Teaching Esl materials and more: 2013

Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Tuesday, July 9, 2013

Sports flashcards for esl

Here are some flashcards I made to teach sports

Different balls you can cut them out and add Velcro to the backs and place them on a large board to practice different names of sports equipment.

Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Fruit Flashcards

Here are some fruit flash cards I made for my kinder class feel free to save, share or print them.

Useful websites for teaching materials

So chances are you are a teacher and although the school may have some form of supplies you may need to print things out. Here are some of my favorite websites for free printable materials that I've used in my classroom. Thanks to online sharing all of our lives can be much easier!!!!

This is my favorite site I printed out their rainbow (ABC's) and laminated them for my kinder class!

http://www.sparklebox.co.uk/

Here is another one I like there are some craft ideas and materials

kidzclub

http://www.kizclub.com/

Monday, July 1, 2013

Food flash cards

Since I'm teaching in Asia (kids eat rice all day) trying to explain meal times to them by adding rice to each meal.

Bathroom flash cards

Vegetable flash cards

Classroom management

Classroom management ideas

Welcome to my blog I'm using this mainly as a one stop shop for my teaching ideas and resources feel free to take ideas or whatever you like from here. I've been teaching for a few years now overseas and I finally came up with the idea to start a blog for myself but like all knowledge it's meant to be shared. Enjoy!

* make sure you keep a bucket or basket of erasers and pencils and you hand them out to each student

(the reason for this I found was especially teaching ESL letting the kids get their pencil cases wastes time and also allows for time for shoving and fighting at the kids storage area) basically more trouble than it's worth.

*It's also a good idea to keep the kids scissors away from them because when you are not looking some little trouble makers :-) will grab the scissors and go to town on whatever they can get their hands on especially the younger ones

*During the summer time it is a good idea to ask the parents to send water bottles for their child that way the you can designate an area for drinking water in the class room
(yes this can get messy but it is better than having to go searching for your student in the hallways)

*Sticker boards laminated ones***** the best sticker board idea I've had so far is a laminated sticker chart find the template online I found the one below and laminate it. When the kids see the stickers come off and on with either real stickers (that you can let them keep) or by using dry erase marker the students will feel a sense of loss when you take them it makes it a more physical sign that they have done something wrong. My rules are in connection with my sticker giving and taking if you break a big rule I take more stickers.