The Greek God business cards in year five

Hi year five hope you're having a good weekend.
 I'm finally getting my voice back.

I've been looking at your wonderful business cards for the greek gods.
 I'm going to put some photos of your work  and I have made some of my own because as I told
you in class, I was so impressed by the results

I found a great website called  http://businesscardstar.com which is very easy to use too.
 Your cards were amazing and I think this was a really useful activity.
I'm looking forward to seeing your personal business cards.
I particularly liked Aphrodites beauty parlour, Haephastus's  heating company, Poseidon's water services
( I wonder if he's cheaper than The Canal of Isabel the second?)
Athena's wisdom classes and of course Dionysus's winebar.
Thanks to all the helpers in the shade that made this activity so successful.
The prizes for the best will be given out on Monday.

I have shown your cards to all the teachers and my family.  They think they are great too!!!!

A Language school

I'm thinking of setting up a language school here in Boadila Del Monte.  It's something I've been thinking about for years.
I'm going to start looking for a good place to set it up.  If anyone has any ideas please let me know.
I was thinking about the new part of Boadilla Infante Luis or nearby, since their are lots of young families and it's easier to park.
The focus would be on helping children with science, preschoolers and official exams for adults.

Online Ket for Year Five

online KET

YEAR FIVE

This website is an online test for KETso you have a clear idea about where you stand for next year
I would like you to have a go at it.
Bring me the results on Monday.

Reading with five year olds

 

 

Hola Padres y Madres de cinco años.

Aquí tienes las 45 palabras más comunes en inglés que vamos a estar

trabajando hasta al final de curso.

http://www.familylearning.org.uk/images/hfwordsrec.pdf

http://www.familylearning.org.uk/reading_printables.html

 

 

Cada semana tienen que aprender 6.

Como se hace?

Jugando es mucho mas motivadora que solo aprender palabras aislados
sin sentido para ellos. Hacer que encuentran  parejas, o puedes jugar memoria
 con las tarjetas bocabajo o snap.  Acordar siempre decir la palabra tu primero 
 y que ellos luego lo repiten.

 

Pronunciación de los más complicados

En Ingles                                                        Español

                                     

I                                                                        ai

Go                                                                    gou

Come                                                                cam                                                              

You                                                                    iu

Up                                                                      ap

Day                                                                    dei

Was                                                                    wos

Look                                                                  luk

The                                                                     De

Are                                                                     ar

Of                                                                       ov

He                                                                       hi

All                                                                       ol

Said                                                                      set

To                                                                        tu

Away                                                                   awei

Mum                                                                    mam

Play                                                                      plei

This                                                                      dis

Like                                                                     laik

She                                                                       shi

They                                                                     dei

My                                                                        mai

See                                                                         si

Going                                                                    goin
Get                                                                         guet

 

http://www.kenttrustweb.org.uk/kentict/content/games/soundsea_v3.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks1/literacy/phonics/play/popup.shtml
 

http://www.letters-and-sounds.com/phase-2-games.html

 Creo que más o menos son así.

 

Arriba hay unas paginas para practicar fonética

Help with reading

Hi mums and dads of five year olds
We have just finished the EE sound and students will be bring their minibooks home this week so please read them aloud with your children.  (Don't forget the sound is like Spanish i)

We are starting with level 1 of the Oxford reading tree which is the reading scheme your children will be using in year one so we will be focusing on the main characters from the stories and high frequency words.

I will be sending lists of words home and I need your help to practise reading them at home

http://www.oup.com/oxed/pdf/ORTGuideForParents.pdf



Thanks see you on Wednesday   

Preparing teachers

Hi again,
this week I'm  working for the trade unions and doing teacher training.

Isn't it amazing that this so important task often falls on these organizations here in Spain?

In Finland teacher training is taken seriously and millions of euros is invested every year for in-house teacher development.
The Madrid Community suspended training sessions during class time three years ago and since then training has reached an all time low.

You can travel to an English speaking country during the summer holidays with some financial help but then in one month you're supposed to come back and face teaching science or art in English with a B2 level or often less.
Our students at Jose Bergamin often reach B1 in year 6 so teachers really need to be much more proficient.

But what happens in secondary?  We have now reached the point when our primary students reach ESO and their teachers of social science,  history, geography or technology have a lower level than they do.
All these tests (habilitacion linguistica) are great but when you actually hear the level of the teachers being interviewed it is frightening.
If a biology teacher or a P:E teacher wants to keep his or her job, they know that the only way is to learn English if not in a very short space of time,  a newly qualified student teacher is going to come along and take their place.
Not an easy task if you have a family and are not able to disappear for a couple of months to England or Ireland.

The language academies are booming and a lot of the clients are teachers but not of English.
These professionals are doing their best to update but surly this responsibility should be insitutionalized and the Ministry of Education should be involved in the process. 
Results take time to show their fruits and goverments want immediate improvement to win votes for the next elections.

Jose ignacio Wert is just as short sighted as his predecessors and unlike Finland, Spain does not consult classroom teachers when modifying education laws the results of course being the chaos we find at present time.

FIVE YEAR OLDS

HI AND WELCOME BACK TO 2013,
We're going to be working on the book of Mrs Pirate by Nick Sharratt.  The link is below.
We're also going to be working on  jolly-phonics.  The sound is the "AI" for this week

THESE WEBSITES ARE GREAT FOR PRACTISING PHONICS

mrs pirate

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   Phonic hunt GAME

   
   PHONIC GAMES
   

   
   

Happy New Year. Year Five

Well here we are again and I'm afraid I've been a bit lazy the last few weeks with the christmas holidays and all.(That's one of the reasons I love being a teacher)
I went to England for the festive season and realised that everything I am teaching you goes out the window when you have to deal with regional accents (especially Northern England and the grammar mistakes that the majority of the population make in every sentence.  (Even the pilot on the plane.  Well it was Easyjet).
So I take back every criticism I have ever made about grammatical mistakes, because I realise that many of you speak better English than  kids in the U:K of your own age.
So back to school and the poem called Cargoes about three very different types of boats or are they ships?

We're going to have a another competition to see who will be the first person in the class to actually learn this poem by heart.  It's not obligatory  but I still remember it from when I was at school and I really enjoyed memorizing it.

Cargoes

By John Masefield

QUINQUIREME of Nineveh from distant Ophir, Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine, With a cargo of ivory, And apes and peacocks, Sandalwood, cedarwood, and sweet white wine. 5 Stately Spanish galleon coming from the Isthmus, Dipping through the Tropics by the palm-green shores, With a cargo of diamonds, Emeralds, amethysts, Topazes, and cinnamon, and gold moidores. 10 Dirty British coaster with a salt-caked smoke-stack, Butting through the Channel in the mad March days, With a cargo of Tyne coal, Road-rails, pig-lead, Firewood, iron-ware, and cheap tin trays. These are the three boats.  The Quinquerime as I told you a boat used in Roman times more than two thousand years ago  rowed by slaves and with sails.   The Galleon a beautiful Spanish ship  which carried amazing treasures from South America many of which lie at the bottom of the sea waiting for someone to find to get us out of THE CRISIS. The British Coaster a dirty steam boat for carrying provisions to Britain  espesially during the second world war.