Using an interactive poster (DIY) - vocabulary revision

Today was our first English class after a three -week winter break. It's always good to jog the students' memory of what has been learnt recently before moving to something new.
In that regard I decided to use an interactive poster I made myself. It's nothing special really I just used a flip chart paper and draw a house. I draw the rooms with a certain piece of furniture that would be used as a hint to guess the name of the room.

I teach in a mixed class. That means that second grade students and third grade students have English at the same time even though a different syllabus is used for each. So this was a good way to involve all the students.
Here's how we used the poster and just a glimpse at all the other activities we did in class.

1. Put the poster on the board. Prepare pieces of paper with the names of the rooms of the house. Ask each student to take a piece of paper, come to the board and put the word in the correct room. Then ask students to say the word and practice pronunciation.

2. Prepare some pictures of furniture and write the name of the furniture on pieces of paper. Divide students into two groups. Ask the students from the first group to choose a card with a picture on it and stand on different places around the classroom. Ask the second group of students to choose from the cards with the words and then tell them to find their pair. They should match the word with the picture. ( This is a good activity when you teach young learners because it includes movement and this is what they enjoy the most :) )

3. To revise family members vocabulary plus the rooms in the house I asked the students to do a similar activity as the one above. Some of the students got pictures with rooms in the house and some of the students got pictures with family members. They followed my instructions and went " in the room" I told them. Example : Mother is in the living room. / Brother is in the kitchen. Once they were in the correct room their task was to repeat the sentence I told them before and talk about the family members and their location.

4. For the last activity I told the students to take one picture with furniture on it and put it in the correct room. Afterwards the students choose the words and put them on the correct picture.
Example: There is a table in the kitchen. / There is a carpet in the living room.

In the end we got a very colourful poster and a bit untidy house :)
And most importantly we had fun while revising vocabulary.

Remember : Both learning and teaching English can be fun! :)

Colours - Little Mouse Song - Learning can be fun!

I have to say that this is something I especially liked when watching littelstorybug videos on YouTube. I immediately liked the idea and decided to try it out with the kids from first grade. They are only six years old, and guess what? - They loved it!
What you need to do before the class is to print or draw and colour six houses in six different colours or more. You also need a picture of a mouse.
During the lesson - You ask the students to close their eyes and you hide the mouse under one of the houses. Make sure the house is big enough so that the mouse can go under it. Then ask the students to open their eyes and sing the song for each house and each colour until you find out where the mouse is. Here's the song: Little mouse, little mouse, are you in the yellow house?
P.S. Don't be afraid to sing your heart out ;)