Writing and Speaking Activity for YLs, "In winter" topic, Skype

Today I want to tell you about the activity I did with my 7yo Skype student. We have learnt some "winter" vocabulary - I use the flashcards from the Teacher's Resource Book for Longman Children Picture Dictionary, we played some games and drilled the words. Then I decided to do a productive activity which would include writing and speaking.

I wrote "In winter" on a piece of paper and dividied the paper into two parts: "I put on" and "I can" - for the clothes and for the activities we had learnt.

Then I showed a flashcard and asked my student to classify: does it go with "I put on" or "I can".

So my student had to say: "In winter I put on my mittens". I wrote that down on the paper and the student could copy. Then we repeated the action.

When we had several cards done I stopped writing the words and my student just said the whole sentences which were clearly structured for him by that moment. So I could even do without the visual prompt and only showуed a flashcard to elicit "In winter I can have a snowball fight" etc.

So this activity lead the student from the vocabulary set to the controlled speaking and semi-controlled speaking which was amazing! And the copy of the activity is now on the wall above the student's bed to be revised))

Follow my blog for more ideas!

My first English Lesson to a Young Learner by Skype.

Excited!
I've conducted a Skype lesson to a 7-year-old boy!

He has only an iPad and I am at a Windows laptop so I couldn't use any applications to share a whiteboard or a presentation or a pdf-file.
This student has some learning background - I taught him previously face to face. So the lesson was mostly a revision-type and also I had an aim to try teaching a kid on-line. We revised phonics, did some easy reading, then he read a book to me. Then we revised some vocabulary sets and classified objects. Bearing in mind young learners' short attention span I asked him to demonstrate several action verbs .  
Generally we both enjoyed, once he hid under the table to play - I just instantly turned to next activity and made it more challenging. The trick had worked and I didn't lose him anymore.
The most frustrating thing for me was the absence of possibility to manage the "class" phisycally - I knew that I couldn't point to a word in his book and I had no idea of what to do if he had just run away to another room and stayed there. Happily nothing uncontrollable happened))
Unfortunately the boy's mum is opposed to publish any video with him so I only took some snapshots.
I would like to use wider range of opportunities e-Teaching provides than only teach almost face-to-face style lesson by Skype. I am going to use view.com and other e-Teaching tools.
Follow my blog to keep up!