Word Bucket - Sanasankko

Word Bucket is a funny way for learning

to name and sort different things.

All you need is two different colored buckets

and some objects or pictures.

Our first sorting task is to name animals from the pictures 

and sort those pictures to right buckets.

 At the pictures we have farm animals and wild animals from Finnish nature.

(Sheep, cat, dog, pig, chicken, cow, swan, fox, moose, bear, squirrel and rabbit.)

Whit bigger buckets you can sort toys or what ever objects comes to your mind.

We started our sorting game whit pictures. We'll see what we are sorting next time...

English With Nikki: Playing With...

What's in the bag?

 What is it?

It's a colorfull blanket. In Finland we call it leikkivarjo,

but I really don't know how should we call it in English 😅

Still we know how to play with it. It goes up and down, up and down...

And when it's up we can all say hello to each other under it.

HELLO!

 We also know that it has three different colours in it: Blue, pink and yellow.

We also have balls which have the same colours. 

Everyone can have the same coloured ball

 than the place where they are sitting is.

...And then the balls go up and down! (And even run out sometimes.)

Story time with Hello Bear

The book is called Big Red Bath.

And with it we can learn to name some animals.

Splash of Colours and Animal Games

Today at the morning meeting we got to know our new game called Splash of Colours.

We put all the different colored paint cans on the floor

and each child got to choose one magnetic picture from the bag.

Our task was to recognize and name the pictures,
sort out what colour are they and name the colour.

And finally find the righ colored paint can for the pictures.

This time we had these colors and pictures: 

Black hat and cat. Red apple and strawberry. Blue bird and a balloon. Orange (basket)ball and a carrot.

Purple flower and jam. Green t-shirt and peas. Yellow banana and a star. Brown teddy bear and an ice cream.

After morning meeting we played farm yard dominoes and memory game
using English while we played the games.

English With Nikki: Colours

Learning colours:

Red, blue, green, yellow, pink, purple

Sorting cars by colour:

Playing a game:

Cleaning up: Each child cleans one colour.

Story time:

What do we have for lunch On...

English With Nikki: May 2018

A few weeks ago our English teacher
Nikki came back to teach English to us.

Nikki is with us every Monday morning
teaching English in small groups of children.

With Nikki we learn English while we play, sing, 
play games, read books and do handicrafts.

In May we have spent some time getting to know each other.

This autum Hello Bear has arriwed to our English lessons.

Sometimes the bear is hiding and we need to find it,

but still it allways greets us happily saying 

HELLO (and GOODBYE) to everyone of us!

Other topics in May have been animals and farm animals. 

We've been learning to name animals while playing with stuffet animals and reading:

Where's Spot!

Old Macdonald Had A Farm

...Singing a song about Old MacDonalds farm...

...And making colouring pictures and handicrafts.

 

 

New learning tools

Last week we got some new games and other objects

to support our English learning!

We got two new games that allows us to learn how to name animals.

We got also colorful building blocks and a magnetic sorting set

to support color learning.

(Magnetic sorting set colours included: red, yellow, blue, green, brown, orange, black and purple)

Then we got our own microphone with which we can recod voices 

and listen to them immetiately or remove to PC.

 

...And then we also got some new fruits and vegetables

to play, explore and learn their names and colours!