Hi Liz, I�m sure you�ll quickly find your feet. And in a short while you�ll wonder what the panic was all about.

This is of course from my experience in an ELS classroom where the children know no or very little English.

A big (robust) dice is a fun way to teach many things. I have one which is about 10 inches square. I taped plastic see through pockets onto each surface (to slide flashcards into). You can use that for teaching/revising almost anything. Or at least anything you have flashcards for. The kids love throwing it about.

For kindergarten it�s flashcards, flashcards and more flashcards, as well as action songs. The more actions the better. The actions also help with fine and gross motor skills development.

Classroom commands, classroom actions, classroom routines.

Most of the flashcards I have, I have printed out colouring in pages, coloured them in and then laminated them.

A few useful sites for flashcards and other activities.

http://www.esl-kids.com/index.html

http://www.mes-english.com/

http://www.fontspace.com/kids-fonts/trace  (early writing prompts).

http://www.eslcafe.com/search/Kids/index.html  (newish with some nice links))

Kindergarten is hard work but very rewarding. Especially when something like this happens; a 2 � year old to me, � I love you ye ye�. (that�s what most of them call me) �Thank you Alberta, I love you too� I replied. After a little consideration, (I could almost see her brain ticking over) she said �I love you 5�.

Enjoy.