Montessori inspired English language teaching

So ... I don't know if you got it ... but I'm currently teaching adjectives 😅 Well, I'm saying currently because it will be current tomorrow or any time after that, when you most probably will read this post. 

The grammar objective for the next unit is 'comparative and...

So it’s that time again when I have to either introduce, extend or revise irregular verbs. 

I love making materials, I really do .... but I can never get it quite right with irregular verbs. There’s always something missing and I feel that I could have made something be...

The next few weeks with grade 5 will be devoted to practising "there is/there are" sentences. We'll be also studying vocabulary connected with rooms in the house and various parts of houses in general. As you know I like to create a couple of different materials for my...

Whilst having a relaxing weekend ... planning lessons for the next week 😝 I came up with a new idea.

I was browsing various books looking for materials when an activity from Brainy 5 caught my attention. It was a simple activity practising vocabulary and two phrases:...

And so it has begun. A new school year is here and after a week of easing ourselves into the new routine, grade 5 and I are ready to get down to business! For the next week or two we will be revising  ... and when I say we I really mean them, because my plan is to sip...

So .... I've been busy. The school year is upon us and I've already spent a week at school preparing my classroom. My computer, the printer and the laminating machine are probably having meetings moaning about how I'm abusing them 😂 

Among many of the things I have to...

So ... the school year is coming! And with it my grade 4 is becoming grade 5! And grade 5 has many thing to learn and many things to revise. That being the case, I have been busy at work for the last 2 weeks, creating new materials for them. 

You know this material: it'...

So recently I told you about a couple of lesson ideas filled with various activities to study idioms. I was re-doing one of those lessons with a new group of kids this week and I came up with an alternative way of doing one of the activities. 

Remember this:  

 If you do...

I am still at my lovely summer camp. I will be here for another 5 weeks so there are probably a couple more post coming your way. Somehow this year I am all about vocab lessons, which is unlike me cause I always base my lessons around a grammar point. Not this time ......

It's been quite a long time since I wrote anything. I had a really hectic end of the school year and the amount of work that needed to be done stopped me from writing. But now school is over and I can relax and .... oh no .... wait .... I can't because, in a true worka...