All You Need is Paper (and a little love) ESL/EFL activities

 Every time my first-graders finish a unit, I send all their work home from that unit along with a progress report in a big brown envelope. I usually glue some activity they did on the cover of the envelope but this time I decided to do something different. Since we're studying parts of a house and cities, I had them use different colors of paint on a square sponge to stamp their envelope creating houses and buildings on which they later added windows, doors and other details. I also had them write the sentence, I live in Brasilia. I believe I'll keep doing something like this in the future, so they have one more activity to show their families.

I used the standing 3-D triangle again with my first-graders. We were studying parts of the house and the preposition IN. They first made all the rooms in a house, one room per class, so it took us 4 classes to finish the complete house and glue everything togther with a paper bag handle glued in the middle so they could take it home more easily. They also had to write the names of the rooms. Last. I used plastic bottle tops for the students to make their little monsters. After they dried, I would say the monster is in the living room, for example, and the students tried to be the first to place the monster in the correct room. Then, I let the students say where the monster was for their classmates to place the monster in the correct room. They also got to place their monsters wherever they wanted and I asked them, where their monster was and they would say it's in the bedroom, for example. The class was really excited about this project and couldn't wait to take their houses h