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Christmas Teaching Tools

November 15, 2011 in Activities, Holidays, Picture Cards by Super Simple Learning | 2 comments

Christmas is Coming!

What do you want for Christmas?

What makes Christmas such a special time of year? There is magic in the air! It is a time filled with possibility, wonder and excitement. No matter where you look, there is something special. Decorations, twinkling lights, falling snow…and music is everywhere.

Using music in the classroom is a powerful teaching tool. Songs stay with us. Sometimes for years, or even an entire lifetime. Some of the most classic songs are those associated with the holiday season. Young children and emerging speakers may struggle with some of the more complicated lyrics and concepts in these traditional tunes and hymns. We wanted to make something special, just for them. Songs that they can understand and sing along to. Songs that are fun, playful and active. Songs that make them laugh and smile.

Christmas is also a great time to introduce a variety of other topics. In addition to traditional holiday themes, it’s easy to practice and review other basic language like counting, action verbs, clothing, weather, parts of the body, prepositions of place, and more.

We have a big collection of classroom and at-home activities to share. See our Christmas Pages for holiday songs, videos, games, lesson plans, party ideas, worksheets, and picture cards, all made super simple for emerging speakers. Watch the blog for more teaching tips. And check out the Super Simple Songs – Christmas enhanced CD for even more resources like printable lyric sheets and additional worksheets.

Be sure to send us your ideas and videos this holiday season! And have yourself a Super Simple Christmas!

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Halloween Topics – Halloween Characters

October 24, 2011 in Holidays, Picture Cards, Resources, Teaching Tips by Super Simple Learning | No comments

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"Hello, My Friends. Let's Go Trick-or-treating!"

Halloween is filled with all sorts of colorful characters. Meet witches and ghosts, spiders and bats, cowboys, pirates, monsters, and more! There’s a lot of vocabulary to have fun with. One way to help young learners remember all these new words is by associating the word with a gesture. Gestures serve as a memory trigger and they are just fun to do.

Most Super Simple Songs are designed to be used with gestures. When you use gestures, very little pre-teaching is necessary. Teachers can seat the students in a circle and use the Halloween picture cards to teach some simple motions to go with each word. It’s always a good idea to have the students create the gestures themselves.  When they create the gestures, it helps them internalize the language even more. Then have everyone stand up and play the music. You can sing along and demonstrate the song while the students follow your lead. Many kids will start to sing along as well, but even the kids who aren’t ready to sing will be able to participate with the gestures.

One of our favorite songs to sing in October is Hello, My Friends from Super Simple Songs – Halloween. It introduces a number of common Halloween characters/costumes in a super friendly way. Doing all of the gestures to the song is just challenging enough to keep the song interesting all month as we head into Halloween.


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Color Hands!

October 21, 2008 in Picture Cards by Troy | No comments

A few people have asked about the white hands on the felt board in the background of some of our videos. They’re hands with color names written on them.  I use them a lot when we’re doing things that involve choosing colors.  For example, if a student is choosing a colored sticker for their attendance passport, I ask them to go the the velcro board and find that color and bring it back to me.

They’ve since been remade and are a lot more colorful now.  You can download them from Super Simple Songs for free.  Put some velcro or magnets on the back and put them somewhere in your room.  They make a great colorful decoration too!

-Troy


family flash cards

September 22, 2008 in Picture Cards by Troy | No comments

Check the free flash cards page for a new set of family vocabulary flash cards form the Rain Rain Go Away video!

weather flashcards

December 20, 2007 in Picture Cards by Troy | 3 comments

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Added 6 new weather flashcards for sunny, rainy, cloudy, snowy, windy and stormy. Four of these go great with How’s the Weather? from Super Simple Songs Two.


Our January topic at Knock Knock English is Clothing and Weather. Hope to get some clothing cards up soon!

Troy

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silly shapes flashcards

December 13, 2007 in Picture Cards by Troy | 1 comment

Added new shapes flashcards to the site today. They’re a little silly–my students have been having a lot of fun with them. I also updated the Shape Song #1 and Shape Song #2 pages with the cards, and some activity suggestions. Our holiday lessons mostly focus on “toys” vocabulary. But we also add shapes to the month’s topic because there are so many shapes that can be found in toys. ball-circle, kite-triangle, video game-rectangle, book-square, etc.

Hope everyone is having fun with their holiday classes, parties, etc.!

Troy

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