HOW MANY?

HOW MANY?

Fisrt step to asking about quantities "how many?"

The students were familiar to the phrase as I chose this song while teaching numbers.:

Numbers 1-10

I chose a simple video to warm up students :)

It's both familiar and simple.

I asked at the end of the video "How many cakes?"

Almost all the students gave the answer "Ten."

And then I simply talked about plural "-s" with visuals.

GAME TIME

I split the classroom into six groups. 

Each group is for each Classroom object.

 And I made up a very very short story:

 It's Autumn. It's windy outside. ( wind blows here :) )

The leaves of the tree flap around. Now You are the one who pick up the leaves again and bring the Spring. :)

And then I gave them 30 seconds to pick up the leaves and stick them on the board.

They picked up and sticked the leaves very quickly. And they took an"-s" and sticked it, too.

The big "-s" snake visited all the words and gave them a photo of itself as a present. And we said the word with "ssssss" at the end because of the snake :D

Wooow! they got tired :D

So, it's song time to relax and have a rest.

we listened to the song and made a little change.

Look, pencils! How many pencils?

One pencil, two pencils, three pencils

bla bla bla..

we sang it together and asked a friend :

how many erasers?

he counted the erasers :)

we asked how many rulers?

he counted the rulers :)

We relaxed and and learnt.


We enjoyed and learnt together.

In the end we create our tree and revised the "how many?" while sticking the leaves to the tree.
the result:

:)

before  the school:

after the school :

I hope you will also enjoy the way of teaching with this game.

You can use some different videos such as:

or

or

It's up to you :)

NUMBERS 1-10

NUMBERS 1-10 

with 2nd graders

I have a video to warm up the students:

I really like this simple song. I also use this one according to the level of the students.

My little son and I love Charlie and the numbers :)

You may use any song you love. There are many alternatives such as:

Numbers 1-10 songs

Our aim is to introduce the numbers 1-10.

Hold on tight! 

That's the surprise:

Yeaaaah!

I brought a hopscotch play mat to the classroom.

We played hopscotch and count the numbers, practied more and more while hopping on the mat.

We had fun while learning English again and again.

Enjoy teaching and learning English!

FAMILY MEMBERS

FAMILY MEMBERS OR PEPEE?

Which one would you prefer most if you were a child?

Pepee ?

or the stick man's family?

Well....

Bang!

I heard you: 

You said " PEPEE"

Pepee is a wellknown cartoon character by young learners in Turkey so I chose the Family of Pepee to introduce the family members and "Who is this/he/she" phrase.

I used a popular video to warm up students :

We drew faces on our fingers and sang the song together.

After the song, we met the Pepee's family.

And drew a family tree on the notebooks.

Then, it was the tie for asking and answeing questions.

For this activity I prepared a Pepee cap for the Boys and a Hair band of Pepee's sister for the girls.

I asked the question :

"Who is this?"

Students acted as Pepee or Bebe and answered the questions.

Here is a boy with Pepee cap.

Here is a girl with Bebe's Hair band.

And;

I introduced "he" and "she" and they guessed which one for boys and and which one for girls.

  

Students were expected to make sentences using "S/He" so I prepared this words.

I split the classroom 6 groups and gave students words from each word group.

Then I asked the question: "Who is This?"

They make sentences using the papers. 

They had al ot fun and learnt the sentence structure. Also they saw the diffrence between she-he :)

PS.: You can choose a spokesperson for each group and s/he say the sentences. In this way, you can also practce the pronunciation.(this is an advice by one of my colleagues.)

You can use any well-known chracter to teach family members.

BANDITS and SHERIFFS

CLASSROOM OBJECTS

Hi again!

This week I introduced classroom objects to my students.

I used flashcards, geniue objects and poster.

We repeated the words for the correct pronunciation and played a game for the effective learning. I’m working with young learners so I generally use videos, games songs and etc.

I believe in the power of the games with young learners.

I’m here with a game again.

We played and had really fun with the game.

“BANDITS and SHERIFFS”

Here is the original of the game:

1.       Split the classroom into two teams.

2.       Give each sheriff nd bandit a number.

3.       Place the classroom objects in the middle of the teams.

4.       Call out and object and say anumber. Eg. Pencil-5

5.       Bandits and the sheriff run. If the bandit manage to pick up the object and run back to his place, s/he calls out “I’ve got….”

6.       If the sheriff manage to catch the bandit, S/he call out “I’ve caught….”

( I’ve made little change here: Sheriff asked the question “What’s that? The bandit answered: “That’s a ….”)

7.       The game continues until all the objects have been stolen.

8.       Then 2nd round starts with exchanging roles. 

( We drew lots to determine the groups)

Sheriff  badges

Number 3- the sheriff and the bandit

Ps: Be ready for the noise and distruption by the other teachers. Don’t forget to make the rules clear for all the students before playing the game otherwise there will be a chaos in the classroom.

With the morning group we pushed to play outside because of the noise :D

No matter where we were, we had fun!

the little sheriffs are waiting for the start :D

What did we learn by the game?

     Recognize the classroom objects

  Ask the question “what’s that?” and give answers.

Revise the numbers 

What happened in the end?

He had a lot Fun!

&

We were exhausted :D

WHEEL OF FORTUNE

Hey, everyone!

Spin the Wheel!

I made a Wheel of fortune for my  3rd graders.

We had fun and reached our aims.

We used the Wheel of fortune for the revison of the previous year vocabulary.

-          Fruit

-          School objects

-          Animals

-          Colors

-          Etc….

I didn’t imagine how useful and enjoyable it could be but it was really useful for the revision.

I decided that It will be a part of my classes.

I loved the Wheel of fortune because it gave a chance for active participation. I really surprised that all of the 3rd graders were standing and raising hands for asking the question or giving the answers.

Students also learnt the aimed vocabulary for this unit:

-          Spin!

-          Ask!

-          Answer!

-          Spell!

Etc…

We ENJOYed and LEARNed!!!

wheel of fortune materials:

colored craft papers

thumbtack

glue 

:)

Are you Ready?

Hi everyone!!!

Are you ready for the semester?

YESSSSSS!!! I’M!

Puppets, photo frame (is welknown and popular in Turkey), flascards (are my best friends J ) are all ready for the students..

I  met 4th and 2nd graders first time :)

(a nice present from one of my friends <3 )

And the first impression on the students will create the attidue against the lesson so this first meeting was very special for me and for the students.

The ice breakers are also very important for the first meeting.

This year I chose “True or False” activity to break the ice :D

-          Draw a Picture/ Cartoon of yourself

-          Write 5 info about yourself – some true/ some false-

-          Ask the which can be true or false

-          Take notes about the answers

-          Explain the correct info

-          At the end ask students to create the same thing about themselves.

We really had fun 

:)

I hope it will also work for you…

MY BODY (Body Parts) Part-2

Hold on Tight!

 The 2nd part is coming with two games and a monster craft

 :)

1st game is coming:

Run Run Run and Touch

( I made up the name :P)

1. Put the flashcards on a desk.

2. Say the name of one body part.

3. Students have only 10 seconds to find and touch the correct card.

4. The 1st student who touch the correct card say another body part.

5. And the game continues till they will be exhausted :)  (approximately 10 min)

2nd one is a song to rewiev the body parts.

Sing the song, dance, act and enjoy it :)

just like us 

"Touch your arms"

The result:

I like doing crafts in the classroom.

We made monsters together 

and let the monsters talk 

They learned and practiced " Have got" :)

We had a lot of fun :)

I hope it will work for you :)

<< materials for monster: craft papers, scissors, glue, crayons :) >>

MY BODY (Body Parts) Part-1

Hellooo!

 Our topic is 

"My Body".

My lovely 2nd graders learned most of the body parts. 

They are really good at "eyes, head, fingers,mouth, shoulders".

But "tooth/teeth, Foot/feet" are quite complicated for them.

What did I do to teach?

(not very different :))

I sang songs, played games, drew pictures etc :P

I stepped into the classroom with the song:

" Head Shoulders Knees and Toes".

 All of them surprised and confused. It was really funny :)

I acted the song say it one more time in front them.

 Some of them guessed our topic.

Then I showed the flashcards and named my body parts at the same time.

After flashcards, it was the time for my drawing :)

 I drew Wilma -the flintstones- because it's really easy to draw.

I drew and tagged the parts but I didn't write the names. I asked the students and they said the parts they remembered. We wrote them together.

The students drew and wrote them on their notebooks.

Homework:

Learn the body  Parts :)

See you 

 :)

(Not finished yet)

AT THE PLAYGROUND

We learned some simple actions such as :

dance, sing, jump,....... and etc.

I didn't use mother tongue for the actions.

 I wrote them on the board and drew the pictures for the actions. 

I gave enough time for my little stars to write and draw :)

After they finished, we repeated the words for correct pronounciation. 

We acted the actions.

(It was enjoyable.)

The pictures...

Here comes my perfect drawing talent :p

And I have really talented students such as :

And "Let's ...." is our grammer focus.

With 2nd graders -of course- I had a game to teach the "let's...."  phrase.

And I'm sure that 

I did it :)

I prepared a simple dice at home and took it to the class in a bag. 

-the faces of the dice again with my perfect(?) pictures :)))-

When the students asked me, I said "It's a surprise". 

After all the students finished writing, we went outside :) (In fact, I tried to play the game in the classroom 

but in a minute 

the teacher in the next classroom came and said:

"Auch! Sorry! Was it You? I thougt there wasn't a teacher in the classroom. Sorry again!" 

 :)

We ran out and played the game.

1. Make a circle and put the dice in the middle.

2. We have a super simple song for the game:

Lyrics

walking walking walking walking

hop hop hop hop hop hop

running running running running running running

now let's stop.

3. I changed it a little.

walking walking walking walking

hop hop hop hop hop hop

swimming swimming swimming swimming swimming swimming

now let's ................

4. when you say "now let's..." , just stop.

5. One of the students take the dice and throw it.

6. Say the action. eg. "Let's jump"

7. All of them act it and you start singing again: walking .... :)

8. When all the students throw the dice one by one, it's finished.

My energetic 2nd graders really loved it 

and now thay can all say an action using "Let's ...."

As I mentioned before I love TPR method especially with young learners so this game is an alternative way of applying TPR in the classroom to teach simple actions.

It worked for me and my students :)

Enjoy it!!