Englannin kielisuihku 2025-2026
Follow what we've been doing in English!
Spring
The weather
Let's sing! We learnt the song Mr Sun, and as we sang we 'drew' the story on our friend's back. The back 'massage' felt lovely and everyone drew for their friend.
Vehicles
In February we moved on to vehicles. Playing with cars and other vehicles is one of the favourite play areas for many kids and so it's fun been to learn what they are in English too. We've learnt to play the card game 'Snap', which is a fast and fun activity where the words are repeated again and again, and as such, we've learnt them really well. How good are you at 'Find the difference?' You can look at the picture below and see if you can find all of the 8 words in the busy town.
Winter activities
When the children were busy ice skating, sledging and the playing in the snow, we also learnt what our favourite winter activities are in English. We enjoyed pantomine, played a memory game, and bingo with the winter activity words.
Clothes
Enkkuhetket started with clothes, we had to 'blindly' dress our friend Bob by feeling which clothes item we thought we had in our hand and guessing which was the right place to put it on the picture.
We looked at 'find which one doesn't belong' pictures, and thought about which picture didn't belong to the group and why. We're also learning the song Put on your bootsThis week we've continued our winter clothes theme, and read the book 'The Smartest Giant in Town' by Axel Scheffler and Julia Donaldson. It has been a pleasure to see how well the children have been able to follow the story in English and understand many words.
The Smartest Giant in Town by Julia Donaldson and Axel Schefller
Clothes
Brrrrrrrrr, it's cold!
This is the way we put on our hat, put on our hat, put on our hat,
This is the way we put on our hat, early in the morning.
This is the way we put on our coat, put on our coat, put on our coat,
This is the way we put on our coat, early in the morning.
This is the way we put on our trousers, put on our trousers, put on our trousers.
This is the way we put on our trousers, early in the morning.
This is the way we put on our scarf, put on our scarf, put on our scarf,
This is the way we put on our scarf, early in the morning.
This is the way we put on our boots, put on our boots, put on our boots.
This is the way we put on our boots, early in the morning.
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Autumn
The creation of Enkkumaa play environments in all of the groups where there are 5-6 year olds has been our biggest project this autumn. Bit by bit, and through wonderful team work, we've created fantastic and beautiful environments where we go each week to learn and play in English. Below you can see the vocabulary we've learnt!
Numbers 1-10
Counting in English is something that we come back to regularly. Through repetition we learn! There are numerous ways to practice counting and numbers with kids - for example, try playing 'Hide and Seek' in English!
Colours. We played 'change places if', where you have to change places if you're wearing a certain colour, and 'Colour Mirror', which is a familiar game to the children. Classic games are great for language learning, when the game is familiar, the kids know what to do and what to expect, then they can focus on the target vocabulary and it's fun! Many traditional games can be exploited in this way.
Pets
We had great fun with animal pantomine, can you guess what animal I am? We also played 'Poisonous animal' and a memory game with the animal words. Using the same vocabulary in different activities over a period of a few weeks helps us to stay interested and learn the vocabulary really well.
Fruit
The 'fruit monster' introduced us to the fruit words, and we had fun playing 'Stealing from the nest', amongst other games, with the fruits. The theme ended with a functional language learning session where the children prepared their own fruit salads according to the instructions they received in English. This was a really popular activity in all groups and you can imagine how good it tasted when we made it ourselves! We also got good practice cutting and preparing the fruit. Afterwards the feedback from one preschool group was 'The best Enkku ever!'
In the run up to Christmas we learnt some Christmas themed vocabulary and following instructions in English to colour in the Christmas colouring picture. We have learnt so many English words, that we could do this superbly well!
We read the book 'Stick Man' by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler
which introduced us to the idea that in England Santa comes down the chimney and delivers presents to children in the night, and learnt the song When Santa got stuck up the chimney
Numbers 1-10
Counting in English is something that we come back to regularly. Through repetition we learn! There are numerous ways to practice counting and numbers with kids - for example, try playing 'Hide and Seek' in English!
Colours. We played 'change places if', where you have to change places if you're wearing a certain colour, and 'Colour Mirror', which is a familiar game to the children. Classic games are great for language learning, when the game is familiar, the kids know what to do and what to expect, then they can focus on the target vocabulary and it's fun! Many traditional games can be exploited in this way.
Pets
We had great fun with animal pantomine, can you guess what animal I am? We also played 'Poisonous animal' and a memory game with the animal words. Using the same vocabulary in different activities over a period of a few weeks helps us to stay interested and learn the vocabulary really well.
Fruit
The 'fruit monster' introduced us to the fruit words, and we had fun playing 'Stealing from the nest', amongst other games, with the fruits. The theme ended with a functional language learning session where the children prepared their own fruit salads according to the instructions they received in English. This was a really popular activity in all groups and you can imagine how good it tasted when we made it ourselves! We also got good practice cutting and preparing the fruit. Afterwards the feedback from one preschool group was 'The best Enkku ever!'
In the run up to Christmas we learnt some Christmas themed vocabulary and following instructions in English to colour in the Christmas colouring picture. We have learnt so many English words, that we could do this superbly well!
We read the book 'Stick Man' by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler
which introduced us to the idea that in England Santa comes down the chimney and delivers presents to children in the night, and learnt the song When Santa got stuck up the chimney
Kielisuihkun tavoitteet
Kielisuihkun tuokioissa me annetaan lapsille varhain kosketus englanninkieleen, me hyödynnetään kielellisenkehityksen herkyyskausi , herätellään kiinostusta englanninkieleen, tutustutaan siihen, me luomme pohjaa tulevaan englanninkielen opiskeluun, sekä muodostetaan myönteinen asenne kielenopiskeluun positiivisten kokemuksien kautta. Tämän me teemme leikien.