cuny.edu>

> Reply-To: The Family Literacy Discussion List <familyliteracy at nifl.gov>

> Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 17:01:32 -0400

> To: <familyliteracy at nifl.gov>

> Subject: [FamilyLiteracy 390]   Re: Scenario -  Parent Child Activities

> 

> Hi, 

> 

> Going on a field trip is one idea. We always do a pre-, while-, and

> post activity out of the field trip. Before we plan on a field trip, I

> give parents a homework assignment bringing three locations they would

> like to visit with their children and then we go on the Internet and do

> research and vote on the locations. We talk about how to get there and

> practice asking directions or buying tickets in English as a

> pre-activity. Once they get there, they are given a worksheet to do with

> their children like Scavenger Hunt if they visit a museum. There is

> always a feedback session on the field trip. Questions for feedback

> include how did you travel? what's your favorite part? and why? where

> else would you like to visit? etc. This whole learning process helps

> parents to become a field trip expert, knowing more about their

> community and the city where they live.

> 

> One time, we went to American Museum  of Natural History, and all

> parents and children were given a sheet asking them to do a short report

> on their favorite creature with a drawing of it. About the report, if

> they are older children, they can do more thorough report. If they are

> young (ages 4-6), they can draw their favorite creature and the name.

> When they returned to class, they shared each other's.

> 

> 

> Seungyeon (Jackie) Lee

> ESOL Instructor, Family Literacy Program

> 

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