Mums, dads, educators:
28 Oct 2012
Incy Wincy Spider
Incy Wincy Spider and
It's raining it's pouring. The old man is snoring. He went to bed and bumped his head and he couldn't get up in the morning. Rain, rain go away, come again another day.
The rhyme is believed to have originated from Ireland during the commonwealth period (1649-1660) and the dictatorial conditions in the country at that time.
The poor weather conditions in line one reflect the genocide committed against Irish Catholics whilst the last three lines are most likely a wish that Oliver Cromwell, the Lord Protector of England, will die in his sleep.
27 Oct 2012
A Dark, Dark, Tale
This is the story by Ruth Brown it's called a Dark Dark, Tale.
Hope you like it.
I'll try to tidy up my room for the next video.
23 Oct 2012
Halloween crafts with Red Ted
Year five this week we're working on instruction texts so in the next few days I want you to have a look at this blog and choose one of the halloween crafts. Then copy the intructions on to the planning frame I gave you.
Choose something that you'd like to make.
You are going to need imperative verbs, that's why you had the homework today to start learning a few.
Halloween craft ideas
http://www.redtedart.com/2012/08/01/halloween-crafts-ideas/
redtedart.com
Also here is the link for you tube on Dem Bones the song the whole school will be singing on the 31st October It's the skeleton dance from super simple songs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e54m6XOpRgU&feature=player_detailpage
22 Oct 2012
five year olds at play.
I'm the king of the caste and you're a dirty rascal was something we used to say to each other at school. It's probably terrribly out of date but it sounds like English and they love it.
Goldilocks puppets 5º primaria
I loved the puppets you made they were amazing. Thankyou for making such a big effort now I have to think of a good prize.
21 Oct 2012
In a cottage five year olds
Here are some of the children in one of my five year old classes singing In a cottage in a wood.
They take it in turn to come out and sing the song. So I can check if they are singing and doing the actions. It's a bit difficult to tape and sing at the same time because I need to keep eye contact with them. I might try to get some help to tape them the next time.
Sing a rainbow five year olds
Again using gestures as you can see you keep them in controlled movement.
Using songs and stories in the infant or preschool classroom (3-5 years) you are teaching chunks of language in context. Always try to stay away from lists of vocabulary and the dreaded flashcards.
19 Oct 2012
18 Oct 2012
Sam Mc Gee five year olds
The five year olds have learnt a new poem today, it's called:
I'm the ghost of Sam McGee
I'm the ghost of Sam Mc Gee.
I walk the strees from 10 till 3.
All the little children are afraid of me.
Cause I'm the ghost of Sam Mc Gee.
It was taught to me my grandad Tom when I was about five myself.
It was taught to me my grandad Tom when I was about five myself.
17 Oct 2012
photoshop express
Hey everyone,
If you want to edit your photos before you put them into your blog there is a great toy called photoshop express. There are "Tutorias in youtube" and if I can do it than anyone can. You don't have to download it just use it online. It's magic.
Just look at the five year olds.
5º B Circle Game ( 5º de primaria)
This is the circle game that we use to practise vocabulary in year five.
You can use this idea to teach any new vocabulary in English or science it's better if the language is taught in a chunk and not isolated words.
Don't forget. Go. I've got...................who's got....................................????
16 Oct 2012
How to identify a witch .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTiil52Jw4w
Year five you must see this. Important information for survival.
14 Oct 2012
5º de primaria: My favourite Halloween Songs
Good Songs
for Halloween!
Personalize them and make them yours.
Personalize them and make them yours.
Witches of Halloween
We’re witches of Halloween WhoooooooHOOOOO.
The ugliest you’ve ever seen
Whohoooooooooooo.
We fly about at night and give you
all a fright.
We’re witches of Halloween
Whhhhhhhhhhhhooooohhhooooooo
We’re witches of Halloween Whhhhhhhhhhhhoooooohhhoooooo,
Our faces are crooked and green whooooooooohooooooooooooo
We’ve got wicked witches hats and
wicked witches cats,
We’re witches of Halloween
WhooooooooHoooooooooooooo
Halloween is coming
Halloween is coming, Halloween is coming, Skeletons
will come after you.
Rats and bats and big black cats whhhooooohooohooohoo
Flap , flap, flap go the big black bats whohoohoohooohoo.
Miaw miaw miaw go the ugly cats whoowhoowhoowhoowhoo
1,2,3 BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
A witch has a big black hat
A witch has a
big black hat,
A witch has a
big black cat,
She sits on
her broomstick a she goes by and…
Whoooooooooooooooooooooooooo
is her cry.
A witch has
long black hair, a witch flies through the air,
She sits on
her broomstick as she goes by and…..
Whoooooooooooooooohoooooooo
is her cry.
Teaching Resources: In a cottage in a wood
So this is me!
I didn't get my hair done for my first public appearance as you can see. But hopefully the video will be useful to you teachers out there.
But it takes ages to upload a video...
Is there a quicker way to do it I wonder?
It's always good to put your money where your mouth is, isn't it????
So next time you see this video it will be with my students.
13 Oct 2012
5º de primaria: Verb Tenses
Hey Year Five! Here is an example of the verb tenses we’ve been studying in
Goldilocks and the Three Bears.
It's called the present perfect continuous tense.
Do you remember what Daddy Bear said?
subject
|
auxiliary
verb
|
auxiliary
verb
|
main verb
|
|||
+
|
I
|
have
|
been
|
eating
|
porridge
|
|
+
|
You
|
have
|
been
|
sitting
|
in my
chair
|
|
-
|
It
|
has
|
not
|
been
|
raining
|
In the
forest
|
-
|
We
|
have
|
not
|
been
|
looking
|
For Goldilocks
|
?
|
Have
|
you
|
been
|
sleeping
|
In my bed?
|
|
?
|
Have
|
they
|
been
|
walking
|
In the
wood?
|
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An action continuing up to now:
We use the present perfect continuous tense to talk about an action that started in the past and is continuing now. This is often used with for or since.| I have been sleeping for 2 hours. | |||||
| past | present | future | |||
| Action started in past. | Action is continuing now. | ||||
- I have been sleeping for 2 hours. [I am still sleeping now.]
- We've been walking in the woods since 9 o'clock. [We're still walking now.]
- How long have you been eating porridge ? [You are still eating porridge now.]
- We have not been sitting in baby bears chair. [And we are not sitting now.]
Now it's time to try this quiz.
http://www.englishclub.com/grammar/verb-tenses_present-perfect-continuous_quiz.htm
5º de primaria: Halloween
Halloween
Hello year five! Halloween is coming soon, so here are some great websites to visit.
- http://www.ego4u.com/en/read-on/countries/holidays/halloween
- http://funschool.kaboose.com/fun-blaster/halloween/
- http://www.squiglysplayhouse.com/Games/Holidays/Halloween.html
Porridge!
Ok Year Five, what we're going to do next week is to make the perfect porridge.
This website could help you before the big day:
http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-make-the-perfect-bowl-of-porridge
Don't for get we'll be using instruction language so we need to remember what's important when giving instructions.
Use connectors like:
First, second, third, then after, and finally
This website could help you before the big day:
http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-make-the-perfect-bowl-of-porridge
Don't for get we'll be using instruction language so we need to remember what's important when giving instructions.
Use connectors like:
First, second, third, then after, and finally
Planning Frame from primary resources
Use this frame
to make brief notes and to organise your ideas.
Title:
|
Introduction:
|
You
will need / equipment:
|
Numbered
steps:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
|
Closing
paragraph / explanation:
|
Top Tips
- Keep the title simple and clear.
- Say your sentences out loud before writing them
- Explain what is going to be made.
- Use pictures to help explain
- Number the steps
5º de primaria: Goldilocks puppets
Making Puppets
Hi everyone in year 5,This is a good website from the British Council to have a look at to listen to the story of Goldilocks and do some activities.
http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/short-stories/goldilocks-and-the-three-bearsYou can listen to the Song on Youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaulRHrJGeU
What do you think about making some puppets?
There will be a prize for the most original, so use your imagination!!!!
Then we can go and tell the story of Goldilocks to the children in pre-school.
Here are some ideas:
Cinco años: Rainbow song with sign language
Hola otra vez!
Los niños se saben esta canción. Intentadlo con lenguaje de señas.
Try this song and learn the sign language
Be creative
Here in Spain many years of rote learning has seriously hindered creative development. I find it extraordinary that so many marvellous Spanish "creators" have managed to survive the system and still have any creativity left at all. Just think of Picasso, Dali and Míro not to mention the wonderful dancers and musicians like Sara Baras, Maria Serrano, Cortes, Placido Domingo, Jose Carreras and Andres Segovia
Instead of feeling proud of these amazing geniuses, Spaniards are often heard moaning about "The foclóricos".
Instead of feeling proud of these amazing geniuses, Spaniards are often heard moaning about "The foclóricos".
Many consider anything" Made in Spain" to be inferior (except the food). Anything German is highly recognised or considered real quality.
When you just have to open your eyes and look around any Spanish classroom to see incredible artistic talent often going to waste.
This is so obvious in schools where artistic merit is not at all recognised.
Oh Yes I forgot, only kids who are capable of memorising everything and then vomitting in back in a ridiculous exam that only tests the lower order thinking skills are "brainy". The rest well...........
Parents are forced to spend hours slogging over enormously long sums and analysing texts with their kids for homework because that's what good parents do.
But sorry............................... Wouldn't it be more fun to make a model plane or invent a dance or a stupid song or make up a fantasy story where you and they are the hero of course?
Encourage free thinking and please don't give them all the answers; make them find the facts for themselves
If you think like me then at least we are two weirdos in the world. At least in the classroom I can do something about it.
He was a pretty average student.
Teaching resources: How do we get them to listen?
How do we get them to listen?
I just started this year with my Spanish five
year olds and I firmly believe that to help them learn English they need to
laugh a lot, listen a lot, be curious and most of all be a little bit scared.
That might sound weird but according
to leading experts fear, laughter and curiosity stimulate the brain and make
it more receptive.
When I say fear I mean
..............what you talk about and the way you say it can keep kids listening.
Stop, listen and be quiet; a
monster at the door is much more interesting than a dog for a small child.
Teaching resources: Las Sudacas
Today two five year olds in the
playground in a Spanish primary school shocked me to the core.
"What are you doing?" I
asked.
"Making poison out of acorns
and colacao (chocolate milk) ", the two little angels replied.
"It's to kill the Sudacas"
(South Americans) one added.
I stood rooted to the sand.
"But why do you want to kill
them?" I asked.
"Because they are bad", one cherub answered.
I called the music teacher over and
repeated what I'd heard.
She asked them: “Chicos que hacéis?”
"Haciendo veneno", they said.
"Para quien?", she asked.
"Para matar las sudacas".
"Y quien son las
sudacas?", she cleverly asked. “And
who are they?”
"Profe, ¿no sabes? Son unos pajarracos blancos
y negros que matan a todos los pajaritos en el jardín; mi padre
mató una". (Urracas or magpies).
“Don’t you know miss? They're those
black and white birds that kill all the small birds in the garden..."
Cinco años: Polar Bear Polar Bear
¡Hola padres y madres de alumnos de 5 años A/B! Estas últimas semanas hemos estado trabajando sobre este cuento:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5p6EYujwec&feature=related
Los niños han aprendido animales nuevos como walrus,
peacock y boa constrictor.
Han aprendidido el chant adaptado:
Polar bear, polar bear what do you
hear? I hear a lion
1,2, 3.
Han aprendido a calcar los animales (developing fine
motor skills) y han hecho un libro para llevar a casa.
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