English For Life Teachers Guide Grade 4 Home Language

Author : Graciela Castellanos
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781482324679
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (246 download)

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Download or read book The Circle of Life written by Graciela Castellanos and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2013-11-21 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Circle of Life Teacher's Guide is one of the components of Languages4kidz, Inc. English 4 Young Children Program. The Circle of Life Teacher's Guide is broken down into 12 lessons. Each lesson introduces children to basic vocabulary, lovely songs, finger plays, stories, poems, hands-on experiences, early creative activities and games to help develop their skills in English. Lessons 1-4 focus on plants and how they experience growth and change throughout their lifetime. These four lessons help children understand the concept of growth by implementing fun activities. Additionally, some activities in these first lessons help children get to know each other and start building relationships. Lessons 5-6 continue focusing on living things and their life cycle. During these two lessons children get to acquire some knowledge about caterpillars and butterflies and the changes caterpillars go through as they grow. Lessons 7-8 focus on tadpoles and frogs. Activities in these lessons help children continue to recognize how living things grow and change. During lessons 9-11 children continue to explore living things, understand the basic needs of living organisms and identify basic life cycles. Additionally, children will learn about baby animals, their names and the things they are able to do as they grow. Lesson 12 is a celebration for children's accomplishments. The lesson plan presents a review of children's favorite activities, songs and rhymes. It lets them have fun showing what they have learned and motivates them to continue enjoying and practicing the English language. Each lesson in this Teacher's Guide includes at the beginning valuable information regarding the materials necessary to conduct the classes and vocabulary and structures that need to be introduced and/or practiced. Throughout this Teacher's Guide, you will find more information to help you focus on important teaching components. There are Information Boxes that provide statements that elaborate or give additional information about specific activities; Language Learning Boxes that focus your attention on relevant issues regarding language development and special Icons that facilitate the identification and location of activities in the lesson plans. Each lesson includes activities for the following: a) Warm-up b) Circle Time c) Theme Focus d) Theme Song e) Creative Workshop f) Story Time g) Wrap-up With this Teacher's Guide you can start teaching using whole language in context right away with minimal investment of time researching and creating your own lesson plans. Together with the Picture Books, Enrichments activities Booklets, CDs with songs, finger plays and rhymes, Languages4kidz Teacher's Guides provide you with the tools necessary to implement the program, and make it easy for children to gradually acquire and build up their vocabulary and communicative competence, catch up or improve their English language skills. The Circle of Life Unit Package has the following components: The Circle of Life Teacher's Guide with Enrichment Activities Booklet I'll have flowers this Spring Picture Book What's happening? Picture Book We are going camping Picture Book, and The Circle of Life CD with songs, finger plays, rhymes and read alouds. Each item is sold separately on Amazon.