Monday Musings

Happy Monday lovely friends!  Here is the quote for the week!

 

Do you know the difference 

between education and experience? 

 

Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.

 

Pete Seeger

Happy Teaching!  Let's get out there and do it!

“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.” – Aristotle

Monday Musings!

Happy Monday lovely friends!  Here is the quote for the week!

 

Education is a shared commitment 

between dedicated teachers, 

motivated students and 

enthusiastic parents with high expectations.

Bob Beauprez

Happy Teaching!  Let's get out there and do it!

“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.” – Aristotle

Tuesday...Time for Tongue Twisters!

Hello everyone,

It is time again for Tuesday's Tongue Twisters!  Pronunciation can be a

challenge for second language learners.  A fun lesson to increase accuracy is to practice an assortment of tongue twisters.  Tongue Twisters lower the affective filter of English language learners and kids of all ages love to practice the sing-songy fun of a great tongue twisters.

Easy: 

• Inchworms itching
• Rubber baby buggy bumpers

Medium:

• Green glass globes glow greenly
• Toyboat, toyboat, toyboat, toyboat

Hard:

•  Round and round the rugged rock the ragged rascal ran.
• How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
  A woodchuck would chuck  as much wood as a woodchuck could chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck wood!

Tongue twisters are fun and engaging for young English learners.  They are also culturally significant and native speakers of English are always willing to join in the fun of this challenging practice.




Click here to download our freebie sample of Tongue Twisters!

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What are some of your hardest tongue twisters?
 

Happy Teaching!

Happy Monday!

Happy Monday lovely friends!  Here is the quote for the week!

 

The function of education 

is to teach one to think intensively 

and to think critically. 

Intelligence plus character - 

that is the goal of true education.

 

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Happy Teaching!  Let's get out there and do it!

“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.” – Aristotle

Happy Monday!

Happy Monday lovely friends!  Here is the quote for the week!

 

Education is the key 

to success in life, 

and 

teachers make a lasting 

impact in the lives of their students.

 

Solomon Ortiz

enough said :)

 

Happy Teaching!  Let's get out there and do it!

“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.” – Aristotle

Tuesday's Tongue Twisters!

Hello everyone,

Pronunciation can be a challenge for second language learners.  A fun lesson to

increase accuracy is to practice an assortment of tongue twisters.  Tongue Twisters lower the affective filter of English language learners and kids of all ages love to practice the sing-songy fun of a great tongue twisters.

Easy:

• Four furious friends fought for the phone.
• Six slippery snails, slid slowly seaward.

Medium:

• Green glass globes glow greenly.
• Irish wristwatch

Hard:

• The sixth sick Sheik's sixth sheep is sick.
• She sells sea-shells on the sea-shore. The shells she sells are sea-shells I'm sure.  

Tongue twisters are fun and engaging for young English learners.  They are also culturally significant and native speakers of English are always willing to join in the fun of this challenging practice.

Click here to download our freebie sample of Tongue Twisters!

If you want the full version of our Tongue Twisters product, Click Here!

What are some of your hardest tongue twisters?
 

Happy Teaching!

Language Objectives for MLK Day!

Here is an email I send out before MLK Day to our classroom teachers.  
Many of them used it!  
Always trying to get those language objectives included in every classroom lesson!  

Here it is:

Hi everyone,
If you are looking for a language objective for MLK day, this might work for
you.

Beginners and Early Intermediate Speakers:

TSWBAT orally explain what MLK means to them using correct pronouns.

Intermediate and Early Advanced Speakers:

TSWBAT orally or in writing explain what MLK means to them using past tense

verbs.

Prompts:
What does MLK mean to you?
Why is MLK important to you?
____means _______ to me.
___ is important to me because____.


MLK is important to me because _____________.
MLK is an important figure in U.S. history because________.


Happy Teaching!