More routines and colours

This week, we extended our work on routines to include the weather and asking "How are you?". Students are being introduced to table-time where they do work related to the oral language learnt.  This is a great opportunity to use vocabulary related to school and school materials such as pencil, paper, crayons and to review vocabulary already being developed on a daily basis such as colours and numbers.
When giving instructions, simple clear language is used.  Always accompany your instructions (or any other utterance) with lots of visual aids, simple and easy to understand gestures and vocal cues.
- "Look! It's sunny!"
- "Draw a sunny day."
- "Where's your pencil?"
- "Use a yellow crayon."

With the three-year olds, I've started introducing family words: mommy, daddy and baby.

Below are some videos I used to reinforce the language developed orally earlier in the class.  I usually only use these in the last few minutes of the class as it is important that they learn to develop their listening skills and get into the habit of interpreting what I'm saying by "reading" my gestures and vocal cues.

Table time: cleaning up

Greetings

The Weather

Colours

Remember that children, especially very young children, will always respond much better to personal interaction through songs, games, simple conversations with puppets, etc.

Until next time,

Janine