This is our second Digital Escape Room game we have played online and we used it as an interactive reading comprehension exercise. If this is your first time in my blog, you may want to have a look at my first Digital Escape the Classroom Game Pack Freebie post where I also explain “What is an educational […]
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20 Interactive Activity Ideas for Online Lessons
It has been always hard to maintain focused young learners in the classroom. And during online lessons it’s just getting harder. Sometimes we need breaks, maybe my interactive activity ideas can help you on your online lessons. BTW I have shared some lesson plans and ideas about “Teaching 4 – 6 year old students online” […]
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Mini Book Time with Miss Islah | YouTube video #3
Time flies and we are already on the third story video! Actually, yesterday when I realized that we had 9 weeks of break, I could’t believe it… Minutes don’t pass, but weeks pass like seconds… Weird… or I’m kinda lost 😀 This time we are reading Farmer Mable’s story from our course book English Play […]
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Lesson Plan for Preschool Online English Lessons #4
I am back with couple of ideas and a game and a more settled lesson plan for preschool english class 🙂 It’s been 7 – S E V E N – weeks since we started teaching online… 7 long weeks. I guess we all have learnt so much. For me, I can tell you that […]
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Mini Book Time with Miss Islah | YouTube Video #2
Here is our second story time video. This time we read the story of Kaavpo and Ayo the Parrot taken from English Play Box 3 course book. At the beginning of the story we learn that Kaavpo loves parrots and the next day he finds a parrot at his window! Ayo the parrot becomes is […]
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Escape the Classroom Game Pack Freebie no.7 | Reading Comprehension
As you know, because of Corona virus break we have to teach online these days. Actually, it has been 6 weeks so far! We have covered couple of topics and finished a whole unit, including the Reading Comprehension part. Normally, we play educational escape the classroom games when we reach the reading part of our […]
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Mini Book Time with Miss Islah | YouTube video #1
I recorded this video for my kindergarten students. Normally, this is our story time – daily routine. At the beginning of every English lesson, we would sit together on the carpet (circle time) and take our mini story books and read the story just like in the video. Here is what I do: First 1 […]
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Online Lessons with 4-6 year olds | Lesson Plan #3
Here I am with another lesson plan, but this time I’m not gonna tell you step by step what we have done instead; from now on I’m gonna try to write only what worked best for us. As I said in the first two blog posts about teaching online very young children, it may give […]
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Online Lessons with 4-6 year olds | Lesson Plan #2
You know what, I was thinking that it was gonna be harder to conduct online lessons with the little ones, but I was definitely wrong… First of all, surprisingly, they are all pretty much used to be online -I guess that’s why we call them digital natives- and as the academic stuff is not that […]
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Lesson Plan for 4-5-6 Year Olds – online lessons #1
Two days ago, I was still not sure of the exact lesson plan so I called my partner Yağmur Denizhan to share ideas and have some final brainstorming. Couple of minutes, we had a very interactive and fun lesson plan for our 4 – 6 year olds. I’ve done many webinars and I have a […]
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