Intro to Russian

As we all know, the younger one is, the easier it is to learn a language.  So...I have started teaching my 4-year old group Russian!  So far, they seem to love it.  I really hope their interest doesn't fade!  I try to interact with them as much as possible and have them talk to each other as well.  We're starting simple but they already know (or I hope they know)...

P.S. You can learn some Russian here if you would like :)

I have the children shake hands in the beginning of class and say "privet".

And when class is over, they wave and say "poka"!
privet!-hi
poka-bye

They've been practicing introducing themselves...

Kak tebya zovut?-what's your name?
Menya zovut...-my name is...
Priyatno poznakomitsa!-nice to meet you!

With the help of a student, asking to pour water for me (or you can use any other chose), we learned:

please-pozhalusta
spasibo-thank you
you're welcome-ne za chto

And last but not least we learned counting 1-10 (we have 10 and sometime 11 in the class so I count each student as they hold up the # and we count together):

odin
dva
tri
chitiri
pyat
shyest
syem
vosem
deveed
deseet