A Teacher's Online Journal
Objective: To encourage the children to be creative and express their understanding about living in the city and in the country side. Materials Needed: a. pencil b. crayons c. marker d. art paper Before Drawing: Teacher will create the interests of the students by asking them to imagine how would a fish look like if [...]
Simple things are easily taken for granted. I noticed that some of my students hands are quite dirty and so I decided to revise my class for the day and include an activity to remind the students how important it is to always wash hands everyday. With the help of the friendly teachers we were [...]
This is a catch and evade game for 2-5 years old kids. We tried this at school and the children really enjoyed it. Pre-Game Preparation – The teacher will prepare hula hoops, up-beat music for chidren, picture of a frog on the waterlily and a picture of a snake. Mechanism: The children act as the frog [...]
There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, where in he cannot read A,B,C may read our natures. ~Sir Thomas Browne This is a drawing of one of our students. His interpretation of our facial expression.
Our daughter was invited to attend a class today. The class was handled by our friend and colleague Teacher Kelly, who is very energetic and has always a way to attract children. She was teaching letter F and some other words that begins with letter F. The children really love it. One of the activities [...]
It is a game intended for teaching numbers 1-10. The mechanism involves dictating the number and placing the number on the table. You can download and print the number board from this link. How to play? Pair works: Provide a set of numbers 1-10 and a number board to two children. One will dictate the [...]
I was scanning some old references related to parenting, child guidance and teaching young kids for the reason that I wanted to understand more of my students and my daughter so that I can give the best environment of learning and guidance as much as possible. I came across with a book called Child Guidance. [...]
FB or Fun in Games is my latest additional category to my site. It is quite easier for me to check my site than checking my notebook for the games that I used in the classroom. This is the first post for this category and will be posting more of the games that we played [...]
Last week I wrote about having a Classroom Break and I mentioned about the dessert that I taught to my students. Since the activity was a success, I would like to share the recipe of the dessert. I called it “banana sweets” unless you have any other suggestions. Ingredients: Bananas Yoghurt (fruit yoghurt will do [...]
In our school meeting last week, our vice principal brought out a concern to find ways to improve classroom management. I gave it a thought and I found out that classroom management is not an easy task. It is necessary to dig the possible reasons why the students behave this way. On my preliminary observation [...]
