Cycle One 

Don't you just love working with books on Epic! It's one of my favorite website ever. These activities were created to use with "Draw your own dessert", an interactive book on Epic. All tasks are differentiated for Grade 2-3 classes. Video are integrated to engage students in interaction on each of the four themes.  

When five little monkeys decide to secretly bake a birthday cake for their sleeping mama, things get messy. In this LES, students will learn vocabulary and expressions about ingredients and action words related to baking. They will even personalize their own recipe! 

What will I do with my students if a classroom closes and I have to teach online? This question is on everyone’s lips, along with “when will I find the time to do all this?”. Well hopefully this emergency planning will give you a hand. It includes everything you need, from the presentation documents to the students documents ready to share.

Your students will enjoy humming and singing along with Pete the Cat. In this learning and evaluation situation, students will learn about colours through storytelling, songs and activities. Using a word bank, students will have to think about other possible messes Pete the Cat could step in and what colour it would stain his beautiful white shoes.

Watch Jeff Stinco read the story about Jack, a young boy who receives the most unique present for his birthday: an imagination machine. Your students will be taken on a journey through Jack’s wild imagination to discover universes like Lollipop-Palooza and Mount Everfudge. This lesson includes flashcards and vocabulary building activities. Enjoy!

Learning through songs is a great way to explore a language and acquire vocabulary. Using nursery rhymes in the ESL classroom is a fun way to get started as they are great for pronunciation and contain a lot of repetition. They will absolutely love the clapping rhymes. 

Teaching ESL to a class with multiple levels can be a challenge sometimes. Anyone who has had to teach to an elementary 2-3 class knows that mixing cycles in a class, especially with the younger learners, is THE ultimate challenge. Therefore, here are a couple of differentiated tasks that will support teachers working in such a context. With this material, teachers will not have to double his planning workload! And kids will enjoy all the signing and clapping!

This LES has been created to go along with the book Happy Birthday Winnie by Valerie Thomas. You can buy the book here. After reading the book to the students, the teacher will help them build vocabulary using the interactive whiteboard tools provided. For each activity, handouts are available for both grade 2 and grade 3 students. Each grade level will be evaluated according to their own programme's competencies.