First lesson - lesson plan and freebies

(bunting - activity. Examples from kids 4, 6, 10, 11 yo)

When I do my teacher training, I often come across new teachers who have never written a lesson plan in their lives. Especially when teaching small children they are often a bit lost and don't know what kind of activities to do with children or how long an activity should last (please, don't plan an activity that takes 40 minutes ....) among many other things .
So here is an idea on how you could start (see at the bottom of the post). It can easily be adapted for different ages.
For beginner teachers, I often advise them to do a detailed plan. It takes a loooot of time and you may feel like it's nor worth it. After all the goal is not to plan for 4 hours just to teach 1 hour (and only get paid for that one hour!). Been there, done that! But believe me, at the beginning it is really worth it (I will write another blogpost about why you should have lesson plans), with time it will get easier and you will teach more by intuition.
I'm barely using any lesson plans anymore, unless it's a level or topic that I haven't taught a lot in my career, but even then the plans just contain major points and a list of things to do before the class (may be my age, but I tend to forget to prepare something and then standing in front of the students with the activity in the head but nothing in the hands .. not so cool).
That's why I post a lesson template for you as well. Enjoy :)
And let me know how things went! Take care

Lesson PlanTime: 60 mins
Level: children, beginner (3+)
Target language: Hello, my name is, what’s your name
Objectives : getting to know each other, getting familiar with the environment

Freebies
Full lesson plan: here
Lesson plan template: here
Bunting (3 levels): here

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Who took the cookie? Game

A game you can play using this song ... Have the kids sitting in a circle and close their eyes. (Prepare a biiig cookie, that you can reuse all the time, maybe using salt dough or just a paper cookie), walk behind the kids, sing a song together, drop the cookie behind one of the children without them noticing and sit down with them. Start the nursery rhyme using the real names of the kids instead of the animals. Each time a name is mentioned this child has to look behind them and then say "Not me" or "Yes I have the cookie, mniam mniam mniam."

Outline of a kids lesson

This week I sat down with one of my trainees and we discussed how a lesson for small children should look like. She will take over a class of 3yo. Our lessons are 90 minutes long and this is what we came up with. This plan is one that she will keep for the rest of the year, just changing up the songs, games and activities for each lesson. Cuts down planning time quite a bit. 1. Routine: Circle time: - singing hello song - asking "how are you", always adding more feelings throughout the year - weather chart - once they are a bit older, the today's day - TPR - show the children a box with a puppet inside (the puppet is scared when there is too much noise, so they have to be quiet in order for it to come out of the box. And of course, it only speaks English!) - have a conversation with the puppet and with the kids (good time to repeat old vocab and questions and get the kids talking) - repetition of old topics through old song, vocab game etc - repetition of l...

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