PEACE DAY POEM

WINTER INTERACTIVE ACTIVITIES

Here some interactive activities, poems and videos about the Winter, to learn more about this wonderful season. 

PHONICS - Third group of letter sounds.

This week we will study the third group of letter sounds: g, o, u, l - ll, f - ph - ff and b. 

To learn the sound of letter "g" we will be a GORILA. 

For letter sound "o", we will pretend to turn a light switch ON and OFF.  

It's raining a lot, so for letter "u", we will have to open our UMBRELLAS. 

To learn the "l", "ll" sound, we will pretend to link a  LOLLIPOP.

We can pronounce this sound through these three graphemes "f", "ph","ff", pretending to be an inflatable FISH deflating. 

To learn "b" sound we will bounce a BALL.  

PHONICS - READING - Groups 1 and 2

Blending the sounds that we have learnt at the moment (group 1 and group 2) we can read a whole word. Here some words we are able to read at this stage. 

Each dot below the letters means a sound. If a word has got three dots it means that if we want to read it we have to produce three sounds. First we have to read the sounds separately and then blend them all together to read a word. The picture shows the meaning of each word.

ROLE-PLAYING GAME: POLICE AND THIEVES

Learning through play is a term used in education and psychology to describe how a child can learn to make sense of the world around them. Through play children can develop social and cognitive skills, mature emotionally, and gain the self-confidence required to engage in new experiences and environments. (Human growth and the development of personality, Jack Kahn, Susan Elinor Wright, Pergamon Press)

We can apply this to our English lessons, using this powerful tool to make children learn and lose the fear to communicate in a foreign language. 

That's why last week of December we pretended to be thieves and police. We had a robbery at the Toy Shop, so we had to call the police to catch the thief and put him into the jail. 

The dramatization of the characters, the vocabulary and phrases used make students to interact with others in a foreign language, learn in a funny way, which makes them improve their oral expression. 

OUR CHRISTMAS WALL DISPLAY

This is our Christmas wall display for the aisle of the school. It shows us how we celebrate Christmas today, with our family and friends, and how it started, with the birth of baby Jesus at the manger. 

Students from 4 years old colored the drawings and wrote the labels for each character.