Welcome to my first blog of the second term. After a one week break, we are finally back in school. I hope everyone has rested well and is ready to start the second term!
The first term in AEP was very fun and interesting. We started writing essays, which was a new thing as we were just focusing on vocabulary last year. For the essays we do in AEP, we summarize a graph, so we have to be able to analyze the graph we are presented with. Honestly, I love writing essays as it allows me to be expressive. Although it may sometimes be challenging, it is a fun challenge to take on.
We also learned vocabulary words that you can use in your essays to describe the three main points in the graphs. Something I really enjoy in AEP is the warm up games that we play at the start of each class. This is something very unique about AEP that differentiates it from other classes. It allows me to exercise my brain and help me get a boost of energy before starting the class.
The warm ups we usually do are wordle, hurdle, waffle worlde, quordle and codewords. I have learned all of these games during my AEP classes and they have all opened doors to new words for me. I believe that short yet interesting games like these allow you keep your energy levels high and really get your mind thinking. Which means they are perfect to play right before class.
We used miro for majority of the activities we had in AEP. It allows us to connect to our online classes and work collaboratively with them. Miss Disa always makes classes very fun, special and interesting. Like the padlet exit tickets for example, it is such a nice way to just relax and talk about what we had done for the class.
Another thing that I really enjoy is the classical music Miss Disa opens when we do such activities as writing essays, writing blogs and playing scrabble. Classical music is definitely a signature mark of AEP. I always look forward to AEP classes as it is a place where we can learn, express ourselves and relax at the same time.
For our upcoming AEP classes, we will start writing essays on maps and describe what has changed over time. We also have to know all the terms to describe what was occurred. I find it really interesting and I am looking forward to starting this new topic.
Thanks for sharing. I missed playing music last year. Its always been part of my classroom. I grew up in a house where classical music was always playing, and of course I hated some composers and loved others, now I get to choose which ones play :) I believe the classroom should be a calming place where creativity is encouraged and students can flourish ...
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