Time to have a Nap

"The stories for children are just for sleep"

PLEASE... Who said that? This post show that it is not true. For a long time the stories have been used, in addition to teaching, for childen go to the bed in clam and alone. Durin this year we have learnt a several ways to teach the units from a text book but none as this one.

Hello everyboby, Gest what? It is me...again. at this moment we have learn a lot of ways to teach spending  a good and efective time with the children so because we have to add this activity to the list of "the great activities". 

The develop of this activity consist in the creation of story to tell to the clildren using some general gestures for some words and others invented by you. The story had to follow a specific structure given. We also had to make a "power point" with some drawing or pictures in order to help children to follow the story in a easier way complement the telling story.

The topic of the story could be very different but a good idea was to make the story related with some unit from one subject because this way the leatning is easier and funnier.

Finally we had to show our stories being tollen twice, one with the power point and making the gestures a another second one inviting our parners to make the gestures with us.

one of the goals for this activity was to notice that it is possible to create a several story taking as a model a easy structure

This activity was really funny to do it and it has a lot of good results because the story I did was related with a topic from a book and it is easier for the student to pay attention to a short story than an explanation. It is true that its took time to think what the stoy was going to go about and also to decide the gesture for each key word.

I really recomend it, you will have a really good time, I will say more, I would bet you will have a funnier time than the student itselfves.

singing the unit!!!!

Another surprise

Once again, Raquel never ceases to amaze. This time by asking us for creating a song more specifically "singing a theme/topic from the theory", yes... I said "SINGING A TOPIC"

It is a really creative way for students to memorize or remember ideas or concepts.

The activity just consists on creating a rate using key concept from the unit.

Said so, it seems easy but actually it is not when they tell you not only have to make that the words rhyme but also you have to invent a rhyme and all this in a few minutes.

To develop this activity the teacher divided the class into groups and she gave to each one a piece of text from a primary book. We had a few minutes to create the rhyme but still it was enough time to create a good rhyme.

It was a really funny activity I had not think in something like this before. After to create it we had to represent it in class and when the lesson finished, I remain impressed by the amount of different songs can be created. We lost the shame of sing and we notice that if you make a mistake can be also funny, this was what happen with some of our partners

On the other hand it was funny because there was some small mistakes, not just done by me but also done by others parners who put the comic point to the sesion. 

I have been reflecting about how and when use this activity, and I realized that it could be used as a reflection or summary of how you have felt throughout the primary stage or to comment anecdotes to tell parents in a performance.

The activity would be related to the subject of music and for the last year of primary school. Also might be possible to do it both in Spanish and in English.

I know this is a long and complicated activity to coordinate and carry out, but it would be a fun a creative way to end the primary period.

If you have any other suggestion to use this activity, it will be wellcome.

Thank you.

P.D: I do not know if the video will work, if does not I really sorry.