Wednesday 7th December

I thought it would be a fun way to learn some new vocabulary by putting parts of a snowman together. The new language is: Snowman, eyes, nose, mouth, hat, tie, scarf, mittens, hat and buttons.

We'll put them into the following sentences:

The Snowman has 5 buttons.
He has a blue scarf (for example).
He likes his hat.
He is wearing mittens.
The tie is orange and yellow (for example).
The snowman is happy.

I could ask questions like, where is his hat? Point to his tie etc. Is he happy or sad?

We will listen to the first three songs in the video below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbkSoGMpZVg&t=211s

The children loved the role play activity so much last week, they'll probably want to do that again, so I'll bring in the fake money I printed last week, and we'll use the toy food that's in the class. It will reinforce the vocabulary, 'I would like a.... please'. They'll also practise greeting each other, as they'll have to say hello to the shop owner, me :)

Wednesday 30th November

Only three more classes before the Chrstmas holidays. I thought we'd start early and make a decoration for their Christmas tree at home.  From this activity the children will learn the vocabulary 'Christmas', 'Christmas tree', 'decoration', and 'present'.

To get into the Christmas mood here's a Peppa Pig Christmas video:
https://youtu.be/Ez6JMzhMmUY

Colour 2 christmas trees and slot them together to make a 3d tree decoration.
Stick real pins from the pine tree and decorate with whatever we can find.
Bring tin foil for mini balls.

We could start learning some Christmas songs like, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star and
Jingle Bells.
Talk about the christmas tree and how it stays green all year unless it's cut down.

We're going to play a role play activity where we have a buy food for Christmas. I printed toy money and we will use the toy food. Target language is I would like a.... please. Here you go. They already know thank you.

I might say, I would like a dog for Christmas, to see if they understood. Then I might ask them what to they want for Christmas.

If this role play activity goes well I will ask them to bring in three dolls next week for another role play activity.

Wednesday 23rd November

The children learned about Thanksgiving and the story behind it. I explained using the white board by drawing pictures and writing the new vocabulary beside the pictures.

We sang thanksgiving songs and watched 2 videos that explain the story.
https://youtu.be/IvMKKlvZPWA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faUYJ9fMiGg

I prepared little branches for the children to make their own thank you tree. They painted autumn coloured leaves, cut them out and wrote one word that they were thankful for on the back of each leaf. They stuck their leaves on the tree.

I also prepared a page with a picture of a plate, a knife and a fork. The children drew on the plate all the foods that people eat for thanksgiving.

Wednesday 16th November

Let's talk about the weather... sunny, rainy, snowy and windy.

Ask if today is rainy and do the action to show rain.
Is it snowy?
Is it sunny?
Is it windy?
Hold up flash cards and ask the children to repeat after me.
Ask the children to make a wind sound and then say 'it's windy'.
Point outside and hold up the sunny card (as it's probably sunny) say Today is sunny, and get them to repeat.
I have a simple weather worksheet where they need to stick the right picture in the right box where it says for example, 'It's rainy'.
We're going to sing the song 'It's raining, it's pouring...' https://youtu.be/avurCRJiUj0
It's raining, It's pouring,
the old man is snoring,
He went to bed and bumped his head
And couldn't get up in the morning.


Another song - 'Rain rain go Away'. https://youtu.be/jpOlczbIWUY
Rain, rain - go away,
Come again another day
DADDY wants to play
Rain, rain go away

Rain, rain - go away,
Come again another day
MOMMY wants to play
Rain, rain, go away

Rain, rain - go away,
Come again another day
BROTHER wants to play
Rain, rain - go away

Rain, rain - go away,
Come again another day
SISTER wants to play
Rain, rain - go away

Rain, rain, go away,
Come again another day
BABY wants to play
Rain, rain - go away

Granny, granda...

Continue one more page of our princess story.

Extra songs to sing to reinforce what we learned last week.
Row row row your boat...
Drive drive drive your car gently down the road...

Wednesday 9th November 2016

Today we learned different names of transport and talked about the weather.

Car; bus; tractor; lorry, van; aeroplane; motorbike and boat.

We used this new vocabulary in sentences and do actions to help us remember eg. Drive your car; ride your motorbike; fly your aeroplane; row your boat; drive your tractor etc.

I used sentences to help them understand eg I have a black car. I asked what colour of car they have.

We sang 'Row row row your boat' song to teach the word boat. (Idea for next week, use the same song to teach drive your car down the road for example.)

Cut out pictures of different transport and stick them in the right box with the right name.

I made a blank book from paper and card asked the two sisters to make up a story together. The oldest sister would write and the younger one would draw.
We worked on the book cover and the first page. Each week we'll do a new page. When it's finished the children will take it home and the older sister can read it for the younger one.

Wednesday 5th October

Introduce puppet - hello, say hello to puppet and ask what’s your name? Puppet says “my name is Mario”, shake hands with him. Puppet says 'heel how are you?
Say I’m three years old. Count on my fingers one, two, three. Ask what age the children are.

http://youtu.be/85M1yxIcHpw ( Number song )

Hello Song

1 2 3 4 5 hello 6 7 8 9 10 goodbye
1 2 3 4 5 hello 6 7 8 9 10

1 2 3 4 5 jump 6 7 8 9 10 jump
1 2 3 4 5 jump 6 7 8 9 10

1 2 3 4 5 sit down 6 7 8 9 10 stand up
1 2 3 4 5 sit down 6 7 8 9 10
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Pass around fruit and say the name of the fruit

Say - I like apple, I like…. then say mmmmm!  Rub your tummy etc.

Ask children what colour they like? Use puppet.


Colour Song 
Use colour flash cards as we sing.

I see colors everywhere.
I see colors everywhere.
I see colors everywhere.
What colors do you see?

Red, Red, Hello Red.
Blue, Blue, Hello Blue.
Red, Red, Good-bye Red.
See you later Blue.

Yellow/Green
Orange/Pink
Purple/Pink
Black/White
puppet says goodbye
I see colors everywhere.
I see colors everywhere.
What colors do you see?
What colors do you see? 
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Ask children to clap your hands, and clap to show what to do. Then do the same with turn around, stamp your feet. Then sing 'If you're happy and you know it' song.
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Find a story about animals, use farm animals to talk about the story.

Extra activities:
-Rainbow song-
-Old McDonald had a farm