29/10/15

Today has been the last day of class and we've listened a presentation about Halloween. This presentation had a lot of activities: one of them has been doing a mask of a skeleton, a witch, a vampire... and other activity that we have done in the gym. The masks were like this:

In today's class I was very excited because the next day we finished our quarter at University and we started the training period in School. Because of that I can't think about the presentation but in spite of that fact I liked it and I enjoyed.

What I have learnt today and during this time has been that this is what I would like to do for the rest of my life: teaching children and now I'm very nervous to begin the training period.

"Every end is a new beginning..."

28/10/2015

Today we've listened two very good presentations. The first presentation has been about the writing skill. The them that this group has chosen has been Halloween. They have made a pumpkin as a pet class. We have done many activities like: reading a book, doing a relay race, singing, dancing... 

The pumpkin

The other presentation has been about resources, they have shown us a lot of materiales to use in class and this presentation has been great. In each corner there is a girl who presented us an activity, each more fun and original.

Today's presentations have been very interesting and we've enjoyed a lot. I like interacting with all my classmates and enjoying together during the lessons.

What I've learnt today is more about the "corners" that we can use in preprimary and primary education. They are very useful to teach because children can learn a lot of things and they aren't bored and in primary education is less used than in preprimary education.

Learning Corners

27/10/2015

Today my group and I have done our presentation about the Topic Based Work. In our presentation we have explained the theory but we've focused on the activities. We've prepared flashcards and a Parcheesi with too many activities like: mime, play a song, flaschards...and too many similar things. Besides we've listened other presentation.

We've focused our presentation on teaching the verb can/can't and the habilities (play the guitar, ride a horse, dance, ride a bike...). We've found this song and we've decided to do an activity about this because we think that it's very appropriate:

These are some pictures about the Parcheesi game:

I've enjoyed a lot in this class because I think that my presentation could be very entertaining for kids and young learners as well as me and my classmates. From my point of view this lessons are the best for us because we've learnt a lot and we've known new ideas.

What I've learnt today is that all that you learn playing is better because you remember all the games about each topic or theme better than all that you based on theory.

21/10/2015

We go on tour!

Today I have gone to Cuenca with the professor of plastic. We have visited The Contemporary Art Museum, the Antonio Pérez Foundation and The Enchanted City (which is near Cuenca).

I've enjoyed this excursion and I've learnt a lot about art in spite of the fact that I had visited the Enchanted City before.

This is a picture I took while we visited the Antonio Pérez Foundation:

20/10/2015

Today have begun the presentations ✓

We've listened two presentations. The first one has been about the young language learners. The second presentation has been about how a pre-primary student learn a language.  Our classmates have elaborated a presentation with a lot of examples and things related to this theme. Both themes are about how learn a language, something that nowadays is very important.

This is a video about the advantages of teaching English to very young learners, how to do this and some activities to practice:

This class has been very entertaining because each group has told us to do many activities and I have enjoyed with them. The second group has done many motivated activites that I like so much and the children will enjoy too much.

What I've learnt today is that it's very important that we teach in a funny way because students can learn easily. For me as a student it's better to listen songs and to watch videos than to listen a dialogue of a person and I think that it's the same for children.

19/10/2015

Today we've talked about what is necessary for a teacher of the XXI century and if we could do it as teachers. One important thing, for example, is to manage new technologies. A teacher of the XXI century must be able to use audiovisual contents, blogs and wikis... to improve the learning of her/his students. Then the teacher has discovered us a web page to share our works or documents called webmix. Later we've created a Form in Google and we've sent it to the teacher. Finally we've talked about how we can create books, comics, videos about storytelling... on Internet. I've done a comic, a book and an activity to find the pairs.

I love this class because I have learnt new resources that I think are very useful and entertaining. I feel very enthusiastic while the teacher tell us what she do in class with her children because all is very creative.

What I've learnt today is that Google Earth is a very helpful resource for teaching children because they enjoy a lot while they are learning. We can visit London, Sweeden, Spain... while we stay in class. Besides I've learnt new web pages on Internet that I am looking forward to use.

We can see images like this on Google Earth:

15/10/2015

In this class we've listened more examples of songs for children from pre-primary to primary education and some links of web pages where we can find too many examples to practice with songs (For example Lyrics training). Afterthat we've talked about chants (like songs) that consists on put rhythm on a sentence. Besides we've created a chant in groups. This is my chant:

Something is green,

what is green?

Peas are green

Something is orange

what is orange?

Parrot is orange

Something is red

what is red?

Apples are red

Something is yellow

what is yellow?

Lemon is yellow

Something is brown

what is brown?

Potatoes are brown

Finally we've seen a video about the digital competence related to education. It's very important that teachers and students know how to use new techonologies in class and outside of class because they improve all their skills.

This class has been productive and funny for me because I've discovered a website to learn English with songs.

What I've learnt today is that it's more interesting to teach something with a song, a chant or something like that because children can lose their attention if the lessons are very boring or if they doesn't understant anything (when we teach only theoretically).