In my opinion, the people of this course is taking a really high level preparing this kind of things, I’m sure that if we had done this workshop in our first year the final result had been much worse than this, but obviously that’s the reason we are here.

Now I’m going to talk about the experience from the point of view of my group. Before to start we were very relaxed preparing the workshop because in that moment we weren’t very aware about what we had to do a bit later. We prepared the workshop as well as we can, taking in to account that in our location, the corridor, it’s a place really busy, but at the end we get a fairly credible market. We decided to use true food for our market and later we saw that was a great idea.

The time to prepare everything passed too fast, and soon we were enjoying with the children. And as I said before, to put real food was a success because when they saw the food they were focus on the task, it was really catching.

At the begging we were a bit lost about who had to talk in each moment but the children were very cooperative and they did it easier. In a few minutes we were more relaxed and we started to enjoy the activity and then the children enjoyed as well. They were involved on the task and everything was flowing, until we finish the activity and the children follow there with us, anybody said to change the workshop and we were confused for a while. But suddenly we started to do another improvised activity and the children weren’t bored.

The other two groups were easy and flowed, we manage the groups without problem and we did that children feel good and comfortable with us. The activities covered the time perfectly and we didn’t have to improvise more, just to do all that we had prepared.

When we finished with the last group we were surprised that there were not more groups because was so fast for us, and obviously that was a nice new, we enjoy a lot with children and they with us.

As I said in my last post, the pity is that it was the only case when we have work with children in the uni, but doesn’t matter; we will have the practicum very soon.

I know that we have the practicum but I think that we should to have more opportunities to do it along the degree. It’s just a reflection that I wanted to do, because today I would like to talk about the reading in children and the role of the reader in that important task.

Telling stories to children is a habit that has been passed from generation to generation, and even today, with all the technological advances that we are accustomed, back to this old technique to soothe the savage beast, and to enrich them culturally.

Hearing a story, children exercise thinking skills because they must analyze how it should behave and instilling values that can help them train as people. Even through stories where cruelty is one of the main protagonists, they can understand the life, meet his surroundings and decide how you can assimilate the pain that hurt less.

The stories collaborate considerably with the intellectual development of the boy, allow you to exercise analytical skills and understanding and stimulate their memory and the wish to express themselves correctly; on the other hand, thanks to these stories, the children comes into contact with their individual sensitivity, and their sensitivity is extended and learn to express it more clearly.

Reading works to expand the vocabulary of children which brings positive effects, allowing you to read aloud with greater security and a better school performance. In addition, children who are used to hearing stories are able to pay more attention in a passive activity without getting bored and acquire the ability to listen and understand what is said to them more effectively.

Encourages reading in the interest of the children in different areas, so it is possible that children discover their vocation at an early age and can help and support to do something positive with it. Through beautiful stories children can learn different subjects, such as history, nature, art, numbers, languages, and many others.

I hope you will have all this things into account, because we are a very important model for children.