(1) Pick broad weekly topics (i.e. My Family) then each day of the week, teach about 3-8 new vocaulary words (depending on their level).

(2) do different activities involving the topic (i.e making a family portrait)

(3) Create 2-3 easy simple sentence patterns for them to recite. (Who is this? This is my mother; Is this your sister? No, this is my brother; etc. you get the idea).

I don’t know what other things you have in your school’s curriculum? But I think it is also a great idea to incorporate a weekly rhyme. The kids love rhymes and it does help them with their speaking and I am sure you already have story time incorporated within the school’s plan as well.

Another thing that we used to do at my school are word families – each week we word learn a new word family:

for example: -ar

then we would go through some words in the -ar family such as bar, car, jar, tar…you can show them pictures associated with these. In my school, after every word group, we would hang them up on the walls so the kids could see them daily.

We also had a math program once a week.

I hope that these ideas help or can at least give you a jump start on some different ideas!