Projects from the distance

Hi there, most of you know that I am very fond of eTwinning projects. In fact, I have been asking for a Quality label because of the projects I have been carrying on this school year.

Never mind, I wanted to share what eTwinning projects meant to me during the confinement and in times of COVID-19: an opportunity to look for new methodologies and ways of learning&teaching.

Empowering kids to find their own way

Hi everyone! 

Most of you know that I decided to move from my old school to a new one which works through projects along the school year. This methodology is applied not only in kindergarten but also in primary where projects are focused on student learning goals and include different types of activities.

So after working in a new methodology I want to reflect what have been my feelings about Project Based Learning.

Adopting the PBL approach has produced a change in my way of teaching. I have to improve the presence of different levels of learning and special needs, the competences and social skills. It makes that students have to work in their own way to solve problems, to think and to access to information, processing and learning. 

Personally I think that this way of working has enriched me as a teacher because I have the challenge of improving my lessons every day through individual work but most of the times through cooperative teams by asking questions and doing research as well and making the students decide by themselves. The video below explains the most important aspects and elements of PBL. Worth watching! 

Story Jumper

Hi there,

I had an incredible student doing her English Practicum this school year. In fact, she is going to finish it next week but I want to write a post about her Teaching Unit.

She decided to do it around legends. After introducing different resources and activities to students, they had to design a cooperative story with students from another school.

The task was an important challenge for kids but at the end, they have written good stories.

Here you have two samples.

Proud of all of them and Carla's effort. 
Thank You very much for being so enthusiastic!

Brain project

Hi everyone!

I am so happy because another challenge has been another success in my lessons. 
Don't worry because I'm gonna tell you what is going on: 
students from year 6 decided to find out some information about the brain. 
They wanted to know how it works and why it needs downtime. 

So, after introducing the topic, I used the jigsaw strategy to boost students' confidence with the information they had. So, they were distributed in groups of four and each student specialized in one part of the brain. After that, they met with members from other groups who were assigned the same aspect, and after mastering the material, they returned to the "home" group and explained their information drawing a mind map. Each group made excellent ones. At the end, we decided to have one in common. 
Here you have it:

Finally, I designed an activity to encourage them to build sentences about what they learnt. 

They have learnt a lot, they expanded English vocabulary and they improved structures. The end of the school year is here and I am very proud of all of them!
For next week, they have to "dygest" all the information because we will play the brain-game-kahoot. Students are very excited thinking of kahoot activity.
So, I hope that kahoot encourages them to review and study the brain facts they have learnt.

What else can I ask for?

Classroom games

Hi everyone, I have just found some activities for promoting cooperative attitudes in the classroom.

They will allow to work together and make decisions based on communication and collaboration.

Click on the pic below. Worth to read it.

What time is it?

Here you have an amazing activity for learning the English time in groups. You need special dices for this practice. I found them in Abacus. The blue dice is for rolling the hours and the green one is for the minutes. Make children aware that digital hours have another way of writing.

Story Time

Hi you all! 
Do you like listening to and reading stories? 
There are lots and lots of great stories but  
today I proudly present you 
"The hat monster",  the result of a hard work. 
A group of 6th graders show you the pictures and the recording that they have done for CI and CM graders.
Pay attention to it. 
We will work on its comprehension next week.