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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Is “Nicolás has two dads” inappropriate?

Hi everyone, today I would like to share with you a really interesting article I read about the book “Nicolás tiene dos papás”. Yesterday I read an article at the page of “Anatarambana literatura infantil” about a book that last days was a cause of lots of controversies, the book is “Nicolás tiene dos papás” […]

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Books are much more than paper

Hello, little explorers. This week’s project was related to creating our very own Classroom Library. It was a tough task to do, if we wanted to make it operative, attractive and affordable. There were plenty of things to be taken into account, but I was positive about not leaving aside what could help the students […]

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Improving Chocolate Cake Story

How to improve storytelling: During the previous weeks we have been dealing with storytelling activities for children in class. First, we took some videos of Michael Rosen, who is an English children’s novelist, as a good example of storytelling. Then we analyze curiously the characteristics that made Rosen´s stories catchy for children and even for […]

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The five skills to learn to read and to write.

Literacy necessarily involves the ability of knowing, recognizing and making the sounds of letters -phonemes -, and the way they are represented –graphemes-. The teaching of both phonemes and graphemes is basic for teaching reading and writing, and it represents one of the biggest challenges to which past, present and future teachers, especially the ones […]

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