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Top 10 story books for kindergarten EFL

Troy has started a fun discussion over on the SSL community forum.  What are your top 10 story books for kindergarten ESL? Here is Troy’s list: 10. Good Night Gorilla 9. Big Bugs! (a popup book with amazing…big bugs!) 8. Five Little Monkeys (the version where mommy jumps on the bed at the end) 7. [...]


Featured Video: Seven Steps

Oh Lucky Day!  We’ve become friends with a really passionate and generous teacher in Hong Kong named Ms. Lucky.  It has been so cool to get ideas from teachers all over, and Lucky sure has a lot of ideas to share.  Check out her playlist of Super Simple Songs videos from her classes. Thanks, Lucky.  [...]


Featured Video: Ten In The Bed

What an amazing tool the internet is.  Over the past several years, we’ve been able to communicate and share ideas with teachers all over the world.  One of those teachers, Val in Argentina, gave us SO many ideas for fun ways to use songs in the classroom. Our students LOVE the video Val made with [...]


Songs for Autistic Children

It’s good to be cake. After a long day of classes, I went home yesterday and began reading some of my favorite blogs. I was moved when I came across this post at the Autism Games blog about a bit of a tough day a Speech Pathologist had with a young autistic boy. [excerpt] When [...]