Weekly Bits for Primary: PANDAS/PINKS

PANDAS

7th October 2014

The same Rainbow song as Lambs, to practise the colours http://www.funenglishgames.com/videos/forkids/colorsoftherainbow.html

14th October 2014

· The Preposition song on You Tube (on, in, under, above, below, in front of, behind )

· Where is the Spider ? on YouTube (by, in, on, under)

This can be accompanied by the “Where’s the spider” game. One child goes out, the others hide the spider and when the other child comes in they ask “Where’s the spider?” and the child that has gone out asks.

“Is the spider in the cupboard?”

“ Is the spider under the table ?”

“ Is the spider by the window ?”

“ Is the spider on the book ?”

21st October 2014

For prepositions of place - use Cuisinaire rods (there are some onsite - somewhere !) and do a dictation. Give each child a set of about five colours (all have the same colours).

Start by saying "Put the red one on the table", then dictate where to put the others

eg. put the yellow one behind the red one. Put the green one in front of the red one (always in relation to the student, not the teacher)

You have Halloween material in the Beep 2 text book.

" Ten Little Monsters"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TK9Y1TeC9Oc

You can work on colours.

On the bcnprimary.pbworks.com site you have a Halloween card. Halloween card.jpeg

There are Halloween flashcards on the LearnEnglishKids site and some big flashcards on the bcnprimary.pbworks.com site bighalloweenflashcards[1].doc

Another site, (you will LOVE this one)where you will find some fantastic masks and things for kids to make for Halloween is

http://onecreativemommy.com/halloween-photo-booth-props-printables/

28th October 2014

Here you have a pumpkin that you can cut out and stick, or colour.

http://bcnprimary.pbworks.com/w/file/74513498/pumpkin%20eyes%20and%20mouth.jpeg

http://bcnprimary.pbworks.com/w/file/74513507/pumpkin.jpeg

Get your students to write a magic spell. Use a template like the one below, from www.ActivityVillage.co.uk/halloween

4th November 2014
See lesson plan for teaching school materials in the Koalas section, 4th November 2014.
At this link on Onestopenglish you have a great lesson plan and card game for teaching prepositions and animals.

http://www.onestopenglish.com/community/lesson-share/pdf-content/young/young-learners-card-game-for-prepositions-lesson-plan/147758.article

11th November 2014

While you are teaching the alphabet to your class you can teach each child to spell their own name, and get them to do it automatically and quickly (but comprehensible), then have a competition to see who does it the best.

There’s a nice alphabet song at

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycnPbp_CrVg and they actually say “zed” and another one that you can combine with counting, but they say “zee” (not really a big problem if you say “zed” then that is what they will learn anyway.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7iMJU_B--o

18th November 2014

You have lots and lots of material on LearnEnglishKids for clothes vocabulary and Present Continuous (I’m wearing etc.)

There is Teddy dresser, Match the Kit, Dressing myself, Find the pairs (Memory), Winter clothes, Paint the words, Hangman and two more word games.

A song for clothes on Super Simple Songs can be found at

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jBfb33_KHU

At Super Simple Learning you have a blog with lots of advice and ideas for YLs.

25th November 2014
Only a month to Christmas, so we need to start thinking about Advent calendars, that start on the 1st December.

For instructions on how to use this advent calendar, go to
http://www.activityvillage.co.uk/santa-advent-calendar
You can download the printable from this link or from the Primary wiki
http://bcnprimary.pbworks.com/w/file/89563061/santa_advent_calendar_printable.pdf

3rd December 2014

A brilliant Christmas song for teaching prepositions at SuperSimpleSongs, using the prepositions on, in and under. "Santa Where are You ?"

There are some worksheets to go with this on the website (see above websites page for access information) There are also some worksheets downloaded onto the wiki

Go to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXaOaz3a8Cg for the song. And to http://bcnprimary.pbworks.com/w/browse/#view=ViewFolder&param=SANTA%20WHERE%20ARE%20YOU%20SONG for the worksheets that I have downloaded onto the wiki.

20th January 2015

If you are doing “weather”, you have this lovely idea for a weather chart and also material on the wiki at

http://bcnprimary.pbworks.com/w/browse/#view=ViewFolder&param=WEATHER%20pandas%20pink

3rd February 2015

You can find an animated film of Mrs.McNosh Hangs out her Wash athttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vurPsBoEV3M and some worksheets to work with the rhyming words on the wiki at

http://bcnprimary.pbworks.com/w/browse/#view=ViewFolder&param=MRS%20MCNOSH%20HANGS%20OUT%20HER%20WASH

Thankyou, Clare !

And also from Clare, lots of links to things about jobs/professsions and a little animated film.

http://inglesceipasuncion.weebly.com/1/post/2012/02/jobs-and-occupations.html