ESL Christmas Carols

ESL CHRISTMAS SONGS

HELLO REINDEER

JINGLE BELLS

DECORATE THE CHRISTMAS TREE

SNOWFLAKE

SANTA, SANTA, WHERE ARE YOU?

ACTION SONGS

WE WISH YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS

S-A-N-T-A

REINDEER POKEY

WHAT DO YOU WANT FOR CHRISTMAS?

GOODBYE SNOWMAN

CLASSIC CHRISTMAS CAROLS

RUDOLF THE REDNOSED REINDEER

THE TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS

THE LITTLE DRUMMER BOY

WE THREE KINGS

AWAY IN A MANGER

SILENT NIGHT

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CHRISTMAS WITH PEPPA PIG

toy-flashcards-peppa-pig-christmas

ONLINE:  TOYS ACTIVITY

WORKSHEET:  Toy-Dictation

TIME

HOW MY BODY WORKS (Unit 1, Grade 2)

THE FIVE SENSES

RESPIRATION: WE BREATHE OXYGEN

AIR, MOUTH, LUNGS, HEART, BLOOD

DIGESTION: WE EAT FOOD.

SKELETON: OUR BODY HAS BONES

MUSCLES: OUR BODY HAS 

animation: biceps and triceps

PARTS OF THE BODY (UNIT 1 - GRADE 1)

UNIT 1 SUMMARY (resumen) PARTS OF THE BODY

PARTS OF THE BODY: VIDEOS

HEAD, TORSO, LIMBS

head, torso, limbs: videos

JOINTS

JOINTS: VIDEOS

THE FIVE SENSE

THE FIVE SENSES: VIDEOS

FEELINGS

FEELINGS SONG

THE SOLAR SYSTEM: planets, phases of the moon and the Earth's rotation (Grade 2 Social Science)

THE SOLAR SYSTEM

UNIT 1 REVIEW (RESUMEN)

THE PLANETS

ONLINE ACTIVITIES

ACTIVITY: THE SOLAR SYSTEM

HANGMAN: THE SOLAR SYSTEM

PHASES OF THE MOON

PHASES OF THE MOON ANIMATION

EARTH'S ROTATION: DAY AND NIGHT

THE MONTHS AND SEASONS

MONTHS AND SEASONS - SONG AND ACTIVITIES

ONLINE ACTIVITIES

ONLINE ACTIVITY: TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THE SOLAR SYSTEM, THE MOON AND EARTH'S ROTATION.

MY SCHOOL - SOCIAL SCIENCE (1ST GRADE)

UNIT 1: MY SCHOOL SUMMARY (resumen)

UNIT 1 VOCABULARY LIST

School Materials

BE A GOOD FRIEND

People who work in a school

SCHOOL SUBJECTS

Activites at school

PLACES IN THE SCHOOL

THE PHASES OF THE MOON (Grade 2)

Videos

Interesting links

Animation: the phases of the moon

Phases of the moon craft

THE FACE

Colour the clown's face

Now, make a face collage!

THE SOLAR SYSTEM (Grade 2)

VIDEOS:

Watch the videos and do the online activities below.

ONLINE ACTIVITIES

The Solar System - write the words

HANGMAN: Solar System

What colour are your hands?

HELLO.  CAN YOU CLAP YOUR HANDS?

WHAT'S THE WEATHER LIKE TODAY?

MAKE A CIRCLE

HOKEY POKEY

IF YOU'RE HAPPY CLAP YOUR HANDS

COLOUR YOUR HANDS

ONE LITTLE FINGER

BYE BYE

Mixing Colours with Peppa Pig

ROUTINES AND BASIC GREETINGS

Hello.  What's your name?

How's the weather?

REVIEW: COLOURS

Colours with Peppa Pig

PRESENTING TODAY'S ACTIVITY:

 PEPPA PIG PAINTING

ACTIVITY: Mix paint to make secondary colours.

RED + YELLOW = ORANGE

YELLOW + BLUE = GREEN

RED + BLUE = PURPLE

ONLINE ACTIVITIES

COLOUR WHEEL - MIX THE COLOURS

COLOUR A FAMOUS PAINTING

PARTS OF THE BODY - NATURAL SCIENCE (GRADES 1 AND 2)

MY MONSTER HAS GOT....

PARTS OF THE BODY

HEAD, TORSO, LIMBS

MY BODY PARTS

LADYBUG, LADYBUG

THE TUMMY SONG

JOINTS

THE FIVE SENSES

EYES TO SEE, EARS TO HEAR AND NOSE TO SMELL

FEELINGS

HELLO! Find something blue!

HELLO! How are you?

How's the weather today?

Colour songs.

Routines: Time to make a circle!

Just for fun

Colour games.  Find something BLUE!

Clean up!

Goodbye!

Additional Resources:

Blue, red and yellow stars - worksheet

Primary, Secondary and Complementary colours

SHAPES

We've finished off the school year by reviewing numbers and colours through the introduction of shape names: circle, triangle, square and rectangle.

The following songs were used in class but we also completed some worksheets and created shape collages (the children coloured basic shapes, cut them out and created simple pictures - house with triangular roof and a circle for the sun).  I also allowed them to manipulate wooden shapes and categorise them.  To encourage oral expression, I asked them questions about the shapes: Is it big or small?  What colour is it?  What shape is this?  How many triangles are there?  How many blue squares are there?

The three-year-olds drew flowers using circles.  We practised on the digital board first.  We sang flower songs to review and reinforce the vocabulary item: flower, before drawing the flowers.

Sing a Song of Flowers

Five Little Flowers

The Circle Song

I'm a Circle

The Triangle Song

Triangle Songs for Kids

Square Song

Square Dance Song

Space: star, sun, moon

In class, students learnt about the solar system.  I decided to introduce some songs focusing on some basic vocabulary items: sun, moon, stars.

Below are songs we used in class.  Additionally, I reviewed numbers using worksheets which involved counting stars.

TWINKLE TWINKLE LITTLE STAR

THE STAR SONG

THE SUN AND THE MOON

On the farm

My students visited a farm and spent time learning about farm animals.  I used this as the basis for the we did related to the farm.

Students learnt basic vocabulary such as: farmer, chick, duck, dog, sheep, hen, cow and goat.

I used the following songs to introduce and reinforce these vocabulary items.

The Animals on the Farm

The Animal Sounds Song

Old McDonald

Bingo (dog)

Peppa Pig Spring Episode (chick)

Hello Summer!

Friday is the last day of school for my students.  To help them remember what they've learnt, the following posts will deal with some of what we worked on in class.

Since my last post on Spring, we've practised Calendar language; we've learnt the names of some farm animals; we've learnt some words related to space and we've learnt the names of some shapes.


I Love Summer

A Very Hot Day

Swimming Pool

AN EASTER EGG HUNT IN SPRING

We've been working on vocabulary related to Spring for the past two weeks.  We've sung songs about the seasons, focusing on Spring.  Initially, I stopped the video to focus on key elements associated with each season: Winter (snow, hat, scarf, coat, boots); Spring (flowers, green leaves, raincoat, umbrella, rain); Summer (sunny, hot, lemonade, swim) and Autumn (red, brown, yellow and orange leaves, Halloween).  I also took the opportunity to reinforce the calendar work that we do on a daily basis (using songs about the days of the week, months and seasons, children learn time/calendar vocabulary).

SEASONS

Using lots of mime and dramatisation, the children have learnt the following words: flowers (we mime picking a flower and smelling it); bees (we make buzzing sounds and pretend to sting each other); butterflies (we join our thumbs and move the rest of our fingers like butterfly wings) and birds (we flap our wings).
The three-year olds have coloured a simple picture of a flower and we reviewed the colours green, yellow and orange.  They've also coloured an Easter Egg using their favourite colours.  We used this opportunity to talk about other colours like pink, brown and purple.
The four-year olds coloured a bee (reviewing the colours black and yellow) with a blue background for the sky which they then cut out.  We're using the bees to decorate the classrooms.  This week, we will trace patterns on an Easter Egg and they can decorate it.
The five-year olds have done a colour-by-numbers picture of Spring, they've drawn a picture of Spring and, after watching an episode of Peppa Pig about Spring (see below), they're colouring a picture of an Easter Egg hunt which includes, a rabbit, a chick (key vocabulary for Spring and Easter and also for farm animals which we will start work on in two weeks) and several Easter or chocolate eggs.  Once they finish colouring the picture, they must count the number of eggs hidden in the picture and write the number below it.  All of this has been explained in English using known vocabulary, mime and repetition of key words.

SPRING

Finally, we've ended each lesson with the following "Goodbye" song which contains the word, "butterfly".

SEE YOU LATER, ALLIGATOR

Revision of what we've done before is always integrated into new lessons.  We also get a glimpse of what we will learn in future lessons (animals, food, etc.) so that students have some prior knowledge when we start working directly on these elements.

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FRUIT

In February, to celebrate Fruit Week, we started working on fruit related vocabulary.  We've started with basic fruits such as, orange, apple, banana, pear and their colours.  This can be extended to include basic shapes too (circle, triangle, square).

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