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.

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.

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.

TEACHER TUESDAY IV: A HALLOWEEN PRINTABLE PACK

Today I'm bringing a little pack of printable activities to work on some vocabulary and reading skills. While some of my students are working on their Halloween crafts and oral activities, other kids are working on the activities in this pack. Hope it'll be useful!

As always, just click on the image below to download.

TEACHERS TUESDAY: SOME OCEAN PRINTABLES.

This school year, our English classroom is an  "under the sea" classroom, so I've prepared some ocean-related printables to decorate our classroom. here you have them if you'd like to see, download, print and use.

Our days of the week and months of the year cards:

Our word wall alphabet headers:

And for an ocean LIM created by us and some other ocean stuff, just click HERE.

CHRISTMAS PRINTABLE ACTIVITIES

Hello kids! How´s your first day of holidays going? Hope you´re enjoying it. I don´t know if you have everything ready for Christmas day. In case you still want to decorate your room, or write some Christmas Cards here you are a couple of links where you can find some coloring pages to print, cut, colour, write, ...// ¡Hola chicos! ¿cómo va el primer día de vacaciones? Espero que lo estéis disfrutando mucho. No sé si ya tenéis todo listo para Nochebuena y Navidad. Por si acaso todavía os falta decorar vuestra habitación o escribir alguna postal navideña, aquí tenéis algunos enlaces donde encontraréis páginas para imprimir, recortar, colorear, escribir, ...

Printable Christmas Cards // Tarjetas navideñas para imprimir:

Coloring Christmas cards // tarjetas navideñas para colorear:

Christmas coloring pages // Páginas navideñas para colorear:

And a cute Christmas Alphabet book // Y... un libro con un abecedario navideño:

CARNIVAL

Carnival is coming!!! Do you have a costume yet? In case you don´t, here you are some printables from which you can get ideas. Click on the costume!

¡El Carnaval ya está aquí!!! ¿Ya tienes disfraz? Por si acaso no tenéis, aquí os dejo unas fichas para colorear con disfraces para coger ideas. Pinchad en los disfraces.
And here you are an online game to decorate a mask. Click on the mask!

SKELETON DANCE!

Here you are more Halloween stuff, now it´s skeletons turn. Let´s dance with them!

Aquí tenéis más cositas de Halloween. Ahora es el turno de los esqueletos. ¡A bailar!

If you want to make your own skeleton, here you are a picture, just enlarge it, print it and do your own skeleton.

Si quieres hacer tu propio esqueleto, aquí tienes uno; sólo agrándalo, imprímelo y monta tu propio esqueleto.