Hello, 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 prepared new activities for us that were linked with poetry. The first activity that we did had a close relation with new technologies. In this activity, first we were divided in small groups of four or three people, then we had to search on YouTube for the poetry videos that we did and choose one of them.
They can be watched in this direction: (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdrzI70O2odaLe7LN52gX7Q)
After choosing, we had to create a QR code for the video that we had chosen using the website: https://www.the-qrcode-generator.com/. Once we had the QR code ready; we started to think about an activity that can be done with the video that we have chosen, such as adding a new strophe or drawing objects that appear or should appear in the poetry, etc. You may think about the purpose of this activity; the aim of the activity was to print the QR codes with the activities suggested and place them in the corridors of the university, so that people could do the activities that we created thanks to their smartphone´s camera.
By the time we finished the activity we started with the next one which was linked with creation, art and visual spatial intelligence. The activity began when the teacher place in different parts of the class some sheets with a poetry in them, but this poetries had a special characteristic; its verses form shapes of objects that were related with them. We had to go read each sheet and create another example using the technique which appears in the sheet.
In conclusion, I have to say that I really liked the activities that we did, because they gave the opportunity to develop imagination and creativity, also they were motivational for us and they would be motivational for children as well, but a very interesting point that the activities suggested is the sense of continuity, I mean that the videos that we did some weeks ago have been used again for another activity. Furthermore, I think that this could be used in some many ways in schools for letting the children create a visible progression in the continuity of the activities that they do.
Hello Jaime! First of all I want to thank you for sharing our experiences and your opinions. I have to say that I also liked the activity. But the main point I want to mention is a special thing you were talking about, “Continuity”.
If we talk about contents, this is something we can really notice at school, because what students learn is going to be seen also in future classes. Connecting with prior knowledge is something very important, because it lets us know how much children know, and also it let students see that they already know something about that topic so they can feel more confident.
If we talk about methodology, continuity can also be a very useful tool. We can link some activities, so students are playing with their own things they have done in class and this can be a very motivating situation.
So now, we have some more things to take into account as future teachers!