YL Morning Radio Show
Activity - Radio Yad Lebanim
Level: Elementary
Objective: To give school updates in English.
Participants: Every week two children are selected from all
grades to announce the date, weather, and school happenings.
Importance of Radio YL: It encourages the students to hear and
use English that they will need in their everyday lives.
What is said: Date, weather and school happenings.
Teachers: Jessica Goldshlager, Jacqueline Silas, Emma Liberman
jgoldshlager@gmail.com
YL Morning Radio Show
1. Good morning Yad Lebanim family.
2. Today is: Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,
Friday, Saturday
3. Today is the ___ of December, 2013.
1st
8th
15th
22nd
29th
2nd
9th
16th
23rd
30th
4. It is:
3rd
10th
17th
24th
31st
cold,
4th
11th
18th
25th
hot,
5th
12th
19th
26th
cloudy,
5. And now, the proverb of the month is:
Every end has a new beginning.
6. Have a nice day.
6th
13th
20th
27th
sunny
7th
14th
21st
28th
today.
YL Morning Radio Show
Activity 2 - English Recess
Students from the fifth grade run, make and organize English
games and stations for the whole school to play with during the
two big recess breaks.
The fifth graders wear white caps that say "English Helpers" in
order to help the younger children identify which students are
running the activities.
There are about five different English activities that are
simultaneously being run and played. Children are able to play as
many games as they want and as many times as they desire.
Stickers are given out as prizes to children who speak in English
while they are playing the games.
Here is a list of the activities:
1. Bingo(topics: clothes, family, colors, school)
2. Memory - match picture to word (topic: food)
3. Pin the tail on the donkey (fifth graders must direct younger
children using the directional language: "up, down, right, left"
4. Jump rope the ABC's (children jump rope while saying the
alphabet. If the child jumping misses a jump, he must begin
saying the alphabet over again.)
5. Spelling Bee (fifth graders give younger kids a white board, a
white board marker and an eraser. Fifth graders help the younger
children write letters, cvc words, and the 100 most common
words on the white boards)
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Activity3 - English Excellence Project
Yad LeBanim's primary focus is student excellence in all subjects,
especially English. Yad Lebanim promotes excellence in English by
selecting the top ten students from each grade to take
responsibility over a particular school project. The second
graders make English posters that they hang up around the
different classrooms and school.
The third graders make computer presentations about
themselves, families, school and Petach Tikva.
The Fourth graders are in charge of Yad Lebanim Radio. The
fourth graders will also take part in a whole school spelling Bee.
The Fifth graders are in charge of the English Recess Breaks.
The sixth graders will take part in an English Debate.
During the English Excellence meetings, students are required to
speak only in English. It is magical to see the students
communicating with each other only in English.