july's songs

here's our 4 songs for july:
*mr. sun
*if you're happy and you know it
*5 green and speckled frogs
*wheels on the bus

Tags: esl preschool, children's songs

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thanks to whoever came up with this idea

we've got this box of index cards at school where we're supposed to fill them out with game ideas and what have you. few people do it regularly and i don't know if anyone actually looks at them. but i do sometimes. and i saw this great idea.
it's a way of teaching first-letter phonics using the song "5 little ducks".
you pick 5 letters and then sing the song like this:

five little letters went out to play
under the bridge and far away
shannon said "sss sss sss sss"
and letter S came running back

it's great because the kids already know the tune to the song so it makes it easy for them to sing along.
i've started doing it this month. the first day, the kids looked at me strangely. but the second day a few of them started to sing along and now they really seem to like the song and get into it.
i'm gonna do it for at least this month and see how it goes.
Tags: esl preschool, teaching phonics

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what's cute???

usually i'm kind of a baggy t-shirt kind of girl, but it's starting to get hot in japan and today i was wearing a tank top. it's quite skimpy compared to my usual attire and shows off my ample bosom.
today during smile time, maya was standing close to me. suddenly she reached out and started stroking my breast. in perfect english she said "this is cute." then some of the other kids also started doing it saying "this is cute".
i'm still not sure whether she was talking about my shirt or my breasts.
Tags: esl preschool, funny kids

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