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 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…

INTERACTIVE ACTIVITIES: FOOD AND FRUITS

LIKE AND DISLIKE

"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.

WILD ANIMALS

Vocabulary: zebra, giraffe, elephant, hippo, snake, monkey, tiger, lion, eagle, lizard, crocodile, hyena, gazelle. 

Parts of the animals bodies: legs, neck, hair, mane, foot/feet, paws, hands, arms, claws, wings, teeth, tail. 

Interactive activities:

Stories:

POLAR BEAR, POLAR BEAR, WHAT DO YOU HEAR? by Eric Carle

                    

              Move like polar bears:

               "Polar Bear, Polar Bear turn around.

                Polar Bear, Polar Bear touch the ground.

                Polar Bear, Polar Bear bend down low.

                Polar Bear, Polar Bear touch your toe.

                Polar Bear, Polar Bear slide on the ice.

                Polar Bear, Polar Bear spin around, twice.

                Polar Bear, Polar Bear reach up high.

                Polar Bear, Polar Bear touch the sky."

                                                                Jean Warren

                                                                Adapted Traditional

             Interactive activity:

       

Song:

WINTER ANIMALS

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY

Children from 5 years old made these beautiful hearts for mum and dad. They had special messages such as: I love you, Forever friends and Be mine. 

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. 

CHARLIE AND LOLA CHRISTMAS

THE NATIVITY STORY

THE FAMILY - Bits of Intelligence

INTERACTIVE RESOURCES: MY FAMILY

Here some resources to learn more about the family and its members. Click on the picture to go to the website. 

THE HUMAN BODY AND FACE

Vocabulary we have seen: head, shoulders, arms, hands, tummy, legs, foot/feet, toes, fingers, eyes, nose, ears, mouth, chin, tongue, elbows, hips, tooth/teeth. 

Some songs to learn this vocabulary. 

THE TINY SEED

This book by Eric Carle is about the life cycle of all plants, as one tiny seed grows into an enormous sunflower, which then produces more seeds in its turn. We can see the four seasons vocabulary on it and a lot of words related to the weather and nature. We have only read the Autumn part, leaving the winter, spring and summer for the appropriate season moment.