martes, 18 de diciembre de 2012

Art in class.




  
Los jugadores de naipes.
Francisco de Goya, 1789.
 


La gallina ciega




The teacher will show these paintings to the children, in which the topic is traditional games. It is a good way to show them how culture was in their country in the past. That will help them to be aware of the changes that have happened in their country. Making a comparison between how the came was in the past and how is it nowadays.

Now, all the children will play to “Gallinita Ciega” and “Cinquillo”. In the first game, one child will cover his/her eyes with a blinker and all the kids have to move around in order to be catch. If the “hen” grabs on of his/ her classmates, he /she would have to figure out who that person is. In the second game, the children will have to put the card number five on the table, and then they will have to follow the numbers up and down. The winner is the one that runs out of cards first.


martes, 11 de diciembre de 2012

Teaching reading. MICE

Create activities for reading skills.

1.- SKIMMING:

     ´What is the story about? Write in one or two lines`.

 2.- SCANNING:

     ´Write a caracteristic from each mouse (only one)`.

3.- READING BETWEEN THE LINES:

    ´Where does the third mouse live?`.

4.- PREDICTING:

     ´Try to guess:`
       - the weight.
       - the size.
       - how long they life.
       - what they eat.

5.- INTENSIVE READING:

     ´Answer the questions:`
        - How long does it live?
        - Which/what high does it reach, for each jump?
        - Which kind of food can it eat?
        - Where does it live?
        - What is the biggest size that Dormous has?

6.- GUESSING MEANING FROM CONTEXT:

     ´Guess the meaning from the context: `
         - grams.
         - months
         - cables.
         - eggs.
         - Romans.

martes, 13 de noviembre de 2012

Activities for "We´re going on a bear hunt".

Those are some activities for the book "we´re going on a bear hunt". Those links work before-activities and after activities. It is also a lesson plan. 

From my point of view, they are different from the typical ones.


miércoles, 7 de noviembre de 2012

"We´re going on a bear hunt" - Storytelling.

An activity that we have to do for practising storytelling, was to choose a book and tell the story to our schoolar friends.

For that, I have choosen a book that can be read, told or also sung: "We´re going on a bear hunt", by Michael Rosen.
I decided to tell this book for those reasons. Children enjoy it, because it has lots of movements. It´s really easy to memorise for the teacher because it has a repeated structure. This story has a repeated and short structure in which only change two or three words, the ones that are "new" vocabulary.  All the illustrations are good descriptors for ongoing the story and understand the vocabulary. 

I will add here a link of a video from the writer of the story, telling it.


We´re going on a bear hunt, by Michael Rosen. 

Storytelling (book dvd) "We´re going on a bear hunt". 

Mr. Page´s Pet Shop.

In our handout, we have a little story about animals and the different sounds they make. For this story, we have also to prepare an activity, refered to animal sound. The ones that I have prepare were two:

By Jane Cabrera
  1. Reading "Old Madonald had a farm." by Jane Cabrera. As we know, this is a song as well, so we can hear first the song, what is easier for infants, and then read or tell the story.
  2. When we have a class with a low English level, we can only sing that song that I´ve found in the webpage "youtube.com".