Teaching Phonics (22nd Group of Sounds)

The twenty-second group of sounds is formed by:  

-CIOUS

Although we have flaschards to support our lessons. With this video you will learn the twenty-second group of sounds.

The following words can help us to start reading words with these sounds. Remember it will be easier if we use dots and arches. 

PRECIOUS, DELICIOUS, FEROCIOUS, SUSPICIOUS.

Teaching Phonics (21st Group of sounds)

The twenty-first group of sounds is formed by:  

-TION

Although we have flaschards to support our lessons. With this video you will learn the twenty-first group of sounds.

The following words can help us to start reading words with these sounds. Remember it will be easier if we use dots and arches. 

CONVERSATION, CELEBRATION, EXHIBITION, CONGRATULATION, ATTENTION, TRADITION. 

THE DANCER by Edgar Degas.

Today we are going to learn about one famous painter and sculptor:

EDGAR DEGAS

He was FRENCH. 

He was born in FRANCE in Paris in 1834 and died in 1917.

He was IMPRESSIONISM.

In this video you can see some of the pictures from DEGAS. PAY ATTENTION BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO ANSWER ME A QUESTION AT THE END.

• What is the favorite thing or person to be painted by DEGAS?

Let's focus our attention in one of the artwork of DEGAS.

THE DANCER

• Where is the dancer?
• How many dancer can you see?

LET'S MAKE A PUZZLE ABOUT THE PICTURE.

6 Degas_bailarina_escena

Teaching Phonics (20th Group of Sounds)

The twentieth group of sounds is formed by:  

-TURE

Although we have flaschards to support our lessons. With this video you will learn the twentieth group of sounds.

The following words can help us to start reading words with these sounds. Remember it will be easier if we use dots and arches. 

NATURE, PICTURE, LITERATURE, MIXTURE, FUTURE, ADVENTURE, CREATURE, TEMPERATURE.

WILD ANIMALS

We will start the lesson with our routines:

• Setting the Calendar.
• What's the weather like?
• What date is it today?
• Do the register?
• How many boys are there in the class?
• How many girls are there in the class?
• How many children are there in the class?
• Is there anyone at home today? Why?

Today we are going to learn a new question and review the ones we have learnt yet:

During this month we are going to learn about wild animal. Let's practise the vocabulary with this song. 

Let's practice vocabulary a bit with these games.

Teaching Phonics (19th Group of Sounds)

The nineteenth group of sounds is formed by:  

-EAR

Although we have flaschards to support our lessons. With this video you will learn the nineteenth group of sounds.

The following words can help us to start reading words with these sounds. Remember it will be easier if we use dots and arches. 

EAR, HEAR, NEAR, YEAR, TEAR, FEAR

Teaching Phonics (18th Group of Sounds)

The eighteenth group of sounds is formed by:  

-AR

Although we have flaschards to support our lessons. With this video you will learn the eighteenth group of sounds.

The following words can help us to start reading words with these sounds. Remember it will be easier if we use dots and arches. 

STAR, CAR, PARK, BAR, START, SMART, MARK, DARK, SCARF, SHARK.

Making animals with geometrical shapes (Arts & Crafts, Kindergarten)

On this Arts & Crafts lesson we are going to be artists, our goal today is to create a picture using geometrical shapes.

We start with an oral revision about what we have learn about animals (domestic animals and wild ones; which animals fly, which one walk o swim; the parts of their body: tail, ears, ..... ). This will help the student to decide which animal will they create.

We also need to review what the rules on a group are, above all the respect for other people's ideas or work. It is very important to get an agreement with all the group about the final product. 

Students, divided into team, play and design with the shapes until they get the agreement about the animal they want to create. Then they will stick the different shapes and they will use pencils and crayons to add the characteristics which will help to define the designed animal. 

Now the animals will be part of a picture. As a picture it will need a title, it is the moment to agree again about this issue. They will write in both languages: English and Spanish.

By the end, as a really good artists they have to signed their pictures. 

En esta sesión seremos artistas con el objetivo de componer un cuadro de  animales con troqueles de formas geométricas. 

Comenzamos haciendo un repaso oral de lo trabajado sobre los animales ( animales domésticos y salvajes; que vuelan, andan o nadan; partes de su cuerpo…) para que les ayude a definir el animal que quieren realizar. Así como las normas para trabajar en equipo, sobretodo el respeto por el trabajo de los demás y la necesidad de llegar a un acuerdo entre todos.

Los alumnos, distribuidos  en equipos,  manipulan y juegan con sus troqueles hasta acordar el animal que quieren diseñar. Después pegan los troqueles y añaden los rasgos que ayudarán a definir el animal diseñado con lápiz y pinturas.

Los animales ahora pasarán a ser parte de un cuadro que también necesita tener un título, es el momento de volver a consensuar el título de la obra realizada. Lo escribirán en los dos idiomas: castellano e inglés.

Y finalmente los artistas deben firmar sus obras.

Teaching Phonics (17th Group of sounds)

The seventeenth group of sounds is formed by:  

-AIR, -ARE

Although we have flaschards to support our lessons. With this video you will learn the seventeenth group of sounds.

The following words can help us to start reading words with these sounds. Remember it will be easier if we use dots and arches. 

CHAIR, STAIR, HAIR, FAIR, AIR, SQUARE, CARE, SHARE, SOFTWARE

A winter landscape (Arts & Crafts - Kindergarten)

Last week we finished our topic of winter in the two classes of 5 year-old students. The class teacher (spanish one) and I decided to create a poster done by the students about winter landscapes. We thought it would be great to do it like if it was modern art. 

Each group of students have to use four different techniques:

1. Colour all the piece of paper with black wax crayon and then they could draw the snowflakes in two ways or using white wax crayon or scrachinig it with a toothstick. 

2. Colour the background with a black crayon and then they stick small pieces of cotton as if they were snowflakes.

3. On a white piece of paper the stick small cuttings of black tissue paper, the small white spaces they leave among the black one simulated the snowflakes.

4. On a black pieces of cartuline we put drops of paint and they extend it with a toothstick. 

Here you can see the final product.

La semana pasada terminamos con nuestro tema del invierno en las clases de cinco años. Junto con las profesoras de aula decidimos hacer un cuadro con la temática del paisaje invernal. Decidimos hacerlo como si de un cuadro moderno se tratase. 

Hemos utilizado cuatro técnicas diferentes para luego poder ponerlo junto  en un gran cuadro.

1. Pintamos el papel con cera blanda negra y dibujamos los copos de nieve de dos maneras diferentes: con cera blanca por encima o rascando con un palillo. 

2. Pintamos el fondo del papel de negro con una pintura y pegamos trocitos de algodón para hacer los copos de nieve.

3.En un trozo de papel blanco pegamos trocitos rasgados de papel de seda negro. Los huecos que quedan en blanco serán los copos de nieve.

4.Por último sobre un trozo de cartulina negra dejamos caer gotas de pintura blanca que los alumnos extendieron con un palillo para hacer los copos de nieve. 

Teaching Phonics (16th Group of Sounds)

The sixteenth group of sounds is formed by:  

-AL, -OR, -AW

Although we have flaschards to support our lessons. With this video you will learn the sixteenth group of sounds. 

The following words can help us to start reading words with these sounds. Remember it will be easier if we use dots and arches. 

HORSE, SPORT, SHORT, FORK, WALL, SMALL, BALL, CHALK, WALK, 

TALK, DRAW, SAW, STRAW, CLAW.

Teaching Phonics (15th Group of Sounds)

The fifteenth group of sounds is formed by:  

-OU -OW

Although we have flaschards to support our lessons. With this video you will learn the fifteenth group of sounds. 

The following words can help us to start reading words with these sounds. Remember it will be easier if we use dots and arches. 

COW, BROWN,  HOW, TOWN, DOWN, CROWD, MOUTH, OUT, SHOUT, LOUD, SOUND, CLOUDY, GROUND, UNDERGROUND. 

Teaching Phonics (14th group of sounds)

The fourteenth group of sounds is formed by:  

-OO -OO

Although we have flaschards to support our lessons. With this video you will learn the fourteenth group of sounds. 

The following words can help us to start reading words with these sounds. Remember it will be easier if we use dots and arches. 

GOOD, WOOD, WOOL, SOOT, FOOT, HOOD, BOOK, TOOK, LOOK, ZOO, COOL, POOL, FOOD, MOON, ROOT, SOON, BOOT, ROOF, ROOM, TOOL.

Teaching Phonics (13th Group of Sounds)

The thirteenth group of sounds is formed by:  

Although we have flaschards to support our lessons. With this video you will learn the thirteenth group of sounds. 

The following words can help us to start reading words with these sounds. Remember it will be easier if we use dots and arches. 

EURO, EUROPE, NEW, FLEW, STEW, DREW, JUNE, PURE, USE, TUNE

THE FOUNTAIN OF STRAVINSKY IN PARIS

Today we are not going to learn about a picture or a famous painter as we did the previous weeks. There is another kind of art which is the SCULPTURE. Sculpture is when the artwork is on 3D.

Our famous artists today are two:

JEAN  TINGUELY

It was SWISS

NIKI DE SAINT PHALLE

It was FRENCH

They did a kind of art which is calle KINETIC ART. 

It is said art and sculptures in movement.

Let's have a look about THE FOUNTAIN OF STRAVINSKY. With this video you will understand what KINETIC ART means:

This fountain is in Paris. It has got 16 sculptures in movement with water. And they are very colorful.

In our worksheet today we are going to focus our atention in one of the scultures. Let's make a puzzle to discover it. 

What do you think this sculpture represents?

6 The fountain of stravinsky

Teaching Phonics (12th Group of Sounds)

The twelveth group of sounds is formed by:  

-OY,  -OI

Although we have flaschards to support our lessons. With this video you will learn the seventh group of sounds. 

The following words can help us to start reading words with these sounds. Remember it will be easier if we use dots and arches. 

TOY, BOY, ENJOY, SPOIL, JOIN, COIN, NOISE

Family

We will start the lesson with our routines:

• Setting the Calendar.
• What's the weather like?
• What date is it today?
• Do the register?
• How many boys are there in the class?
• How many girls are there in the class?
• How many children are there in the class?
• Is there anyone at home today? Why?

Today we are going to learn a new question and review the ones we have learnt yet:

During this month we are going to learn about family members and relationships. Let's practise the vocabulary with this song. 

LET'S PLAY SOME GAMES TO PRACTISE VOCABULARY. 

Teaching Phonics (11th Group of Sounds)

The eleventh group of sounds is formed by:  

-ER,  -IR,  -UR

Although we have flaschards to support our lessons. With this video you will learn the eleventh group of sounds. 

The following words can help us to start reading words with these sounds. Remember it will be easier if we use dots and arches. 

NOVEMBER, NEVER, LETTER, BETTER,  SHIRT, SIR, BIRTHDAY, BIRD, GIRL, NURSE,  TURN, BURN, THURSDAY.

Paul Gauguin and Christmas

Today we are going to learn about one famous painter:

PAUL GAUGUIN

He was FRENCH. 

He was born in FRANCE in Paris in 1848 and died in 1903.

He was POSIMPRESSIONISM

In this video you can see some of the pictures from Gauguin. 

We are going to focus our attention in one concrete picture. CHRISTMAS

• What characters can you see in the picture?
• Can you describe your faces?
• Where do you think they come from?

LET'S MAKE A PUZZLE ABOUT THE PICTURE.

9 Christmas. Paul Gauguin

Teaching Phonics (10th Group of sounds)

The tenth group of sounds is formed by:  

Although we have flaschards to support our lessons. With this video you will learn the tenth group of sounds. 

The following words can help us to start reading words with these sounds. Remember it will be easier if we use dots and arches. 

GOAT, BOAT, TOAST, ROAD, SNOW, BLOW, SLOW, SHOW, HOME, ROSE, SPOKE, COKE, THOSE.