If you have read any of the articles from the FunLab blog archive, you know that we love the idea of LEARNING BY DOING. Over the years we have introduced different strategies to do so including Book Club and Language through Art. When I received the Jolly Learning Bumper Book, it took me just 1…
FunLab summer camps are back! With the lifting of COVID restrictions, we were able to reopen our yearly English summer camps in downtown Milan. For this reason, I decided that the reopening called for a little shakeup in the way that we run our activites and tried out some new stuff. Here is one of…
hold a puppet show in ZOOM Look what we are up to – producing a puppet show in ZOOM entitled “Spring is here!”. Back in lockdown? Not an easy moment. Are you a teacher looking for a way to render your students distance learning more fun and interactive? Try out this idea – run a…
Looking for something to do with your little dinosaur lover? How about trying out a build your own dinosaur kit that uses a wooden skeleton and air dry clay?! I have been meaning to publish this for a couple of weeks. The FunLab English classes have kept me really busy! When I first opened the…
Negli ultimi mesi il team FunLab ha dovuto diventare esperto di insegnamento a distanza. UN COMPITO NON FACILE. Un approccio che abbiamo usato è quello di realizzare brevi video che i bambini possano guardare da casa. L’aspetto negativo di questi video è che se i bambini si annoiano non li guarderanno mai! Rendere divertente l’inglese…
During the past months the FunLab team has had to become expert on teaching remotely. NOT AN EASY TASK. One approach that we have used is to make short videos that the children can watch from home. The downfall to these videos is that if the kids get bored they won’t watch them. Making English…
Gli ultimi due mesi sono stati davvero intensi: la quarantena COVID19 ha posto il mondo sottosopra. Oggi ho pensato di condividere il primo di una serie di video che stiamo creando per i nostri studenti. FunLab Workshop organizza corsi di fonetica Inglese Jolly Phonics per bambini dai 4 ai 12 anni. Siamo riusciti a trasferire…
Questa torta è fantastica. C’è un segreto nascosto al di sotto della sua meravigliosa morbidezza e sofficità. Tuttavia, sono un po ‘imbarazzata ad ammetterlo! Devete capire che caratterialmente sono una persona che non ha mai acquistato cibi già pronti per i propri bambini nè mai usato pannolini lavabili. Adoro cucinare e di solito più difficile è la ricetta, più sono…
Spring is here! The kids in the FunLab classes loved our F is for FROG craft activity. If you are looking for a craft to make your F class more fun – this is it – F is for FROG! We did almost all the cutting with the SIZZIX BIG SHOT and the Spellbinders circle…
This year we started a pilot program with a day care to start even the smallest kids with weekly English lessons FunLab style. It has taken me a little while to get used to working with the under 3 years old gang but after a couple of lesson we have gotten the hang of it! The…