Dear: Dr. Yanni Zack.

Hi.
I am a japanese, working in a preschool setting (3~5 students in a class, devided into close age groups) which has just opened few month ago. Students come to our school for 4 hrs, 1day/week. The age ranges from 1 yr & 8mnts to 2 & 11mnts. It's their first time to learn English.

I need help with...

1:how to schedule a day & lessons for the age group

2:What(curriculum) & how(how much I should use Japanese to explain or get them to learn English) to teach

3:Class management (to form a circle, run a schedule as a "language school" not a "daycare")

4:Mothers' lesson curriculum(descipline, praises... etc.)

Our school doesn't have a curriculum and it's my first time to teach English, so I don't have a clue. As for the class management, I sing "Holding Hands", some come to do so, but most of the time, it's just me singing & running around the room...Students spend most of a day playing.

Also, we'll open new classes next month. one of the lesson is with mothers & children as young as 10 months old. 45min for kids & 30min for mothers(we teach daily english such as discipline sentences & praises). and another is for over 18 months without their mothers for an hour.I need help with simply everything...I've been looking for books & sites;however, I haven't found any for the targeted age group.

If you have any suggestion, reccomendation of books, sites...etc anything is welcome.

Thank you.