The Halloween and regular Squares games were a huge hit. So here’s a fantastic Christmas version! As usual the cool thing is that it lets you review lots and lots of lessons without needing lots and lots of printing! 1. Place, face down, several mini cards for themes you wish to review on each of the large…
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Anthony just wrote a quick tip on Facebook: Quick tip! In my opinion now is the best time to do When! When! When! while we’re sandwiched between Halloween and Christmas, the graphics on the screen really work when it comes to the months! Get your skates on though, you’ve only got till Wednesday to try…
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One of the biggest “reasons” I get in my workshops for not learning new things or putting off implementing new ideas is.. “But I’ve got no time!” I can quite sympathise! However it’s not usually a case of “having no time”, after all we each have only 24 hours each day, it’s just that most of…
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This is a great mash up between the “Exploding Fat Man” game from Mido’s Book of Games and the “Do you like..?” running karuta game. You can of course do it with any theme, but seeing as it’s Christmas, let’s do the the “Decorate the Christmas Tree” song. So first of all run through the…
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On Friday we had a video for the Gingerbread Man lesson (thank you for all the great comments!) and today we have the gestures to the “Let’s decorate the Christmas tree” song. Again this is a full on big production that works really well at Christmas. Check out the video below (or here if you are on…
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I originally did the Genki English Gingerbread Man as a really simple Christmas play. But … on Sunday I tried out an even quicker way of doing it, a no-prep, 20 minute “from zero to play” version! And thanks to Nigel for uploading the video of how the song fits into it all with the…
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