The Animal Sounds

A very interesting topic for children is the animals. They love to know their names and the sound of each one.

Here I let you a song to memorize the name and the sound of many of the animals in the world and a picture of the most common animals.

Enjoy it!

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

This story is the favourite one of my pupils. They have memorized each word.

A green baby caterpillar hatches from an egg, and from birth he experiences a perpetual craving for food. He eats through fruits on five days, one piece on the first, two on the second, and so on up to five, then experiments with a wider variety of foods. Soon enough he eats too much and nauseates himself. After recovering he spins a cocoon in which he remains for the following two weeks. Later, the caterpillar emerges as a bright, colorful butterfly with large, gorgeous, multi-colored wings.

Foods eaten:

• 1 apple
• 2 pears
• 3 plums
• 4 strawberries
• 5 oranges
• 1 piece of chocolate cake
• 1 ice cream cone
• 1 pickle
• 1 slice of Swiss cheese
• 1 slice of salami
• 1 lollipop
• 1 piece of cherry pie
• 1 sausage
• 1 cupcake
• 1 slice of watermelon
• 1 green leaf

It is very useful to teach some food.

Here you have the video in which they are telling the story.

Poetry "My Shadow"

Poems can help children to improve their memory, learn vocabulary and sounds. It is good to stop being ashamed.

My Shadow 

Robert Louis Stevenson

I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me,
And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
He is very, very like me from the heels up to the head;
And I see him jump before me, when I jump into my bed.

The funniest things about him is the way he likes to grow-
Not at all like proper children, which is always very slow;
For he sometimes shoots up taller like an India rubber ball,
And he sometimes gets so little that there's none of him at all.

He hasn't got a notion of how children ought to play,
And can only make a fool of me in every sort of way.
He stays so close beside me, he's a coward you can see;
I'd think shame to stick to nursie as that shadow sticks to me!

One morning, very early, before the sun was up,
I rose and found the shining dew on every buttercup;
But my lazy little shadow, like an arrant sleepy-head,
Had stayed at home behind me and was fast asleep in bed.

Tongue Twisters for kids

• 
  She sells seashells on the seashore.
• Flash message. Flash message.
• Mix a box of mixed biscuits with a boxed biscuit mixer.
• A proper copper coffee pot.
• I saw Esau sitting on a seesaw. Esau, he saw me.
• Toy boat. Toy boat. Toy boat.
• Lovely lemon liniment.
• Six thick thistle sticks. Six thick thistles stick.
• Good blood, bad blood.
• Three free throws.The instinct of an extinct insect stinks.
• Comical economists. Comical economists.
• Which wristwatches are Swiss wristwatches?
• Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
  A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked.
  If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
  Where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?
• One-One was a racehorse.
  Two-Two was one, too.
  When One-One won one race,
  Two-Two won one, too.

The Skeleton Dance

Here I have a very funny video. It is very usefull for chidren to learn the parts of the body and the bonnes.

Enjoy it!

A very good book to learn how to draw

This is the best book I have ever seen to help teachers to draw.
I am very bad drawing and since I have known this book, every example that I have to show to my pupils is more easyer to draw than before.

You can buy it by Internet in Amazon.

Why is it important to use Fables to teach English?

Fables are short stories in which animals are the main characters. The most famous fables are the ones written by Aesop.

Telling fables is a great activity to teach to the children some ideas that we could find in the morals of these short stories.

Children are interested in them because they love animals and they enjoy stories in which animals can talk and do humans things.

For telling them you can read it or use the ICT in order to show to the students some videos telling the fables.

Here you can find some moral and  an example.

The Lion and the Mouse:

If someone tells you that you can’t do something and you know that it’s not true, you should trust in yourself and make an effort to get it.

If you do something nice for someone, they will do something nice for you. Little friends may prove great friends.