Once again, we played inside in the blue class using snack time and the classroom toys as the basis for our  vocabulary. After so much repetition, pears, thank-you and sit down are really beginning to mean something to the children. And, as a new touch this week we played with costumes and looked at carnival masks!
What a wonderful start back in English class this term in the Blue/Light Blue English classes. We picked up our English class routine right where we left it before the holidays—eating our fruit together, talking about its name and color. (Usually we eat green pears, but sometimes we have oranges.)
There has been one difference from the majority of our pre-Christmas classes. After our morning snack, usually we go outside to play. However, since Christmas it has been to wet, cold, or too many students have had bad colds, so we have played inside. It has been wonderful playing with balls, cars and trucks and animals together. This is the first time we have had the opportunity to use such a wide range of toy names together. What’s more, now that the students are more vocal in general, more students are trying to reproduce the sounds they are hearing in English. It is so much fun to hear the littlest children at school trying to express themselves in English too. We will keep playing inside until the weather cooperates (or flu season passes) and we can go out again!
To finish term one in the Light Blue and Blue classes, we have hung up Christmas ornaments, talked about winter and continued using daily classroom language related to the patio and and winter. We finished by watching the Raymond Briggs classic «The Snowman» and talked about winter! I am including the link here if you’d like to watch it again at home! Have a wonderful vacation!