Parent/Child class enjoying the Stretchy Band!Hi!  Miss Carole from Macaroni Soup back with my new-found favorite prop – the Stretchy Band!  Ok, it may have been around for a while, but I just picked one up this summer and started working with it in my classes – it’s a BIG HIT!!!   Disclaimer – I am not in any way connected to the manufacturer.   ...

Many of you are still in school and probably still have District tests to give even if the state tests are complete.  How about some fun ideas to help review skills? Buzz - This is a great game to practice multiples.  Gather your students in a circle or you could even do it in line when waiting for lunch or to get into activity.  Say the number ...

This is the third installment of my 10 sets of ten.  Today is all about motivating students.  These are ten ways I  motivate students: 1.  Pride!  Luckily, there are some students who take pride in themselves and just plain want to do well.  They want to make the teacher happy.  Don't you love these kids?  Don't you wish there were more of ...

In We Are The Champions, I wrote about several ideas you could do with songs in the classroom, so if you'd missed it, you ought to take a look now. Warm-up Play the video, freeze it when Paul McCartney can be seen. Ask if anyone knows him, what they know: the group he belonged to, the instrument he plays, the period the song was written, ...

Here's a simple fun activity for you to practise listening and conditionals. First, listen to the song, and you can follow the lyrics if you want (there are some minor errors).Then, click on the image below the lyrics, and this will direct you to an interactive cloze activity, prepared using Lucy Georges' Cloze Creator. Try to fill in the gap ...

If you had a choice of a country to live in, where would you choose? What would your criteria be? Newsweek recently compiled a list of the best countries in the world based on health, economy, politics and the quality of life. The project took them several months to complete, but their results are now available. Click on the image below to browse ...

Here are some games to help you learn musical instruments. They are four categories: strings, brass & keyboard, percussion, and woodwind. Just click on the image to begin the game. If you want to see your name appear on the scoring sheet, you'll have to register before playing. Remember your nickname & password for all my other games which ...

In two weeks, Halloween is with us again. What have you got lined up for this year? Here are just a few ideas to help you get going. To introduce/revise vocabulary related to Halloween, I've set up a PowerPoint presentation. Show the slide first, then elicit the word before revealing it. It's appropriate for basic level upwards. To display it ...

Soon, it’ll be the start of the new academic year; don’t wait until the very last minute to think about ideas for the first lesson. To help you, here are a few tried and tested activities. Some of your students are possibly known to you from previous years, so you’ll probably have an idea as to what will or won’t work with them. If you have a new ...

This one is especially for Betty. ;-P If you haven't played Part One yet, you'd be well advised to do so before attempting this one. It's a little different: this time, the clues are names of famous people. First, you'd have to guess the instrument which is associated with them, then you classify it in the relevant bin. You've got to be quick to ...