Young Learners
Camino Creates “Bob the Box!”
Today’s post is by Camino, who is a weekday YL 3 member. She made a felt box with the help of this website: http://howaboutorange.blogspot.com.au/2012/05/diy-stiffened-felt-boxes.html 1. First she cut out the templates for the top and bottom of the box. 2. She then traced them onto her pieces of felt using a marker. 3. She cut along
Reporting from the YL 3 Headquarters
Carrying on from last week’s “Happy Children’s Books” theme, the YL 3 weekday class made their own bookmarks: They then began a new project, creating a class newspaper. Each week the YL 3 members will visit the language laboratory where they can conduct online research on their topics of choice: Politics, Science, Food, Entertainment, etc. YL
Insects and Spiders
The youngest Kids’ Club group is working on a unit about Insects and Spiders. They listened to the book The Very Busy Spider, by Eric Carle, and learned this song: Shoo Fly, Don’t Bother Me! Story: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NJj3fsSPSw Song: Miss Nina’s music videos are great for learning English, and for just having fun! This week the group learned another traditional
What’s Your Story?
“Happy Children’s Books” week is celebrated in May in many countries. Both the weekday and weekend YL 3 class members worked on book projects, choosing either to interview a classmate and write a mini-biography or pen his/her own autobiography. All the students handcrafted their books, using interesting methods of binding which ranged from sewing with thread to
Young Learners 1 Gets Ready for Easter
Young Learners 1 had a great Saturday class before Easter week. They had a great time joining Young Learners 2 to paint Easter eggs, make chicken cupcakes and do an Easter egg hunt. They found all of the eggs in the end! Great job!
Young Learners 4: How to Train Your Dragon
The Tuesday-Thursday group of Young Learners 4 has been doing advanced vocabulary study through a segment of one of the books from the series ‘How to Train Your Dragon’. There is also a series of movies which is loosely based on the book, and the third is coming out in June (it would be a
Kids’ Club Practice Phonics of Short Vowels
Here are links to the songs the kids used last trimester to practice phonics of the short vowels. It would be a fantastic idea to review the songs and sing along with them to practice, not only for pronunciation but for the vocabulary. The Short “A” Song The Short “E” Song The
Young Learners 1 Spring Activities
Young Learners 1 did a lot of activities associated with spring this week. They began learning a song called “Spring is Here,” which is on YouTube under the name of the group, “The Learning Station.” Here is the song if parents wish to practice at home with their children: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DobrRgD5aOU Have fun singing!
The Easter Bunnies Are Coming
The weekday Young Learners 3 group celebrated the upcoming vacation with a quick Easter egg hunt in the garden. Afterwards they made their own cupcake Easter bunnies. The Young Learners gave life to the cupcakes with frosting fur, jelly bean eyes, gummy noses, and candy ears. They also gave their sweet bunnies bright whiskers. Happy vacation to
