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It's a great site to videochat and exchange learning both English and Spanish. Enjoy!!!!!
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December 27, 2012
December 22, 2012
December 19, 2012
December 17, 2012
December 16, 2012
A Time of Overwhelming Grief
Our hearts are broken
President Obama statement on the shooting in Newtown, CT
The Best Resources On Talking With Children About Tragedies is a collection of resources compiled by Larry Ferlazzo, an English and Social Studies teacher at Luther Burbank High School in Sacramento.
In the 24 hours following the shooting, many wrote about how Americans have become used to these all-too-frequent tragedies and the cycle of debate and blame that will follow. “Nothing changes,” writesAdam Gopnik in The New Yorker. “It will happen again.” (The satirical newspaper The Onion also echoed this idea.)
In a Times Op-Ed piece, “We’ve Seen This Movie Before,”Roger Ebert writes:
Should this young man have been able to buy guns, ammunition and explosives? The gun lobby will say yes. And the endless gun control debate will begin again, and the lobbyists of the National Rifle Association will go to work, and the op-ed thinkers will have their usual thoughts, and the right wing will issue alarms, and nothing will change. And there will be another mass murder.
Do you agree? Will “nothing change?” Have we “seen this movie before”? What, in your opinion, could change this cycle? What do you think of Op-Ed columnist Gail Collins’s statement that, as with women’s suffrage in the early 1900’s and civil rights activism in the 1950’s, “nothing will change unless the people decide to do the leading”? How do you think that could happen?
Care or Fear is a very interesting blog post that reflects upon the tragedy in Newtown.
How to express opinionsCare or Fear is a very interesting blog post that reflects upon the tragedy in Newtown.
Angela Maiers also writes in this post about the shooting and how to help children deal with the shootings, tragedy, loss and death.
December 14, 2012
Happy 2013
This funky card is created by Ana Isabel, Noelia, Estefania And Adrián.
Create your own funky card at CardFunk.
December 13, 2012
December 12, 2012
Our Blog in the INTEF
Dear students,
SMILE!!!! Our blog has been included in the Blog de TIC en lenguas extranjeras (INTEF).
SMILE!!!! Our blog has been included in the Blog de TIC en lenguas extranjeras (INTEF).
December 8, 2012
December 1, 2012
Mapping Media to the Curriculum
What do you want to create today?
Any idea for Christmas? Be creative and share your imagination.
Take a look around, visit the blogs we follow, our pins on Pinterest...........
Click here and find some more interesting Kindergarten stuff
Any idea for Christmas? Be creative and share your imagination.
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Take a look around, visit the blogs we follow, our pins on Pinterest...........
Click here and find some more interesting Kindergarten stuff
November 30, 2012
HERE IT IS!! PHONICS!
This funny video comes from one of the best EFL blogs for teachers and students.
Entertainment + Education x Hip Hop = The Best Entertainment
Visit Beans-N-Frank here
Entertainment + Education x Hip Hop = The Best Entertainment
Visit Beans-N-Frank here
November 29, 2012
How Frequent is your birthday?
Let's practise dates and numbers with this very nice chart. Click on this link for further practice
The birth data indicate a "holiday effect" in which there are fewer babies born on US holidays. In particular, in a great instance of statistical irony, there are fewer babies born on Labour Day than would be expected for a Monday in September.
Image and data from here
Image and data from here
November 27, 2012
How many slaves work for you?
I know, that's a horrible question to ask but if you want to find out what this is all about click here Amazing!
November 26, 2012
November 22, 2012
The Peanut Butter and Jelly Song
You already knew the song? No? Let's watch and find out how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and then we'll sing the song.
BTW, have you ever seen that woman in the video before? Does her name ring a bell? Clue: pay attention at the very beginning of the video.
Here's another funny video from the same woman. Now, write a comment on this post and tell your classmates about her, who she is, where she works, what's her job......
BTW, have you ever seen that woman in the video before? Does her name ring a bell? Clue: pay attention at the very beginning of the video.
Here's another funny video from the same woman. Now, write a comment on this post and tell your classmates about her, who she is, where she works, what's her job......
November 21, 2012
November 18, 2012
The 5 Stages of Learning
Dear students, this time we are going to think and reflect on the stages of Learning.
First, watch this funny video and try to identify what an average student or teacher would say in each of the 5 stages of learning.
After watching the video, take a look at this interactive presentation, it's quite illustrative of the learning process, now seriously ;-)
The ideas and images for this post comes from David Mearns wonderful blog. His post is worth reading!
First, watch this funny video and try to identify what an average student or teacher would say in each of the 5 stages of learning.
After watching the video, take a look at this interactive presentation, it's quite illustrative of the learning process, now seriously ;-)
The ideas and images for this post comes from David Mearns wonderful blog. His post is worth reading!
Emotional Intelligence
I can't help sharing this video with you, dear students.
It's in Spanish, you won't have any problem with vocabulary or pronunciation so enjoy! It's really interesting.
If you feel you want to learn a little bit more about the Develoment of Emotional Intelligence in Young Children, click on this link.
It's in Spanish, you won't have any problem with vocabulary or pronunciation so enjoy! It's really interesting.
If you feel you want to learn a little bit more about the Develoment of Emotional Intelligence in Young Children, click on this link.
A song to improve listening skills & singing!
Browse the net on your own this time and find out the answers for the questions below:
Try the online listening activity below
- Who wrote this song?
- When?
- When was the song first released?
- What do you know about the myth surrounding its genesis?
Try the online listening activity below
November 17, 2012
Activating Empathy in Teachers
Dear students,
I was just wondering if you have ever watched the short animated film For the Birds.
First leave your comments below on this issue, then click on this link and find out what we can learn from it.
I was just wondering if you have ever watched the short animated film For the Birds.
First leave your comments below on this issue, then click on this link and find out what we can learn from it.
November 16, 2012
What Teachers Make
Dear students, this is a video-listening activity I have just cooked up for you.
Allow me to introduce you to Taylor Mali first. He is a "slam poet". You don't know what slam means? Click on this link and find out what slam poetry is about.
Taylor Mali is one of the most well-known poets to have emerged from the poetry slam movement and one of the few people in the world to have no job other than that of poet.
Listen to his slam poem and do the activity below.
Do you think he has ever worked as a teacher? What's your guess? Why?
Check here if you were right.
Our answer
Allow me to introduce you to Taylor Mali first. He is a "slam poet". You don't know what slam means? Click on this link and find out what slam poetry is about.
Taylor Mali is one of the most well-known poets to have emerged from the poetry slam movement and one of the few people in the world to have no job other than that of poet.
Listen to his slam poem and do the activity below.
Do you think he has ever worked as a teacher? What's your guess? Why?
Check here if you were right.
Trick or Treat
On October 31st we celebrated Halloween in our school. We organized a few scary activities and sang songs in the patio. Take a look at the pics and enjoy. Happy Halloween to everyone!
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TEACHING ENGLISH TO CHILDREN
This is a really neat and useful presentation. We will use it as a reference to develop teaching skills.
November 12, 2012
TWINKLE, TWINKLE
The English lyrics have five stanzas, although only the first is widely known. The English lyrics were first published as a poem with the title "The Star" by sisters Ann and Jane Taylor (1783–1824) in Rhymes for the Nursery in London in 1806. The poem was written by Jane. It was the theme of the Andante of Haydn's 94 ("Surprise") Symphony first performed in 1792.
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. (2012, November 6). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 16:22, November 16, 2012, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Twinkle_Twinkle_Little_Star&oldid=521644946
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