This is a traditional rhyme all my kids have enjoyed: Five Currant Buns! Materials: We prepared the props for the song with the kids, made coloured play dough (pink and green) and created five buns with cherries on top. You can make your own money, by laminating silver or gold paper and cutting circles. We…
Learn Body Parts With Funny-looking Monsters
Here’s a very easy craft that even 2-3 year olds can make. You just need construction paper, some googly eyes, scissors, glue, and markers/colored pencils. I used these funny looking monsters to review colors and body parts with my English language learners.
Water Displacement Experiment for Kids
This is one of the easiest experiments you can do with kids in kindergarten. It’s great, because you probably already have all the things that you need for it. In addition, the kids get actively involved and see what water displacement and volume mean. What you’ll need: marbles, but you can use stones or any…
The Bremen Town Musicians – Script for ESL Learners and Instructions for the Masks
Last week we had all sorts of activities related to The Bremen Town Musicians. It’s a great story for ESL learners. It also provides a great opportunity to review farm animals and basic adjectives (angry, sad, hungry, old, scared, etc.). On Monday and Tuesday we read the story in both Finnish and English, then we…
Transitions and Attention Grabbers for Kindergarten and First Grade
What are transitions? They are short songs, rhymes, games, that help make the transition from an activity or a routine to another effortlessly or smoothly. Why are they useful? Because they help kids calm down and relax before the next activity; Because they stimulate the children’s curiosity and get their attention, while also engaging them;…
What a Drawing Can Tell You About a Child?
To the casual observer, a child who is scribbling on a white piece of paper is just fooling around, but a kindergarten teacher knows that the child’s scribble is more than that. The circles and wavy lines a child draws look like something meaningless, but the action of drawing is something engaging, captivating to her….