what types of fun and educational activities can use you use in a evening bilingual homework room for kids?

Question

I am applying for a job as a homework room provider and they want me to suggest types of fun and educational activities for the evening bilingual homework room(The program is not just for homework help.)Any help would be appreciated ..Thank you.

Answer 1

I taught a HW after school class. The kids would work on their assignments and then for part of it I would teach them Spanish.
Sometimes we played charades where they guessed the word in Spanish. We would also play board games (hangman, baseball).
Will you be working on language at all? If so you can play checkers, but on each square draw a little picture (or use clip art). In order to move to that space they have to say what is pictured. If they can not say the word they can not move there. If you are working on math then there could be math problems to solve. Their partner decides if they are correct or not. I use a paper board and photo copy it. I use bingo chips as markers.
Battleship is a good one. I use that for conjugating. You can choose any subject for the coordinates but it may take imagination. If you use for example science terms then they can have to define it in order to call it. If they define it wrong they lose a turn.
We play the flyswatter game. Put words randomly on the board. Give a definition. There are 2 teams... the one who swats the correct word first wins a point. Make sure that they know that they can NOT hit each other!
You can play concentration on an overhead or you can make a board. The kids must match words with their definitions or math problems with their answers. Play in teams.
Create a board game. In order to move to the spot they roll they must answer a question.
Those are a few; I probably have more ideas written down at school. If these help and you need more ideas let me know. I will send more when I go back to school on Monday.

Answer 2

Why not get them to learn the various terms in the other language concerning cooking, sports, animals, toys and games, etc. You might have them play a mock baseball game in the other language or act out charades where they try to guess in the other language what animal is being imitated (possibly either of these in the manner of separate discussion groups that compete) and give points for effort (intellectual) and knowledge.

Answer 3

well..it would help to know which languages and which age group. A good answer that would fit any is to use music. Play music from the countries that speak that language....and get the cheezy little songs that help you learn the language. If Spanish is one of them: justolamas.com and a little bird named Paco (I don't remember the company name)

Answer 4

I have this very large document with tons of activities you can do with vocabulary, grammar, phonics, etc. Send me an e-mail with your address and I will gladly send it to you. I cannot post it here because it's up to more than 130 pages and it won't fit...

Answer 5

make sure it is in english, whatever it is you decided to do. schools perpetuate foreign language by reinforcing it in bilingual programs when kids are so receptive to learning english at a young age.