ROUTINES

• What is the importance of classroom routines?

Classroom routines have several important benefits within the young learners learning environment.

• When used correctly, routines:
  • Prevent students from having to ask “What are we doing?” or “What are we doing next?”
  • Help students to listening and comprehension skills.
  • Allow learners to know what to expect in class.
  • Provide students with opportunities to practice all four aspects of the language (listening, reading, writing, and speaking).

Classroom routines affect learners’ behavior in positive ways! Routines that are well-crafted and consistently adhered to allow the teacher to build a comfortable learning environment for young learners.

As a result of routines, students are much more likely to come prepared to class, understand what is happening throughout a lesson, and maintain their focus during instruction.

• Our routines:
  • Good morning (welcome to the english class)
  • What day is it today? And what month are we in? (date)
  • How’s the weather? (weather)
  • Clean up (tidy up english class and go back to their class)

PUPPET

During this academic year, the English classroom’s puppet, a very special friends of us, will visit all the families in the class. Her name is “Pepe” and she would like to be part of each families for one week. She’s going with a special “diary”, a notebook where every family can capture their experiences with the puppet through images and by writing them.

With this project, we expect to work the sense of responsibility with the puppet, giving a change for every pupil to share their engagement with it. We also create a bridge between the school and the family and get the children interact with other pupils; express themselves and explain their experience becoming the main character of the story.