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TeachingEnglish Young Learners Activity Book
Activities
5. At the beginning of each season, repeat the sequence of activities until the children have
a complete ‘My Seasons’ book.
Notes
During the year as the books are being compiled, you can display them in the classroom
or students can take them home to show their families.
Alternatives
• You could make this a monthly activity. You would obviously need more pages in the
blank booklet.
• Rather than preparing individual booklets, the children could make posters in groups.
Split the class into four groups and allocate a season to each (or let the groups choose).
The children then design and create a poster containing key sections (such as key words,
a poem, some drawings, a story). The posters are then displayed in the classroom.
No resources?
Make one poster for the whole class. Groups of children can be responsible for one section,
or you can select the best pieces of writing from the class and add them to the poster.
Alternatively, the children could learn a short piece to represent each season. Here are some
ideas from the CanTeach website – www.canteach.ca/elementary/songspoems.html
November
No sunshine, lots of rain,
No warm days, snow again!
No bugs or bees
No leaves on trees.
You must remember
This is November!
Summer
The snow fell gently all the night
It made a blanket soft and white
It covered houses, flowers and ground
But did not make a single sound.
Springtime
A small green frog
On a big brown log;
A black and yellow bee
In a little green tree;
A red and yellow snake
By a blue-green lake,
All sat and listened
To red bird sing,
‘Wake up, everybody,
It’s spring! It’s spring!’
Summer
In the summer when the days are hot,
I like to find a shady spot,
And hardly move a single bit
And sit, and sit, and sit, and sit.
© British Council 2012
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