Hello everyone! How’s it going? How fast has gone the semester! It’s our last post on this blog … and as it cannot be otherwise this last post is dedicated to those little people who are…our future students!, and those who were for two hours last Tuesday at our university (thank the students of CP Daoiz y Velarde for the great experience).
And you will wonder, what were doing some primary school students at a university?

Students from the center CP Daoiz y Velarde came to the University Center Cardenal Cisneros to work on: “Aladdin and his Wonderful Lamp”

The “Workshop” project began a few weeks ago. The project was to choose a story known by most children and see what primary content could relate to it and create activities for children. Among all my classmates we choose a topic, the choice was a bit difficult, we had to choose between stories like Mary Poppins, The Jungle Book, The Lord of the Rings, etc. Eventually the story chosen was “Aladdin”.
After this election we had to decide the topic (related to Aladdin) that we would develop. Some of them were: meals, the market, the desert, geography, etc.; and after that, choose the activities which we were going to do with children. In this proposal we suggested changes in activities, which of them interest us more to work with children, etc.
After weeks of hard work, everything was ready for students. Nerves were close to the surface, the six groups were around the corridors of the principal building. Each group was decorated in a different scenario of Aladdin’s movie also you could see some Aladdin, Jasmines, tigers, Jaffars or Genies running with flying carpets, magic lamps and all kind of things from the Arabian culture.
In my group, we were working on the desert. The activities that we did with the students were related with the traditional clothing of the inhabitants of the desert, and the wildlife in places like oasis.
When the first nerves were gone, everything was great. The kids enjoyed every place and we enjoy working with them.
As a conclusion said that I believe that these kinds of activities are great for children because with them you can bring the contents in their textbooks to a story that they know from very small. On the other hand I also think it is good for us as future teachers because it is not the same experience that we have when we are in a school during our practical time and also it is another way to prepare us for our next future as teachers, although it is very exhausting.