Charles Goodger and Talis Smits teaching the
This week Charles Goodger and FunSongs teacher Talis Smits from Toronto visited the large Pumpuri School in Jurmula. The purpose of their visit was to provide a free FunSongs Workshop. About 65 children and several English teachers participated. At the end of a physically and linguistically challenging 40 minutes everyone had more or less learnt two new FunSongs action songs: "Time to Play" and "The Monster March". After the workshop the teachers were given a link to download a free action song package. The FunSongs team then met with the school administration to discuss several future events including, FunSongs Puppet Theatre Shows and FunSongs Quiz Shows for older kids to be staged by three mother-tongue actors at school during the annual language week at the end of February.
Ecole Française adopts the FunSongs Approach
The Ecole Française in Riga has decided to teach its pupils English using the FunSongs Approach and on Wednesday this week the year-long course began! At the very first session, held by FunSongs expert Talis Smits, seven kids aged from 4 to 7 were delighted to start learning the language in the play-based way FunSongs proposes.
Water is Everything
On Monday 14th September Charles Goodger and Talis Smits visited one of Riga's largest schools, Mezciema padaskola in Ipocrate iela. They were invited by the head Silvija Tikmere to teach two classes of 8 and 9 year-olds "Water is Everything," the action song about climate change and clean water. As part of a cross-curricular project on science, nature and water the song was seen as an ideal complement. Teachers from Riga and the surrounding area are welcome to contact FunSongs to organize a fee workshop. Please call +371 25995781.
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