Art in class.

  

Los jugadores de naipes.

Francisco de Goya, 1789.

 

La gallina ciega

Francisco de Goya, 1789

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.

Create a reader.

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.

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.

Building settings of " We´re going on a bear hunt".

Lesson plan.

"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".

The animal sounds song

Old Macdonald had a farm.

Design a listening activity: before - while - after.

BEFORE-ACTIVITY:

Play twister game. We can work body and colours. Later, the teacher can add more difficulty to the game in order to use more than one part of the body. Also, if they work in groups and together, they have to put as many parts of their bodies as theacher orders in one unique colour.

It´s not the original one, that goes with the activities.

WHILE-ACTIVITY:

We plan this activity, talking from the point of wiev of the waitress. All the costumers are going to be describe.

• Exercise: Complete the sentences circling the correct answer.

• "Burmecians, have big heads and are very smart because, they are always listening".
• "I have heard, that Bangass, always know what happen around them, that maybe, because in their heads they only a big, big eye!"

 AFTER-ACTIVITY

Complete the table.

Resources for teaching English.

These are some resources for teaching English:


http://www.icanteachmychild.com/

http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/

http://www.teachchildrenesl.com/

SECOND LENGUAGE AQUISITION - exercises.

1.-  

      Grammar translation method only teaches lenguage´s structure (grammar) while other methods that also use communicative skill.


2.-

• Deductive: It´s grammar translation method. First the teacher, teach the rule and then gives the examples.

• Inductive: Direct methods. First the learner receive inputs (examples), then create the rule, by himself, base on the experiencie receive through the input.

3.-

       a)  No audio-lingual  /  Yes grammar-translation.
       b) Yes (but not all). Read and answer questions.
       c) No audio-lingual  /  Yes grammar-translation. 

5.- 

     Total Physical Response (TPR):

•  Give orders to the children for getting inputs.
•  Children are silent. They don´t talk, they only listen.
•  Comfortable enviroment for the children.

7.- 

     Transports.

         "Stand up if you come to the school by... car/train/bus...". Teacher completes the action with a picture of the transport.

            Vocabulary: car, train, bus, bicycle, walk, boat, underground...

The very hungry Caterpillar. Before, while and after activities.

1.- Butterflies from the world: We are going to visit Faunia, a specific place where are lots of butterflies for all over the world.

2.- Life-cycle of the butterfly: The teacher brings to the class some caterpillar in a box. In this way, we can se the life-cycle. We have also to feed them.

3.- The number song: We are going to sing some songs like, "Ten little fingers" or "Five little monkeys". 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9KmC1-jGNc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1MxtTPm-Ek

4.- Mathematics: We are going to work shapes: circles, rectangles and triangles; for creating a caterpillar. 

5.- Arts & Crafts: With collage, we can create a caterpillar and a cocoon, too.

6.- ICT: Find some interactive activities about food, using the smart board, or something similar.

7.- For recognising different types of food, we are going to create a bingo game.

ZOG - It´s an appropiate book?

ZOG

From our point of view, “ZOG” it’s a good book for five years old, when they learn English as a second language. Also, illustrations are really useful for four years old. Because, they explain the story really good, so they can follow the book.

The characters, as they are dragons, it increase creativity.

The plot, help to social and emotional development. At first, the Princess helps to Zog, because he gets damage, but finally they are friends. As well, children can feel identify with the characters because they are learning how to do thing at the school, they have a teacher…too. The end, it’s nice and different from the typical ending, because no one die.

As the vocabulary it’s a little bit difficult, we think that telling the story is the best way for the first time, because the adult can change vocabulary and grammar structures in a easier way.

Later, the book can be read. In this time, they can learn rhymes or repeated structures.

Create a reader.

CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY.

Charlie Bucket is a small boy. His family is very poor and so they live in a very small house.

This house has got only two rooms. In the first one, sleep Grandpa Joe, Grandma Josephine, Grandpa George and Grandma Georgina, in the same bed. In the other one, sleep Charlie with Mum and Dad, upon mattresses on the floor.

Charlie, love chocolate, but he only recive one chocolate bar, as a present, for his birthday, because it is very expensive.

But the worst of all for Charlie, is living near a CHOCOLATE FACTORY!! Exactly, WONKA´S FACTORY!! The factory is enormous an it spreads really lovely taste of sweet chocolate.

Resources for narrative.

 In this webpage you can find lots of differents types of stories: stories and tales, audio stories, classic tales...and also, teaching with tales, that is realy useful. Most of the stories, are based in values. 

I hope it will help you!!

http://freestoriesforkids.com/