Merry Christmas Song

  It’s almost Christmas time! Here’s one of my favourite Christmas songs that is easy for the younger children to learn. Merry...

Happy Birthday song for Kindergarten English classes

On of the weekend, one of the teaching assistants asked me to play ‘Happy Birthday’ for a student in the class. Ease of access, is one of the reasons I have all of the songs I use in class organised into a YouTube playlist. Therefore, it was very easy to...

Introducing the Numberblocks

Numberblocks, are a relatively new creation from the team that brought us Alphablocks. Like the Alphablocks, the Numberblocks are a series of cute characters (numbers 0 to 10), who have their adventures in a place called Number Land. The focus of the Numberblocks...

Learning TPR actions for kindergarten songs

Total Physical Response (TPR), which involves coordinating language with physical movement (for example, you make actions like a dog to represent the word dog), is one of those things I’m just not naturally gifted at. Problem is, many kids love doing the TPR...

My favourite alphabet song

I have powerful memories of a new Kindergarten English Summer class I taught last year. Part of the syllabus included teaching all of the letter names and sounds. Unfortunately our school had given us only 10 lessons, and the alphabet component was actually a very...