Welcome to Summer with Greenman and his friends!

Welcome back! Here you are a new Greenman's story.  It deals about the Summer Party in the forest and you can learn new vocabulary about food and count up to six. Let's take a look!!!

Learn with Greenman

Greenman and the Magic Forest is the method that I follow this school year in Pre-school stage. It's organized in three levels: starter, Level A and Level B. Its main character is Greenman, an old tree who lives in the forest and takes care of it. Greenman has several friends and help him in the stories.

You can find this this video in Starter level and teach you how we can introduce ourselves in an esasy way.

Masks for Halloween

Imagine: It's Halloween time and we don't know what we are going to do with our children, because we don't plan the same class as other Hallowen lessons. Take this idea:

Warm up explaning what Halloween day is.
Print these monsters masks and give out them to your students.
Sing, learn and performance this funny song. Using the masks!!
Learn the lirycs.
Show the main vocabulary for Halloween: Trick or treat, witch, monster, spider, ghost, pumpkin, ... This wallchart is very useful.

Classroom objects

Visual material is the key in English language learning. Our explanation will be more motivate to our kids because they feel more willing to go on learning. Thank to this material, such as this video, we provide them an important visual back up. Therefore, our students will adquire the vocabulary more deeply.

Into Books: Bees like Flowers

Bees like Flowers is another books for kids. This is recommended for Pre-School stage. I have used it in my lessons and I spent 4 sessions in reading and summarize the key vocabulary.

KEY WORDS:  flowers, bees, stinger, tree, yellow, honey, queen.
STRUCTURE:  I like ...

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Greeting songs. Hello song.

Starting our lessons with a Greeting song is a great way to motivate our pupils in Pre-School stage . We  don't only sing the song, we will make the actions and our children will do the same with us. For this, I show you this easy 'Hello Song' for Pre-School.

'HELLO HELLO HOW ARE YOU SONG LYRICS' | 'HELLO SONG LYRICS'

Hello, Hello, how are you?
Hello, Hello, how are you?
Hello,
Hello,
How are you?
How are you today?

I am fine; I am great
I am fine;
I am just great
I am fine; I am great
I’m very well today!
Great!


Hello, Hello, how are you?
Hello, Hello, how are you?
Hello, Hello, How are you?
How are you today?

I am hungry; I am tired
I am hungry; I am tired
I am hungry; I am tired
I’m not so good today.

Ah, well I hope you feel better soon!

Hello,
Hello,
How are you?
Hello,
Hello,
How are you?
Hello,
Hello,
How are you?
I’m very well today!

Halloween

Hi there! This is a new article about Halloween fest. This song is very useful to teach this social convection "Trick or treat" and practicing the structure with the verb to be "Who are you? I´m ..."

The Weather

Teaching the weather is a great resource in our English class routines. We can start our English lesson asking to our pupils: What' the weather like today?. Probably they will look trough the windows and will try to guess about the weather. Nevertheless, we have previously introduced a simple vocabulary about the weather. Sunny, cloudy, snowy, foggy, windy

STRUCTURE: What's the weather like today? Today is ....

Here a set of flashcards about the weather. You can add more pictures if you want

The following picture is a Weather chart. Print and stick it on a cardboard. Cut out the arrows and stick them on two clothespins. Children will clamp the clothespin depending on the weather. Enjoy with your kids!!!

Family song

There are many different ways to teach vocabulary in Pre-school, but thanks to the songs we can introduce new words, pronunciation and expressions. With this song, I´m going to show you how to teach the Family vocabulary for our children in this level. The lyric is very easy for memorizing and you can find it below this video. Our kids will have a funny time learning with this song. Make gestures with your fingers and thanks for reading!

The Finger Family (Daddy Finger / Finger Song) 

http://www.muffinsongs.com (more songs)

Daddy finger, daddy finger, where are you?
Here I am, here I am. How do you do?
Mommy finger, Mommy finger, where are you?
Here I am, here I am. How do you do?
Brother finger, Brother finger, where are you?
Here I am, here I am. How do you do?
Sister finger, Sister finger, where are you?
Here I am, here I am. How do you do?
Baby finger, Baby finger, where are you?
Here I am, here I am. How do you do?