Teaching at a Musical Summer Camp in Korea

When I came back to Korea for the summer, I volunteered at an English Musical Summer camp! This camp was the equivalent of English village with kids sleeping over. There were no standard "classes", where students were expected to "learn"; instead, everything needed to be spoken and in English.

 We had the kids from 9A-9P and camp had to be fun!

Swimming, sports, role-playing rooms, noraebang room and lots of games in-between to bribe the kids with if they ever got bored. The only stipulation was the end project being a staged "musical".

And it had to be good enough to match the high expectations of high-level corporate Korean parents who work in Seoul!

 Role playing in the hospital room

5 Games to Kill Time

Working at an English Summer Camp where we had to create lessons on the spur of the moment, I occasionally needed to find fun games to kill time, while waiting for the next session to begin.

Word haiku

Teacher writes a word on the white board (i.e. United States)

You can create teams or pass out a blank sheet of paper and have the students do this individually. Have them create as many words as they can with the word given.  The team or person with the most words wins.

*  The great thing about this game is that it will keep them quiet and busy on their own for a while.

Summer Musical Camp Rehearsal (video)

This video is a bit post-mortem, but I thought I'd share it anyways. It's from my summer camp experience last summer and it's our first run-through of our 4 minute Peter Pan musical play.  My third graders did surprisingly good and I'm proud to have worked at that camp.

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