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Hi everyone! Christmas time is coming and Students from 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th grade are preparing their Christmas poems. If you want to read them, click on the different levels. 1st grade 2nd grade 3rd grade 4th grade
Hi you all! Winter is here and we are busy buying presents for Christmas. Here you have a good gift for a child.
Just for sharing with you and for celebrating one of the greatest joys of being a teacher, look at the children's faces when they listen to an incredible story teller!
Hi everyone! 4th graders have been working hard about Christmas. The last activity consisted of making a Christmas fortune teller or snapdragon. Some of them didn't have enough time to make it in the English lesson, so here you have the instructions about how to make a fortune teller.
The steps are as it follows: 1. Fold the paper into fourths 2. Unfold the paper 3. Fold over the four corners, into the middle. 4. Fold into fourths again 5. Flip over the paper 6. Fold over the corners on the new side of the paper 7. Fold into fourths one last time 8. Fit your fingers into the slits and open.
Click on the picture below and decorate the Christmas tree simply by dragging ornaments on the floor and then drop them on the tree. Then turn the lights off to see how it glows.
If you want
to impress your friends with several ways how to wish a Merry Christmas
and Happy New Year, just keep on reading the list behind the picture. Click on it and find out the different languages.
This song is specially for Irene from 4thC group and her mum who involved her daughter to this famous song by the Cure. Watch the video below and try to understand it. You will check the days of the week at the same time.
By the way, have a wonderful long weekend and enjoy your previous days before Christmas holidays.
Hi 1st graders,
here you have a lovely dinocroc who is going to be your friend. Hocus is born and it meets Lotus in the episode below. Hope you like it. Have fun!
Note for 1st graders' families: I invite mothers, fathers and grandparents to spend some time with their children watching cartoons: a pleasant experience that will be enjoyed with curiosity.
Today is an important day in United States. It's a national holiday and people spend the day with their families and it is traditional to roast a turkey with stuffing inside. We will talk about it and we will learn some vocabulary today.
Hi you all! 1st graders are learning this song about senses. I had the opportunity to learn it some years ago with an Irish student who was doing her practicum at our school.
Click on the picture below and practise present simple.
Use the Simple Present to express the idea that an action is repeated or
usual. The action can be a habit, a hobby, a daily event, a scheduled
event or something that often happens. It can also be something a person
often forgets or usually does not do.
Ugh...teaching
time is one of the most difficult things for me. I mean, if you think
about it there are A LOT of skills for our students to
learn! This is a good resource to teach time.
After the clock is put together, just practice, Practice, PRACTICE! Thanks a lot to the crazy teacher!
Please and thank you are magic words we need to say very often, every day. Please and thank you are useful words to help you be polite and make people feel alright. Please and thank you are the best words to say people with a big bright smile!
Let your children know how happy it makes you when they are being kind and responsible. Let's listen to them!
Note for families: you will see this poem in the children's scrapbook.
We have just introduced time to 4th graders. The first lesson was right but they have to check it at home for tomorrow.
So, if you are one of these students, here you have some clues and an activity you know very well. Click on the clock and try to stop it on time. Have fun!
In every life we have some trouble, when you worry you make it double!
IT'S JUST FINE
It's fine to be happy or sad. It's fine to be brave or scared. It's fine to have short or long hair. It's fine to play or just watch.
It's fine to be alone or want company. It's fine to be thin or fat. It's fine to wear jeans or a skirt. It's fine to dance or sit down. It's just fine to be what you want to be!
It's time to learn the three R's of the environment: reduce, reuse, recycle. Talk and practice at home: don't buy things you don't need or items that come in wasteful packaging or that cannot be recycled. Reuse and recycle whatever you can, as this song says!
This school year bringsblack holesandhorsesto 2nd grade
2ndA group are black holes, but what are they?
Have you ever had to vacuum your
bedroom? When you do, watch closely because you will see the dirt and
crumbs start to move towards the vacuum cleaner. A black hole is
similar to a vacuum cleaner, cleaning up debris left behind in outer
space.
However,
it is not suction power that makes things fall into a black hole.
Suction would not be strong enough. Instead, a black hole uses the
power of gravity to pull things towards it.
2ndB group is working on horses.
We are learning the actions that horses do and also new vocabulary about them.
Besides that, we have discovered fun facts about them:
. They can sleep both lying down and standing up.
. Their lifespan is around 25 years.
. They have around 205 bones in their skeleton.
...
Here you have this funny song from "kids songs" by Patty Shukla
The leaves have changed into their fall colors and the breeze is in the air. Halloween is right around the corner and it's time for "castanyada" too. Today we have a special celebration at school. Most of families have brought chestnuts and delicious cakes to school and 6th graders have prepared lots of games for the rest of students at school.So you are probably exciting and waiting for the afternoon. Nevertheless, remember that we are working on the Halloween theme. Never fear because there is still a lot of funny activities we will do in our English lessons. Well here there are two of them: a song that was written and performed by A.J.Jenkins and the Halloween chants.
Here you have an easy sandwich to make for this special day! JACK-O'-LANTERN TOAST You need:
sliced white bread
slices of cheese
a toaster
Take two slices of bread and a slice of cheese for them to make a sandwich. Previosly cut out eyes and a mouth in one of the slices. Toast the sandwiches and eat them while still warm. Delicious!
3rd graders have studied a list of commonly used prepositions Prepositions are used in a sentence to
show location such as in front of, next to, behind, or under.Tomorrow we will do a cut-and-paste activity that will work on spatial concepts and
has a Halloween theme. You will also ask "where" questions after
completing the activity.
Hi children!
This is a very simple picture to remember the prepositions of place. If you click on the image, you'll go to an interactive exercise to
practice them.
I hope it is useful!
4th graders have to study the Water Cycle for next week. So here you have a resource that will remember you the most important facts in the Water Cycle. Click on the picture and you will start exploring all the facts you learnt in the English lessons.
Next week will be a busy one. Remember we have the traditional celebration at school next Thursday afternoon. Don't miss it.
On the other hand, next Friday night a lot of families all over the world will celebrate Halloween.
So, next week we will do different activities for living a little bit that famous celebration in the English lessons. By the way, here you have lots of songs about Halloween. They are fantastic. Thank you Super Simple Songs for sharing them!
This school year brings stars and wolves to 1st grade
1stA group, THE STARS What is a star? When did the first stars form? What are stars made of? What are the different kinds of stars? 1stB group, THE WOLVES: Enya is a famous singer. She's got a song called Crying Wolf! Here you have the video with wonderful wolves pictures. They are awesome!
3rd graders are learning the English alphabet. Among different activities I want to show you some poems they wrote playing with their names. The presentation below show you a summary of them because they worked individually and thought about a thing they liked. I tried to copy what they described.
Children and me have been talking about them. Children were astonished about what a star is (if you want more information, look at 1st group page on your left of the screen)
Fortunately we found this short movie about Peppa Pig and we enjoyed a lot. Thanks Peppa for being so cute!
Every Autumn in all the forests of the world, there is a miraculous change in the color of the leaves. They turn from green into brilliant shades of yellow, orange, red, and gold. Sometimes you can see several shades on the same leaf. But why are these color changes happening, and what is going on in the plant? Read this explanation and you will understand! Plants make their own food. They take water from the ground through their roots. They take a gas called carbon dioxide from the air. They turn water and carbon dioxide into food using sunlight and something called chlorophyll. This one is green. It gives leaves their green color.
Winter days are short and dry. Many plants stop making food in Autumn. Then, the chlorophyll goes away. Then we can see different colours as orange, yellow, red, gold and also brown. When they are brown, it comes from wastes left in the leaves. Watch the video!
As you know, Joanot Alisanda is in The Voices of European Teacher's Comenius network. For your information, from 16thOctober to 19th your English Teacher will share the "Identity through names" project with teachers from different 10 Universities. This will happen in Derby, England. If you don't remember the project or if you want to find out more about it, visit this blog
However, here you have a summary about some of the activities we realized when we were searching in names.