A Great Blog on Teaching English to Young Learners of English

This blog belongs to a colleague of mine. Her name is Nina Kisin.
She is a private school teacher.
Regarding the blog, I must say the posts are extremely useful and interesting. The blog offers ready-to-use materials.
Nina, if only I had known about the posts back at the time I was substitute teaching first- to fourth-graders...
Still, at least I now have some great ideas and tips for future reference.
If you are working with young learners and you have been running out of ideas, I suggest you take a look at the blog:
http://teachyounglearners.blogspot.com/

Dear followers,
Have a successful week at work (or whatever that is you are occupied with at the moment) and please feel free to post comments on the blog, and especially to share useful ideas, links, personal experiences, etc.

How to make classes fun and creative?

Here's a list of thing I do to make my classes interesting.

• I move around the classroom and try to get the whole class involved.
• I use TPR warm-up activities with first- and second-graders.
• My students are ecstatic when I bring my sister's laptop and play some YouTube clips or songs.
• They love games like word bingo or day-night (or stand up-sit down).
• I print flashcards and coloring pages to first- and second-graders a lot.
• I prepare short handouts, from time to time, providing links with useful dictionaries (single words translation, single word pronunciation, pronunciation of whole texts, etc.).

Dobri online rečnici englesko-srpski/srpsko-engleski: http://www.ectaco.co.uk/English-Serbian-Dictionary/ www.lingvosoft.com/English-Serbian-Dictionary/ www.recnik.com Nije uvek tačan i pouzdan: translate.google.com npr. This is a door ≠ Ovo je vrata, već Ovo SU vrata.         It’s hot ≠ vruće, već Vruće JE.         It’s cold ≠ hladno, već Hladno JE. Mother is cooking ≠ Majka je kuvanje, već Majka KUVA.               is cooking – kuva                   cooking – kuvanje

Rečnici za pravilan engleski izgovor (Izgovara po jednu reč): http://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/british/ Kada upišete željenu reč na engleskom, kliknete na search. Nakon toga, ispod reči ispisane crvenom bojom kliknite na dugme sa zvučnikom na kome piše Pronunciation.

Izgovara više reči, rečenice, čak i tekstove: http://imtranslator.net/translate-and-speak/#window U belo polje upišete željenu rečenicu ili tekst na engleskom, iznad belog polja odaberete speak SLOW, ukoliko vam je NORMAL jako brzo, i kliknete na Translate & Speak english (male)

At the end of the class, whenever I do something different, I ask for feedback. 

Sometimes my students ask me something I happen to don't know, but I don't fear to say I don't know something. I always check it at home and tell the students in the following class.

As a busy novice teacher, I'm 100% open to all kinds of suggestions about making classes more interesting and creative. If you have some ideas to share, please do so.