{"id":22,"date":"2016-10-12T04:31:30","date_gmt":"2016-10-12T04:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dreamenglish.com\/blog\/?p=22"},"modified":"2016-10-12T04:36:20","modified_gmt":"2016-10-12T04:36:20","slug":"starting-classes-for-young-learners-in-a-fun-way-simple-warm-ups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dreamenglish.com\/blog\/starting-classes-for-young-learners-in-a-fun-way-simple-warm-ups\/","title":{"rendered":"Starting classes for young learners in a fun way: Simple Warm-Ups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been teaching English as a foreign language (EFL) for several years now, and sometimes at the very beginning of a class I still have to remind myself how to get the class started. Maybe it is a bit of nervousness in front of all the students looking forward to a fun class!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Simple Warm-Ups<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I always go for the simple action warm-ups like, &#8220;clap your hands&#8221; or for younger students &#8220;clap, clap, clap.&#8221; While saying this I do the actions, and have the students repeat and do after me. There are so many of these; clap, wash your hands, shake your body, jump, brush your teeth, touch your nose, play basketball, play soccer. I could go on forever, and you can to with your great ideas and creativity. Then, I love to keep up the energy with a fun warm-up song like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dreamenglish.com\/kidsongbodyparts\">Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes<\/a>, or the new Colors Action Song:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2EWNNpHYcss\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Give some simple warm-ups a try in your English classes for young learners. These ideas are great from ages zero on up!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been teaching English as a foreign language (EFL) for several years now, and sometimes at the very beginning of a class I still have to remind myself how to get the class started. Maybe it is a bit of nervousness in front of all the students looking forward to a fun class! Simple Warm-Ups &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dreamenglish.com\/blog\/starting-classes-for-young-learners-in-a-fun-way-simple-warm-ups\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Starting classes for young learners in a fun way: Simple Warm-Ups&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,7],"tags":[13,12,14,15],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dreamenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dreamenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dreamenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dreamenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dreamenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/dreamenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27,"href":"https:\/\/dreamenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions\/27"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dreamenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dreamenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dreamenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}