Interesting websites

1. Especially for younger students, a website with online storytime (books read by authors).
The selction of books is great (most books I love!)

Online Storytime

2. Website from British Council where kids can learn and play games too. They also get a chance to listen to different accents. *You can also change the language if you find it easier to navigate in another language than English.

British Council Website

3. Full of English Fun Games + Great videos to review notions or to learn new ones (from easy to difficult)

ESL Games Plus

4. Fun Lessons and Games for Kids (easy to understand the lessons)

FreddiesVille

5. Another amazing website for read-aloud stories with so many books (you have to log in but it's free) from easy to difficult levels. You also have vocabulary to go with the ebook and activities!

Oxford Owl (UK)

More to come, someday...

November 4th update:
Here's another ESL teacher's website full of more interesting websites for you to explore:
More Websites

Cycle 3 (grades 5 & 6) 1st Week of October

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We have short evaluations and students will write a text describing a picture they bring to class (next week).

The text will end the ''Let's Describe Project''.

Cycle 2 (grades 3 & 4) 1st week of October

This week, students do their tests on Numbers, Colours, Days o the Week, and Months of the Year.

Coming Up:

Halloween Song (on the tune of Mary Had a Little Lamb)
Halloween Vocabulary
Halloween Activities

Cycle 1 (grades 1 & 2) 1st week of October

This week, students do their tests on colours.

On google images, you can find colouring sheets if you type in Color by numbers

Google Color by Numbers

Coming up next week:

5 Little Pumpkins (song/video)

I will also read them the book:

Vocabulary to be seen
-Numbers (ordinals)
-Pumpkins, Witches, Sitting, Gate, Late, Air, Scary, Run, Fun, Wind, Light, Rolling

Here are extra videos on Halloween if you want to watch some with your child
Knock Knock, Trick Or Treat, Who are you?
Five Creepy Spiders
Can You Make A Happy Face
Go Away!
Halloween Numbers Song

and many more!

Cycle 1 (grades 1 & 2) 3rd week of September

ABC song (sing)
The Rainbow Colors Song (sing and dance)

Traces of evaluation of Competency 1: To act on understanding of texts
- Flashcards on the board and I ask students: ''Go touch Purple and Yellow''

Test on colours coming up (not next week, but the week after).

We will also begin a Halloween Theme very soon.

If you want your kid to practice, here are some links from a fun website I like:

Colors Memory Game

Extra
Here are links to short videos on colors:

What color is this?
What's your favorite color? Dialogue
Colors are adjectives

Cycle 3 (grades 5 & 6) 3rd Week of September

We begin the ''Let's Describe Project''


We look at important verbs (To Be, To Have, To Be Wearing) to use while describing.

We also begin to look at clothing vocabulary.

I ask students to begin thinking of someone they would like to describe (clothing, body parts, using adjectives) because they will have to bring a picture to class and write a text describing the person.

Later on, they will have to do an oral presentation (fashion show-like). They will be 2x2 and they will have to describe their friend to the rest of the class.

The 3 competencies will all be evaluated throughout the project (but focus will be put on Competency 2 since this one is graded on the first report card).

Competency 1: To interact orally
Competency 2: To reinvest understanding of oral and written texts
Competenty 3: To write texts

Coming: Clothing, Adjectives, Body Parts to have enough resources for writting their text.

Cycle 2 (grades 3 & 4) 3rd week of September

We continue learning the days of the week and the months of the year.
More songs to practice:
Months of the year
Days of the week


I read ''Go Away Big Green Monster''

Read Aloud ''Go Away Big Green Monster''

Coming next week:

Activities with the book (create your own monster/your own story).
Finish days of the week and months of the year (and prepare for a little test on the subject coming in October)