Math Superlatives

We measured some folks around the school when the students were studying centimeters (they questioned who was the tallest teacher/principal, as well as Abraham Lincoln.  I then printed photos of them and we arranged them in order from shortest to tallest, etc and used verbal statements to make comparisons. 

Since the students have now moved onto money, each of the people were assigned a handful of change, which we then counted and ordered from least to greatest and so on.

Direction Words

 This can be created with any theme.  We used Saint Patrick's Day, which is commonly celebrated in this area of the United States, but most of my English language learners know nothing of it.  So to familiarize them with the day and to review direction words, (and for the kindergarteners work on colors), we made rainbows out of construction paper.  They then colored leprechauns that I had drawn (that are also readily available as clip art) and cut them out.  They pasted them above, below, next to, and under the rainbow and labeled them.

Multistory Construction Article

An interesting article from Language.com written on using storytelling when teaching vocabulary to ESL students.



 Link:  Multistory Construction