EFL Collaborative craft for preschool and kindergarten
I was really excited to find a collaborative craft for Kindergarten students on Teachers Pay Teachers, so I bought it immediately. I love the ideas of symmetry and collaboration. I’m hoping more content creators work at developing collaborative crafts and...Free storytelling book for English language teachers
For many years, The British Council has produced a comprehensive handbook on storytelling for Primary English Language Teachers. While it is directed at teaching Young Learners, there are a few ideas in the book that are valuable for teaching very young learners and...Using drone footage in the young learner classroom
One of the more interesting ways of capturing the attention of my very young learners has been to use drone footage from YouTube when presenting a new topic or theme. Simply search on YouTube for ‘drone’ and the key words of the topic of interest. For...Teaching Kindergarten or Preschool English for the first time
I actually don’t clearly remember the first Kindergarten English class I taught. I do know that I was nervous, stressed (about teaching), and worried about the kind of things many first time teachers at this level are: Will the kids like me? What happens if I...EFL + ESL Kindergarten Games: Lessons from an Angry Monkey
One day, a teaching assistant informed me that one of the strong three year olds in my class had told his parents that he didn’t want to go to English class anymore. I was shocked. Why? It turns out he was afraid we were going to play ‘that’ game...