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Creating a story of Superheroes

diego.munoza — Wed, 10 Dec 2014 08:40:53 +0000

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 we understood this part as a way for having homework, and as everybody should know, homework is something boring to almost all the people.
But the second activity was more dynamic because consist on make a story with others superheroes that the partners has made. This elaboration of the story requires a high use and development of our imagination and creativity. This aspects are going to be very important for our future as teachers.
I consider that this activity will encourage our minds for the use of them in a different way, because this type of activity, seems different than the others that we have been doing during the whole grade, so we have to take this into account to observe that there are not only one way of doing things, there are many ways of develop interesting activities with children for the use of their minds.
This activity uses the high order of thinking that we have been speaking during the whole grade in relation with the clill method, because the aim of the practical activity is to create something from nothing, and this is the last step in the clill method, so this activity is directly related with clill, and because of this it have a lot of importance in our formation.
On the other hand we can’t confuse the elaboration of a story in a didactic way, with the elaboration a story un a funny way, because, it is important to give a cronological and logical order to the activity, and if we take it as a funny activity, it will be presented the ausence of a logical thinking for the activity.
In conclusion this activity have make me reflect a lot because i develop my own thinking as a pupil and it reminds me when i was young and i have a behaviour of a child, like using in a ”crazy” way our imagination as we were playing with toys or something like that.
So i would recomend you to do an activity similar to this, because you will feel better.

Aladdin’s World

diego.munoza — Wed, 05 Nov 2014 09:44:33 +0000

This topic it is going to be very available and interesting for the children, because taking into account my own experience, this film was one of my favorite films of my infant period. And at the same time, for the children of nowadays it is going to be useful too.
There are a lot of aspects that are possible to work with this movie in each concrete scene. The more relevant aspects to work with are the food in the scene of the market, the culture fact that present during the whole movie, the different habitats but in the movie is only the dessert reflected, and a lot of topics more.
Another important aspect to work with the movie it is the creativity of the children. This creativity it going to be encourage in a considerably way because in the movie there is always happening unusual things related with magic aspects such as the flying carpet, the apparition of the genius…
There are moral messages in the movie too, and this reality will make children to see the life in a better way, taking into account and developing this moral. One important moral of the movie is not to judge people before know them. This moral in the film is reflected during the whole movie because at the beginning Aladdin is a thief, and as we know, all the thieves are bad people, but in this case, Aladdin change until the end of the movie, turning into a good Prince, instead a bad thief. So this type of moral is going to help children to understand the life in a better way.
In conclusion, we can say that this movie it is going to be very productive for the mental formation of the children, and at the same time, the pupils are going to enjoy the movie. Another conclusion is that for our work as teacher, this movie it is going to help us to develop our teaching in a better way, and consequently, the children are going to have a better learning process helped by the film
Finally I want to encourage teachers to use the film in class, as the better way that they could can. If you as a teacher use this movie you’re going to have nice results on the learning of the children.
So, we should watch the film to learn too much about the life!

Reading Map

diego.munoza — Tue, 21 Oct 2014 22:42:24 +0000

Hello Everyone! I want to say that i enjoy very much this activity, because it is composed by a lot of things such as coloring or interaction with each others. I want to mention that children enjoy this activity and at the same time it is going to increase a lot their creativity, but however for us, this activity helps everybody to know more things about the life of our partners.

On the other hand, the interaction with each other it is going to develop our second language while we speak with the partner answering and asking the questions purposed in the picture of the ”hand of questions”. This picture will going ensure that every questions raised in the class before, are going to be asked by the students. The way of make the interview taking out middle of the class, and lending the rest ones choosing a picture of the ones that were out, is good, because you’re going to avoid the typical pairs of children in class, and with this we are going to guess a full interaction with different ones apart from their normal friends.

The setting and the proposal of showing the pictures as we were in a museum it’s funny and you can observe more in depth the ones that you like more. The pictures could be shown through presentations, but I prefer this way because it motivate us to examine all the pictures with the same interest.

The idea of the reinforcements it’s good for us but not neccesary, but for children, you must do it, because they need to feel considerate by the others, but in addition, I want to say that it is possible to increase the motivation of the pupils, if you purpose that the day of the museum, the class will be chose the best picture of all, so every child will make as better than they can for been the winner of the activity. And finally the teacher could give to the best picture a little present to the child for him as a new reinforcement.

In conclusion I think that this activity was successful for everyone, because everybody has been feeling comfortable during the whole activity and there wasn’t any moment in which the students were upset. So I recommend to all who reads this entrance, to use this type of activities in the class. If you use this developments you will have success.