Start the new school year with some hands-on motivation and upcycling! Old books or newsparer pages can be turned into wall art for students rooms by just applying some water colour or adding inspirational quotes. Get a few ideas below.
www.favecrafts.com Bird-and-Text-Collage-Wall-Art
www.instructables.com How-to-make-upcycled-art-with-old-books
This quote by Pablo Picaso is a perfect match to the Day!
Celebrate the annual tradition of April Fools’ Day in a completely different way. Instead of playing practical jokes on each other, explore how “lies” and deception can create art, op art! Op art is short for ‘optical art’. The word optical is used to describe things that relate to how we see. Op art works like an optical Illusion. Artists use shapes, colours and patterns in special ways to create images that look as if they are moving, curving or blurring. When looking at Op art, our brain is deceived into believing a complete lie! The Op art movement was inspired by advances in computing, aerospace, and television in the 60’s.
Find a selection of Op art worksheets below to get creative and talk about shapes, lines and the feelings you receive. A list of descriptive words to critique art may come handy!
Op Art Worksheets at bonlacfoods.com
Op Art Worksheets and Optical Illusions at mindgearlabs.com
Op Art in Steps at tanaallen.weebly.com
Op Art inspired by Vasarely at woojr.com
photo: pixabay.com
Browsing around for new school year first day ideas, I came upon some activities that would be interesting to try out. I also found some classroom posters that are really cool. So here they are:
1] TeamExercises is a youtube channel full of team games that can be used throughout the school year. You can absolutely find a game to start the day!
2] A first day lesson proposal that uses poetry and can match all levels.
3] Just a reminder for Categories, the classic vocabulary game that most students love playing and can be adapted to match a first day by asking for classroom objects or school subjects or school routine verbs!
4] Free download colourful icebreakers along with suggestions on how to use them.
5] 10 Motivational Posters for Your Classroom to brighten up the space and also generate discussion about classroom rules and moods!
6] Finally, an article on how to be kind to ESL learners!
If crafting sounds as a more appealing first day activity, here’s an older entry with some ideas: last-minute-new-school-year-crafts
Photo: www.hellowonderful.co/post/8-CREATIVE-WAYS-TO-GET-KIDS-TO-EAT-SALAD
Summer indulges us in fruits and vegetables inspiring nutritious creativity! Either for a party or our personal pleasure, salads can be refreshing not only to our palate but eyes, too. Have a look at this collection of what I think easy and impressive salad decoration ideas along with their instructions.
Photo: www.savvymom.ca/index.php/partysavvy/easter-party/4184/food
Beginner or not, revise and play with some fruit and vegetables vocabulary with the following resources.
photo: www.simplifylivelove.com/easy-summer-fruit-snack/
GAMES
Listening matching game at digitaldialects.com
Fruits Listening Memory Game and Vegetables Listening Memory Game at eslgamesworld.com
Fruits crossword puzzle and Vegetables crossword puzzle at iteslj.org
Choose the kind of word game you like at manythings.org for fruit and vegetables
QUIZZES
Vegetables vocabulary quiz at englishmedialab.com
Comprehension exercises at tolearnenglish.com and a4esl.org
Fruit listening quizzes and Vegetables listening quizzes at 123listening.com
I’ve found this cute illustration at The English Student http://www.theenglishstudent.com/blog/expressing-love
Can you think of any other ways to say “I love you”?
Just a quick reminder about language we use when we need to order in a restaurant.
Can you interprete your pet’s body language? Test your knowledge with two cute posters designed by artist and animator Lili Chin of doggiedrawings.net, which you can download for free here together with other interesting posters.
Can you describe when your pet shows such behaviour? Do you have similar feelings? When do you feel like that? Use the following starters to explain:
May this Easter bring fresh, hopeful blessings to our hearts!
What do you usually wish at Easter time? Traditional or funny here’s a list of Easter wishes and greetings.
Jokes and riddles are always fun to read. How many can you answer? Challenge your friends or students with these printable Easter jokes.
Q. What do you call a rabbit with fleas?
A. Bugs Bunny!
Q. What kind of music do bunnies like?
A. Hip Hop.
Q. Why didn’t the bunny hop?
A. No bunny knows.
Q. Why shouldn’t you tell an Easter egg a joke?
A. It might crack up!
Q. What did the Easter Bunny say to the carrot?
A. “It’s been nice gnawing you!”
Q. How does the Easter Bunny stay fit?
A. Eggs-ercise and hare-robics!
Q.How do you know carrots are good for your eyes?
A.Have you ever seen a rabbit wearing glasses?
photo from http://thegraphicsfairy.com/
Are you serious about wildlife crime committed against different species around the globe? Learn why we must.
Read about this day, what it stands for and how you can help at
UK National Wildlife Crime Unit
Working in Primary Education last year gave me the chance to create various worksheets which I’d like to share in the hope they will help more students and teachers out there.
The worksheet I developed is based on the Coursebook that Greek students follow in Grade E. There is a model postcard text providing a few phrase choices and a lined space where students can write their own postcard.
I hope you’ll find the Model Holiday Postcard and Worksheet to be as useful a resource as I did! If this is the case, please share the link back to my site rather than give the document away. Happy postcard writing!
Are you looking for a fun way to introduce some seasonal vocabulary, customs and activities to spend this year’s last school day? Well, how about watching a Mr Bean episode with your class? That’s what I did last year with my Grade 6 pupils and it was great success because it seems they are never bored with Mr Bean. Moreover, they were really motivated to do the worksheet activities since they all enjoyed the story.
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