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

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!

A song to improve listening skills & singing!

The Rolling Stones - As Tears Go By .mp3

Found at bee mp3 search engine

Browse the net on your own this time and find out the answers for the questions 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

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.

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