World of Tales – an excellent collection of fairy tales and legends from all corners of the Earth: the tale of the African peoples , legends of American Indians and more. There are stories of famous storytellers : Charles Perrault , the Brothers Grimm , Hans Christian Andersen .
Storynory – short audio fairy , most of which are clear to those who have just started to learn the language.
Alvie, the Little Brown Burro – a series of his short stories about the adventures of a donkey Elvi. It is also suitable for adults who has just started to learn the language , to master the simple , but the right words and to “feel” the basic grammar.
Audio Stories 4 Kids – more than 200 short- Audio History for children. On the site you can also download the texts and coloring books .
It is a very funny and creative subject to teach.
The incredible idea of teaching poetry inside of shapes. Just it is for children who already know to read and write. The idea is to draw the shapes of the objects or animals of different shapes (ball, clock, water melon) end to write poetry following the shapes of the picture.
Some more shape activities
Unexpectedly the rather boring topic of clothing can be very funny. The children have a great time drawing their own bodies in the paper roll and designing and coloring clothes of the imaginary character. All this is in their natural size.
clothes
clothes
Do not forget to have fun with sorting shoes…
Words written with foam sheet paper alphabet.
foam sheet paper
foam sheet paper
The fantastic ideas for Spring topic.
Book: The Grouchy Ladybug by Eric Carle
Materials Needed: Show the children some pictures of insects. Then pass out some plastic insects (one for each child). Have them find these items on their insects:
All insects have 3 body parts: the head, the thorax (middle) and the abdomen.
All insects have 6 legs.
All insects have antennae. What do they use these for (touching and detecting odors!)
See the Ladybug – sung to “Frere Jacques”
See the ladybug, see the ladybug.
Watch it crawl, watch it crawl.
See it crawling higher,
See it crawling higher.
Watch it crawl, up the wall.
See the ladybug, see the ladybug.
Watch it crawl, watch it crawl.
See it crawling lower,
See it crawling lower.
Way down low, to my toe.
~Jean Warren
Ladybug
I has just found this amazing page
It is true, it is possible to use anything for letter matchin: cartboard tubes, ping-pong balls, stones, plastic botles tops.
English Fun for Kids 