The water cycle revisited
wait before they go, I say to them:
Yes, you can go to the toilet but when you come
back, the password is… use a computer.
Here, as 'password', I am picking a tricky word item
or phrase that we have recently been studying.
reincorporate
themselves
into
the
regular
classroom activity in progress when they return,
we have created a mini-opportunity for additional
writing practice. We can also tailor the password,
asking for a word item that we know or suspect
that the particular child asking might need to
When the student comes back, in order to rejoin practise at that time in the course. You can see
the class, they need to write the password onto the from the above pictures, for example, that I need to
erasable section of our toilet poster as seen below. check that one of my seven-year-olds knows that
use is spelt with at 'e' not an 'i', so this small
additional lesson stage is already telling me things
I need to know.
I look forward to seeing you all at future APPI
events where I shall report back on how I have
developed these two strategies further and where I
would love to hear if you have experimented with
them yourselves. In the meantime, I wish you
strength and energy in your teaching and hope you
enjoy your classes.
C HRIS R OLAND | ELI S EVILLE | S EVILLE - S PAIN
Festivities -Thanksgiving
Here’s an idea to introduce and celebrate
Thanksgiving with Very Young Learners. With this
video teachers can raise cultural awareness by
talking about cultural aspects of Thanksgiving
traditions, namely food. The teacher can even
adapt the lyrics to Portuguese traditional food in a
similar festivity - Christmas Eve.
The erasable part of the toilet bowl is made
from laminating film that has been through the
machine once.
I know that the drawing itself leaves much to be
desired and am working on a more refined version
but, by anchoring language to the child's desire to