With Christmas right around the corner, it’s the perfect time to try our Christmas Vocabulary Lesson!

This eight-page lesson is in the Holidays section of our Word Bank. It starts off with a fun, colorful picture dictionary and is followed by a variety of activities that will help your young learners stay engaged while they review the new words. Activities include a matchup, word choice, word search, word scramble, and spelling bee. This lesson ends with discussion questions so that your students can try using the new vocabulary in context. (more…)

Sprout English’s featured lesson this week is a writing activity called The Party. Do you have parties at your school to celebrate special occasions like birthdays? Here are two fun ideas for celebrating birthdays in the classroom.

1. Create a Class Birthday Book

Print this Birthday Book template. You’ll need one cover page and as many filler pages as you have students.

A few days before a child’s birthday, send a blank birthday page home for the birthday boy or girl to fill out. Your student can fill in the blanks and draw or paste photos in the boxes. The first box is for a baby photo and the second box is for a picture of the student at his or her current age. (more…)

Please see our updated 2015 post here: http://blog.sproutenglish.com/christmas-vocabulary-lesson-3/

With Christmas right around the corner, it’s the perfect time to try Sprout English’s lesson of the week: Christmas in the Holidays section of the Word Bank.

This eight-page lesson is so much more than a simple vocabulary lesson! It starts off with a fun, colorful picture dictionary and is followed by a variety of activities that will help your young learners stay engaged while they review the new words. Activities include a matchup, a word choice, a word search, a word scramble, and a spelling bee. This lesson ends with discussion questions so that your students can try using the new vocabulary in context! (more…)