TRANSPORTS SONGS AND GAMES

The wheels on the bus

What do you see? - Dream English 

PHONICS: The digraph "ng"

Practice the digraph "ng" with this Alphablocks video:

Do this "funtastic" activity (number 4) to practice a little more with this sound "ng".

TOYS VIDEOS

TOYS SONGS

HALLOWEEN INTERACTIVE ACTIVITIES

Pick a Pumpkin 

Pumpkin, Pumpkin 

Memory Game 

HALLOWEEN SONGS

Who took the candy? 

Knock, knock... treat or trick?

A BRIEF SUMMARY FOR THE SCHOOL MAGAZINE

Most of us know that the best way is to learn English naturally. That’s why we always try to let English involve all aspects of the school life.  Here a brief summary of all this year in the earliest stages of learning.

This course pupils from 3 to 5 years old were working the four seasons with a wonderful story called “The tiny seed”, written by Eric Carle, which is about the four seasons and the life cycle of all plants, as one tiny seed grows into an enormous sunflower, which then produces more seeds in its turn. To put into practice what they had learnt they planted some seeds in small pots and watched them grow every day.  

 Besides, we also have seen the Life Cycle of a Butterfly. A student brought to the school real caterpillars that after ate green leaves and slept for three days, turned into butterflies and laid eggs on the leaves.

 As well, this year all the school had a common purpose: The Meteorology Project. Every day, after the morning greetings, pupils talked about the weather as a part of their daily routine in the classroom.

They also study how to read and write properly in English, learning the different letter sounds with the Phonics methodology. It was amazing!

Pupils celebrated the Memorial Days and Festivals in English too. For the International Day of Non-Violence and Peace they made a wall display and beautiful peace doves with the shape of their little hands, to show everyone how much they care about peace and another values such as tolerance, respect, love and friendship.

They also celebrate St. Valentine’s Day, making paper hearts with special messages written on them…

 … and Halloween, listening to spooky stories and playing games in the library.

They loved to get dressed too. With role-play activities they could act out real life situations (e.g. a robbery) or give meaning to a new song (e.g. animals song).

They loved listening to stories too. During all the year, we have read many books that allowed us to travel to many different worlds and learn a lot of words and expressions.

Pupils got a lot of fun learning English this year and that’s really important, because…

THE WHEELS ON THE BUS

TRICKY WORDS

PHONICS GAMES: -EN, -ET, -IG, -IP.

READING STORIES: VOWELS

ALPHABLOCKS - Episodes "ng", "ai, ay and a__e", "w", "oa".

Letter sound "ng"

Letter sounds that have the same pronunciation:  "ai", "ay" and "a__e". 

Letter sound "w"

Letter sound "oa"

INTERACTIVE ACTIVITIES: FOOD AND FRUITS

LIKE AND DISLIKE

THE VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR by Eric Carle

Vocabulary. 

- Days of the week: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
- Animals: caterpillar, butterfly
- Food: apple, pears, plums, strawberries, oranges, chocolate cake, ice-cream cone, pickle, Swiss cheese, a slice of salami, lollipop, cherry pie, sausage, cupcake, watermelon.
- Numbers: one, two, three, four and five. 

"TODAY IS MONDAY" by Eric Carle.

Vocabulary.
- Days of the week: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
- Animals: hedgehog, snake, elephant, fox, pelican, cat, monkey.
- Food: string beans, spaghetti, soup, roast beef, fresh fish, chicken, ice-cream.
- Other words: eat up, hungry, children.

ALPHABLOCKS - Brilliant show from the BBC.

Episode 1

Learn all the alphabet letter sounds. 

Episode 2

Blending simple sounds. Difference between e and ee. 

Episode 3

Blending sounds. Vowels a, e, i, o and u.

Episode 4

Blending sounds. Vowels a, e, i, o, u and y.

Episode 5

Blending sounds. Consonants c and ck. 

Episode 6

Blending sounds. Consonants f, ff, n and ow. 

Episode 7

Blending sounds. Consonants b and d. 

PHONICS - Sixth group of letter sounds.

This group consists of these letter sounds: y, x - ks - cks, ch - tch, sh, th - th. 

Actions for the letter sounds:

y - Pretend to be eating a yogurt and say y, y, y. 
x, ks, cks - Pretend to take an x-ray with an x-ray camera, saying ks, ks, ks. 
ch, tch - Move arms and sides as if you are a train saying ch, ch, ch. 
sh - Place index finger over lips and say shhhh.
th - Pretend to be naughty clowns and stick out tongue a little for th (this) and further for th (thumb). 

PHONICS - Fifth group of letter sounds.

Letter sounds related to this group: z, zz, w, wh, ng, v and oo. 

For letter sound z, we put our arms out and pretend to be a bee, saying zzzZZZzzz. 

For letter sound w, we blow on to open hand, as if we were the wind, and we say wh, wh, wh.

To make letter sound ng, we'll imagine we are a weightlifter pretending to lift a heavy weight above our head saying nggg...

To memorize the letter sound v, we'll pretend to be holding the steering wheel of a van and say vvvvv.

For oo, we'll move head back and forth as if it is the cuckoo in a cuckoo clock, saying u oo u oo. 

EASTER SONGS

Easter is here! We can learn a lot of things about it with these wonderful songs. 

Vocabulary: Easter, bunny, egg, hunt, chocolate, garden, basket, chick, duckling, spring.