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

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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Video: English Musical Camp in Korea

So as I promised, here's the video of our performance. Apologies for the bad quality of this video.  I had a friend take it for me cause I had to be in front for my students.  Also, there's a photographer who's always in the way. Wish I could've gotten a better recording.

Directing your students from the front line

In Korea, when students perform, it's common for teachers to sit up front by the stage and motion to their kids the dance, etc... Some teachers even hold up cue boards for the songs or dialogue.  Me, I trust the students to remember. But I enjoy motioning the dance moves to them.  I think it gives them support and extra confidence to know they have a safety net.

I am sitting up front by the stage.