Hi there teachers!

How is your summer going? Today I am coming with a new activity !! This week I decided to share with you an activity where you have to paint clothes! What do you think?

Are you ready?

PERSONALZE YOUR BAG

Material: 

• pencil
• cloth painting
• a cloth bag
• cardboard

Recommendations: To do this activity it is essential to prepare everything first in order to obtain a great result. You can do this activity with young children with no problem.

How to do it:

First of all put a cardboard between the two parts of the bag, in order to protect it.

Then draw the shape you prefer on a cardboard, cut it out and put it on the bag.

Finally use the pencil rubber to start painting. Use as many colours as you want! Look at the final result!

PAINTING A T-SHIRT

Material:

• cloth paintings
• paintbrushes
• a t-shirt
• tape rolls
• cardboard

Recommendations: To do this activity it is very important to take care with the paintings. As the other DIY, protect the space you will use in order to obtain a good result.

How to do it:

Prepare your space and put a thick cardboard in the T-shirt.

Start drawing a shape you like using the tape rolls. Then, you can start painting with different colours by using the paintbrush.

Wait until the painting gets dry. Take out the tape pieces and that’s all!

Here there is a video :

Hello everyone!

I hope you are having wonderful holidays! 🙂

Today, I am showing you three simple crafts related with the story Sharing a Shell by Julia Donaldson.

From my point of view it is a very good story to do in summer, so let’s get started!

DECORATING SHELLS

Age: 3-6

Recomendations: It is a very simple activity, and perfect for little children. I recommend you to use as much glitter as you can! They love it, and the final result is really good!

Material:

• Some shells
• paintings
• glitter
• paintbrush

The idea of this activity is to decorate shells. There are many options and many different techniques to do it! Here you can see some of them!

Firstly paint the shells as you like using shinny colours. You can also add some glitter, decorations or adhesive eyes to make it funnier!

DECORATING A CANDLE

Age: 6-12

Recommendations: To do this craft, you would need some hot glue, so take care with it! It is important to take into account that the shells and decorations should be added at the bottom part of the candle. If you do it on the top, the shells are going to fall because of the heat.

Material:

• a candle
• some shells
• some wool or thin rope
• hot glue

To do this simple and beautiful craft, you can use different materials. Firstly, paste the wool or the rope on the candle. You can use some hot glue to paste it. Finally add the shells as you want.

DECORATING A KEY CHAIN 

Age: 8-12

Recomendations: To do this craft, I recommend you to use bigger shells.

Material:

• Shells
• Hot glue
• A key chain
• wool

The last activity is very simple, but in my opinion is the best. It is easy to do and the result is amazing. To start, paste the wool on the shell with some hot glue.  Later add the wool on the key chain. You can add as many shells as you can!

Here you can watch my video on youtube!

Hi teachers!

Sorry for beeing out… I’ve been into many things these weeks… But today I am coming with something really special!

THE TEACHER TAG! The idea of this tag is to know me a little bit more as a teacher! I am very happy to present you this idea…so.. let’s get started!

1.How long have you been teaching?

I haven’t got many experience as a teacher to be honest, I’m 25 years old…. I’ve been teaching since 2013. I started working in an English Academy, and after one year I had the oportunity to work in a school since this year.

2.What ages have you taught?

I’ve been teaching grade 3 and 4 of Primary, but I have some experience with younger and older students in Primary. In the past, when I was working in the Academy, I had some classes with adults; and it was nice.

3.How many students do you have in the class?

I am very lucky to have normally 20 students in the class. I say normally, because we try to work with smaller groups in the school. There are 2 groups around 28 students in each year, so we try to do smaller groups as much as we can.

4.What do you teach?

I am teaching English in year 3 and 4 of Primary, but I am also teaching Science! I really like the subjects I teach. It may seem something silly, but in my opinion it is very important to be happy with your job…

5.Which is the perfect ratio?

As I said before, I am lucky to be working with 20 students most of the time, but with no doubts, 15 students would be something amazing!

6.Cooffe or tea?

Cooffe please!

7. What is your favourite online resource?

I think that my favourite online resource for students would be Kahoot. It is very easy to use and the love it! Many posts before I did a collection of online lessons and webpages you can use to organie them . Here you can read the post.

If we talk about teachers, I would recommend Pinterest! I know it is something “old”, but I always find what I need.

8. How is your perfect class? And your perfect school?

It may sound strange, but there isn’t a perfect class or a perfect school…

 But I would choose a class outside! Or if it is not possible, a classroom near the playground. I love doing activities outside, and it would be so nice to have a space near the garden!

About the school, I want to recommend you a Netflix serie; I am completely in love with the school structure and organization…

9. What is your favourite part of teaching?

My favourite part of teaching is… TEACH!

Stay with the children, learn with them, see how they are, meet them… It is really exciting when you see a little change or progress in a student. I enjoy a lot my classes, preparing them…

10. How is a perfect teacher?

In my opinion there isn’t a perfect teacher… But we are all good teachers. It is important to know that everything you do and prepare with love, it will be good.

On the other side, I like to say that a good teacher is a person who is honest with himself and the students in his class. The key is to be yourself and try to improve everyday.

Well… that’s all for this week! I hope you like the post! 🙂

BE HAPPY!

Hi there!

This week I am sharing with you my super speaking game box!

I’ve been working in many different levels, and with some years of experience, I finally build a box with some games.

You will see, that there are some games I’ve bought , but there are some more that I create…. Are you ready?

Tiger Eye masks

My first objects are 3 eye masks. I really like them, because they give me many different possibilities in short games. I bought them in Tiger.

My students love them, the pictures make them laugh a lot!

Who is Who

I am sure you already know this game! I really like the idea of the it, and I wanted to build one for my students. One day, I was searching other materials in Abacus, and I found this amazing WHO is WHO in cards.

Buy it in Amazon ( similar)

What’s up

This is another of my favourite games ever! Do you know it? Personally, I am very happy with it, and there are many different possibilities to use it in class!

Buy it in Amazon

Traveling cards

The traveling cards are so good for students around 11-12 years old. In my opinion there are some questions and structures and also contents in the game that are better for older students.

Buy it in Amazon

Brain box

There are so many different games in the same collection, and they are all really nice! I only have played with one, but I am so happy with it. It is a very simple game that gives you the possibility to make your students play with it alone.

Buy it in Amazon

Boggoss

A very easy and quick game to play with your students in the class. It is perfect to review parts of the body and bones!

Buy it in Amazon

Speaking dice

Some years ago, I found this group of dices and I found them so interesting to use them in class. You can use them as a speaking activity or maybe as a writing activity too.

Buy them in Amazon

The werewolves

Another of my favourites! I really like to use this game in Halloween. I am teaching young kids in grade 3 and 4, so I have to adapt it. With children around 10-11 years old you won’t have any problem!

Buy it in Amazon

Story cubes

Story cub es are always a good option.There is a post on the blog about the different games and activities you can do with this material. HERE you can see it!

Buy it in amazon 

Story maps

As you already know, I am a story lover, and I adore anything related to it. This year I started using some new material to work on storymaps, and I have a good experience. There are some posts on the blog too about it!

Disney Maps

One of the important topics in English is to know how to give directions . Some years ago, I went to Disney Paris, and I decided to keep them and use them in class. Normally, they play in groups or pairs, and the idea is to give instructions to arrive to a specific place in the map.

That’s all for this week! I really hope you found it interesting!

Kisses!

Hi there!

Today I am sharing with you a very simple and useful activity you can do with your students.

Or Englush lessons this term are about food, and as you know, I like to do different activities. As I explained in the video “Planifica tus clases” it is nice to mix different activities during a lesson, and today I am showing you a speaking activity that really works!

OBJECTIVE

Make the students speak and practise vocabulary related to food.

Make them learn and use specific structures.

MATERIAL

• DIY salad worksheet
• Ingredients worksheets
• Grammar box

GROUP CLASS

In order to make your students participate a lot, I recommend you to join your students in pairs. This way they need to use the language to complete their worksheet.

HOW TO PLAY

The idea is to make a perfect salad for your partner. To do it, they have to ask questions to their partner. Each student would make a salad by asking thier partners what are their favourite ingredients.

It is important to give them the vocabulary and the structures they would need ( Grammar). That’s why they need a worksheet with all the vocabulary and the pictures, with a grid where they can find the structures they would need to ask or answer the questions.

STRUCTURES 

And here you have the final result! It was really nice to do this activity at class, because it gives you the oportunity to know your students better. With the last group, I also make them design my favourite salad.

I really hope you like it!

Lots of kisses 🙂

Hello everyone!

Sorry for beeing out many days, but I’ve been sick…

Now I am feeling better, so I can share with you more ideas that I hope you find useful!

Today I am coming with a collection of books/songs/stories I am obsessed with! I am talking about…

They have a very nice collection of books and songs perfectly adapted and ready to be used in class. In my opinion, they do a very beautiful and magic material. It is nice, because they offer you 3 formats of their stories; SONG – BOOK- VIDEO.

This week I am presenting you three of their books with some ideas to work with and printables to download! 🙂

UP IN A BALLOON

Let’s know a little bit about it: Up in a balloon is a nice song that talks about many different things related to the Earth. There appear transports, parts of the earth, animals, habitats… So we have a huge variety of topics to work with.

Tips: When you want to work on a song, I always recommend to use TPR and try to connect a gesture with words of the song. This way, your children would be more engaged and it will be easier for them to learn the song.

Activities: There are many different activities to do with this song. As I said before you can work many topics. I decided to work on something easy and simple: BALLOONS. So HERE you can download the pdf with all the activities for your students!

A HOLE IN THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA

Let’s know a little bit about it: It is a funny song to do with children, because it is an additive song; it means that the same structured is repeated and the only thing that you have to do is add new words or elements.

Tips:In my opinion it is perfect for children around 6-7 years old. It is a very nice song that is perfect to wok on the marine animals.

Activities: As I said before, it can be nice using the song to work on the marine animals, so I prepared some activities that you can download HERE.

PORTSIDE PIRATES

Let’s know a little bit about it: Asthe title of the song says, this is a song about PIRATES! It is one of my favourite songs from this collection because it is different. It is also one of the most difficult songs of the collection( maybe the most), but the vocabulary is perfect for working with children.

Tips: I recommend you to use this story with children around 10-11, because the vocabulary is more difficult.

Activities: The main topic that you can work with this song without any doubt is “The Pirates”. You will find many different activities and materials, but I decided to prepare something simple. HERE you can download it. I hope you like it!

That’s all for this week!

Lots of kisses!

Hello teachers!

This week I come with my favourite books for this month! They are nice and perfect for this season, because you can do many activities outside.

Of course, there are many books, but this is my selection.

WE ARE GOING ON A BEAR HUNT ( Michael Rosen)

A perfect story for young and older children. Nice to read it alone or in groups. It is my favourite because you can use it in many different ways in class!

There are lots of materials online, videos, songs…

From my point of view, the best way to use this book in class is telling it with the song and gestures, and make your students act out the story at th end (for example).

SQUASH AND SQUEZE (Julia Donaldson)

This is another nice story created by Julia Donaldson. As I said in other posts, she is one of the best children’s books author. Her books have something special that catch you from the beginning.

This is a very funny story, with difficult vocabulary. So, from my point of view it is a good story for students around 11 years old.

STUCK (Oliver Jeffers)

Of course my list of books has to include a story by Oliver Jeffers… In this situation I recommend you the funny story called Stuck. It is a tale that talks about a boy and his troubles.

In my opinion it is perfect for year 2-3 (7 and 8 years old). The vocabulary is not easy, because as many of his stories, the text is in past tense. Also the objects that appear in the book are complicated.

There are some resources on the Internet, but I am using this story in class as a traveling suitcase, and my students are building a kite with different materials. So… it can be perfectly adapted.

GOLDILOCKS AND THE THREE BEARS 

A classic story, but very nice to work specific structures. It is perfect and easy to work with. You can do many different activities with it ; for example a short play.

Simple activities like sequence the story, change the end of it, or watch the video of the story, can be very interesting.

THE VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR (Eric Carle)

I am sure you will know this amazing story from Eric Carle. This is a classic story, and for little students. I would recommend it for children around 4-5 years old. The vocabulary is very simple, and the pictures are perfect for children on that age.

You can wok on colours, fruits, numbers, days of the week and the life cycle of a caterpillar.

That’s all for this week!