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Mini Lesson Plan: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle - LittleLives. They’re highly innovative too!

Mini Lesson Plan: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle - LittleLives

For egg-sample (Get it? Because birds lay eggs?) , Bowerbirds, from New Guinea and Australia, have a very unique courtship behaviour. The males will build a structure and carefully decorate it with colour-coordinated items (many blue bottle caps in the right picture) that they think the females will find most attractive. 30 Recycling Worksheet For Kids - Free Worksheet Spreadsheet. There are many great books available for students to read on recycling.

30 Recycling Worksheet For Kids - Free Worksheet Spreadsheet

Reduce reuse or recycle. Wiser. Road to Grammar - Your Road to Better Grammar. Private resource. Gamification. Free Online Courses - FutureLearn. Password protected padlet. Moodle. Does being bilingual make you smarter? Language teacher and researcher Miguel Angel Muñoz explains the latest research on how being bilingual affects your brain, ahead of a British Council seminar in Cardiff on whether learning a foreign language makes you smarter.

You can watch the live-streamed seminar on Tuesday, 3 June. More than half the world's population uses two or more languages every day It is hard to estimate the exact number of bilingual people in the world, as there is a lack of reliable statistics . But in 2012, a Eurobarometer survey established that 'just over half of Europeans (54%)' are bilingual, and other studies hypothesise that more than half of the world’s population is bilingual. So what about you? Being bilingual isn't black-and-white To answer that question, first we need to establish what being bilingual means. I, for example, am -- or used to be -- proficient in German, but I have not used my German regularly for a very long time. What are the costs of being bilingual? Don’t worry. 1. 2. 3. A few more myths about speakers of multiple languages.

Does multilingualism cause language delays and identity problems? The British Council's Nayr Ibrahim busts a few more myths about speakers of multiple languages. Myth: Multilingualism causes language delay Raising children bilingually is sometimes believed to cause language delay. This misconception is based on a separate underlying proficiency (SUP) hypothesis. This theory, now discredited, suggests that languages are stored in separate compartments or containers, which represent half the capacity of the monolingual brain. Decades of research into bi- and multilingualism has shown that there is no causal relationship between bilingualism and language delay. Myth: Multilinguals should develop literacy in one language first When children are surrounded by multiple languages, they will inevitably have access to multiple literacies. The reality is that children can learn to read and write in multiple languages.

Importance of play for babies & children. Australian Government Department of Education and Training (2009). Belonging, being and becoming: The early years learning framework for Australia. Canberra: Commonwealth of Australia. Retrieved 19 June 2019 from Cole-Hamilton, I. (2011). 2Bbellybreathhome. What to consider when teaching English in large classes. How many students do you teach?

Do you feel that your classes are too big? Author and education consultant Jason Anderson looks at the issues and offers some potential solutions. The Power (and Peril) of Praising Your Kids. What do we make of a boy like Thomas?

The Power (and Peril) of Praising Your Kids

Thomas (his middle name) is a fifth-grader at the highly competitive P.S. 334, the Anderson School on West 84th. Slim as they get, Thomas recently had his long sandy-blond hair cut short to look like the new James Bond (he took a photo of Daniel Craig to the barber). Unlike Bond, he prefers a uniform of cargo pants and a T-shirt emblazoned with a photo of one of his heroes: Frank Zappa. Thomas hangs out with five friends from the Anderson School. They are “the smart kids.” Since Thomas could walk, he has heard constantly that he’s smart. But as Thomas has progressed through school, this self-awareness that he’s smart hasn’t always translated into fearless confidence when attacking his schoolwork. For instance, in the early grades, Thomas wasn’t very good at spelling, so he simply demurred from spelling out loud.

Thomas is not alone. When parents praise their children’s intelligence, they believe they are providing the solution to this problem. The Power (and Peril) of Praising Your Kids. Teachers TV- How Do They Do It In Sweden? Download Evernote for free. Importance of play for babies & children.

How young children learn English through play. As we release Learning Time with Timmy – our first app for early-years learners of English – Danitza Villarroel, a teacher on our Learning Time with Shaun and Timmy course in Chile, explains the importance of learning through play, and offers a few tips for teachers new to this age group. Teaching English to pre-school children can be daunting for teachers new to this age group. Young children have shorter attention spans than older children and adults, and they're still learning their mother tongue. But teaching these learners can be enormously rewarding once you've taken a few basic principles on board. ZERO TO THREE.