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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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

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.

FLASH CARDS

These color printable flash cards are best printed on card stock paper as they feel nicer to handle and survive longer after repeated use.

Check the printer and run a nozzle check if necessary before printing.
Colors are sometimes tricky to print correctly. If the colors seem to be wrong, try color correction with your screen and printer. As every printer has different settings.

Enjoy!

http://pdf.mrprintables.com/mrpfc10-color-a4.pdf

Listening activity

This activity would be great for learning colors and beginning counting:
Listening Activity with Blocks
I used our colored blocks for this with Candy Land cards. The cards had colors that matched up with all of our block colors. Perfect!
[If this isn't the case for you, you can either make up cards quick that fit whatever you have on hand, or you can just rattle off directions without drawing something. You could also use Legos.]
Children have that building blocks following the directions, always with the help of cards to be easier. They need to be tuned them out, is very important to listen.

In the classroom, one of the most important is that children have a series of routines that help them learn the months of the year, days of the week, seasons, weather that makes...It is very important that the concepts are clear and orderly and for them I present this craft that I found very useful and nice to work these concepts with the children.
You can use these cards with cardboard and many colors, love your students. Here there is useful material to decorate the classroom, I hope you like it: http://www.kindercrazeblog.com/