Jane's Sock

Do you get bored using Mary or Sally or Jack to talk about daily routines? I do! So as a revision of the year , for my 3rd graders, I prepared a worksheet where there is a letter written by a sock. =)

This sock belongs to Jane and he tells about what he is doing now, what he does in general and what he did yesterday. In this way my kids were able to revise the three main grammar subject that they were introduced this year. I used 3 different colours for each grammar subjects. Then they also talked about their socks, watches etc. To be honest while most of them found it funny and interesting, some of them thought it was unnecessary.

You can find the PDF form here :

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0Bzi_uqEZ0_7qcEN3SV94dGhDOXM&authuser=0

Singing Under A Yellow Lemon Tree

When I see my kids also love the songs that I use during my lessons, I become so pleased -of course. I love it when they sing them even during breaks.

Recently, with my 3rd graders we have talked about present continuous tense and I used "Lemon Tree" by Fool's Garden. Not only has the song got a story, but also the music is fun. I gave them a handout where they can complete the blanks using the target tense. I used my Microsof Word magic and write the necessary verbs inside a leaf =)

Before listening to the song, they try to guess what the blanks might be and some of them guessed correctly. Then we listened, but it took 3 times for them to complete successfully. I remembered my CELTA teacher saying "Students can listen even 20 times! Play the song as many times as they can fully understand." Then we talked about it. 

-When is he sitting?

-What is the weather like?

-Is he happy? Why/not?

-Is this a happy song?

-What does he need to be happy? (you can add more)

Then we watched an animated video with lyrics, but there is a mistake in the video. So I asked them to find the mistake -if they can, one sticker is waiting for them. If you can, you can also have your sticker =)

Here is the video:

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAFS43NKFag

And here you can download the PDF form of this handout:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bzi_uqEZ0_7qLU56SEY2eGRobnc/view?usp=sharing

Here Is A Poem / Like A Little Foam

Hey!

Here is a poem that you can read and maybe memorise with your kids during the last days of school! Lessons are about to be finished and kids are already drifting away from you; but no worries! Keep calm and read a poem.There are lots of poems online but I like this one a lot. 

You can read and learn it by heart while your kids are practising English in a fun way. Your kids can act it out. Then you can discuss in terms of feelings or the characters in the poem. Then you can talk about other rhyming words that they know and in groups or pairs they can write a new one!

Hope you'll enjoy reading it:

Catch a Little Rhyme

BY Eve Merrıam

     Once upon a time

     I caught a little rhyme

  I set it on the floor

  but it ran right out the door

     I chased it on my bicycle 

     but it melted to an icicle

  I scooped it up in my hat

  but it turned into a cat

     I caught it by the tail

     but it stretched into a whale

  I followed it in a boat

  but it changed into a goat

      When I fed it tin and paper

      it became a tall skyscraper

  Then it grew into a kite

  and flew far out of sight ...