Check out the top picks for ESL Time Filler games and activities. Kill some time in English class with these fun activities.
10 fun and educational ESL activities for busy teachers! Try these games and activities in your classroom (or virtual classroom) today!
If you're looking for ESL activities, you've come to the right place! Check out the Top 50 ESL Activities super-list for some awesome in your classes!
Check out the top ESL conversation activities for adults—make your English speaking classes fun, engaging and filled with happy students.
Sleepovers at grandma’s house can be the best times of your kid’s lives but they can also cause anxiety for all if you’re not prepared. So how do you have successful sleepovers at Grandma’s? In this post, I’ll give you 10 simple tips to help make sure the time spent will be wonderful for both […]
There are those rare diseases that affect a limited number of individuals with regard to the general population, less than one in 2,000. However, most of these diseases are even less common, affecting one in 100,000 people. It is estimated that today there are between 5,000 and 8,000 different rare diseases, affecting between 6% and 8% of the total population. We selected nine of them
Consonant Digraph Snap is a fun and faced paced phonics game, providing lots of practice in digraph recognition in words.
Check out the top ESL conversation activities for adults—make your English speaking classes fun, engaging and filled with happy students.
This post has been a very long time coming. I have been asked for it so many times! So many brave Mamas are searching for 'sitting still' activities for their children that need to stay still after an illness or surgery. I have tried to write some ideas and share some activities, but everything I
We're sharing 10 things NOT to do on the first day of school. If you're a teacher wanting a smooth start to the school year, look no further. This post will show you what mistakes to avoid so that you have the best classroom management practices in place from the beginning!
Retained primitive reflexes could be the answer to why your child is in constant fight or flight mode. How to test your child for retained primitive reflexes and exercises that can help.
Now that you are familiar with visual thinking metaphors and analogies, today, I would like to provide you with a practical example of a visual thinking metaphor that is often used for life coaching purposes to help clients clarify their goals and objectives. In fact, it is one of the many visual thinking metaphors we will be discussing in the coming months.
Dr Spencer Kagan is a renowned educator who changed the way the world viewed teaching. He is mainly known for his work on cooperative learning strategies (often referred to as Kagan learning struc…
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Learn about open & closed syllable words and get a free activity to make this concept come to life in an engaging and multisensory way!
On a normal, middle-of-the-year day, I want my students to come into my room in the morning knowing it is a calm place, a cooperative pla...
Learn how to plat the classic (and simple!) childhood game Cat's Cradle, with step-by-step instructions and video to see it in action
Autistic people can get overwhelmed by sensory input or strong emotions. When this happens, they often need someone to gently escort them to a quiet place so they can calm down. Here are some ways you can help an autistic person in...
The H Brothers activity is a fun way to introduce your students to digraphs. Remember, digraphs are two sounds coming together to make an entirely new single sound. Because this is sometimes a confusing concept for kids, multisensory props and gestures are crucial. Below are a few ideas to get you started: CH: wear a plastic finger and tap on your chin. SH: gesture /SH/ (like you are shushing someone). WH: disable a party whistle and blow. PH: make a hand gesture like you are talking on the phone by holding your hand up to your jaw and extending your thumb and pinky. Make character puppets for the kids to hold (see picture). Tell your students The H Brothers story (below). THE H BROTHERS STORY Let me introduce you to five brothers. They are called the H brothers because they all have the letter H in their name. Ch, Sh, Wh, Th, and Ph. Each brother likes to make a special sound. Wondering Charlie goes around all day thinking about stuff. He wanders around for hours and hours just thinking and wondering. He constantly taps his finger on his chin and makes the /CH/ /CH/ /CH/ sound over and over again. This drives the second brother, Quiet Shawn, absolutely nuts!! Quiet Shawn likes silence. He goes behind /ch/-/ch/-Charlie all day saying /SH/, /SH/, /SH/ to remind him to keep quiet! Meanwhile, the third brother, Whistling Whit, wants nothing else in the whole wide world but to learn how to whistle. He spends all day blowing and blowing…. /WH/ /WH/ /WH/…. but no sound ever comes out! The fourth brother is Impolite Theo. He is the bad boy of the family. He likes to go around sticking his tongue out at anybody who comes close to him. He makes the sound /TH/ /TH/ /TH/ as his tongue comes out. Sometimes, when adults are around, he just sticks his tongue behind his teeth, thinking no one will see what he is doing …/TH/ /TH/ /TH/, but everyone knows what he is doing! He gives a double “thumbs up” because he is so proud of himself! Finally, there is the fifth brother, Chatterbox Phil. He just loves to talk. He is always on the PHone and talks for a long time. When he is looking for his phone, he goes around making the sound /F/ /F/ /F /and asks, “where is my “PHone?” It is no wonder the H brothers’ mom is so exhausted every day. The H brothers make life around their house very exciting!!! For a free download and pictures of a slightly different version of the story of the H Brothers, go to /content/blog_images/2014/03/h-brothers.pdf Samantha Brooks, MSE, Dyslexia Therapist Samantha Brooks is an Intern Instructor with Brainspring Educator Academy. (Original version of this article was posted in May 2017) Learn more about Brainspring’s accredited Orton-Gillingham professional development Learn more about Brainspring’s Michigan-based Learning Centers Accreditation:
Free printable of 50 questions & prompts about everyday objects to encourage conversation and build language. Great for kids with autism & hyperlexia!
Keeping your personal and work lives in synch can be one of the greatest small business owner challenges. It's doable however, if you avoid these 5 barriers to work life balance.
Sleepovers at grandma’s house can be the best times of your kid’s lives but they can also cause anxiety for all if you’re not prepared. So how do you have successful sleepovers at Grandma’s? In this post, I’ll give you 10 simple tips to help make sure the time spent will be wonderful for both […]
Want to find some simple International Women's Day activities? Download these free colouring pages and get more ideas here!
Check out the top ESL conversation activities for adults—make your English speaking classes fun, engaging and filled with happy students.
Free printable citizenship activities for kids and families to do together as part of the Family Dinner Book Club.
Free Orange Shirt Day Posters to promote awareness and understanding about truth and reconciliation in Canada.
There are those rare diseases that affect a limited number of individuals with regard to the general population, less than one in 2,000. However, most of these diseases are even less common, affecting one in 100,000 people. It is estimated that today there are between 5,000 and 8,000 different rare diseases, affecting between 6% and 8% of the total population. We selected nine of them
Orange Shirt Day is held on September 30 to honour the children of Residential Schools. We've collected activities to use in your classroom.
In honor of Martin Luther King Jr Day, we discussed the importance and history of diversity with the kids and did a cute diversity craft.
This week was our first week back and, boy am I tired! My class is great though...very inquisitive and eager to learn. They take their work seriously and are actively working most of the day. Who could ask for more?? We did quite a few things this week, but I want to share with you one "get to know you" project we did that really came out great. I seriously can't stop staring at it! I saw this pin on Pinterest. I love how it looks and thought it would make a great welcome sign. Now, on the pin, the hands seemed to be just colored in. I wanted something a bit more. So we started with creating Circle Maps about ourselves. What made us special? What are some things that have shaped us? Where did you go in your life? etc....Most of the kids finished these Circle Maps in class on the first day of school. I then asked the students to trace their hands and arms on a piece of 11 x 17" piece of paper. They then had to draw, write, decorate, etc...the traced in hand with items from the Circle Map. The goal was to teach their fellow classmates about themselves in a visual way, without giving away too much information (ie: I didn't want them to write paragraphs.) That is pretty much how far we got in class. So, the first homework assignment the students had to finish the project at home. I gave them this sheet so that they could be a bit more focused on their project and add a bit if they wanted. (but if you are going copy-less, just forgo this. They can write the information on a sheet of paper instead.) The next day, the hands came back to school...and they were great! I had the kids get into groups and share what they decided to put on their hands and why. The kids learned a lot about each other in that 15 minute session! You can see some of them used words as well as pictures to tell about themselves. I love the one directly in the center of this picture! Others just used pictures, like the one in the middle here. When I went to put them around a piece of poster board, like in the original pin, they didn't fit :( I think if I had used a smaller piece of paper to trace their hands to begin with they might have. Oh well! I decided to put them up as if the hands were all in a line, raising up.....and it came out great! I overlapped the hands, so I was able to get 5 or 6 on one piece of large construction paper. I then mounted them on my wall. I love it! All in all, this was a fun little project that served as a great way for the kids to get to know each other and make a nice display! What is something you do during the first week of school to help the kids get to know each other and for you to learn a little about them? Follow me on Snapchat for even more teaching ideas!
When I started planning my Character Education units, I knew I wanted to start with Kindness. It’s typically pretty easy for students to understand and make real-life connections. Before students are […]
Consonant Digraph Snap is a fun and faced paced phonics game, providing lots of practice in digraph recognition in words.
When I started planning my Character Education units, I knew I wanted to start with Kindness. It’s typically pretty easy for students to understand and make real-life connections. Before students are […]
Teacher’s guide and four accompanying slides intended for a 15-minute classroom activity with the following teaching objectives: • To introduce specific skills that help with stress, including breathing techniques • To come up with lists of small health change tips that can be shared with peers • To develop listening, sharing and discussion skills
My Online Thinking Cap Lesson: Online Safety PREP TIME: 30 minutes CRAFT TIME: 15 minutes TOTAL TIME: 45 minutes PROJECT: 1 project APPROX COST OF SUPPLIES: $1 5/5 Jump to Printable Template Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email It is important to never share information about yourself like your name, age, where you go to school,
Learn about 14 organizations, books, a video & a TpT resource that help students and teachers learn about LGBTQ+ issues and Gay Pride Month
This post has been a very long time coming. I have been asked for it so many times! So many brave Mamas are searching for 'sitting still' activities for their children that need to stay still after an illness or surgery. I have tried to write some ideas and share some activities, but everything I
