POLAR EXPRESS

Hi :) , today I say goodbye to you because I have to study for my University exams. And I have decided to publish this entry, is about the story of the Polar Express,  I loved this story when I was little. So, I think that there is no better way to say goodbye. I hope you like it.

This is the story of a young hero boy on Christmas Eve who boards on a powerful magical train that's headed to the North Pole and Santa Claus's home. What unfolds is an an adventure which follows a doubting boy, who takes an extraordinary train ride to the North Pole; during this ride, he embarks on a journey of self-discovery which shows him that the wonder of life never fades for those who believe.

You can work the story in class, and do fun activities. Here's material I hope you find it useful.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B326XishikPAYnJsT0tQYkJXTms/edit

The magic of Christmas is here!

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO EVERYONE. WE SEE YOU SOON

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A nice day

Christmas stories

Stories of Christmas

Nativity

This craft is very easy to make and I liked for this Christmas,I write here what is necessary so that you make it, I've done it in the school and the child liked them. 

Materials:

card-stock paper

crayons or markers

scissors

tape

1.  Print these adorable free patterns from "Catholic Icing" on card-stock paper and have your little ones color them.

2. Cut out the shapes

3. Roll the cut-outs into tubes and tape the back edges together (I fold the tape over the edges).

http://cheapcraftymama.com/paper-nativity/

Multiple intelligences

LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD

We are going to use the story “LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD” with our pupils as part of story based of work to develop multiple intelligences. We chose this story because this end contains an important moral that all teach children: not to talk to strangers because you don't know what can happen.

So the children know the story we can listen the story in this website:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SC9AEQJrgB4

The activities are focused to 5-year-old children. 

  INTERPERSONAL

-          First we will use the flashcards vocabulary of story to let children know about the different words, here is the material:

 -          Then we will preform a little theatre with the children and their parents:

It brings together children in a circle. Write the names of common children's characters and each child to choose who you want to represent. Teach the little phrase they have to memorize (gives them some time to practice) leave to act against the group. We will help in the preparation of costumes and options. Make it simple. And we will finally make the theatre

 

    INTRAPERSONAL

-          Explain to children the different characters, because we need that the children understand the characters and the role played in the story

-          Working the different emotions about the story (how the characters feel)

-          We will also work different parts of the face, because the Wolf named them in the story

               VISUAL

-          Associating pictures with words

-          Draw the characters with the most important characters (little red riding hood, the wolf, grandma and mother)

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Ordering pictures to the story

 NATURALIST

-          Learn about the different parts of the forest, plants and how dangerous that is.

-          We will go the trip  to the forest in order that they could know where the history develops

 LINGUISTIC

-          Listen to the story (twice)

-          Learn the vocabulary with the flashcards

-          Learn phrases representing about story

-          Thinking about a different ending

  MATHEMATICS

-          Remember the numbers ( 1-9)

-          Count different elements of the story and the little red in the image, circle a little red who have a book

MUSICAL

-  Listen this song : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpQHd1rfmGI and learn the vocabulary

-           Sing the song using different shapes:

-slow

-quick

-laughing

-crying
 -Then fill the blanks of the songs with words studied the flashcards

The magician

HOW WE ARE GOING TO WORK THE BOOK
“The Magician” is a funny book for children of 3rd level of primary school. The author of the book is Günter Gerngross and the editorial is Longman.
We have chosen this story because we think that is appropriate for nine-yearold
children. It has many colourful pictures and the vocabulary is suitable.
To work the reading of the story at the class we will read a chapter each day.
Children will read the book loudly together. When pupils finish each chapter, teacher
will ask about details of the story.
Next day, children will do an oral summary before they start to read another
chapter.
When the book finishes, pupils will do an activity with Movie Marker that
consists of order cartoons basing on reading. The final result will be a movie with story
pictures and a song of bottom. Each group choose the song that they want.
This is an example of how could be the Movie Maker activity done by children.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HsGyl2C8xw&feature=youtu.be

The three musketeers

HOW WE ARE GOING TO WORK THE BOOK
“The Three musketeers” is an interesting book for children who are in the 6 level of primary school. The author of the book is Alexander Dumas and the editorial is Burlington Books.
We have chosen this story because we think that is appropriate for twelveyear-old
children and it is a historic novel which pupils can learn new vocabulary.
To work this reading at the class we will read loudly together. When pupils
finished each chapter, they will translate and comment it with their partners. Next day,
children will do an oral summary before they start to read more pages of the story.
When the book will have finished, pupils do an activity with Glogster, an
application to do murals in groups. They will have to create the poster with sentences
from the book, pictures, songs, characters, the title of the story, and whatever they
want. Finally, they will expose it to the class.

http://almudenaescriba.edu.glogster.com/mosketeers/

 

PLAY AND LEARN

Many times the children are forced to learn English by their parents, this becomes a problem because they see it as boring.I think that as teachers we need to create situations where children have fun and learn.In this way the children will learn much more.

RESOURCES

Looking for resources for my students in practices I've found this page that has a lot of material for children http://supersimplelearning.com/resource-center/topic/christmas/

How can I help my child like English?

Let your children see YOU enjoying EnglishOne of the best ways to get children interested in doing something is to let them observe you enjoying that activity. Don’t make a big deal out of it, but let your children see you reading English books or newspapers. Watch English DVDs, listen to English music or let them see you speaking English with a friend. Your children look up to you. When they are playing, they pretend to be you. If you’d like them to be interested in English, show them that you are interested in English.

Expose your children to EnglishRemember that INPUT is essential. Identify some English media (such as DVDs and CDs) that your children like and let them enjoy it on their own terms without pressuring them to produce English right away. Sometimes we have unrealistic expectations for young foreign language learners. Just as a young native English speaker needs time to start producing English, so does a young foreign language learner. Almost all language learners go through a “silent period” before they begin producing language on their own. Naturally, the silent period for a child can often be quite long.

Christmas film

Have you ever noticed it? The magic of Christmas is already beginning to flood it all. On the streets, in shop windows and on the faces of the children already the illusion feels... and to us we love! For this reason, we encourage you to live Christmas with your family and see this film

VOLCANO

There is so much children can learn by doing science experiments at home. They don’t need to be complicated, they can be easy science experiments for kids with things you already have in your kitchen. 

For this experiment you’ll need:

Empty plastic bottle

Dough for your volcano

Water

2 TB Baking Soda

Vinegar

Food Coloring

6 Drops of Dish Soap

First make your dough for your volcano, I got my recipe here. Once you have your dough you mold a volcano around your empty plastic bottle. I put our volcano in a baking dish to contain the mess since we are doing it indoors.

Your volcano should look something like this. Be sure not to cover the opening of the bottle.Next careful fill the bottle with warm water and food coloring of your choice. For more realistic colors use orange and red. Next add the dish soap which helps trap the bubbles produced by the reaction so you get more bubbly lava. Add your baking soda and then slowly poor in the vinegar…

Snowman

For this activity you will need:

Snowman foam shape
Chocolate chips for “coal”
Pipe cleaner for nose and arms

This Activity:

Promotes fine motor skills
Enahnces math skills such as counting and quantity
Builds vocabulary
Teaches holiday themes and concepts

We used chocolate chips to make eyes and mouth and buttons. We counted them as we laid them down. Then we added pipe cleaner for the nose and arms.This was such as simple and fun snowman activity for winter or Christmas.

WELCOME DECEMBER

It is the favorite month of children, the classroom is filled with illusion and the teachers have to work very hard so that everything is perfect the day of the festival of Christmas. But before that, you have to decorate the classroom and tell many stories. Here you have a very fun December calendar, and the basic vocabulary of this month.

DIY FREE SANTA CHRISTMAS COUNTDOWN ADVENT CALENDAR

On Christmas eve you will have made santa’s beard complete and he’ll be arriving the next morning.

I hope you have fun counting down the days to Christmas. I’m pledging to relax and enjoy them all, I think the suspense and time catching up with friends and family is the most important, I don’t want us to wish away the time at all, it’s such a special time of year. A time for friends and family and remembering all the ones we wish could be here too.