Graciela Castellanos
Published: 2012-12-15
Total Pages: 362
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A Busy, Busy Day Teacher's Guide is one of the components of Languages4kidz, Inc. English 4 Toddlers Program. This Teacher's Guide is broken down into 12 lessons. Activities designed for the lessons in A Busy, Busy Day promote children's understanding of their immediate world. Lessons 1-4 are designed to help toddlers discover the places where they live, their homes. The experiences provided in these lessons include vocabulary related to children's immediate environment as well as members of their families. Lessons 5-6 focus on activities that introduce and reinforce vocabulary, expressions and structures related to actions children perform at home every day. Lessons 7-11 provide children with some knowledge about the places and people they visit with their parents at some time or another, such as their grandparents, their doctor, their dentist, friends, the supermarket, restaurants, and their schools. Lesson 12 is the last lesson on the A Busy, Busy Day unit. It is a "celebration" for children's accomplishments. The lesson plan presents a review of children's and their parents' favorite activities, songs and rhymes. It lets them have fun showing what they have learned and then motivates them to continue enjoying and practicing the English language through the following unit, Birds, Buds and Blooms. Each lesson plan includes at the beginning important information regarding the materials necessary to carry out the activities and the vocabulary and structures that need to be introduced and/or practiced. Throughout this Teacher's Guide you will find additional information to help you focus on important teaching components. There are Information Boxes that provide statements that elaborate or give additional information about certain activities, Language Learning Boxes that focus your attention on important issues regarding language development and Specific Icons that facilitate the identification and location of activities in the lesson plans. Each lesson includes activities for the following: Welcome Warm-up All Together Playful Time Creative Time Story Time Wrap-up! Each lesson introduces children and their parents to basic vocabulary, lovely songs, finger plays, stories, poems and games to help develop their skills in the target language. 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. A Busy, Busy Day Unit Package has the following components: A Busy, Busy Day Teacher's Guide with Enrichment Activities Booklet Ms. Wishy-Washy cleans her house literature book A busy, busy day literature book, and A busy, busy day CD with songs, finger plays, rhymes and read alouds. Each item is sold separately on Amazon.