One of the responsibilities of a teacher is to provide a structured environment in which students could build confidence in themselves. That means getting, setting and keeping a routine. Especially on how the class starts and ends. In this way, students will know exactly what to expect as soon as they enter the classroom and they will feel more safe and secure. Also, routines make it easier for youngest students to learn and achieve more, because they are repeating the same thing day by day.
Routines can include usual classroom habitudes (how will the children enter the room, where will they place their backpacks...), but as English teachers we can create our own classroom routines.
For example, I suggest you to start each English lesson singing a couple of songs.
Good morning song
It may be interesting to start the English lesson every day with a welcome song. You can invent one, but there is an interesting example:
"Are you happy?"
To continue with class routine, you can ask some question like "Are you happy?" and children must answer correctly. And then you can sing a song related to the question. In this case, we can sing "If you're happy and you know it". But we can introduce anything that we want to work with them as a routine and find or create a song related to the subject.
This is a way to get the students attention while they are learning vocabulary. I think it is an interesting routine for every day lessons.
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