Phonics / Alphabet

 We are ready to feed our phonics monster with........Phonics of course! He is so hungry!

   Can you feed him with an AAAAAAAAA or a MMMMMMMM?

                                   Another idea is to swat the letters of the alphabet!

                                           You need flyswatters and the template!

                                     You will find it here: teachers pay template

                                   You call it out and students runnnnnnn to swat!

Good friends

 What makes a good friend? What are the keys that open the door of friendship? What do good friends say, have and do?

You can share thoughts on the board with a Spidergram. And you can give them a key like this...

Then you can make a door and students will be pretending to open by using the right words. 

This year we gave our students different situations....For example:

"Your friend is wearing glasses and everyone laughs at her. "

" You got a bad haircut and they make fun of you"

" Your friend is telling you a secret"

Students had to decide whether they score a Friendship Goal or they cause a Friendship Foul?

Students were given Ball templates with different situations.

And they gave their Goal Answers and their Foul Answers

This is our Bulletin Board! We also made a song with all the things we said during the project..such Helping or Hurting?

The Bad Seed Story(Values)

Make good choices, do the right thing, be responsible, be respectful, use kind words, be polite, say thank you, take turns, hold doors, help others, share... These are some of the values we want to teach our students, don't we?

The bad seed is a story to use! They will remember it throughout the year, you will be reminding them of good actions, it will be your class motto and all of a sudden your students will make an effort to be good seeds! Why? Because they want to be happy and successful! They want to be leaders!

The story is about a seed of a sunflower! The bad seed wasn't always bad. Something happened and he changed. He used to be good. But he was hurt and changed attitude. He started hitting, making fun of others, making noise and all the bad things bad seeds do! But he was sad.... So now, he is trying to to be good. Not always, sometimes! But he is trying. He sometimes waits, he sometimes says please and thank you! And he is happier! Because being good, makes you happy. 

This story is fun, it can be dramatised, it can be read and it can be a great start to talk about rules, good choices, good manners. 

You can find the flipbook here The story

Also, use prompts, pictures showing good and bad actions and let them decide whether it is good or bad

Play some online games game , game

And you can ask them to write down how they can be good with craft

teacher's pay

This is how we decorated the school's corridors!

We made big sunflowers and the projects. 

Teaching Values: Goal Setting

 As a child , I always tried to please my parents and do the "right" thing. 

When I pointed at someone, my mum used to say " It's not polite!" She was trying to teach me values!

Some common  values are developed through our role models (parents, teachers,peers), some legends or people that we look up to and definitely through stories! Stories that our parents used to read before bedtime, stories that we came across during school lessons,stories that promoted the common good!

As educators, we are interested in building positive, honest, good citizens, aren't we? In other words, we want to find a way to help our students develop good values and virtues. It's about being a human! Whatever your culture,background,language, you cannot be successful, without being a responsible, respectful or kind person. 

Everything we do in class as teachers influences the kind of human-beings students become. School values will help our students understand what is a good or bad choice, set  goals, understand what is important or not and be better prepared for future life!

Teaching the right attitudes is just as important as developing their academic skills. Thus, we are not just teachers, we are role models and we need to demonstrate these traits and expose our students to these important values.

Setting Goals:

                                                             Ruby's Wish

Ruby is different from other girls in Old China. She is determined to go to university when she grows up, just like the boys in her family. This young girl is full of ambition. Has she set her goals or is she just dreaming? Well Ruby has set goals and she works hard to achieve them.

This is how we started discussing about goal setting with my students. We then discussed the difference between goals and SMART goals.

And we played here:SMART

As a follow up activity, students can complete these arrows and write about their smart goals.

Let's go fishing /colours

 Let's go fishing!

Here's a fun idea that students enjoyed while learning colours!

Print in colour different kinds of fish  (e.g red fish clipart etc...) 

Put a paper clip on top.

I bought the fishing rod from a toy store with less than 3 euros.Alternatively, if you have a small magnet, tie a string around it and perhaps a wooden stick or a straw. 

You can see here how to make a handmade  fishing game.

fishing game

Young learners will love it! Ask them to catch the RED fish or the GREEN fish etc. You can have a timer or count up to 10 with the whole class. 

The pictures speak for themselves!

If you want to practise numbers as well you can print these cute fish from Super Simple Songs!

fish and numbers

While some students are fishing others can make their own fish bowls!

                                                  

                                                https://www.activityvillage.co.uk/

Digital Libraries

 I love offering stories, extra material, songs and videos!

The libraries give students the chance to practise in a fun way!

Explore here:digital libraries

Ηealthy Unhealthy

 

A nice and fun craft activity that will be unforgettable for the students!

You need two mouths and BEANS!

You can use these mouths: Mouths

or the mouths in the picture below

The students can paint the beans with a black marker but personally I used black beans.

It was so much fun!

We also love singing this song:Healthy food

We also made healthy and unheathy plates! The templates are from "sparklebox".

https://www.sparklebox.co.uk/topic/world-around-us/food/healthy-eating.html

And this link for games:Games