ART AND VALENTINE'S DAY

Love is usually represented in different types of Art creations. Below are some ideas of activities we did in previous years ( CEIP Conmeniño students) in our Art bilingual sections.

Different kinds of love in Keith Haring's work.

And our Mondrian-inspired hearts.

HAPPY BACK TO SCHOOL!

So, tomorrow is the day, 11th September 2017. It's back to school day here in Galicia and I want to wish everybody a fantastic new school year! 

Especially wishing the best adventures and learning to my former students from Conmeniño school and my future ones at CEIP Wenceslao Fdez. Flórez, in Cambre.

 If, as teachers, you need some ideas for this new year at school, some classroom management and back to school ideas.

EASTER EGG HUNT 2016

Before our holidays we had some fun reviewing some of the things we've learned through an Easter egg hunt. We went outside (well, today we had to use the gym because of rainy weather...) and had a different egg hunt. Our mission was to find the eggs with the image representing our sentence cards. Here you are some photos if you'd like to see!

If you click on the picture below you can download the cards we used to paste in the eggs and to give to the children as cards for them to match with the eggs. 

"PANCAKES IN A CUP" VIDEO RECIPE

Hi there! Sixth graders are working on food, so we've watched this Jamie Oliver's video recipe to learn to make a pancake in a cup. Here you are the video in case you want to surprise someone with these fluffy pancakes!

And also, a couple of activities to test your listening skills! Just click on the image below.

THANKSGIVING MEMORIES FROM LAST YEAR

Thanksgiving is coming! In case someone's interested, here you are a video of our Thanksgiving celebration from last year: "Conmeniño's first Thanksgiving"

And by clicking on the image below (that you can also find on the right sidebar), you can access all the printables, ideas of activities and resources we used last year.

AND... HALLOWEEN IS HERE!

Halloween is almost here and one of the activities we'll be doing this year will be playing a "Halloween guess who game". Fifth graders are working on food and sixth graders are working on free time activities, so I've prepared these guess who handouts with some Halloween characters for them to practise their oral skills and the structures we've been learning.

Click on the picture below to download them if you're interested.

 

Also, Teacher Belén Junquera prepared a very interesting LIM activity with the story "The Scary Little Witch". Once again, thank you for sharing such a great job! Click on the image below to go to the story and games to play. Enjoy it!

 

In kindergarten we're working on the story "Go away, big green monster", that you can watch on the video below:

And in 2nd grade we're working on the story "Glad monster, sad monster" (we call it "Happy monster, sad monster")

 

And, for some more ideas, some activities we did on previous years by clicking HERE.

AND... WE'RE BACK!

Welcome, 2015-2016 school year. With everything going on around us, we have a mission: make our best to turn you into an awesome one!// Bienvenido, curso 2015-2016. Con todo lo que está sucediendo en el mundo que nos rodea, tenemos una misión: hacer que seas un curso maravilloso y aportar nuestro granito de arena para un mundo mejor.

 

Some back to school ideas for teachers on Pinterest, just click on the picture below:

 

 

Happy school year 2015-2016!

TEACHERS TUESDAY XII - A COUPLE OF GAMES WE HAD FUN WITH

Hi!

Today I bring you a couple of games we've been playing in the classroom lately and with which we had lots of fun. I'm leaving teh documents I created to play them if you'd like to see or use them.

Fourth graders are learning how to go doing groceries, so we've been working on food vocabulary and money. We've learned the differences about euros, pounds and dollars (we observed real notes and coins). Since we have an American assistant with us once a week, we decided to play the game using dollars. Working with money required learning how to express decimal numbers in English. After learning it, we practised it by playing THE PRICE IS RIGHT, a game based on the popular TV contest. // En 4º estamos aprendiendo a ir a comprar en inglés, por lo que hemos estado trabajando en el vocabulario de la comida y el dinero. Aprendimos las diferencias entre euros, dólares y libras. Como una vez a la semana tenemos con nosotros una auxiliar de conversación de EEUU, decidimos jugar usando dólares. Trabajar con dinero requirió aprender a expresar números decimales en inglés, los cuales practicamos después jugando a "EL PRECIO JUSTO", un juego basado en el famoso concurso televisivo.

To play, we used the following presentation and our mini home-made white boards (piece of paper in a punched pocket + whiteboard markers) .We split into teams, and we were ready for fun! // Para jugar usamos nuestras mini pizarras blancas caseras (hoja dentro de funda plástica+rotulador de pizarra blanca) y nos dividimos en equipos.

We had lots of fun trying to guess food prices (you could tell they don't go shopping often...) // Lo pasamos genial intentando adivinar los precios de la comida (se nota que no van mucho de compras...)

The game 5th graders have been enjoying is BATTLESHIP. We played a grammar battleship using the worksheet you can find below. We used the game to practise "there is" "there are", animals vocabulary and place prepositions, but it can be adapted to any other topyc and I saw the kids were engaged, using English and working on the expressions by using them.// El juego que los niños de 5º han estado disfrutando es el de "HUNDIR LA FLOTA". Jugamos un hundir la flota de gramática empleando la ficha que aparece a continuación. A través del juego practicamos "there is/are", vocabulario de animales y preposiciones. Los niños estuvieron muy involucrados, usando el inglés y practicando las estructuras dadas.

SOME VALENTINE'S DAY INSPIRATION

Valentine's Day is coming and in our lessons during Valentine's Day week, we normally use the ocassion to celebrate and remember how much we love/care about each other, friendship, kindness, respect, self-esteem...  In case you're planning on doing the same, here you are some inspiration: // Ya casi es San Valentín. Normalmente aprovechamos esta fecha para celebrar y recordar que nos queremos los unos a los otros, nos respetamos, somos amigos, trbajar la amabilidad y la auto estima... En caso de que alguien esté pensando en hacer lo mismo, aquí va algo de inspiración!

Our activities from past school years/Nuestras actividades de otros cursos: 

And some inspiration from my beloved Pinterest/ Y algo de inspiración en Pinterest:

Follow Teacher's board Valentine's Day Ideas on Pinterest.

Have a LOVELY week! 

TEACHERS TUESDAY XI: THANKSGIVING PROJECT- the PORTFOLIO

Before, during and after our Thanksgiving project, we've been using this portfolio to compilate the different activities, work on vocabulary and expressions related to the topic, relate what we were learning with other learnings (reading and writing, describing, comparing, organizing ideas in a Thinking map, ...). Basically, doing some SCAFFOLDING.

You can download it below if you'd like to. Most of the activities can be adapted to many other themes (if you want the editable version, just send me an email).

MONTY THE PENGUIN- VIDEO LESSON

John Lewis did it again! As every Christmas, the British department store has released a fantastic Christmas advert. This time, the main characters are a boy and his dear friend Monty. If you want to watch the sweet story, watch the video below.// ¡John Lewis lo ha vuelto a hacer! Como cada Navidad, los grandes almacenes británicos han lanzado un fantástico anuncio navideño. Este año, los protagonistas son un niño y Monty, su inseparable amigo. Para descubrir esta tierna historia, mira el vídeo a continuación.

If you click on the image below, you can download a little pack of activities to discuss the advert in the classroom and a printable to sequence the story.// Pinchando en la imagen inferior, hay un pequeño pack de actividades con ideas para la discusión sobre el vídeo y unas actividades imprimibles para hacer.

Also, you can discover Monty's Christmas by clicking HERE.

And for some more printable activities, just CLICK below.

GETTING READY FOR CHRISTMAS

Christmas is almost here... Since we are learning toys names these days, we'll be also practising the following song // La Navidad ya casi está aquí... Como estos días estamos estudiando los juguetes, vamos a aprender esta canción:

We will also work on this story.

For more Christmas resources and previous years' activities just click HERE.

And for some more Christmas ideas, a Pinterest board!

Follow Teacher's board Christmas time on Pinterest.

TURKEY TROUBLE + SAVE THE TURKEY!

Hi kids!

here's the video of the story we've watched in class this days. What an intelligent turkey!  // Aquí tenéis el vídeo de la historia que hemos visto estos días en clase con motivo de Acción de Gracias. Qué pavo más listo!

And, related to this story, this year we're doing the popular "Turkeys in disguise" project. We sent the activity to be done at home with the families. We'll be soon posting their fabulous ideas to help save some turkeys! In case ypu're interested in the note we sent home and the rpintable turkeys, just click HERE. And for some ideas, click the picture below.// Y, en relación con esta historia, este año hemos propuesto la actividad "Disfraza un pavo". Enviamos la actividad a casa para ser hecha en colaboración con las familias. En breve iremos mostrando las ideas tan geniales que han tenido para salvar unos cuanosmpavos justo a tiempo para Acción de Gracias.

TEACHERS TUESDAY X-THANKSGIVING RESOURCES

Since this year we have an American conversation assistant, and related to our school project "Around the world on top of a plate", we are working on Thanksgiving, learning about its origin, the tradition itself and the food related to it.

For this, i've found tons of resources online that I've pinned on Pinterest, you can see them on the following board:

Follow Teacher's board Thanksgiving-school ideas on Pinterest.

Inspired by some of the activities seen here, and related to my kids needs and knowledge, I've also prepared some printables that you can download below if you'd like to.

A set of cards to go with the story:

A printable book inspired by this one:

And a few activities to work on sequencing the story and counting.

And one more video aboutthe Thanksgiving tradition:

For more videos on Thanksgiving, click HERE.

HALLOWEEN 2014

Last October 30th we had a little Halloween celebration at school. It was a very cool morning full of fun activities that you can check at our school library blog by clicking HERE. Apart from these activities, in our English lessons we prepared a story to tell the whole school and also a song. Both activities were also  related to our school project for this year "Around the world on top of a plate", they both included food vocabulary. Here you are the videos of both activities (sorry for the bad sound and video quality) if you'd like to see. // El pasado 30 de octubre tuvimos una pequeña celebración de Halloween/Samaín en nuestro colegio. Fue una mañana genial llena de actividades divertidas que podéis ver en el blog de nuestra biblioteca princhando AQUÍ. Además de estas actividades, en la clase de inlés preparamos dos pequeñas actuaciones para representar ante todo el colegio. Las 2 actividades estaban además relacionadas con el proyecto de nuestra escuela en este curso "La vuelta al mundo montados en un plato". Aquí podréis ver los vídeos y descargar alguno de los materiales que usamos para estas actividades. 

A Halloween story: THERE WAS AN OLD LADY WHO SWALLOWED A BAT

If you click on the image you'll access some downloadable resources we used to wor on the story (text included)

Song: "TRICK OR TREAT, GIVE ME SOMETHING GOOD TO EAT"

Clicking on the image below, you can download some of the activities we used to work on this song, all of them from http://supersimplelearning.com/resource-center/

SOME MOTIVATION FOR TEACHERS AND STUDENTS

WE CAN ALL BE AWESOME! // ¡TODOS PODEMOS SER GENIALES!

WELCOME BACK!

Hi there! 

A new school year has started. Let's make 2014-2015 a great one!

Teachers, in case you're interested, here you are a selection with some back to school ideas.

TEACHERS TUESDAY VI: MR.MEN + SOME PRINTABLE ADJECTIVES ACTIVITIES

6th graders are working on describing people/book characters... these days, so we've been enriching our vocabulary by learning some new adjectives and reviewing those we already knew.

Inspired by THIS great lesson plan from http://lessonstream.org, we've been using Mr. Men books. We used the following presentation to work on this vocabulary as instructed on the lesson plan indicated above.(you can download both the presentation and the lesson plan on the previous link).

As a complement to this lesson, I've prepared a little printable pack of activities adapted for my students. You can download it if you'd like to, just click on teh image below to access and download it.

If you'd like to know more abour Mr. Men books and characters, just click HERE.

You can also create online Mr. Men using the following application. Just click on the image below to access.

TEACHERS TUESDAY V: A THEATRE PLAY SCRIPT + SOME OF OUR HALLOWEEN FUN

Hi there! Today I'd like to share the simple theatre play my 4th grade students performed for Halloween. It's basedon the first episode og the TV series Meg and Mog. 

Here's the video of their performance. Great job, kids! // Aquí tenéis el vídeo de la representación. ¡Un trabajo genial, chicos!

Here's the script of our play in case you'd like to use it. Just press on the image below to download// Aquí el guión de la obra por si a alguien le sirve. 

And last, but not least, a few photos before the play :)

MEG, MOG AND OWL

JESS, BESS, TESS AND CRESS 

MEG!