Creating a poster - revising body parts

I like to engage my students as much as possible both in the learning process and in the creation of the learning/ teaching materials.
On this lesson we did some revision and created a poster with parts of the body that can be used on other lessons in the future that deal with the same set of words.

1. Warm up:  To start the lesson I decided to do a quick TPR activity - listen and do. The teacher names the part of the body and the students point to it. Or the teacher can include some verbs together with the body parts and ask the students to move.

2. Main part: I prepared one poster big enough for a student to lie on. I gave the instructions to the students how to draw a boy on the poster. Then we colored it and decorated it.
2.1 I gave the students some pieces of paper with parts of the body vocabulary written on them. There was one letter missing in each word. The students had to guess the word on the piece of paper, complete the spelling, then put the word on the correct place on the poster and spell the word.

3. End of class activity - It's always good to finish the lesson on a positive note. Young learners love music and dancing. I played some music in the background but I asked the students to dance according to what I said. They had to follow the rhythm of the music but dance "head to head" or "arm to arm" with their partner. 

Turning junk food into healthy food - cooking and learning !

You can always take the way you teach a step further. For example on this lesson where we were suppose to learn how to write a recipe in the 5th grade we decided to try the recipe first and then write it down. And not just learning vocabulary and giving instructions we also learnt how to prepare a healthy pizza. Turning junk food into healthy food was our aim and we achieved it :)
check out the link for the recipe and enjoy the photos.

http://www.slideshare.net/emilijana1985/pizza-recipe-41594621

Healthy food - Healthy life presentation

http://www.slideshare.net/emilijana1985/healthy-food-project

Healthy food - Healthy life

There is a project in our school about promoting healthy food to students. In the fifth grade we have a lesson on food so we decided to learn the vocabulary and the importance of healthy food by doing something different on the lesson. The students brought all the ingredients and we prepared tasty salads. The students enjoyed while preparing the salads and also while eating them :)
We did a research and created a power point presentation on the nutrition values of all the vegetables that were used in the preparation.

Using songs - Learning can be fun!

I love music so I try to use it in the class as much as I can. This is an activity I saw on one of the seminars I've attended recently. What you need to do  before the lesson is to choose a song that will cover some of the vocabulary you are studying or grammar ( in my case it is revising words about transport and verbs that go with it). Write the lines of the song on different pieces of paper. Ask the students to stand in a circle and tell them to arrange the song on the floor. That means when they hear the line of the song that they have in their hands they should put it down. One piece of paper after another to arrange the lyrics of the song on the floor.

The Gingerbread man game - Learning can be fun

I'm sure you are familiar with this game, but just a reminder:) You can use any vocabulary you like. I did it with the letters from the alphabet.

Students need to say the alphabet letter from the card and the word that starts in that letter in English. Should they pronounce it correctly they colour one part of the gingerbread man. The first student who colours all the parts is the winner.