Teachers de Hoy: 2016

Toys!

After learning the vocabulary we made toys with recycled materials. Kids loved it!

PARA UNA CLASE Y UN AULA ORDENADA

Make your student a reminder bracelet when you really want them to remember something.

Use a straw dispenser for pencils.

Make a “No Name” board for homeless homework.

Use binder clips to separate flash cards.

Create daily work files at the beginning of the week with lesson plans, all the copies you need, and any supplemental material

Have a place to put missed work. Teach students to be responsible for finding missed lessons when they are absent or out of the classroom

¡Diferentes recursos para practicar el vocabulario jugando y cantando!

Songs:

List-of-colour-songs-for-children

Online games:

Listen and find the colour Pirate Waters Board Game
memory-game

Classroom games:

Color Circles

A good activity for young kids. Get some pieces of paper and draw a large circle on each one (you an draw smaller circles inside. Pin the circles on different walls in the classroom. Model the activity: Say "Blue", take a blue crayon, walk over to one circle and color a small part of the circle. Do this for each color you plan to teach. Then, say a color ("Blue") to a S and s/he should pick up the blue crayon and go over to the circle you colored in blue. Let him/her color it a little (or colour one of the small circles inside) and then call him/her back. Continue with other Ss.

Color Game

This is a good one for teaching the names of colors to young children. Arrange various colors of construction paper in a circle. Play some music and have the children march around the circle. Stop the music and all the children must sit down next to a color. Pick a color randomly or throw a colour dice and say: "Who's beside the color (insert name of color)? Please stand up, if it's you." At that point, the child next to the color mentioned stands up.

I Spy Color

Instead of using letters, the T says "I spy with my little eye something that is red". Ss try to guess the object in the room (e.g. "a pencil").

Back to School Activities and Icebreakers!

"NAMES!"

An easy getting to know you activity for elementary students is the name game. This fun and simple game will help students (and you) learn each others’ names. Each student picks a word that starts with the same letter of their name and says that too. For example, in my case... "Nice Naty" haha!

Alphabetize Me

A fun way to get a rise out of your Students is to tell them they are having their first assignment within a few minutes of class starting. Their goal: Sort themselves in alphabetical order by their first name within four minutes. If you want to be really hard on them, have them use their last names only. After their initial shock, you will be surprised how quickly they will work together while getting to know one another.

"FIND SOMEONE WHO" ( BINGO VERSION!)

This icebreaker activity is a great way for middle school children. Before class starts, create a bingo board for each student in class. On each square, write a brief description, such as “Has one sister and one brother,” or “Likes pizza.” Other ideas may be “Has lived in more than two houses,” “Can sing,” or “Lives close to school.” Challenge students to go around the room and get their classmates to sign off on one of the boxes, if they can. The goal is for each student to get bingo.