Recipes under the ‘Kindergarten’ Category
Real Recipes – Play Dough!
In: Beginner| Elementary| False Beginner| Kindergarten| Recipe
4 Aug 2009
Arts and crafts are great for young learners. Get cooking and using these "real recipes" to create some clay and play dough for language learning.
Get the students to challenge each other by moulding something while the others guess what it is! Or, create combination things to practice compound words "dog chair" or a Bat plane" Enjoy these delicious "real recipes"!
Magic Clay
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Children, especially young boys, love cars!
Pop up cars are great for talking about colors and car vocabulary. Get the children coloring their cars and then cut them out, fold and show and tell to the whole class! They will love their cars!
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Heads Down, thumbs up!
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28 Jul 2009This game is also known as 7 up.
Select 4-5 students and give them a flashcard/picture.
All other students put their heads down and one thumb up. The other students go around the classroom and gently squeeze one student's thumb. They return to the front of the class.
The student's whose thumbs were squeezed stand up and guess who did it by stating the vocabulary on the flashcard "Did a "bear" squeeze me?". …
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Sky Writing / Body Writing
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28 Jul 2009Create Snazzy Slideshows Online
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Tux Paint a free computer art/drawing program
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28 Jul 2009I teach computer skills classes to adults who have developmental disabilities. My favorite class to teach is computer art. Tux Paint is a free computer program that you can legally load onto as many computers as you wish. You will be amazed and delighted with the creativity of your students.
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If you are teaching children, you'll need to put up an alphabet chain above the chalkboard (that's the perfect place and allows you to use for all kinds of games etc...).
It is very easy and the BEST by far is by Jan Brett and incredible artist, teacher and sharer. Get the alphabet cards here in easy to print pdf. Just…
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Marbles in a Jar
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27 Jul 2009This is an idea for improving the co-operative spirit in the classroom (or as some may refer to it, "classroom management"). I learned it from a teacher trainer in Canada, as part of a seminar on "Assertive Discipline."
Basically, you get a jar (an old jam jar will do, or else some small piece of plastic tupperware works, too). You also get enough marbles to fill up the jar, and store…
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Student Names
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26 Jul 2009
It isn't easy to learn so many names so fast! Here are some tips for remembering student names ( a must because when you use a student's name, studies show they learn better/quicker! just by hearing their name!)
1. For the first month use name tags/name cards. Make them decorative. Here are some really neat ones you can download.
2. Use a seating…
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Alphabet Organizing – Categories
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22 Jul 2009
Graphic organizers are a great way to help students learn vocabulary or just prepare for the lesson content ahead.
This alphabet organizer is fantastic. Select a category (food, jobs, animals, clothing etc..) and then have students in pairs/groups try to come up with as many words for the alphabet organizer as possible. Also get them to draw a picture! (this really facilitates…
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