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.
ALSO CHECK OUT MY OTHER BLOG FOR OLDER STUDENTS: The English Teacher
