It is the beginning of spring, a new season with gradual changes all around us! So let's find out what pleasant surprises await our young learners of English this month!
But first of all, we learned a spring chant!
| LEARNING OBJECTIVES
(Spring) |
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
(Carnival) |
| · To discover the main changes that take place in spring | · To describe different popular carnival costumes |
| · To revise hibernating animals and experience the ending of this season through an experiential game | · To be involved in a voting procedure of their favourite costume |
| · To recognize the four different parts of flowers and create a construction of them | · To develop various mental skills (e.g. problem-solving, critical and analytical thinking, etc.) through assembling puzzles |
| · To describe the image of a tree using relevant vocabulary | · To learn about the tradition of kite-flying on “Clean Monday” and order various kites according to color and size (big, medium, small) |
| · To learn a song using the above vocabulary while dancing, as well | · To have fun, sing and dance wearing their favourite animal mask |
| · To learn the story of “Goldilocks and the Three Bears” and play various flashcard games | |
| · To learn and narrate the myth of the “Almond Tree” | |
| · To construct the almond tree using freshly-baked popcorn | |
| · To sensitize them about environmental issues | |
| · To find out what makes our earth happy or unhappy and construct a poster with our ideas |
Spring
Then, we watched the video "What happens in spring?", discussed about these changes and played digital games, before dancing like "Butterflies, ladybugs and bumblebees"!
Students also enjoyed the story of "Goldilocks and the three bears" and "The Myth of the Almond Tree" which game us the opportunity to do some story-telling, use our body to show different moves and play lots of card games with the aim of describing scenes of the story in English, putting them in the correct order and categorizing various items.
Goldilocks
Almond Tree
But what we enjoyed the most was the smell (...and the taste!) of fresh popcorn!
We also discussed a lot about the development of flowers, discovered the four parts they consist of and created the following:
And before ending the topic of "Spring" we drew the image of a tree in nature, learned how to describe it and show it with our body and finally danced at it!
Click here to watch the video!!!
And because we love nature so much, we all need to be aware of how to protect it and what are some of the things that make our Earth happy and sad...
Step 1
Step 2
Step 3
Carnival
Our lesson begins with Ollie wondering what costume to wear at the carnival party! She's got six of them, so after I drew them and we all described them in English learning the words and revising the colours, they helped her decide by voting!
Next, we enjoyed Peppa Pig's "Fancy Dress Party" and had a big laugh!
During the next lesson, Ollie wanted to show us some of the photographs she took at the party but... they were all torn up somehow!!! Time a group work and solving the puzzles altogether!
We also listened to the following song and put the costumes in the correct order while dancing and singing!
Finally, we all chose our favourite animal mask after naming it and danced various carnival songs!
