Update

Hello again!

Here's a little post to explain some of the ways this blog will be changing as my role changes. Up until now this blog has been a way for me to file and share my lesson and unit ideas for teaching English to ESL learners through the medium of storytelling. That part won't change but I will be posting some other kind of content too as I'll increasingly be teaching STEM subjects at Primary level in addition to English at preschool and Primary.

This past academic year has been full of new challenges as I have been studying for a PGCE in the middle of the pandemic. I've had a lot of time to go ahead and do all that extra reading that I've always wanted to do and now I'm excited to have lots of new ideas to try out when schools reopen here in Italy, hopefully, in September.

Over the next few weeks I'll be summarising what I've read (I have four notebooks to go through!) and sharing it with you here. Over the next months I hope to be sharing some books that are suitable for primary ESL learners but which can also be linked to cross curricular topics and activities.

If that sounds interesting, keep popping by. Even if it doesn't, don't worry the rest of the content is staying so you can still keep pinning those other ideas :)

Why?

Hello and thank you for dropping by! I've been teaching English in Italy since 2009 and whilst I have taught all levels my young learners pre-schooler classes have been some of the most challenging and rewarding. I, personally, couldn't find much out there that was appropriate for someone with very little resources and no funds.

In the end I made my own syllabus for the 3-7 year olds with the help of Oxfam book shop finds in my summer holidays and then, more recently, gifts to my own son. After some time of making electronic records of all this stuff it occured to me that maybe someone else would want to use it. And so I went ahead and made this blog.

I hope you enjoy it!

I haven't posted in a while but I'll be refreshing the blog over the next few months and checking all the links to the resources on other sites.