Comentarios para Exploring children's literature in english

Comentario en Good afternoon! por Debrah

Debrah — Sat, 11 Feb 2017 01:24:59 +0000

This is the perfect way to break down this inmoafrtion.

Comentario en Do you know any English author for children? por Kalyn

Kalyn — Sat, 11 Feb 2017 01:19:30 +0000

The exrstpiee shines through. Thanks for taking the time to answer.

Comentario en Time to try por carmen.hidalgo

carmen.hidalgo — Thu, 18 Dec 2014 16:10:33 +0000

Hi carla,
I’ve enjoyed a lot Reading your post. During that moment, many special moments came to my mind. In my opinion the whole class has been working very hard to finish that workshop time successfully and the reason why we worked a lot is simply the children, or not as simpler because, as you said, we needed a lot of time to prepare the corners, the tasks, materials, procedure, etc. But the final results deserved completely that hard work.
As you said Carla, there were some problems that appeared at the beginning, but along the working day these problems were becoming in something more and even more perfect. For instance: the time limits. I think everybody had the same problem. At the beginning, at the time we were teaching the first group of children, someone knocked the door to tell us that we had to let come in to another group of pupils, and we didn’t finish the lesson with the previous one. Another problem that we had to deal with was the communication with the children because they didn’t answer the questions or they were distracted; but this happened at the beginning because, as I said, we were learning from these problems and we were improving them all.
Finally, congratulations Carla! Because when I came into your ‘jaima’, everything impressed me completely. You achieved to make a perfect atmosphere for children to enjoy and I’m really sure that they did it.

Comentario en The sharing book. por Luis Álvarez

Luis Álvarez — Tue, 16 Dec 2014 17:16:38 +0000

Hi Paula,
First of all congratulations for your post. I think that it is really interesting all the things you have written.
Related with the last big group day and the activity of the characters I have to say that it was great to see your own carácter involved in a story that you have not created. It could be a good idea make a story with our own carácter but it was good too in this way.
Related what the activity of the “traveller book”, I want to share with you that I have a experience close to me. My girlfriend is a teacher of 6th of Primary and she told me two weeks ago that she has prepared and activity. This activity was called “Sexto around the world”. This activity consisted in write a story related with a place in which students had been before. For example, my girlfriend was the first writting a travel she did to Praga. She wrote her experience, stick photos and explain what was the most beautiful things for her and the most amazing monuments. When she finished she took the book to her class and one students had to take the book and write one story related with some travel she or he had done. At the end, she get a book with all the experiences of her students around the world, with pictures, with their feelings and emotions, etc…
I think this is a good way to encourage them to write end be motivate in class. Also this activity it could be modify. Instead of write their adventures during a travel, they can use their characters to créate their own story and pass to their partners to be complete.
Finally, as Carolina said, all of these kind of activities are great and very motivating for children because they can feel protagonist and they can créate their own stories. It is a good resource to apply in the future with our students.
Good post Paula.

Comentario en From books to tablets: the new challenge por JaimeMartinez

JaimeMartinez — Tue, 16 Dec 2014 09:36:12 +0000

Hi Yolanda!
I agree with you and with Loli about that this news makes me a little bit sad because students will lose the chance of handwriting and replace it by writing on a computer.
I agree with you also in the advantages of writing on a computer because it is easier to delete the mistakes and you have so many advantages that you don’t have with handwriting (possibility of checking the grammar while you’re writing or keep your ideas clear), but I think that although we start to release that kind of writing, we have to continue teaching how to do it properly because it is the base to other multiple things and skills. For example, taking a pen with your fingers is part of the “fine mobility” (in Spanish, motricidad fina).

Thank you very much for your comment and have a nice week!

Comentario en From books to tablets: the new challenge por JaimeMartinez

JaimeMartinez — Tue, 16 Dec 2014 09:31:35 +0000

Hi Loli!
I agree with your comments to my post, because days after publish it, I see that the news that come from Finland was a little bit changed and they didn’t tell us all the truth about it.
In Finland they teach 2 types of handwriting: one called “printer handwriting” which the common one; and the “traditional handwriting” which is less used by the students, and this is the one which is going to be as an optative subject outside the compulsory one which will continue being the printer one, so the Finnish students didn’t stop writing with pen and paper, they just leave the useless method away and “replace” it with the digital method of writing.

Here you have the link to the ABC article that talks about the mistake: http://www.abc.es/sociedad/20141203/abci-finlandia-educacion-escritura-mano-201412030753.html

Thanks for comment on my post because it makes me think more about the topic and find the mistake.

Have a nice week,
Jaime

Comentario en The sharing book. por JaimeMartinez

JaimeMartinez — Tue, 16 Dec 2014 09:24:57 +0000

Hi Paula!
I like a lot your post, thanks for sharing it with us
I think your idea of the “traveller’s book” was great for children and it can be applied for all the ages changing the rules they have to follow or the contents they have to write about.
I agree with Carolina comment in the fact that this activities are very motivating for children because they have to share their feelings (for the shy students also). If one student doesn’t want to talk about itself, he/she can talk through a character and express what he/she wanted to say.
As you know, this activity can be done also with the help of parents especially in early years, because the students didn’t have a wide range of vocabulary to express what they want to do or maybe they don’t know exactly what is the aim of the book, for that reason, the parents’ help is very important in this activity.
I think also that it is a way of involve all the “educative community” (I don’t know if this is the correct expression): parents, teachers, students, classroom auxiliaries,…, so all the people involve can see how many people are they and how many people are focused on the education of his/her children, so that can give parents the chance of “meet” all the people that are involved in that school.

Comentario en Leaving bearing in mind Good and Evil por Beatriz Sandoval

Beatriz Sandoval — Sun, 14 Dec 2014 23:15:55 +0000

Hi Azu, I think I haven’t commented on any of your posts yet. I find your entry is quite interesting and congrats because you took care of looking for some information and bibliography.

I share your point that in this subject we have learnt and take pleasure because we have been doing plenty of activities which are useful to develop in class. Regarding the content of your entry, Disney and the majority of the world shows white race as the ‘glorified’ one. Realise that when you watch films, and this is something that I have been observing and shocks me, I would dare to say that the majority of people who have the lowest purchasing power are usually from other race than the white. And this is something true said by many cinephile people. I’m going to add an example: A scene when the worker who is carving the wood is a latin person, or a scene when the pupils don’t study and are ‘conflictive’ and millions of examples like this kind. I agree with you when you say that teachers have to pay attention to the message related to stereotypes that can have an influence on them. But unfortunately life is full of stereotypes, and however I would say that knowing the stereotypes, we know maybe more for better or for worse.

Comentario en The use of films in the Primary Education class por Beatriz Sandoval

Beatriz Sandoval — Sun, 14 Dec 2014 21:54:00 +0000

Thank you girls for all your comments, for what I read you liked the post and I’m so grateful that you all commented on it. I will take into account your advices and suggestions because It is true that films are an excelent tool and we have to take advantage of this
Regards!

Comentario en The sharing book. por Nacho Loeches

Nacho Loeches — Sun, 14 Dec 2014 21:51:59 +0000

Hi Paula!
In my opinion your post is really interesting, and I’ve decided to write you for several reasons.
The first of all it’s that for me, the activity of the characters is one of the most creative and funny task that we have done during this term. It’s an activity that we could bring it to our future classroom without any problem; we won’t need any special adaptation for children like happen with many of the activity that we do in the uni. And I think that if we have enjoyed with this task the children will do much more than us and also they will develop their creativity.
In the other hand, I would like to share an activity very similar to “the Traveler Book”.
During my second Practicum, the teacher had the idea to do “the riddles book”, and it worked in the same way, each week had to teak the book a different child and s/he had to add any new riddle with a nice drawing an later they had to read it in class and the rest of the children had to try to guess it. They brought really funny riddles and drawings very nice.
I think it’s another good idea to work the literacy with children.