UNIT 1: Teaching in primary classroom
Friday 5th of September 2014- The
mysterious box
What do you think can
be inside a box?
Maybe you san sake it, listens
carefully or maybe smells it to know what it is, and if you can't discover what’s
inside, you can try touching it...
The clue here is the attention
and the interest for the box or the object is there.
you or me like and
adult are absolutely interested in knowing what’s in, so think about how a
child will attend, participate and have fun trying to discover what’s inside.
And that’s what we have
to tray in our classes to make Childs interested and exited to discover, to
learn new things, and that’s in our hand, in a teacher hands.
Tuesday 9th September
2014
Working with children
Sitting down in the table
Flowers
What about sitting on a table in a university
class?
At first it seems to be a little bit crazy,
but that’s where I’ve been sitting in my university class. and by experience at
first it seems to be funny and different, but a few minutes later its starts to
be uncomfortable, but that’s the point, not always teaching or more specific,
been a child sited in a map for minutes nor hours is comfortable, but we have
to experimented again, and discover how if we don’t like to be there like a statue
on a table or in a map, we shouldn’t pretend that our children loves that. And once we realize this fact we have to try
and change our methodology, make children involucrate in the classes, in their
learning, they can be flowers, a forest, the wolf or they can find the mysterious
chest... anything that make them part of their learning, this is the only way
to success on the work of learning, at the same time they play (don’t forget
that they are kids).
Friday12 September
2014
How to
listen
|
How to
speak
|
create
a context
Listen
main words
Use different
resources
|
games
Songs
Be
natural
Repetition
|
SIMONS
SAYS
You can teach:
Parts of
the body
Comments
Actions
Music
instruments
THE
VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR
One book very similar à The cruching munching caterpillarà Sheridan Cain & Jack
Ticke
You can teach:
Numbers
Days of
the week
Food
(fruits and normal food)
Day and night/sun
and moon
Sizes
I will post a page with some activities invented by me for work simons says and the very hungry caterpillar in Actv. children's literature.
Sometimes we use to use some books or some
song like we used to watch or listen when we were small, or like someone create them, but that it have
to be the starting point of our imagination,
and move over the starting point of a big learn. What I want to say is that for
learning with one book or with one song we can make a lot of exercises, so that
a funny song can be the start of a funny and deep learn.
Also we can get of sample taken others
ideas, like for example Carol Read who in her blog
give as some ideas, tips and resources for primary
language teacher.
The important thing is that we like teachers or future
teacher have to look forward to be active and creative teachers, which means to
be continuously creating, exploring or imagine new activities, where children
participate.
Tuesday 16 September
2014
Cards
I went to the
supermarket
« Can I help you?
« Can I have...?
« Anything else?
« How much?
« Here you are.
« Thank you.
Today i went shopping,
but also like every Tuesday since some weeks ago I went to the university, and
this is possible because today in a moment we made and ‘’go’’ to the
supermarket.
This is possible making
the roll-playing where by acting it’s easier to learn some questions or answers
that we use in our real live. And that is one of the things that we have to
pretend when we teach, because the normal teach is the one that is useful to probe
an exam, or thing that are learned by hard, neglecting those thing that are
useful in the day to day.
That’s why it’s a good recourse
to recreate in our class a supermarket or something like this, where the
children can practice and improve their English language skills, with the help
of their teacher and with their partners.
Friday 19th September
2014
Peter piper
Shell
The slippery snake
Voiced /d/
Voiceless /t/
How to drill: drilling
activities... (Busy teacher)
Bowels- intestines
Vowels- vocals
Invent or find some twister
with the story
Some words of the story
and make a twister
What is a tongue
twister?
Some dictionaries would
define it like:
A
sequence of words that is difficult to pronounce, especially rapidly, because
of so many similar sounds in a row, or because of some slight changes in
consonant sounds, as "She sells seashells by the seashore.''
But
if I have to define it I would say that a tongue twister I would say that it is
a great opportunity to work with the pupils the pronunciation at the same time
you can work with vocabulary, or also you can make some according with the
story you are working with in that moment.
This is one resource
along with others like stories, poems, songs… that make the student improve in
their speaking and listening (very important to speak to listen and reproduce
the sound, and with it the words) and that’s why the teaches should work with
this type of activities, and remember that a funny activities doesn’t mean that
is not useful, like some people use to think.
*I will post a page with more tongue twister in reading and speaking.
READ AND WRITTING
23rd September 2014
Connect book with
things of real live
Abecedary with essential
sort and easy words
Sight words -- everything
with name/ see the word in contexts many times, hear a word and say it aloud, identify
words in context and in isolation
Class dictionary (doctors,
words with doctors...)
To be flexible and resourceful
(fotos del rincón)
Vocabulary
direct questions, no
wh- questions
It is known that some
time to start reading and writing use to be a difficult skill and this is why
we as teachers or future teachers have to try to make this work interesting and
easy for the students.
So one important thing
is that a teacher has to be flexible and resourceful like I said in other
posts, but this time I what to remark the importance of thinking what is the
best why so teaching and for the students learning. What I what to say is that teaching
by the easy way (only with an editorial book) of teaching children don’t really
learn, so we have to go more over and tray to create new thing and trying to make
easier the learning.
For example by telling
one vocabulary word or putting the abecedary, student is not going to learn or
remember by magic. But if instead of that we put pictures in different objects
of the class (sight word), or in each letter of the abecedary, were they see it
5 days a week, most part of the day, they will finally learn it without
practically any effort and also they would use it.
This doesn’t mean that
teachers have to work with any book, by the only way of hanging words or pictures,
what I try to say is that we can go more over the book… for example in some
books there are a lot of vocabulary, where you have to match the word with a
picture, or color the right picture… so it would be a nice idea to create a
class dictionary where the kids can draw and write some vocabulary (for example
by topics) and later if they want to say one word they can go to that dictionary
look up for the picture and try to say it. Or if we go more over with that dictionary
they can read a special book where most of the words are pictures were they
have to say the name of that picture while they are reading.
This is one of a lot of
thing we can do for teach vocabulary, and more over reading and writing, and
not the traditional learn by heart.
26th
September 2014
Nowadays every teacher that wants to be a
good one, is always looking how to improve her job, looking resources, methodologies…
but one important thing that makes the difference of ones and others, and if we
go moreover, the difference between the traditional teach and an new one, is
that the new one is for the student, for each one, so the education is focalized
in the children, in their abilities and their interests. In other words, the
multiple intelligences of Howard Gardner, for mi the handicap of lots of
schools and one of the ways of arriving to the clue of the best way of
teaching.
If you can learn more about the multiples
intelligences, you can read more in the following link, where makes an
excellent resume of it:
You can also be hear him in this
interesting interview à http://bigthink.com/videos/big-think-interview-with-howard-gardner
So, why don’t we try (teachers or future
teachers) to work for example the different intelligences trough a book, so
that we don’t only make participle all students, we also educate in the different
intelligences, so they can develop the different ones, always without
pretending they learn them by heart, or imposing one.
UNIT 2:
Activating children’s literature
Class
30th September 2014
Today we learn to
make a square with the ayes close; it’s not the game if not the intention of
the same. This game it can be called the blinded
game, and this game it can be a great way of knowing the roles of the team
class, so that at the time of making teams it can be a great way of making them
mix and each one can provide something good and different to the team.
This is not all
today we start our team work that we will talk about in other post, but I’m
going to advance that it’s about books, fables, trickster’s tales, fairytales,
tall tales....
7th
October 2014
It’s true that
when we said that we love a book is because of the content; the funny pictures;
nice characters; happy endings… and for children are the same they usually like
that colorful books and funny stories. That’s not bad, but we can recommend
them for the library of the class, but when we teach trough a book we need to
go more over and detect something like for example: morals, the characters, the
setting, what we can work with it… so that we don’t simply read a book, if not
we try to go more over and tray to teach something while they have a nice time.
14th
OCTOBER 2014
Today not only we
start our book team group, and we meet a new exchange partner (that fortunately
is in our group); our teacher put us
some examples of which a few weeks ago looking for books and storytelling I discovered
that it was a great story teller which I admire, this is Michel Rosen. And I admire him because he is not only make great stories, he also tell them making
people of all ages get stare seeing him act, without mention that since I had
listen a few weeks ago (before this class) ‘’ We’re going on a bear hunt’’ I can’t
stop singing it and making the movements of the story so imagin the kids.
we're going on a bear hunt
chocolate cake
Since the
last post to this one, by groups and as you can see in other post like in the
page of reflections, or activities children’s literature… I have been working
about how to teach the fable of Goldilocks
Unit 3: ICT and multimedia
18th November 2014
Today we
have started the unit 3, where by groups we have talk about the different
characteristics that we have saw in our schools practices, and later we learn
more about that. Because sometime we forget to think about what kind of thing
our class children are capable to do in their ages, and that’s so important in
order to make logical activities and objectives.
Moreover we
start to learn to how to teach literature to the big ones, these are for example
to children of 8 to 10 years for example, where all of us realize this ages as
a difficult one to leach or read books. Is for that that by groups we start to think
about what book we will pick to teach, were we start thinking about the book of
the lion, the witch and the wardrobe, but wasn’t as easy as we thought so we
are looking for a new one.
And this is not all, we also start to think
about how to introduce the ICT’s in our class so that for children of this ages
is more attractive.
This is the
beginning of what I suppose that is a new project that I look forward to saw
you in a near future.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4o0ZVeixYU
The Dancing Traffic Light
Piano stairs - TheFunTheory.com -
Rolighetsteorin.se
21st November 2014
Today we
start in the informatics class to introduce ourselves in the ICT's. so throught
our teacher we discover such a great ICT’s to work with our future primary
class, because one of the thing that we know from children of this ages is that
they love technologies and what best way of teaching than through them.
If for
this that you will be able to see in future post especially in ICT’s and the
ones of literacy ideas the introduction of this programs and new ideas
according to nowadays children.
to sum up
the ideas to have fun, because is not
only that people use them if not for example one day at first hour where people
are sleepy or fed up of the routine this can makes them start happy the day and
that’s wonderful.
And this
is a hundred percent applicable to our classes and to our schools.
25th November 2014
During
lots of post I have been talking about the importance of an active teacher and
the importance of being creative, and today in my university class finally we
talk about it. Our teacher give as an essential idea (we were en two gropes and
there where one idea for each) and though it we had to think about we would
like to do.
In my
case it was about street traffic respect, where my grope liked my idea of
making a flash mod. That is a way of having fun at the same time that they try
to help to improve some aspects of the society.
The other
group was about using in the metro the normal stairs instead going by the
electronic ones, they thought about making a free pass if you use them a number
of time. This is good thinking about the economy… but in my head when they were
explaining it brings up to my mind why not they put some kind of light so that
when people go through them it appears different colors or different scenes…
but that stay in my mind.
Once they
the two groups share those ideas our teacher put us some great ideas that you
can see at the end on this daily page. And the thing is that with happy and fun
the things work better than being rude or bored.
Fast Lane - The Slide
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4o0ZVeixYU
The Dancing Traffic Light
Piano stairs - TheFunTheory.com -
Rolighetsteorin.se
Since this last post we have been finishing some nice things for the blog so that people like you can enjoy it and take use of it. Specially we were doing ICT things.
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