by David | Kindergarten, Themes
Continuing this week’s zoo and wild animals theme, today’s resource is a guessing game. You can find many videos on YouTube that have wild animals sounds for the children to guess what animal it is that they can hear. (I’m planning to customize my...
by David | Kindergarten, Themes
Continuing this week’s zoo and wild animals theme, today’s resource is for pre- or post-class, or for during the breaks, and its a webcam. Part of the idea for my VYL kindergarten syllabus, is to make the classes engaging, including during break times, and...
by David | Kindergarten, Themes
Recently, I started working on my VYL Kindergarten curriculum/syllabus. My aim is to create a powerful and engaging experience for very young language learners; and to get all of the components exactly the way I want it, rather than to be dictated to by the structure...
by David | Kindergarten, Learning
My latest project is to create my own EFL VYL Kindergarten curriculum. I’m under no illusions that it will be an easy task! My inspiration has been working with the shortcomings of some of the existing products and knowing there is a better way. For example, the...
by David | Games, Kindergarten
Battlefield is a simple and fun game for children to practice vocabulary, numbers, and even grammar. In passing, I note that I’m not a fan of the number of EFL/ESL Kindergarten games that have violent names or themes. But for some reason, that’s how things...
by David | Kindergarten, Lessons
I recently started teaching a brand new Kindergarten 1 class. Its my first such (regular) class in around 18 months, and I have to say parts of it have been challenging. Children crying and being upset doesn’t really affect me anymore, that is to be expected...
