Global Kids Through Drama and English

13/09/2026

07/09/2026

18/09/2024

Tell me a story! And if you can’t think of one, use history. One of my favorite lessons (it’s a favorite among children too) is practicing English through some historical concept - even beginners can do this - and then, let the role-play begin! The teacher becomes a “time traveling journalist“ and the children take on roles of famous people from different historical periods, various roles… and answer my questions. If they are beginners in English, I give them some guidance. Simple English is enough. The students strengthen their speaking skills and also experience some historical empathy in the role of the character that they play. Not to mention their confidence gets a great boost, too!

25/04/2023

I did this for myself as much as for my students. I could look at this for ages!

23/11/2022

What an honor to be recommended by the one and only ESL material guru Shelley Vernon!

23/11/2022

What an honour to be recommended by the one and only ESL material for kids guru, Shelley Vernon!

22/11/2022

Welcome to the Shape Museum! One of my favorite math activities when I was younger was learning about shapes. 2-D shapes and then, especially, 3-D shapes!This young lady now understands that 3D shapes can be picked up and held. She knows some 3-D shape words like “sphere“, “cylinder”, “cube“ and “pyramid“. We had a blast running around finding things that resemble the Montessori geometric solids and she loved the idea of creating a museum to display her findings. We also discussed the number of faces or sides that the 3D shapes have: her favorite discovery was that spheres and ovoids have only one! English and math pair up wonderfully. And so many words - household objects and geometry concepts and taught in one compact lesson. teacher

18/11/2022

English isn’t just a subject, it’s a vehicle to other subjects to be learned. In this case the human body including all the organs. We take turns with a funny role-play where a “doctor” is nervous and has forgotten where the organs are located in the body. Kids as young as four years old can learn about the heart, the lungs, the brain, and have fun putting them in the right place and also, on purpose, in the wrong places! (Favorite is putting the kidneys on each side of the head as a replacement for ears!) kids are also very flexible and love to learn yoga moves, and I often use a foam world map on the floor for that purpose, or continents cut out of yoga mat material, following the Montessori colour code.