Sounds Like Fun Jolly Phonics Learning Videos by Cartoonito

by David | Phonics, Video

Here’s a hidden gem that I happened across one day, whilst looking for break time videos. Cartoonito created a 39-episode series called ‘Sounds Like Fun’ based on the Jolly Phonics approach to phonics used for assisting children to learn to read and...

EFL + ESL Kindergarten number writing practice sheet

by David | Numbers

Here’s an EFL + ESL Kindergarten number writing practice / number formation worksheet guide that I sometimes use in class. What I like is that the numbers dissolve to the right side of the worksheet, so the students get to practice forming the whole numbers by...

Top Tip: Incorporate diversity into your classroom

by David | Tips

If you look more closely at some of the most recent student books for teaching English to very young learners, you’ll notice something: they incorporate diversity. You can do this, too. Next time you use graphics to create a worksheet, a flash card, or a...

Fanning the inner flame

by David | Learning, Schools, Video

    This video really spoke to me when I saw it a while back, not as an advertisement for Montessori, but as a proxy for what happens at many...

My favourite alphabet song

by David | Alphabet, Songs

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...

Top Tip: Foreshadowing

by David | Tips

Today’s tip comes from one of my friends. He has an idea he calls ‘foreshadowing’. In order to support the learning, the children in his kindergarten classes (unknowingly) get a preview of what’s to come in a future theme/lesson. So, for...