“I want” can be a popular request from students, but when teaching it there are a couple of important points to keep in mind. First of all, depending on the students’ native language “I want” can sometimes have two very different meanings depending on what follows it. For example in Japanese “I want something” is…

Well I actually got through most of my emails quicker than expected, so can bring you what I did have planned for this weekend, the brand new “I like vegetables” song. It’s really simple, and I’ve added in some new vegetable picture cards. It will be to buy on one of the future CDs but…

With over a thousand people a day on the phonics page alone, I feel quite a big responsibility in what I introduce there. Unfortunately quite a few teachers and parents are under the mistaken impression that phonics means “taking a letter and seeing what sound it makes”. That’s not what phonics means. Phonics actually means…

If you’re teaching younger and younger kids each year, this might be just the thing for the youngest of them all: www.BabySignSongs.com Apparently it gives babies a head start on language development, gives them a big jump when they can physically talk and it causes less tantrums when babies can actually sign what they want…

I wrote this message up on a forum the other day, but figured you might find it useful as well: Another idea is to mix it in with the “Doctor Doctor” game. 1. The kids “rock, paper, scissors“. 2. The loser rolls a body parts die (it’s part way down the right hand side of…

Today’s new worksheets are a set of dice for most of the songs. “But most of them have 8 answers, how can they fit on a die?” you may ask. Well most of them are funky 8 sided dice! Many kids haven’t seen 8 sided ones before so get quite a surprise when they are…