I started this blog while I was working at a small rural school in the Guadalquivir valley in southern Spain. It was abandoned for a while, but now that I am working at CEIP "Sebastián de Cordoba"in Ubeda, it's time to come back and share my ideas and enthusiasm with you again. Welcome!!
Saturday, 31 December 2011
Happy New Year
Happy New Year to all the children at CPR "LA Vega".
I hope next year brings us more good times together to enjoy learning and sharing new experiences. See you all soon!
Monday, 26 December 2011
Sunday, 25 December 2011
Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star
Thursday, 22 December 2011
Campaign2011: Non sexist, non violent toys and games
Monday, 19 December 2011
Let's visit The North Pole!
Game: Christmas Letter Search
Wednesday, 14 December 2011
Saturday, 3 December 2011
About London
Tuesday, 22 November 2011
Thanksgiving Day in the USA
Saturday, 12 November 2011
Tuesday, 8 November 2011
Animals in Australia
Marina and Encarni, well done for this presentation. Your Australian project is going well. Keep up with the good work!
Thursday, 3 November 2011
Australia
Monday, 31 October 2011
The story of the Gunpowder Plot
Read as you listen to the story of the Gunpowder Plot.
I said that I would tell you about Guy Fawkes and why 5 November is the traditional day for fireworks in England.
The year was 1605. Two years earlier, the old Queen, Elizabeth I, had died. She had ruled England for 45 years. She died unmarried and without children. Her nearest relative was King James VI of Scotland, who travelled south to London to become James I of England.
At that time there were bitter divisions in Western Europe between Protestants and Catholics. England was predominantly a Protestant country, but there were some powerful Catholic families. (Some old houses near Birmingham have secret rooms -- priest holes -- where Catholic priests could be hidden at times of persecution.) Many Catholic families, despite their religion, were loyal to the King. But others wanted to overthrow the King and replace him with a Catholic monarch. They looked to France and Spain for help.
One such group included a man called Guy Fawkes. He was a professional soldier. He had fought in the Spanish army in the Netherlands. He and his fellow conspirators rented a storeroom beneath the Houses of Parliament. Secretly, they filled it with barrels of gunpowder. They planned to blow up the Houses of Parliament on 5 November at a time when the King and many of the most powerful men in England were there. They hoped that Catholics in England would then rebel, and that Spain would send an army to put a Catholic king on the throne of England.
But one of the plotters sent a secret letter to Lord Monteagle advising him to stay away from Parliament. Monteagle was a Catholic, but he immediately gave the letter to Robert Cecil, the King's chief minister, who ran a security and intelligence service. Cecil sent men to search the Parliament building. They found Guy Fawkes and 36 barrels of gunpowder. The rest of the plotters were quickly arrested, or died in a fight with the King's men at Kingswinford near modern Birmingham. The survivors were tried and executed in a horrible way.
And ever since then, English people have celebrated the discovery of the Gunpowder Plot by building bonfires and letting off fireworks on 5 November. Often we place an effigy of Guy Fawkes on the fire. We have an old rhyme which goes:
Remember, remember the 5th of November
Gunpowder, treason and plot.
I see no reason why gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot.
Game: The Gunpowder Plot
Saturday, 29 October 2011
Tuesday, 25 October 2011
Sunday, 23 October 2011
Halloween Song
Happy Halloween!
Friday, 21 October 2011
Irregular Verbs
Monday, 17 October 2011
Game: Countries in Europe
Play this game and have some fun learning the names of the European countries in English.
http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/Europe/Eur_G0_1024_768.html
Sunday, 9 October 2011
Days, months and dates
Ordinal Numbers at the farm
Watch this video and then write a list of the animals in the order the appear. Write the ordinal number next to each animal.
Sunday, 25 September 2011
Song: The Rules of the Classroom
There are five of them.
Can you write them down?
Welcome back!
Monday, 11 July 2011
Recipe: Vanilla Milkshake
Thursday, 30 June 2011
Saturday, 25 June 2011
Clothes game: Choose the correct word
Tuesday, 21 June 2011
Story Cool Kids 6: A Camel Safari
Sunday, 19 June 2011
Story Cool Kids 5: "I'm from New York"
Tuesday, 14 June 2011
Story: The Great Race
Friday, 10 June 2011
Story: Click, Clack, Moo, Cows that Type (Doreen Cronin)
Thursday, 9 June 2011
The Very Hungry Caterpillar: A tiny weeny version
Story: The Very Hungry Caterpillar - Eric Carle
The hungry caterpillar is enchanting.
What a wonderful job Eric Carle did writing it!
Save Planet Earth
Game: Clean the beach
Wednesday, 8 June 2011
Jigsaw: Telephone boxes
Tuesday, 7 June 2011
Song English Tea (Lyrics)
Paul McCartney
Would you care to sit with me
For a cup of English tea
Very twee, very me
Any sunny morning
What a pleasure it would be
Chatting so delightfully
Nanny bakes fairy cakes
Every Sunday morning
Miles and miles of English garden, stretching past the willow tree
Lines of hollyhocks and roses, listen most attentively
Do you know the game croquet
Peradventure we might play
Very gay, hip hooray
Any sunny morning
(solo)
Miles and miles of English garden, stretching past the willow tree
Lines of hollyhocks and roses, listen most attentively
As a rule the church bells chime
When it's almost supper time
Nanny bakes fairy cakes
On a Sunday morning
Song: English Tea (Paul McCartney)
Monday, 6 June 2011
The Animals save the Planet: Elephant shower
Perhaps it would be nice to think of others before you use up all the water.
Save the planet. Use only the water you need.
The Animals save the Planet: Lions recycle
Save their planet. Recycle all you can.
Recycle song
Everybody knows by now how important it is to recycle. This song tells you how you can do it in order to help our planet. It's quite easy to learn because the letters move around and make up the words for you to read.
Saturday, 4 June 2011
Visit the UK
The United Kingdom is definitely beautiful. In this video you can visit England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. There are stunning landscapes, old castles, fantastic lakes and famous monuments. I hope you enjoy watching it!
Friday, 3 June 2011
Story: Planet Earth
Story: The Rainbow Serpent
The Rainbow Serpent is a powerful ancestor, known by many Aboriginal groups throughout Australia. They believe the Rainbow Serpent played an important role in the life cycle of plants and animals and seasonal changes.
The many stories and sites associated with the Rainbow Serpent are often linked to water and places where she travelled across country, leaving behind features in the landscape. Australian Aboriginals believe she is still present today, resting, and should never be disturbed.
Listen to this beatiful story about the Rainbow Serpent.
I hope you enjoy it!
Thursday, 2 June 2011
Wednesday, 1 June 2011
Story: The Sun and the Wind
Tuesday, 31 May 2011
Friday, 27 May 2011
Story: The farm animals
http://www.magickeys.com/books/farm/page5.html
Thursday, 26 May 2011
Tuesday, 24 May 2011
I like fruit!
Yummy! Yummy! In my tummy!
Story: I'm hungry!
Rosie y Jack tienen hambre. Lee esta divertida historia y verás qué pasa cuando llega Zipadee.
http://www.oup.com/elt/global/products/coolkids/coolkids1/stories/unit6
Monday, 23 May 2011
Fácil - Running Game: Sunday Runaway!
cantando la rima:
Monday! Tuesday! Wednesday! Thursday! Friday! Saturday! Sunday! Runaway!
Todos se sueltan y salen corriendo. Aquel en medio alcanza a alguien que quedará en el centro la próxima vez.
Corremos - Running Game: One brown mouse
One brown mouse
Very, very small,
Ran through a hole in the kitchen wall.
El juego acaba cuando todos han pasado por el túnel.
Corremos - Running Game: Old Mother Hubbard
Old Mother Hubbard, what's in the cupbard?
Mother Hubbard se vuelve y dice algo como: Cheese, Biscuits, Milk, Oranges...
Se va repitiendo la pregunta hasta que Mother Hubbard conteste:
BONES!!
En ese momento todos salen corriendo y Mother Hubbard los persigue hasta atrapar a alguien
que siga en su puesto.
Saturday, 21 May 2011
Friday, 20 May 2011
Thursday, 19 May 2011
Games Cool Kids 2
http://www.oup.com/elt/global/products/coolkids/coolkids2/games/
Games Cool Kids 1
http://www.oup.com/elt/global/products/coolkids/coolkids1/games/
Tuesday, 17 May 2011
Friday, 13 May 2011
Thursday, 5 May 2011
Wednesday, 4 May 2011
Aprender matemáticas con rimas infantiles
Existe un acervo enorme de rimas de números que pueden ser utilizadas en estos niveles. Las rimas forman parte crucial de los programas de enseñanza anglosajones. Trabajan bien el concepto del número y las ideas de uno más/uno menos. Tienen un ritmo muy marcado y permiten, debido también a la estructura del inglés, que se introduzcan palabras alternativas, con lo cual el alumno crea sus propias rimas. El ritmo, la rima y grupos de sonidos repetidos ayudan a desarrollar la habilidad para contar y a asimilar el concepto del número.
También las rimas de dedos se utilizan para afianzar la idea de secuencia, antes y después.
Así podemos utilizar:
Ten green bottles
There were ten in a bed
Five little ducks
Five currant buns (dinero)
Hickory Dickory dock (tiempo)
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, once I caught…
One, two, buckle my shoe (numeros hasta al 20)
Ten fat sausages (restar dos)
One potato, two potato
Five little green frogs
Wind the bobbin (rima de dedos)
Tommy Thumb (rima de dedos)