Ingles360-what you need, where you are

Hi! My name is Ana.

I teach English as a foreign language for prek-12 kids in South America.

I also teach English to my sweetest student, my niece Catalina.

She is 3 years old and she lOvEs English.

I am also the author and designer of the books and games I sell here.

Scroll down the page to find different resources. I hope you can find something that fit your needs.

www.ingles360.net

Listening and speaking

This is a meaningful area where children listen to songs, sounds, noises, stories. We can have a chart on the wall to keep track of what the children have listened.

Set up this area near the Book centre so they can share materials. Provide children with headphones so that they can be listening silently.

A rug,, cushions, a small table and all the stuff labelled are more than enough to organize this centre.

Suggested Materials:

· Tape players

· Tapes of stories

· Tapes of teachers, principals, parents, etc. Reading stories)

· Paper

· Response sheets

· Audio cassette player-recorder and audiocassettes

· Automobile parts (old hub caps, brake drums, fly wheels, etc.)

· Booklet

· Chairs (small)

· Chimes

· Compact disc player and compact discs

· Cymbals

· Drawing and writing tools

· Drums

· Guitar

· Handbells

· Jars, bottles

· Listening post and earphones

· Lummi sticks or rhythm sticks (dowel rods work fine)

· Mallets

· Maracas

· Music boxes

· Piano

· Record player and records

· Tambourine

· Tin cans (assorted sizes filled with various articles for shaking, and large cans to be used as drums)

· Triangles

· Washboard

· Water

· Wind chimes (can be made from various materials such as keys, leaves..)

These are possible outcomes for this centre:

1. Enjoying stories

2. Revisiting favourites

3. Developing letter recognition

4. Developing listening skills

5. Following directions

6. Reading

7. Improving phonemic awareness

8. Building sight word vocabulary

9. Tracking print

Suggested activities:

Prepare copies of books with tapes in Ziploc bags. Children listen to a story using the headsets. Having the book there allows the children to read and listen simultaneously.

Draw the favourite part of the book

Retell the story to the group

Record different sounds and prepare pictures of these sounds.

Store them in an envelope or a Ziploc bag so that children can listen and identify the sounds

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