HALLOWEEN DAY

Today at our school we have celebrated the "Halloween day ". All the staff of the school was dressed with a typical Halloween costume and of course children. My classmate Gemma and I have disguised of pirates and it has been fun.

The day has started with Halloween song "Five little pumpkins" which all the child students have sung to the older students of the school.

Lyrics of the song

Five little pumpkins jumping on the bed,

One fell off and bumped his head! (Ow!)

Mommy called the Doctor, and the Doctor said,

No more pumpkins jumping on the bed!

Four little pumpkins jumping on the bed,

One fell off and bumped his head! (Ow!)

Mommy called the Doctor, and the Doctor said,

No more pumpkins jumping on the bed!

Three little pumpkins on the bed,

One fell off and bumped his head! (Ow!)

Mommy called the Doctor, and the Doctor said,

No more pumpkins on the bed!

Two little pumpkins jumping on the bed,

One fell off and bumped his head! (Ow!)

Mommy called the Doctor, and the Doctor said,

No more pumpkins jumping on the bed!

One little pumpkin jumping on the bed,

One fell off and bumped his head! (Ow!)

Mommy called the Doctor, and the Doctor said,

No more pumpkins jumping on the bed!

Mama pumpkin said,

All you little pumpkins go right to bed!

At the end of the song children have wished: HAPPY HALLOWEEN! 

Class to class they have sung the song and when they had ended the teacher of each class has given one candy to each pupil. We have spent a lot of time in this task so then; children have enjoyed a big time at the playground. After that, the two classes of four-year children met at the same class and for prepare a "poison" all of them have gone to a other big space between the nature.

In the afternoon the six classes of nursery have gone together to the assembly hall and we have seen "Charlie and the chocolate factory".

But the day hasn’t ended now because the Halloween day, students who have wanted have slept at the school with classmates and teachers.

CANDY BAG

In two days we will celebrate "Halloween day" so we need our own candy bag. We have some different animals to create our bag: but we will show you only one example: a spider candy bag.

            

To perform this simple craft only need two paper plates, a white cardboard, scissors, pen fine black, black wool and green and a stapler.

Are you ready to start?

1st) Use a pencil to mark one line on the two semi-oval plastic plates, then cut it with scissors on the line just drawn. These are the two pieces that allow us to place inside a bag our delicious sweets.

2nd) The next step is to glue the two parts of the dishes so that it looks like a bag and paint them black.

3rd) We stick in one of the two parts of our bag a piece of green wool to make the mouth of the spider and stapled the edges of the plate 4 pieces of black wool on each side to make the legs of the spider.

4th) Finally with perforator make two holes next to the ears and pass the thread through both holes to tie it.

To end our friendly bag of candy decorates the face of the spider. We use a black marker to draw two eyes in white cardboard and then trim it will stick in our bag color.

I hope you enjoyed this original bag candy!

Other example is this cat's candy bag: 

                                                        

TASTY URCHINS

Achieve that your children eat fruit and will be themselves who prepare with your help in an extremely funny way! With a few grapes and a pear we can create an urchins so nice like this that surely the youngest will love to eat for dessert or snack. This image shows you how easy and delicious it is this culinary craft.

PRETTY KITTY TO DECORATE THE CLASS

Hello! 

The day of Halloween is near and like all the years we want to prepare our class for this special day. 

So that your students can enjoy making an easy and pretty kitty, they must bring at class one box. 

This manual art is very fast to prepare, here you have the steps to follow: 

Firstly, children will paint the box in grey that will be the body of the cat. 

Secondly, while the paint is drying the students will colored the rest parts of the cat's body: ears, eyes, nose, mouth and moustaches, arms, stomach and a long tail. 

Finally, next day they will glue all parts of the cat's body and with the nice result they will decorate their class. 

DEVELOPING LISTENING SKILLS

Nowadays English is a highly regarded subject for the society and at schools especially for parents. We like specialists in education have to capture the opportunities they give our but, we mustn’t do it like years ago. Teachers need a different way to teach English at schools because children require diverse methods and routes to learn English in all its aspects. In that essay we are going to focus on developing listening skills.            

         

Some games for our children become better listeners are:

• “Open your ears”: For that game the teacher will make a noise behind a screen which the schoolchildren will have to identify, using familiar sounds (ring the doorbell, dog barking, run the vacuum, drumming, etc.). Another way to do the same game is instead of doing the teacher it could do it by a student. The educator selects one child to go behind the screen and choose one item from the box, and make a sound with the object. The other children are to listen to the sound and guess what object is making the sound. 

• “Shake and listen”: The professor puts some unlike materials (rocks, rice, water…) inside different jars; she sits turn her back to her students and shake the bottles one per one. Children should guess what kind of material contains the pots.

•     “A colour story”: Before starting activity the teacher give all the students a different colourful flashcard. She explains them that they must stand up showing their flashcard when the teacher mention their colour.  Then, she is going to tell her students the fairy tale. Others possibilities might be a story about animals, seasons of the year, adjectives… it depends on the kind of vocabulary that they are studying in class.

•  “Storytelling”: It consists in tell to the pupils a story. While the teacher is articulating the fairy tale she asks her pupils to do that story say. For example: wave their arms, blow strongly, touch their nose, ears, mouth, knees, put a sad, happy, worried, frightened face, etc. Maybe if we want appreciate that our learners understand the instructions we can do two things: on the one hand, say them that close their eyes to do the entire story said and the other hand, we can make ask them that tell the story in their own words.  With that we will get that child work fine motor skills, expression and of course, listen skills.

• “Making crafts” A good way to improve listen skills is making a craft. While children are making an entertaining activity they are familiarizing with English vocabulary and expressions while are listen all the teacher’s instructions. 

• Songs and music videos

PAINTING IN MILK

If there is something that fascinates us when we try to look for inspiration to create children's crafts is to meet with the possibility that children can make true works of art with simple materials like: a little milk, soap, food coloring and chopsticks. A real mix of science, art and fun presenting us in ModernParentsMessyKids. We leave you to judge for yourselves through this picture...

Animate to do it with the kids! It is very easy!

First, we must take a little milk at a sufficiently high container (a bowl would be nice). Once we have prepared the milk, add a few drops of different colors of coloring food for the dish.

And now comes the magic: It gets a little soap on the toothpick and children should put it on the dye: the reaction of soap makes an effect on milk that the colors distort ... children will be cursing!

As also advise us on the blog from which we extracted this idea, once cease to distinguish colors and created a uniform color in milk, we can take this "milk paint" to paint on thick paper.

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BEST TEACHER - WORST TEACHER

BEST TEACHER

My favourite teacher was my mathematics teacher in elementary school. He was the best teacher that I have ever had. He was clever, good worker and the most important thing; he was a very good communicator. His classes became pleasant hours because he made maths, a subject that many students find boring and difficult, was funny and entertaining. I could tell he enjoyed his work for example because always came to class with a new surprise, he was an active person. We loved when he got excited about something, in that cases he showed us funny and enjoyable. He had the ability to be an authoritarian and demanding person at the same time who was a very close and caring man who cared about people he was teaching. Finally say that was a very patient person, in fact when we had a bad behaviour he had a peculiar way to shut us up. Never forget my best teacher. Moreover, I would like to be like him.  

WORST TEACHER

The worst teacher I have ever had in my life was in high school. This was a nervous, uncreative and a distant person. My high school phase was marked by the strange and difficult behaviour of that nervous man. Furthermore of his dull and tired subject, history, he was a very boring person who always talked in the same loud of voice. Additionally he was a person who did not transmit confidence. Often I had some questions about history but I preferred not ask to him because I did not which would be his response or reply. I was scared to raise my hand and ask because she made you feel like an idiot for even asking question.  Usually with his speech he made his students feel ignorant. He like a teacher should teach children to become better and smarter students and not treat people like they are incapable of learning.