TEA PARTY - food, games, fun and learning

We organised a TEA PARTY. We invited some of the other teachers. The students' parent prepared the food. We made the decorations - Alice in Wonderland theme party. We created our own photo booth and we took some great photos. We played games:

1. Put the cherry on top - draw a big cupcake on the board or on a piece of paper. Make the contestant close his/her eyes and try to put the cherry on the top of the cupcake.
2. Draw the teapot - allow the contestants to look at a teapot for 30 seconds, then make them close their eyes and with their eyes closed they should try to draw the teapot on a piece of paper.
3. Tongue twisters - each contestant needs to say the tongue twister three times. The one who does that best is the winner;)
4. Charades - make up sentences, write them on a piece of paper and have a good laugh while the pairs try to act out and guess the sentences.
5. Guess the type of tea - choose a few tea bags with a strong scent.Put them on a tray, then ask contestants to try to guess the type of tea by only smelling it with their eyes closed.
6. Tea tray memory - put a few object on a tray, ask contestants to look at it for 30 seconds then take the objects away and ask them to put the objects in the correct order again

Thanksgiving crafts

Vocabulary revison - Food

Teaching young learners means that you constantly need to find different ways to engage your students and keep them busy:) This is one way we revise vocabulary - we create food out of paper. Then students use "I like...." to present the food they like.

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 vs Junk food

We managed to revise food vocabulary and raise awareness of the importance of healthy food.

Follow the link to see what we did on the class and watch the video to see what the students had to say:)

http://www.slideshare.net/emilijana1985/healthy-food-vs-junk-food-41292521

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.