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 […]
Read MoreHello everyone! Without thinking too much, I am sure that all of you remember drama shows from when you were little, at school. Plays have made us, and the people around us, really happy. Moms, dads, grandpas, brothers and sisters have enjoyed watching our young representations, even some of them have recorded it and now […]
Read MoreIt is especially remarkable the love-hate relationship that some students have with poetry. That is, in general terms, we like to talk about feelings and emotions, and it is great to read about this in literary texts such as poems. However, it is not so good for some of us to study these compositions. From […]
Read MoreGood afternoon to everyone! I hope you all had a great weekend. For this week I would like to write a little bit about a new project that we have in this subject that I think we are all going to enjoy a lot. The project is about “Children’s literature workshops” The first thing that […]
Read MoreHello everyone, A few days ago, Raquel, our literature teacher made us think about how working poetry and tales with children. Moreover, she made us see some resources to take them as an example and how to create our own personalized writing works. For these reasons, as we saw many resources to work with poetry […]
Read MoreThis week I have to do a great project: the creation of a classroom library. This task is quite complicated. The main difficulty of this task is taking into account the real economic situation. During these last years I have to do other projects but I had the possibility to create ideal situations, so this […]
Read MoreHello. For my third post, I choose one of my own experience related with the learning of English in early ages. When I was in my last practice time, my tutor and I had a problem: “How we can teach children to use the auxiliary verb ‘do’ in negative sentences without making the explanation boring?” […]
Read MoreHello everybody again! Last session was very interesting for me. We had the opportunity to know some children’s literature authors that I have never seen before. Some of them had really famous works but I did not know the writers. All of them are very good at their jobs and they have won important literature […]
Read MoreOn 29th of October all my classmates and me were discovering and practising some finger plays and Jazz chants. On one hand, Raquel, our teacher, began asking us for some finger plays. Everybody looked at each other because we didn’t know exactly what was she talking about, so she finally explained us that finger plays […]
Read MoreHow 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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