Free Days of the week teaching resources

 Days of the week worksheets.

This resource includes 10 pages of days of the week's fun activities: pencil-shaped days of the week cards, matching days of the week names, writing and guessing missing the letters and days of the week.

Students will practice learning and saying days of the week through cards, games, and activities. 

There are several activities that I use in my classroom:

1. Put in order.

Put days of the week cards randomly on the table and ask students to put the days in order. You can conduct this activity organizing group or pair game. 

2. Run and bring! 

Divide the class into two teams; ask them to stand in two rows. Each student from each group should be ready to run and bring the day that teacher asks. A student who brings the card first will be the winner. 

3. “Cross the river” 

This game looks like role play; you need a crocodile mask or costume, days of the week cards, and inspire students to be swimmers. Put the cards on the floor in order or you can draw a big river on the floor and put the cards, ask the crocodile (who plays the role of crocodile) to stand along with the cards. A student should play the role of the swimmer and say days of the week while swimming. If a student can’t say the name of the day the crocodile eats his/her up. 

4. “Throw me day!” game

You need a ball in the classroom to play this game. Ask one student as a leader of the game to take the ball and throw it to anyone saying any day of the week. For example Monday! 

The next student who catches the ball should say the next day – Tuesday. The game can be played by changing leaders until you sure the days of the week memorized well.

Calm activities like matching the days of the week and writing missing letters help students to work in groups or pairs creatively and logically. 

Have fun! 

pdf: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GKhTIaqBnbR6kR_3Z72Jlu5JhV2sZ62x/view?usp=sharing

 

INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PEACE

 Fun Peace Day activities

                       "Peace begins with a smile" ~ Mother Teresa

What can be better than to start a Peace Day lesson with a smile? International Day of Peace is celebrated all over the world on the 21st of September. 

Teaching children about peace means raise awareness about life with happiness, negotiation, harmony, inner-peace, respect for each other, protecting peaceful life and environment, living in a friendly relationship with neighbors, and much more. 

I was thinking about activities that can be useful to build a culture of peace before starting to create them. These worksheets include 5 pages of Reading comprehension, PEACE acrostic poem templates, Vocabulary awareness,  “Peace Day” coloring page, and “Peace Day Kite” crafting. Absolutely free.

I strongly believe that all of us should protect our peace on earth, and teaching children about peace means a lot in their lives. I also hope activities that I created on this theme will help our students to become critical and creative thinkers. 

You can download this resource here: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Fun-Peace-Day-activities-6040185

Back to school reading and speaking

 Back to school reading and speaking 

I am more than sure that all students are happy to back to school after summer and they are eager to learn harder this year as they became one grade older.

As teachers, we know that it’s essential to help school children to adapt to the classroom after the summer holidays.  

“ Back to school” reading and speaking worksheets help students to improve concentration, adapt to the new academic year starting, and improve speaking about the school, subjects, and so on. This resource includes 6 pages; each page has a short text, picture, and questions for group or pair discussion.

You can download "Back to school" reading and speaking resource for free on Teachers Pay Teachers store: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Back-to-school-reading-and-speaking-5989955?fbclid=IwAR2NR_QCcV1c5Sf20lDyxDezbI5g1a8HoynGjt7JOaq-W8qAFf1ciMt042s

 

 

Insects Reading Stories

Insects reading stories.

It's enjoyable to read about insects, plants, animals, and people. Whenever I create activities and worksheets I keep in mind my learners' interests, try to look at learning with their eyes. And stories that I create to read are written in a fun and joyful way. In creating this resource I wanted my students to look at insects as interesting and most intelligent creatures. Teachers can conduct Answer the Questions task, True/False activity, or "What? When? Why?" conversation.

You can download pdf on Teachers Pay Teachers store for free:

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Insects-Reading-stories-5534446

Spider words worksheets

"Spider words" template for word games

It's so exciting for me to be a primary English teacher. I love to interact with all students in my classroom through fun and flexible activities. Recently I created "Spider words" worksheets that can be helpful to learn and revise the words related to weather, kinds of animals, types of houses, classroom things and many others. Download the Spider word template and you will have an easy ready, editable resource that can be used for different educational purposes. pdf version is here: 

https://drive.google.com/open?id=18gT0n828TESGDT495w7ikEWMlbnw7KcF

ABC words game

 Insert the words in alphabetical order! (Cut and glue)

Print all pages (3-4 copies) for group play. Give time to put all the words in alphabetical order. Conduct competition among the groups. You also can conduct the “I spy” game using the color of the words. For example: “I spy with a little eye, something (the word) in red”

“Sorting the words” activity will be a wonderful way to sort the words by names. Example: words related to transport, fruit, animals, etc.

More fun activities can be conducted with these worksheets, it depends on your creativity. J

For more advanced level learners: cut empty circles of words and ask students to write more complicated words in alphabetical order.

Click for pdf version: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1jHZ1XyhCGu86gTI2WmYyuFxJWY9b3e70

ABC Reading "B"

ABC Reading passage  "B"

Here are another reading worksheets with the text and activities that I am happy to share. These resources designed for young learners and I think it will be useful for practicing reading and vocabulary both in the classroom and home. You can download pdf and audio files by clicking on the link: 

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1bXGnrqMXEmItysoPL14KVSMGyEc2JVfw

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1jTJsscwbVBh1KOYHdzj9b9bWr4aFFSIW

ABC Reading passages

ABC Reading

Our second grades have already finished learning ABC and it's time to read short texts and do fun activities for checking comprehension. I started working on it; each text will start with ABC letters. Today's text is "All about Antelopes". After reading the text learners will answer the questions. By the way, if some words are unknown in the text it's better to conduct vocabulary activity or give a definition ( maybe give the translation of the words).

Sometimes students face difficulty in reading passages alone, keeping in mind this I prefer to conduct pair or group reading in order to encourage them to help each other.  By doing this I can improve my students'  comfort and confidence. 

This teaching material includes one page of reading text, task page (Word search task and writing facts cloud) and audio for listening.

pdf: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1vqNOew0wYmzDnQZ_C48uHzKzw5eCd6J5

audio mp3: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1G17u9u8d1dLbOvu2yvB5AGBLgrShM7dC

School - related words

School-related words activities

I've just added new collections of school-related words with activities. They are printable and colorful. As for my learners, they adore colorful worksheets and crafted visual aids in the classroom. 

I suggest you print and cut the word pencils, ask students to read and show pictures of these words. Your students can add more words related to school looking around the school or classroom. Most of the learners are active in playing word games such as "Boggle", "Find your partner word", "Word sorting game" and " One picture worth a thousand words" in our classroom. In "School-related words" worksheets you can find an activity that helps learners not only learn school words but also revising ABC by putting the words in alphabetical order. 

Here are the worksheets that you can download for free.

Put the words in alphabetical order!

Encourage your students to learn school words by cutting and pasting them on the board under the pictures of these words! Have fun! 

Here is pdf version: 

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1mQPVW8sYEvGAagSkZKST7jBYJbHYAbRz

Numerals 1-100

Number activities

Here it is, a new resource for different level classes. I hope some activities with numbers/ numerals will bring fun to the classroom. Download numerals 1-100, cut them and conduct the matching activity.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1InvHmTT8GFszuPukq3_qpbACUUd2HLv8

Feel free to download and use in your classroom! :) 

Reading stories with young learners.

Reading is fun!

I choose interesting and easy reading stories for my young learners that do not let learners get bored. We have a classroom library where all books are sorted by genres and the age of my students.  They love reading and doing some fun activities on stories.

Here is a story prepared for grade 4.

Step 1: Read the story and retell it. 

Retelling helps students to memorize the main idea and improves learners speaking skills.

Step 2: 

True/ False activity.

This activity is useful for reading comprehension as checking students' understanding is 

a very important part of reading strategy.

Step 3: 

"Story Map" activity. I usually offer my students to work in groups for story mapping because of time-consuming. It also helps learners to work in a team helping each other.

Step 4: Presentation

The teams present their story map by following a given structure in the story map handout. 

Story mapping is a unique technique that provides a clear picture of the whole story by reviewing and analyzing the story.

Teaching English with Math

Numbers, Addition, plus...

I always try to create a fun learning atmosphere in the classroom where my students can feel happy while learning English. They love fun and creative activities but some activities like math doing puzzles, sums, and counting are just to exercise students’ brains. For this purpose, I created math activities and worksheets for the 1-3 grades.  One of them is the “Penguin addition task”.  Students should do this task in groups, pairs or individually. I prefer to suggest my learners work in pairs. Cut the penguin figures, put them on the backside and ask students to choose them.

Next activity and worksheets designed to write missing numbers: from 10-100. 

“Number wheeler” the game engages learners to be fast and smart. Cut and craft number wheeler to set up the game for individual players. Read instruction in the printable worksheets. 

Download pdf: https://drive.google.com/drive/my-drive