Teaching number

How to teach young learners about numbers

Assalamualaikum.

Teaching numbers to the beginner is always chalenging . Especially, those who live in non english speaking country, like in Indonesia. The main thing a teacher should understand is that our students must have concept of number in their mother language. They must be able to count numbers in their own language first unless we will get stuck in teaching them in the future.

Well, just start our lesson joyfully. Enter their world first and take them to our world. Ask the students the number of chairs, tables, or anything in the classroom using their mother language. Ensure that all students follow us and keep attractive.

Teacher : Repeat after me (use this frase in the beginning of our teaching and stress our intonation in this phrase or we can translate into the students' language. using this frase also means that we speak in target language and in the future they will understand while we speak it again)

Teacher : one (write the symbol on the whiteboard)
Students : one
Teacher : Two
Students : Two, etc

Ensure that we have each students' pronounce the words correctly. I find that they mispronounce three, five six, eight, thirteen,fifteen. I suggest to teach them 1 to 12 first.
If they are geting bored, we can use songs or quiz. Remember that we must keep the learning interesting.

We can use the modified songs they have known. I usually sing 'one and one'.
Now, if the students are good in this step, ask them in group or individually.
Teacher : Bayu, What number is it?
Bayu : one
Teacher : Good, what number is it?
Bayu : Six

Do this to the rest of the students. To check their understanding, we can random the number. We can also ask them the number of the things in the classroom.

Thanks.
Wassalamualaikum.

Time Worksheer Creator

When I surfed the internet yesterday, I was looking for a worksheet about telling time in English. I need the worksheet for my students who will be holiday for five days. To fill the holiday, the teachers should give worksheets. I found an exciting site. If I usually just downloaded the worksheets available free. This site offered me something different. Here, I can create the time myself then print it whenever I wish.

In the sreen shot above, you just need fill the time you wish.



After filling out all the time, it will appear like the picture above.

Or If you want to show the digital clock, you just need to click the 'show digital' button.



Thanks for the creator. If you are interested, just click HERE.

ICE BREAKERS; activity to cool down the class situation

Well, sometimes when I am teaching, i get bored or, even, my students get bored. To avoid this many things to do. The most important is never teach in a mere way. You just stand in the center of the classroom, holding a marker and a ruler. 'Shut up', you suddenly scream out seeing your noisy students. Or, you just ask your students to write and write. Hmmmm... If you always do this during teaching. I 'm sure not only you but also your students will get bored. Ok, I have some activities to make the class situation interesting and exciting. You can find ten ice breaker activities to apply in your class. This site provides some games and activities helping you to cheer up the situation. The activities do not require certain equipments. In my opinion, the ideas are very helpful in my classroom. Thanks alot. If you're interested, Plese visit HERE

Learning from Horton

A week ago, My students and I watched a film named "Horton Hears A Who". Actually this is an old film but it's no matter since what I want is that the students can learn from the movie.

Horton is a funny elephant living happily in a jungle called 'Nool'. Everything goes as usual until he finds a dust. It's not an ordinary dust. Horton hears something comes out from the dust as if there were a life in the dust. Yupp, it's true. There is really a life in that dust. Even Horton can communicate with the living things in the dust. Realizing that there is a life there, he began to get worried of one in the jungle know ot and do something dangerous. He then decides to save the very tiny tiny planet to the top of mountain.M eanwhile, the news that Horton speak to the dust make all animals get mad. The do not want their kids get mad like Horton. They finally get Horton trapped.


The animals, provoked by a mother kangaroo, offers him two difficult option. First, Forgetting the crazy idea (which is actually a truth) about living things in the dust. And he is permitted to live in the jungle. The second is he keeps his crazy idea but he will be vanished together with the dust.

One thing that we learn is that We must appreciate a life although it is very small. And it has been done bt Horton. Of Horton get struggled so hard for a life in the dust, why we, as the human being, do nt want to do the same thing for the bigger world.