Teacher Emi - Learning can be fun!

HALLOWEEN - another holiday we celebrate - Learning can be fun!

Halloween - another holiday we celebrate and learn about. This is what you need to prepare for the celebration - make sure you decorate your school with as many scary crafts as you can, tell you students to wear a Halloween costume, and organize apple bobbing. There's no end to the fun!

Easter egg hunt - Learning can be fun!

Another holiday that we like learning about and celebrating is Easter- guessing why? Because of the Easter egg hunt of course:)

My colleague and I decided to dress the students as bunnies, do a proper make up, hide the chocolate eggs in the school yard and may the egg hunt begin:)

CHRISTMAS BRUNCH- crafts display and food - Learning can be fun!

My opinion is that learning a language does not only focus on vocabulary and grammar of a certain language but also learning about a different culture, customs, holidays and habits. That’s why I try to present this and cherish this as much as I can with my students. This is how we learn about Christmas.

Christmas is the time of year where good will and joy are all around us. Last year we decided to organize a Christmas Brunch. The whole event was organized in the way that we had a Christmas crafts display in the hall of the school, a group of Carolers performing traditional English and Macedonian songs, as well as some traditional American/ British and Macedonian Christmas dishes.

This is just a glimpse of all the crafts and decorations the students prepared. The delicious food was prepared by the students’ parents. We did a research on the traditional dishes, gave them the recipes and voila:)

Christmas Brunch - Learning can be fun!

This is how my students performed the carols. My colleague and I made the costumes out of different kinds of paper. It took some time and effort but it was worth it!

A friend in need is a friend indeed - eco play text

You can see the video of the play in one of my previous posts and now here's the text

A FRIEND IN NEED IS A FRIEND INDEED

Mary: Ahhh I love being here in the park, I like listening to the birds sing and I like looking at the flowers, come Tom let’s sing a song :

Flower song

Red flower, red flower, you look so nice

Green flower, green flower, you bring me the light

Yellow flower, yellow flower standing tall in the sun

Purple flower, purple flower you are so much fun

Pink flower, pink flower how sweet you are

White flower, white flower you look like a star

Blue flower, blue flower you are a special thing

All the flowers, all the flowers they make me wanna sing.

Black flower, black flower haven’t seen you in a while

Orange flower, orange flower you make me wanna smile

Brown flower, brown flower, so beautiful to see

All the flowers, all the flowers they make me wanna sing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBoHLbIicxY

Flower: Oh please stop! I can’t listen to that song,

Boy and Girl: But why???

Flower: Well can’t you see???? I’m lonely and sad, my friends are all dead

I have no fresh smell, and I don’t feel well.

Every day I live in fear that a foot is coming too near,

No children, no people care for us, the colourful flowers and the green grass.

Boy and Girl: Oh my, oh dear, we didn’t know you live in fear

Tree: Ha! Listen to me! I have a sore throat and my lungs and head hurt both.

A number of cars speed by, but nobody hears me cry.

The air is becoming thick and gray, the nasty fog is covering us and is here to stay.

I see no children’s play and I’m dreaming of a bright new day.

Boy and Girl: Oh my, oh no, we didn’t know the situation was so

Fish: And what should I say? I have no place to swim or play

As polluted as ever is this stream, and a nice clean water is only a dream.

Children: We hear you all, and we’re opening our heart to you like a door.

We promise you all now and forever, we’ll care for you all together.

We will not pick the flowers or walk on the grass

We will ride a bicycle or a bus

We will not throw any garbage in the water, and we will care for you like I’m your daughter.

Our friends will help too and we’ll say to all the bad habits shoo shoo.

We promise to keep you safe and these problems will no longer be grave.

Fish, Tree, Flower : Thank you for such a good deed. A friend in need is a friend indeed.

They sing all together:

The more we get together, together, together

The more we get together the happier we’ll be

For your friends are my friends and my friends are your friends

The more we sing together, together, together…

2,4,6,8, who do we appreciate?

The more we sway together, together , together…

2,4,6,8, who do we appreciate?

The more we dance together, together, together….

2,4,6,8, who do we appreciate?

The more we clap together, together, together…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lldmkrJXQ-E

Food - Do you like? - Learning can be fun!

If you work with very young students I believe that you need to find a way to be very patient and keep them busy. This is how I decided to make them spend some time creating something on their own and at the same time practicing questions in the present simple - Do you like?

What you would need for this class is: several plastic plates or paper plates, glue, scissors, color paper, and some thread or whatever you come up with that might be useful. Students work in pairs or in groups, it depends on the number of students you have in class. They create their favourite food and then they ask each other questions.

Weather / Seasons - Learning can be fun!

Posters can be a fun way to learn and practice vocabulary. I use the posters from the books Welcome 1 and Welcome 2, but of course you can use any picture you find that is big enough and colourful enough or you can make on on your own. I usually print and cut and then laminate small pictures of: sun, rain, clouds..... The students need to choose a picture, put it in the correct place on the poster and make a sentence - It's cold in winter....

Monday, July 14, 2014