29 Oct 2014

No homework for "long weekend" year 4 but finish witch description today



HI all yesterday we did a joint class description where we each had to write a sentence of the description and then pass it on around the class in the present simple tense.  (That means an "s" in all the verbs when using "she":  
First we brainstormed witchy vocabulary
Then we began with:
 A witch is a woman who has...................................3THINGS
She lives in........................................................2 POWERFUL ADJECTIVES
She likes..........................................................3 THINGS
She hates........................................................2 THINGS
She always..................................................
She never........................................................
In my opinion a witch..................................................................
We then wrote out 10 questions for a witch interview after the holidays. (This is really undercover Trinity practice)
Children now have to type out the description in a word doc.If you don't have a printer bring the doc in a U:S:B and I will print it here at school.  Many of them need to practice use of  a key board.


24 Oct 2014

Meg and Mog 1 for 5 year olds




This is the story we will be working on next week  in the five year old class.  
Get the kids to read you their Three Little Pig story that they have brought home today.  See  how much they can remember.

YEAR 4 HOMEWORK 24-26TH OF OCTOBER

NO HOMEWOK THIS WEEKEND BUT BEWARE!!!  THOSE OF YOU WHO WERE NOT READY TO GIVE YOUR ORAL PRESENTATION.  MONDAY IS THE LAST DAY.
DONT FORGET
PRACTISE, PRACTISE, PRACTISE. KNOW WHAT YOU WANT TO SAY.
POSITION YOUR HANDS TRY TO BREATHE SLOWLY.
MAKE EYE CONTACT AND SMILE.  SPEAK CLEARLY AND SLOWLY.
Alex's Dream Holiday

Juan's Dream Holiday


Sandra's Dream Holiday
Have you noticed the amazing use of conditionals????  
These kids are 9 years old

23 Oct 2014

Gypsy Jenny

Today we practised using the future tense when Gypsy Jenny Came to school with her crystal ball.

We asked questions like.

Will I have a dog?
Will I be a famous football player?
Will I go to Hollywood?


Will I be a famous singer?
Will I own a horse, a big house or a Porsche?
Will I live forever?
Will I visit New York, Chicago, Africa, Germany or Mexico?
What will my job be?
Will I return one day to Benicassim?
Will I be a princess?
Will I be a famous painter?
Will I have a cup cake business?
Here are some of the photos.














22 Oct 2014

21 Oct 2014

Spelling practise

For those of you who find spelling difficult.  Sign up for this great free website and practise at home
spelling games

Animals:::http://www.learninggamesforkids.com/word-games/hangman-games/animal-hangman-games.html  Hangman


A words:::http://www.learninggamesforkids.com/alphabet_games/the-letter-a/match-a-words.html


Telling The future year 4

This week apart from preparing your oral presentation for My Dream Holiday, we will be receiving a visit form a famous gypsy who will be telling us our future so get your 10 questions ready for tomorrow.

Scary Sounds of Halloween

Songs for daily routines

Hi here are a few songs for daily routines in the  five year old class.
Daily routines songs Jenny singing
More difficult songs
Sorry for the gruff voice

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sing a rainbow auslan


Sing a rainbow





 Try teaching this song with the sign language.  It's quite impressive to see five year olds singing in English and signing at the same time.

20 Oct 2014

Year 4's Haloween poem and rhyme

I'm the ghost POEM

I'm the ghost of Sam Mc Ghee.
I walk the streets, from ten till three
And all the little children are afraid of me.
'Cause I'm the ghost of Sam Mc Ghee.
Witches Song
We're witches of Halloween.  Whooooooooooooooooo
The ugliest you've ever seen. Whooooooooooooooooooo
We fly around at night and give you all a fright.
We're witches of Halloween whooooooooooooooooo
 We're witches of Halloween.  Whooooooooooooooooo

Our faces are crooked and green whooooooooooooooo
 We're witches of Halloween.  Whooooooooooooooooo
We've got wicked witches hats and wicked witches cats.



19 Oct 2014

EMPANADA MENTAL

The other day in  a parent/teacher  meeting a mum spoke out with this comment
"My six year old isn't speaking English.  What are the teachers doing?
Dear Lady,  I would ask you the same question?
What are the parents doing?
What kind of vocabulary does your child have in his own language?
By three,  a child should have about 500-1100 words in their vocabulary native language or L1.
By 5-7 children should have an expressive vocabulary of 3000-5000 words.
How many words does your child have in his vocabulary?????

I have children in year 4 (9 year olds) who don't understand the most basic vocabulary in their own language and much less in English.  The other day a kid asked me "Que significa escoba?"  What does broom mean?

I have children at the age of 5-6 who arrive at school at 8.55 am with a bottle of milk"biberon" which is their breakfast taken in the car.  Their phonomotor aparatus (mouth, tongue, teeth)  completely deformed by too many years using a teat.  Try to get kids like this to pronounce properly in any language.

Then we have the overprotecive parents (usually mothers) who still haven't taught kid to tie their laces, get dressed by themselves, make their bed, prepare their own breakfast,  buy a loaf of bread in a shop or buy anything actually by themselves, who are not independant and confident in their day to day lives  and so find any new situation especially language learning overwhelming.
This "empanada mental"  does not help your childs learning process.

In their native language children take at least two to five years 24 hours a day exposed,  in this case to Spanish  before  beginning  to speak.  So imagine how long this process will take in English with  6 hours a week 36 weeks a year, that's 216 hours of English input a year.
So what can YOU do to improve your childs English?

  • Talk to your child, ask about their day not only about test results please!!!!It  is always a good start, using correct vocabulary in Spanish.
  • Read your child at least two short stories or 15 minutes a day.  Even up to 8 years old in their native language and make sure you read thing sin front of them  too.  Even if it's only Hola magazine.
  • Teach your child common sense and basic survival skills.  Ability to do basic things like make your bed or tie your laces or drink out of a cup.
  • Don't do everything for him/her or get  the paid help to do everything for him/her.
  • Teach your child to listen and not interupt constantly.
  • Put t.v on in English 10-15 minutes a day.  NO MORE!!
  • Take your kids to the libraray to get more books in Spanish.
  • Help them organize their pencil case every Sunday night and stick all lose bits of paper in their notebooks.
  • This all seems pretty basic doesn't it????
  • Well you will be amazed by the the results.

Useful Websites for Literacy

https://www.dropbox.com/s/62ptauvtg53fn4w/Useful%20Websites.ppt?dl=0

Useful websites

See if this link will open it's a powerpoint presentation and I'm not sure how to get it on the blog.

18 Oct 2014

HOMEWORK YEAR 4 17-19TH OCTOBER

SINCE SO MANY OF YOU DID NOT MANAGE TO LEARN THE 10 NEW WORDS OF VOCABULARY FOR THE TEST LAST FRIDAY I WILL REPEAT IT ON MONDAY FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO WISH TO IMPROVE THEIR MARKS.
THE REST OF THE CLASS NEED TO PRACTISE THE ORAL PRESENTATION FOR" MY DREAM HOLIDAY" WHICH WILL BE AT THE END OF NEXT WEEK.
HAVE A NICE WEEKEND.

13 Oct 2014

JOLLY SONGS A-Z(from the big book JOLLY SONGS)

Phonics Letter- J song

Vocabulary exam year 4 Friday 15th

These are some of the words that will appear on Friday's vocabulary test.

Beach

waves

souvenirs

sightseeing

bucket and spade

swimsuit/trunks

luggage

suntan

sunbathe

flight

flipflops

take- off

land

passport

Cinco años Letter J

This week we will be working on the letter J and reading lots of stories with this letter.  Tomorrow we are going to make jelly.

Today we read a story about a wolf.   Ask your kids to tell you about the story at home.    

To teach small Spanish children to read we have to sing a lot and read with them to build up their vocabulary(syntactic and semantic approach) before attacking with the dreaded phonics.  So a story every day.  Predicting what will happen and talking about the characters.  Focusing on the structures and how the book is organized and retelling the story many times.

Jelly and jam song(Synthetic phonics)

Was he good or bad??? Mr wolf's pancakes

Walking in the Jungle
Jack and the beanstalk
Jim and the giant 
and playing with lots of realia words with J
Jelly
Jam
Jar 
jacket
JumperBrainstorm Words Beginning with J
jetColor the J Pictures
jewellery
Juice 
Jet
jack-o-lantern



Mr Wolf's Pancakes


This was the story we read today Monday 13th October

12 Oct 2014

Homework for year 4 10-12th october

If you forgot about your homework.  Here is a little reminder.
You have to study the holiday vocabulary for next Friday and you need to prepare your dream holiday destination by investigating interesting facts about the place you want to visit.
My Dream Holiday
Capital City
Currency
Population
Language
Interesting monuments and place to visit
Typical Food
Any more information I can find




ABC SONG | ABC Songs for Children - 13 Alphabet Songs & 26 Videos




These are lots of songs and stories to help us learn our letters

3 Oct 2014

Free flashcards for teachers

Are you busy looking for lovely flashcards like me.  I just found a brilliant freebie and the cards are beautiful.

2 Oct 2014

Holidays Year 4 Homework 3-7th October

This week and next we will be working on holiday vocabulary and answering questions about holidays. Today we worked on the past tense and children found it very difficult. Questions.
1. Where did you go on your last holidays?
2.  How did you travel?
3.  What did you see?
4.  What did you do?
5.  How much did you spend?

Try these online games to practise




6.  Who did you go with?

Cinco años papas/mamas Help!!!

WE'RE GOING TO BE DOING A PROJECT ON SQUIRRELS AND PREPARING A BEAUTIFUL MURAL FOR AUTUMN SO WE WILL BE NEEDING LOST OF BROWN MATERIAL, FELT, CLOTH  BUTTONS AND WOOL.THANKS









Alphabet game to play at home


This is a great resource to play at home with your children to practice the alphabet.


This game is to practice clothes and think about what we wear each season.  It's American English.

1 Oct 2014

Changes in my timetable (Five year olds)

So as many of you know already due to changes in the organization of the timetables,  I am now teaching five year olds and year 4.

So this week we are going to start with the Three little pigs.  Here is a link to a video in youtube  of the story.

 Three pigs

Three pigs song