Water song

1st grade 

Let's listen to this song: Water, water...
It from our 1st grade  project "Water", of course!

Enjoy it!

Clothes

2nd Grade activity

Here you can find many activities on the topic: CLOTHES.

Enjoy it!

You can leave a comment: What's your favourite activity? What's the most difficult? And the easiest? 

 

A VIDEO TO PRACTISE  YOUR ORAL 

CLOTHES LISTENING AND READING ACTIVITIES

DRESS SIMON AND DAPHNE

Colours of the wind

First Grade Activity.
The class of Native Americans has listened to and sang this song, Colours of the Wind, performed by Vanessa Williams, that we can find in the film "Pocahontas".

Can you say which of these words can be heard in the song?: Leave your answer in the comments. 

FOREST  - NOSE -  SUN - WIND - RIVER - WOLF

HOW'S THE WEATHER?

This song and video deals with WEATHER: How's the weather? Is it sunny, rainy, windy, cloudy, snowy...?

You can sing it while acting differently according to each word:

Sunny: Open your hands and fingers both sides of your face or body, imitating the sun.
Rainy: Fingers pretends to be drops of water falling from the clouds.
Cloudy: Cover you face with both hands.
Snowy: Fingers pretends to be quiet dropts of snow falling from the clouds, slowly.
Windy: Your arms are like a broom that goes from right to left or the other way, like the wind.

Have fun!

FOUR SEASONS

This is a song we sing in class to learn about seasons in a year.
I strongly recomend it, and also the video, because it's very fun!

THERE ARE FOUR SEASONS

THAT HAPPEN IN A YEAR: SPRING, SUMMER, AUTUMN, WINTER...

Songs about emotions

It's been a while since we last meet. I've been working hard in my school projects, as you will see on this blog too.

Here you'll find two songs we've been working with with first graders, dealing with EMOTIONS.

One day I will raise a monument to Matt, this boy on Dream English.com! This webpage has been a major source for me to find songs in my classes.  Thank you very much, Matt!

HOW ARE YOU

IF YOU ARE HAPPY

See you!

A classroom for E.S.L.

This year we have a brand new classroom to teach English in our school. I'm so excited that finally we got one! It's been my dream for years!

Why can it be useful to have a place specially set to teach English as a second language (E.S.L.)?

Some academic studies have stated that using an English classroom improves second language learning.

* It fosters language immersion by visual supports: posters, flashcards, toys, books... They create an environment that encourages the use and learning of the foreign language.

* It eases teachers' tasks by organising resources in a specific place of the school. English teachers usually have a lot of stuff (flashcards, cd-players, posters, games...) that are heavy to carry from one room to another.

* It makes it easier to reach resources also to students.

* An English classroom stimulates students and teachers creativity: they are able to create a space together thát invites to learn foreign language. All of them can be contributors to "decorate" and improve the space.

* It's easier to have better ITC resources, especially those regarding listening tasks: Interactive White boards, Computers with headphones, sound devices, video, etc...

* It's easier also and more practical to create learning spaces such as reading corners, workshops, game center, etc...

So if you teacher do not have one English Classroom and you are thinking about having one,  here your are some reasons that can support your idea in front of your school mates.

In few days I'll be sharing with your some good ideas to  implement in your own English Classroom.

See you soon!