I am stuck. I would like some ideas for English learning games for 1 person and other games or 2-5 people. I usually teach a small class. Any ideas would work out great!
Thanks.
Any games for 1-5 people, Kindergarten age?
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Hi,
I have tried a preposition game with Ss.
Give them a cardboard box each with an object.
Pin up or show flash card with preposition.
Get Ss to put object matching preposition.
E.G. Prep. 'in' Ss put small ball/die/plastic toy inside box, check that all Ss have done so correctly. prep. 'out' take object out. prep. 'on' close box, put on top etc etc. Model and drill each prep.
Ss love to have things in their hands. Active learning is can be great, practises their motor skills.
Another game: get Ss to recognise body parts, get them to stick the parts with the words to the body template (their size, to make it fun, get them to agree on a name and can pin up- this is for team work or solo- or just draw a body outline on A4 paper; photocopy for however many Ss u have so at the end of day S(s) can take home.)
e.g. hair; stick wool on cardboard cut out. eyes; stick stickers for eyes, hands; get Ss to draw around some S's hand and cut out to pin on template.
Adapt and change however you want. You know your Ss best!
Also try the Phonicball alphabet game, let Ss hit ball onto target and T model and drills letter sound. http://www.phonicball.com
Have fun!
I have tried a preposition game with Ss.
Give them a cardboard box each with an object.
Pin up or show flash card with preposition.
Get Ss to put object matching preposition.
E.G. Prep. 'in' Ss put small ball/die/plastic toy inside box, check that all Ss have done so correctly. prep. 'out' take object out. prep. 'on' close box, put on top etc etc. Model and drill each prep.
Ss love to have things in their hands. Active learning is can be great, practises their motor skills.
Another game: get Ss to recognise body parts, get them to stick the parts with the words to the body template (their size, to make it fun, get them to agree on a name and can pin up- this is for team work or solo- or just draw a body outline on A4 paper; photocopy for however many Ss u have so at the end of day S(s) can take home.)
e.g. hair; stick wool on cardboard cut out. eyes; stick stickers for eyes, hands; get Ss to draw around some S's hand and cut out to pin on template.
Adapt and change however you want. You know your Ss best!
Also try the Phonicball alphabet game, let Ss hit ball onto target and T model and drills letter sound. http://www.phonicball.com
Have fun!
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EFLwithlittleones
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Ideas for kindergarten
Having taught kindergarten, I have learnt that the trick with little ones is to try and enable them to do everything themselves whilst working towards an outcome appropriate to their age. Remember that they are unlikely to be the slightest bit interested in learning the English language for its own sake. But let them be creative and everything changes. For example, small children love to make things with glue and paper and scissors. So if you use this basic principal in your planning it will throw up numerous natural incidences of language use as you show what to do in lots of simple craft activities, (They're going to make a cut out picture of a truck with coloured paper-), 'look, I've made a truck!', 'okay so I cut this red paper like this...and look here are the...(wheels)...that's right, wheels' etc...Guide children with simple English prompts as they make whatever it is you've prepared and shown them. Display work for a week and show the parents.
Sallam
ps. go to my, 'Peter's Puppet game' and 'Peter's Kindy ABCs' in the Cookbook on this site for a couple more ideas.
Sallam
ps. go to my, 'Peter's Puppet game' and 'Peter's Kindy ABCs' in the Cookbook on this site for a couple more ideas.
a good activity I use if I have a few minutes to spare is 'I spy..'
Uses colours and the difference of this/that
The person choosing will say something like 'I can see something green'
The others have to guess by saying is it this/that depending on if they are touching or pointing to the object. Once they learn most of the objects in the class and gain some vocabulary they can say 'Is it the chair? etc.
I draw a hangman on the board to limit each person's turn.
Uses colours and the difference of this/that
The person choosing will say something like 'I can see something green'
The others have to guess by saying is it this/that depending on if they are touching or pointing to the object. Once they learn most of the objects in the class and gain some vocabulary they can say 'Is it the chair? etc.
I draw a hangman on the board to limit each person's turn.
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Senorita Daniels
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I work with mainly kingergartnerers and first graders, and I've played letter memory to learn capital and lower case letters, and sight word fishing to help students practice words.
For the fishing activity, I use a pole with a shoelace (the line broke, and I don't fish so I can't fix it) and a magnet. The paper fish have a paper clip so that they can be picked up like if you really were fishing. The student can keep the word if s/he knows it. The first few days we just reviwed the words and drew our own fish, whales, octupi on the blank side.
Another thing I've done with my advanced kindergarten/ first grade ELL reading group is have a relay with the word flashcards. Have Three or more stacks leaning against a wall or blackboard, and have one student read a word, and another has to run up and grab the word that the other said.
For the fishing activity, I use a pole with a shoelace (the line broke, and I don't fish so I can't fix it) and a magnet. The paper fish have a paper clip so that they can be picked up like if you really were fishing. The student can keep the word if s/he knows it. The first few days we just reviwed the words and drew our own fish, whales, octupi on the blank side.
Another thing I've done with my advanced kindergarten/ first grade ELL reading group is have a relay with the word flashcards. Have Three or more stacks leaning against a wall or blackboard, and have one student read a word, and another has to run up and grab the word that the other said.
kindergarten games
Teachers in the Sai Kung Kwo Lung kindergarten have been using the phonicball games in a variety of activities. Contact Marysia at [email protected]
My daughters taught in Taipei and found using the songs found at
http://www.pamseslclassroom.com to be very useful. In fact they made several presentations to the Chinese English teachers and always sold out of Pam Southwell's CDs.
These songs and chants are easily learnt by children. Pams site has mp3s of the songs as well as lyrics, instructions and lesson plans.
http://www.pamseslclassroom.com to be very useful. In fact they made several presentations to the Chinese English teachers and always sold out of Pam Southwell's CDs.
These songs and chants are easily learnt by children. Pams site has mp3s of the songs as well as lyrics, instructions and lesson plans.