EFL + ESL Kindergarten Games: Hammer time

Here’s a great little receptive (listening skills) game all kids really love: Hammer Time. I think there are many different ways you can play or adapt this simple game. Given that I’m cover teaching classes at the moment, I make minor tweaks to how I...

Online alphabet game for EFL Kindergarten students

  Here’s an online alphabet game (suitable for Kindergarten English students) that I sometimes let the kids play if they’ve finished their craft early. (If it doesn’t work for you, make sure your browser isn’t blocking the pop-up that enables the Flash plugin to...

Best no-prep EFL Kindy craft websites

Pressed for time? Here are a few websites that produce an easily searchable collection of quality, free, printable crafts that require no preparation, and are suitable for teaching Kindergarten English students: ESL Phonics World | (www.eslphonicsworld.com) Learn...

A word about Sparklebox

If you’ve searched for activities and crafts for teaching EFL or ESL to Kindergarten or Primary students, there’s a fair chance you’ve come across Sparklebox. Its one of the largest repositories of quality (free) crafts online. Newer teachers may not be aware, that it...

Teaching EFL STEAM lessons

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uw8bkc-nR9U One of the language schools I’ve worked for ran a STEAM program this summer. Actually, since there was no Technology, Engineering, Arts or Math, it would more accurately have been called a ‘Science’ or an ’S’...