No need to search around for kids classroom games this Christmas. Amazing Anna from themeasuredmom has gothered more than 40 printable ideas here.
If crafting sounds more appealing to your pupils, then the following tutorial on how to make salt dough ornaments will prove an easy and fun to do activity. Enjoy!
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/
Would you like to use your poetic skills and compose some love quotes? Follow the presentation below to revise some basic figures of speech and then get inspired to use them right away! Combine this activity with some hands-on valentine crafts to make your inspiration and romantic mood real!
There is an earlier article on figurative language for further practice if you feel you need to clear up details.
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FOLLOW-UP ACTIVITIES (some suggestions without implying any endorsement)
Draw a live card online or use a ready template, save drawing process as time-lapse animation and get a permanent link to it to share card or embed to blog or email it to a friend.
Happy Valentine’s Day! Love our English!
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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Here’s a weekly-progress-report template I created and used with both students and parents last year. This template was especially designed for students with problematic performance, because I needed to record and monitor the student’s specific tactics and behaviour in every class. I didn’t want to just tick on ready-made progress reports, but rather describe the exact performance.
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If you are preoccupied with digital citizenship and safety and how to train your students to be smart and responsible on line, then the Google Digital Literacy and Citizenship Curriculum lesson plans will be of great help. These lesson plans have been created in collaboration with child safety experts at iKeepSafe, and educators, too. They provide advice and tips so that students will be able to think critically and evaluate online sources, understand how to protect themselves from online threats, and be good digital citizens.
Are you hot for summer? Here’s a collection of Summer themed classroom activities to get inspired and maybe use in these last days of school.
I have recently stumbled upon this cute and easy to put up template at madebyjoel.com . I instantly thought how beautifully pupils could use it to create a small city and practise buildings vocabulary, prepositions of place and directions. Since there are little paper dolls included, pupils can grab their own and role play dialogues or follow directions.
I haven’t tried it, but I suppose this printable could be easily glued onto a piece of cardboard so as to form a 3-D city. With a couple of multiple printouts, they can form their city the way they like and even put labels on the buildings and name their streets and avenues on the cardboard. This could be done as group work and when finished, pupils could start playing and practising the city related language.
I am sure the reality of the three diamentions will help pupils clarify phrases such as “opposite the cinema” or “walk past” and “cross the street” as opposed to “go along the street”, not to mention the simpler ones like “left” and “right” which some children take time to tell apart.
You can find this template here. Craft and find your way in the city!
Here’s a fresh Easter worksheet I have created that combines reading,vocabulary practice, culture learning and crafting fun for early EFL learners.
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This is a simple, fun activity to do with pupils which came up to me thanks to my students’… annoyance at common homework!
There was a textbook assignment reading “Write about what you do during each day of the week” which was dully received by my Grade E pupils. Then someone asked: “Should we write absolutely true facts about us?” Just then it struck me and I challenged them: “Not at all. In fact you should write absolutely untrue, weird things about your habits. Whoever writes anything sensible will get punished!” Why not, I thought, it’s carnival time!
That was it! Beautiful, funny, imaginative sentences were handed in the next day, which I had a great time checking! They definitely deserved extra recognition and display, so I thought of designing some “canvas”, have my pupils actually draw their favourite weird habit and then bind everything into a nice booklet. The whole activity took place on the last Friday before Monday of Lent holiday and it so much suited the festive carnival spirit. The final outcome entertained the whole class so greatly that they suggested handing their booklet around the school for everyone to read.
You can find the canvas together with the booklet cover below (click on the pdf image). I designed two different covers; one for a carnival time activity (wait until the next year) and a neutral one which can be easily incorporated in lessons anytime. If you happen to like this activity, please remember to say a good word about this site!
