"Baby" CLIL: English and Math Hand in Hand

ByMargarita Kosior

What is CLIL?

• Content and Language Integrated Learning• Classrooms where a language other than the ss'

mother tongue is used as medium of instruction• Learning through acquisition rather than through

explicit learning• Use of foreign language for 'authentic

communication'

Math around us

• Playing store (money / value recognition)• Hopscotch• Using counting for understanding time

Math – indicative contentAge: 3-4

• Lines • Colors• Opposites• Position words (above, below, beside, inside,

outside, up, and down)• Shapes• Numbers 1-10

Math – indicative contentAge: 4-5

• Lines• Colors – revision• Shapes – revision • Numbers 1-10 – revision• Numbers 11-20• Sums and subtractions

Math – indicative contentAge: 5-6

• Revision:– Shapes– Numbers 1-20

• Math problems (sum and subtraction)• Ordering and sequencing

BooksAge: 3-4

• Books

BooksAge: 3-4 – cont’d

Other activitiesAge: 3-4 – cont’d

• Lines

Other activitiesAge: 3-4 – cont’d

• Colors: primary and secondary colors

Other activitiesAge: 3-4 – cont’d

• Shapes– Snowman– Ice-cream– Blocks of flats with

square windows

Other activitiesAge: 3-4 – cont’d

• Counting – Ladybug– Apple tree

StoriesAge: 3-4

• Colors and couting

Online resourcesNumbersAge:3-4

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/math.htm

Online resourcesColors

Age:3-4

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/math.htm

Online resourcesColors

Age:3-4

Games

• Opposites

BooksAge: 4-5

BooksAge: 4-5 – cont’d

Other activitiesAge: 4-5

• Identify numbers by shape

Other activitiesAge: 4-5 – cont’d

• Addition: adding and counting machine

BooksAge: 5-6

BooksAge: 5-6 – cont’d

BooksAge: 5-6 – cont’d

Other activitiesAge: 5-6

• Spelling number words: where spelling and math meet

Other activitiesAge: 5-6 – cont’d

Other activitiesAge: 5-6 – cont’d

http://www.communication4all.co.uk/Numeracy/Lilypad%20number%20line%20game.pdf

Online resourcesAge: 5-6

http://www.kidogarten.com/en/home

Online resourcesAge: 5-6 – cont’d

http://www.kidogarten.com/en/home

Songs

Available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKPyO2vJEME

Songs – cont’d

• How Many?

Available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3zaC5onBvM

Benefits

Benefits – cont’d

• Overall linguistic competence• Improved oral functional production

Benefits – cont’d

Concerns and challenges

• How much target language to use?• Time-consuming

“One language sets you in a corridor for life. Two languages open every

door along the way.”Frank Smith

ResourcesOnline resources:• http://clil-network.uta.fi/index.php?id=18• http://www.goethe.de/ges/spa/dos/ifs/ceu/en2751287.htm• http://www.moed.bm/academics/Parental%20Information/Bermud

a%20Preschool%20Standards%20(NJ%20Adopted)/Bermuda%20Preschool%20Standards%20(NJ%20adopted).pdf

Books:Carol Medcalf, Collins Easy Learning – Numbers: Age 3-5Vincent Douglas, Total math: PreschoolPenny Dowdy, Shapes and Patterns (Get Ready for Preschool)Penny Dowdy, Shpes and Patterns (Get Ready for Reception)School Specialty Publishing, Brighter Child Coors and Shapes, PreschoolSchool Specialty Publishing, Brighter Child Numbers 1-10, PreschoolCarol Vonderman, Math Made Easy: Shapes and Patterns