WE SING THE ALPHABET!

Songs keep us connected with emotions. In 2nd level we are dealing with the English Alphabet and they have being practising two versions of the traditional song for young students.

Find them below:

COMPLEMENTARY ACTIVITIES:

Finger writing on back: Try to guess a letter that your mate writes on your back with his/her finger.

A picture dictionary: I use it all along the year with my students. They complete their personal picture dictionary using words they learn in the class beginning each letter.

Guess the name of the mate: They spell the name of a mate and the rest of the class guess.

PAINTING LIKE PAUL KLEE

PAUL KLEE. Castle and Sun (Date Unknown

We have seen the picture Castle and Sun by Paul Klee. It is made of different geometric shapes.

We have learnt SQUARE , RECTANGLE, TRIANGLE AND CIRCLE.We have pointed to them in Klee's picture and mentioned colours too.

Later, we have made a picture in groups using plastic and wood blocs. This is the result:



THE STEAM BOAT

THE ZOO

CHOCOLATE TOWER

THE COLOURED HOUSE

FIRE TOWER

FIRE HOUSE

You've done a great job!

VIDEO MADE OF JELLY BEANS!

In 2nd level we have seen this original video by Kinna Grannis to introduce Jelly Beans flavours, "In your arms".

                   Enjoy it!  

SWEETS... LOLLIPOP!

Sweets are a good way to dig into emotions. With 2nd level we are working Sweets as a project and this is the song we have presented as the introduction of the subject:

TEACHERS! You can download here the sweets matching game we play in the class:

SWEETS MATCHING GAME

And here... the memory card game we are working at the moment:

MEMORY CARD GAME

 

River Nile

We have been working the River Nile as a part of RIVERS' PROJECT.
Here you'll find the song  about animals and some activities:

White Christmas

We've been working this song with 1st level of Primary. Here you'll find two versions to sing. The first one is by Taylor Swift with subtitles. The second is the one we have worked in the class.

The way we have learnt it is repeating only the last word of each line after me. I made a silence at the end of each line, and then children sing the missing word.

At the end, some of them even sang the entire line!

Merry Christmas and a special wish of happiness for all my pupils!

New School Year

Hi! Tomorrow we start a new school year. My task this time is focused on first and second year of Primary School. Some of my priorities are to set a good language basement for this new young students, foster oral and listening practice through the use of authentic materials around stories and songs, and work TPR (Total Physical Response) more than the previous year.

Stories are a good channel to work emotions. This year, I would like that values impregnate my task, and specially the notion of slow pace in our day-by-day in the school and also in life.

What’s why I would like to work Eric Carle’s “Slowly, slowly, said the sloth”. I have my own-made materials around this story to work English as a Second language contents.

In the following entries, I will post some of the activities I will be carrying on, as well as other that could came up during the year.

Good luck in this new start!