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First Day Again!

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 In Brazil, the new school year starts in February, so once again we're about to have the first day of class. One thing that has helped me a lot teaching online is having these different mouths I can use at the beginning of the class as I ask students or they ask each other how they are. I have a happy, sad, excited or wonderful, and hungry mouth.

I've showed these cardboard props here on the blog before. We made them when we were learning about different parts of our face: eyes, nose and mouth but I was able to use them the whole year to start the class. They also come in handy if you have to wear a mask and students can't see your mouth. I keep them right next to my computer along with my pens and pencils.

If there's one thing I will for sure use again this year, it's these cute funny mouth props.






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