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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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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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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Aladdin’s workshop and the cultural secrets of Arabia

Hello once again! Nice to be here one week more! Today I am going to share with you the last project we are carrying out, the Aladdin’s workshop; and particularly, the workshop my group and I are preparing: Discovering the cultural secrets of Arabia. During the last two weeks, we have been preparing a workshop […]

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Aladdin and his new adventure.

In this third post I would like to talk about the workshop. I don´t know how you all feel, but I feel exited with this great opportunity! Is the first time that we have the chance to work with pupils in the university, we sometimes see other groups of mates working with pupils and I […]

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English Literature in the P.E. Lesson

Hi everyone! Today we, Azu Rodríguez and alicia.lopez, would like to share with you an experience that we carried out two days ago, which we consider could be useful for you (especially for those of you who could not come to our lesson). Although for some people it might sound a little bit strange, we […]

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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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