Teaching a 5 year old?

0Thanks for the advice, Conchita.02br
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00I heard that I should change activities every 10 minutes! Oh my gosh! I don't know how to handle it. Obviously, she is too young to read. 02br
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00The reading is to be done by you, of course.02br
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00Here are a couple of useful links (you'll find many more on Google):02br
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00I have a problem with my 5 year old in learning numbers and alphabet. Maybe this site will help. 02br
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0I would recommend you to read books in english to your children and let your children watch movies in English (cartoons). These recommendations is no doubt the best since children have to be learnt and at the same time having fun.02br
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0Teaching a 5 year old kid English language has a positive and negative results. Positive because they can be easily corrected once they have an error in English pronunciation or understanding vocabulary, unlike adults who are stubborn in some ways. Negative too because once you as a parent or teacher who have no idea what startegy to use to teach, your in big trouble. 02br
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I have told the parents that I charge for the class, not the time! You cannot expect a five yr old to pay 100% attention the whole hour. Mix physical movement with music and use film especially cartoons. I succesfully use Thomas the Tank Engine, Postman Pat and specific teaching with Big Muzzy. Get them to draw and paint gradually getting them to do it from instructions in English. With a lot

Hi I am Zayka. I am very happy that I read your advise because I have just started working as an English teacher. At the moment I am a teachers aide. Last few weeks it has been hard enough but my boss told me today that from next week I am going to work in a nursery teaching english to 5 year olds. Tommorow he wants me to show him my lesson plan and practice in front of him. I don't have any idea

take your time with him. do it step by step

I'm currently a teacher of children aged 5, and it's as you say, I have to change activity every ten minutes.
Young children cannot concentrate longer. What I do is: ten minutes drawing, but I tell them (in English) what to draw, I ask them which colours are they using, for example, you ask them to draw an elephant. First the head, then the ears, and you ask "the ears, are they big or small?".

Hi! I'm also an English teacher to a 5 year old, thanks a looot for your ideas, I never know what should I do with her to teach her and also to make her concentrated. I'm not a native Spanish speaker, but it is my 4th language and I speak it very fluently as if it were my mothertongue.