ACTIVITY OF SENSES

Good afternoon! 

Today at class we have enjoyed a funny activity about the five senses. Do you want know what about is? Come on! Read this post, I'm sure you will like! 

  

Following the daily routines we have started to work. After two days introducing the five senses, today at last we have could done the final activity. 

First of all, I have explained the activity to the four-year students. We have used different games, one for each sense. 

So now I am going to explain how we have worked the five senses: 

HEARING: The activity has consisted in dancing around the psychomotricity class while the music sounded. When the music stopped, children had to sit still like mummies during some seconds. We repeated this game in various fragments of songs.  In this way, the students have practiced: the attention, the hearing perception and generally, the listening. 

SIGHT: This was an activity with a little challenge because one student of each pair had to guide to his/her blind classmate by a path of obstacles at the playground. Later the roles changed and finally the learners told her / his experience to the whole class. 

SMELL: Every pupil had to smell three kind of liquids with her / his eyes blindfolded and say if that smell was pleasant or unpleasant. Then between all the students had to guess what kind of liquids were. 

TASTE: Every student had to taste different foods with a various textures and say if they were bitter or sweet.  

TOUCH: All the students had to touch some items and guess what kind of object was. 

OUR INSTRUMENTS

Do you like your children's music? Do you like musical instruments?

With this children's craft your children can build their own musical instrument and spend great moments making music with drum doll.

DINOSAUR FUN

Delightful activity book specially designed for sharing with young children.

Activities include a fingerprint Stegosaurus, a stand-up Diplodocus and a Plate-o-saurus (made from paper plates!) along with lots of ideas for drawing and painting, finger painting, and cutting and sticking.

The funs activities help develop important skills such as hand control, coordination and concentration.

Tabs on pages help children find their favorite activities.

In this website you will find some other interesting books.

INVITATION TO A PARTY

In a few time you go to give a party? This is one of the coolest crafts that you can offer to invite your friends to the party. It is an attractive and easy invitation, able to perform by your little students on a quiet sunday at home.

The material we need for processing are: balloons (red and green in this case), cardboard, thin and thick black marker colour red, scissors, pencil, sticky tape and a punch.

Want to see how we could prepare these fantastic invitations?

MY FAVOURITE CHILD TALE

Hello! This is my favourite tale when I was a child and the reasons why I loved it.

Cinderella's tale treats about a young and pretty girl who only had her father because her mother died. From that day she lived in her stepmother and stepsisters' house where she worked much. Every day she did several assignments in housework. Cinderella never went out of the house because it was forbidden for her. So she thought some different activities for have fun at home when she finished her chores. One of them was playing with house animals. That animals loved her because she look after them, sang to its while she was cleaning and many more activities.

She was a very happy girl until one day all the ladies of the city were invited to the dance of the royal palace of Prince and her stepmother forbidden her to go. But the day of the dance, suddenly a fairy good mother appeared and helps her to go to the royal party. Finally she could go but she only had a condition: return at home before midnight. She didn't realise that the twelve came and the spell disappeared. Fastly she went out the dance and during this way she lost her crystal shoe. Days after the king's son wanted to know who was the propietary of that shoe and sent some guys to find that girl. Luckily later a few days they found the lady and surprinsingly was Cindirella. The tale end is like the other fairy tales: Cinderella and the Prince went together and lived happily ever after.

I loved this tale for two reasons mainly: firstly because it presents to us a young girl who can value spend a good time with her passion: the animals. Nowadays it is very difficult for the society enjoy those small moments because we think that is a waste of time.

Secondly she shows us a girl who conforms to her complicated day to day with a mother who doesn't love her and with the difficulty of has two unkind stepsisters. She shows us the value and courage that she must to have to deal her life.

DREAM ENGLISH

Here I lend you a gorgeous and fantastic website where you can find songs and videos that you can use in many thematic. Is about IT resources that you can use for your students to learn the daily routines, for example: the days of the week, the weather, the months of the year, etc. 

Here you have what tells the creator of this site: what is the web, how was inspired to write his songs...

ABOUT DREAM ENGLISH

What is Dream English?

The goal of Dream English is simple: make educational music that is not only filled with important phrases and grammar, but is also enjoyable to listen to. My hope is that people will listen to the music not only because it is educational, but also because they truly enjoy the music!

Can I listen to your songs if I am a native English speaker? 

Yes! This website is visited everyday by people in over 50 countries; many of those countries have English as their first language. I have received many emails from English speaking parents whose children enjoy the songs as well!

Why do you have most of your songs and chants available for free download? 

I started this site out to sell my music. However, I put up a few free downloads and had a great response from people. After putting up my version of Jingle Bells, I got thank you notes from people in over 30 countries! This encouraged me to put a few more downloads, then I received more and more thank you notes. Many people said they aren’t able to buy a CD for a number of reasons, and my music is very helpful to them, their students and children. This encouraged me to put even more free downloads.

If your songs are available for free download, why do you also sell them? 

The songs for sale are a bit higher quality mp3’s and don’t have the web add as heard on the free downloads. The sales of these CD’s and download packs help me to pay for this website, so I can continue to bring you great music! If you use these songs often with your students, I encourage you to buy a CD or download pack. It will not only help me, but the thousands of people who benefit from me being able to give away the songs for free.

How do I download a free song?

It is really easy! Go to the Free Download page, pick a song title you want to check out and go to that web page. Once you are there, it will have a link to download the song, simply click on it and the song will download. If you are a pc user, you will need to right click on your mouse to download and save. In order to burn it to a cd for class or home use, you have to bring the song into an mp3 player. If you don't have one, I recommend I Tunes because it is a free download.

How do you write your songs? 

Each Dream English song can take up to a few months to write and record. I start with an idea, then I record a demo version or play it on my guitar in my classes with the students. I do this until I get the song just right for learning, and then I record it for everyone to hear!

What does the future hold for Dream English:

My Dream is to be able to perform concerts of my music to children around the world. I look forward to seeing all of your smiling faces and singing along with you!

Do you have any other websites with English Education materials for Children?

I have 3 other websites, here they are:

Freeabcsongs.com A website with Traditional Kids Songs like Twinkle, Twinkle and Row your Boat, all free downloads.

123listening.com  a website with free downloadable audio files and matching worksheet listening exercises for kids.

KidsEnglishBooks.com-  Download free printable children's books.

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REUSED OLD COLORS!

This idea of sisterssuitcase is perfect for those evenings at home when you do not know how to entertain your children: create multicolored star-shaped wax reusing small pieces that are left of paints used.

CHICKS FELT AND SOAP

Easter holidays are some days that we enjoy a lot and we like spend a great family days doing lots of fun things with our children. One of the crafts we suggest for develop during this time is this funny and useful chick felt and soap.

For its preparation will need: A small Styrofoam ball, yellow felt, felt scraps of red, orange and yellow, soap, scissors, glue and two black balls.

RATTLE WITH YOGURT CONTAINERS

On this day we will make a simple and fun craft made with recycled materials that we like to use to help the environment. For its preparation only need four packages of yogurt, rice, plastic eyes, wool, glue and scissors.

Like you can see we are going to do a maracas characters. Want to see how they are made?

IMPORTANCE OF LEARNING ENGLISH

CUTE FLOWERS

Today is your turn mums, you love having full of lovely and cute flowers garden, this is a great opportunity for your children help you have it pretty well, and over recycling! We teach to make these flowers that you can used to decorate indoors and outdoors.

SPRING BOOKMARKS

Here you have these cheerful spring bookmarks made very simple and fun way. We need only clips of colors or wooden sticks and felt or rubber eva different figures. Cut them in the way you like and stick them on the carrier you choose.

LET'S WORK

We show you a cool craft so you can spend a pleasant and fun time with the kids. We especially liked that very few materials (paint for hands and fingers, crayons and sheets) are needed and allows develop 100% the creativity.

Had you ever thought about how many things you can do from the drawing of the palm? Do you think you could draw an elephant? And a camel? The difficulty of the challenges can go increasing slowly...

If you want to discover more ideas you just have to keep reading ...

A NICE PENCIL HOLDER

Today we present a useful, simple and cheap craft to perform, we all have at home one milk cartons or juice, a few pens and colored construction paper, plus sticky tape, glue, scissors and a bit of wrapping paper or silk. Today we make a pencil holder with cartons we have at home. This is to maximize all the things that usually discard and which can give a great utility.

Want to know the materials we need?

RECYCABLE HELICOPTER

Learn how to make this recyclable helicopter that we have found in crafts for children. The process of creating is very entertaining, so that its implementation in the classroom, at home or in a workshop is suitable for children. Can be a great gift made with recyclable items, I'm sure, you will love it.

Some materials that you need are:

     Sippers.

     Ping pong ball.

     Plastic container (yogurt or actimel).

     Stapler.

     Punch.

     Thumbtack.

     Scissors.

The steps in graphical form are:

You can find more information here. 

RECYCLING CARS

Here we have the perfect craft for any fan of racing. We can recycle toilet paper rolls and turn them into a brilliant and cheerful collection of race cars, also suitable for playmobil dolls.

Well, you know if you want to introduce your child in Formula 1, this may be his first race car. The pilot is sitting in the seat to reach high speeds that will eventually lead to the podium. Do you dare to wear to work? In the following blog kiflieslevendula you have the entire tutorial step by step...

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.

Already have materials ready?This activity is guaranteed success!

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.