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 […]
Read MoreHello, I´m Jaime and today I´m writing about the class of this week. Before starting the description of the activities we did during that class, I have to say as an introduction that during the previous weeks we have seen loads of different ways about how to include poetry in classrooms. On Monday, our teacher […]
Read MoreTHE POETRY DAY Hi, Today I’m going to write a post about what we did during the middle group class on Monday. The topic of the class was poetry and the different ways to take advantage of it. The class can be divided in different parts: In the first part, the teacher gave us some […]
Read MoreHi, today I’m writing about an activity that we did last week and I consider it as a great activity that can have loads of possibilities. The activity is called “Create your reading map”. It consists in creating a drawing by using your imagination in order to transmit an idea or a story. In class, […]
Read MoreExperts in Children’s literature: Maurice Sendak Hello everyone, this week I’m writing about a new activity that we have developed during this week. We can call this activity as Groups of Experts in Children’s literature. To complete the activity, first we have to form small groups, and then the teacher gave to each group the […]
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 […]
Read MoreHi!, my name is Jaime García. I am a studying at Cardenal Cisneros University Center. This term we have a subject highly related with Children’s Literature, which is being taught by our teacher Raquel Fernández. We have created this blog to comment and reflex about the most important topics that we mention in the classroom, […]
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