Theater in schools

And here we are! Ending this chapter of the project we started in September. For my last post on the blog I would like to talk about what we did in the last middle group. First of all I have to say that the location of the lesson was in the gym instead of in […]

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Creating a story of Superheroes

At the beggining of the activity i thought that it will be a boring activity, but when the teacher started to explain to us the second part of the activity, it changed my idea completely. The first section of the activity, consist con creating our own superheroes at home, and this was very boring, because […]

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Time to try

Finally here we are… the last entry. For this post I would like to talk about the activity in which I have reached the highest point of the subject: The Aladdin´s workshop. During this activity I had the possibility of experiment with children what I learned during the subject. It was incredible discover how times runs […]

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Personal commitment in writing

Hello everyone, time flies and we are almost done with this Exploring Children’s Literature in English subject. For my (last) post, I have decided to write about the process of creation of a story, more specifically, of the characters appearing in the story. I have written since I can remember. Sometimes I just let my […]

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Leaving bearing in mind Good and Evil

And here we are… the last entry. It is frightening how time flies, but it is also an indication of the fact that we have enjoyed what we were doing during this term. In fact, I would like to say that this has been one of those subjects in which, honestly, I have not just […]

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PROJECT ALADDIN AND THEATRE

Hello, I´m Jaime and this week I´m writing about two activities that we have done during the two previous weeks. The first one is called Aladdin´s workshop. It consisted in creating an activity related with Aladdin´s Disney film for children of 4th of primary in small groups. Nevertheless, what make this activity special is that […]

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The use of films in the Primary Education class

I would like to start this post with a Giovanni Saratori’s quote: ‘The vision of the cinema/ film is in the eye of the beholder’. As this week we have been dealing with the topic of using films in the Primary’s class (Literature Project with films), it occurred to me to speak about the use […]

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From books to tablets: the new challenge

Hello! I’m sure that you have heard the following headline on news: “Finland will stop teaching handwriting to children and they will start to teach them typing”. I have to be sincere and tell you that the first time I heard it I thought “that’s a joke and it can’t be true, how we can’t teach […]

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AMAZING EXPERIENCES!!

  Hi everyone, I think this post could be the last one at least for now. For the last post, because this is ending, I would you to talk about the great experience during this last week that I could put into practice on Monday. I cannot say a lot of things, because there is […]

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