DATE AND WETHER JOURNAL - OPENING ROUTINE

** THE POWER OF ROUTINES **

Do you have an opening routine in your ESL class?

Use the DATE & WEATHER JOURNAL as an OPENING ROUTINE with your grade 1 and 2 students.

Use engaging songs from the suggested websites as a springboard for vocabulary learning and rehearsal. The power of routines help you manage your class more effectively as well as develop students’ autonomy.

HOW TO USE IT:

- Print pages 2 & 3 (on both sides) and give one copy to each student. Each page side has 4 journals to complete. Each double-sided copy should last 8 classes. Students should complete one journal per class.

- Use page 4 (first months of the school year) to project on the whiteboard. 

- Use page 8 (lastmonths of the school year) to project on the whiteboard. 

Personally, I make a double-sided copy that lasts 8 classes. The numbers 1-4 help students stay in the same « rectangle » . The first two classes I do it just on the whiteboard. I’ll then introduce the worksheet and it works a lot better! This first two classes also give me time to present the Hello, How’s the Weather and the Days Song. 

PERSONAL CHOICE OF SONGS!*

- Hello!: https://supersimple.com/song/hello/

- How's the Weather?: https://supersimple.com/song/hows-the-weather/

- Days of the Week: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXMofxtDPUQ&list=RDmXMofxtDPUQ&start_radio=1

- Months of the Year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fe9bnYRzFvk&list=RDFe9bnYRzFvk&start_radio=1

*These songs make part of the contents I teach at the start of the school year.

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Happy teaching!

Mr. C