Creative writing

Hi there,

after practicing structures and connectors in the English lessons, I gave an interesting homework to my students. They had to choose three important personal objects and they had to introduce them in a writing activity. 

I had the opportunity to listen to a group of 26 students this morning and the experience has been very cool. All the students have been engaged by homework and they said that they enjoyed doing it. Amazing, fantastic and wonderful. ;D

I think that my students produce and interpret their mates' compostitions in a properly way. The production of a text requires the application of higher order skills (HOTS), following Bloom's taxonomy and that is what we promote in our lessons through topics that engage and motivate them. That's the way that it works.

A long the school year, and always giving some language support, they have written about:

1. Personal descriptions.
2. Their best friend.
3. Their school.
4. Daily routines.
5. Important women in their lifes.
6. Mobile phones and teenagers.
7. BioPoem
8. Three personal important objects.

For tips on encouraging children in creative writing, take a look at creative writing page. Worthy to visit it!

A fastastic app

With the computing curriculum recognising the importance of children learning programming, the most common problem for teachers is having the necessary knowledge and confidence to deliver it. 

For that reason, I always try to search for new resources to try my best having confidence on myself. This time I want to share with you an amazing app:

 Lightbot is an important app that can be useful for children and adults because we will gain knowledge of key coding principles in an easy format. The objective is to lead the robot around various squares, lighting up set tiles.

Try it and you will see the advantages in our primary lessons.