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TEACHING FOUR YEAR OLDS
roxette
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TEACHING FOUR YEAR OLDS
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Hi guys! this year I �m going to teach four year olds for the first time in my six years of experience teaching English as a Second Language. Any tips or ideas, webpages maybe worksheets or activities you found interesting here? I can download tons. thanks in advance :D greeting from Peru. |
8 Feb 2014
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Peter Hardy
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Easy peasy, Roxette. Find the child within and be like it (again). Loads of WSs and PPTs on this site. (Get a �Smartboard"!). Find out what their pace is, and adjust accordingly with a variation of activities and circle time.
Circle time (I don �t know if you taught primary) is calm-time. Depending on the time you have them, build i.e. a wall-story. Worked for me and the aboriginal kids (but had them two hours per day). As humiliation is a bad teacher, for young and old, make sure all is fun and that they admire themselves for speaking English. My kids were bullies through humiliation. Shame, they called it. One of my biggest challenges with these littlie ones, was to have them speak. My kids copied me outside school, what annoyed me briefly, but became fun (Dutch accent). My example, I like to think, stopped them from humiliating each other or don �t want to say a thing. Sadly the truth was that they bullied more than ever, and at any other school I �ve worked. A way of life, you might say. So I copied their pigeon English, gave other accents, and laughed about it. In short, small people can be challenged, too. Next, know a variety of games, to get their energy used up. Or to get them going (after a nap). Hope this helps. Otherwise, just go for it! Cheers, Peter.
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9 Feb 2014
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julikrajcir
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Try Super Simple Songs http://supersimplelearning.com/ it should work :-)
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9 Feb 2014
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Oksanochka
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I use English Adventure Starter A and ZigZag Island
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9 Feb 2014
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erika210
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Dear Roxette: I can help you with :
Good luck |
9 Feb 2014
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roxette
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thnks a bunch everyone!!! :D |
12 Feb 2014
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