this week, we have continued working on the Sea Animals topic in Year 1, together with our English phonics and every week’s questions and answers rounds and groupal games, so that the kids keep improving their communicating skills.
In the picture below, you can take a peek at one of this week’s activities, where every kid had to run, by turns, all over the class, singing some of the songs we already know (the days of the week, the numbers, the months, etc.) The rest of the kids sitting down had to help him/her, so that everyone participated and had a chance to revise their acquired knowledge with the group’s help.
We also started creating our own magical Sea Creature, by mising up two of our favorite sea animals! For example, we have created an Octo–Ray (octopus and manta ray), or a Jelly–Star (jellyfish and starfish) !!! Next week, we will make the English presentation of our creature, we are preparing such incredible drawings! Do you want to have a look at some of them?! 😉
Here you can find a funny guessing video to help them revise at home!
This week, the Green Class have been learning many things about the SeaAnimals!
We put into action several role play activities and games so that every kid had the opportunity to internalise the different contents at their own pace.
We also had time for some funny dancing while we imitated the different sea animals!
Finally, we watched an interesting video about sea animals and we talked about them, we loved it!:
We thought in this blog entry, we would help you explain to your parents what we have been working on in class recently. So….
Dear Year 2 Parents:
We have initiated a review of all the concepts that have been working on this year in Year 2. Of course a key part of our learning has centered on learning phonics and tricky words to initiate reading and writing abilities in English. We are pleased that everyone is progressing at their own rate! It is very exciting to see little readers growing and learning!
¡Hola, 2º!
Hemos pensado utilizar esta entrada del blog para ayudaros a explicar en casa lo que hemos estado trabajando en clase durante los últimos días, así que…
¡Hola, mamás y papás de 2º!
Hemos comenzado una revisión de todos los conceptos que hemos estado trabajando durante este curso. Por supuesto, una parte esencial de nuestro aprendizaje ha sido aprender los sonidos y las “tricky words” (palabras tramposas) para iniciar al alumnado en sus habilidades de lectoescritura en inglés. ¡Estamos muy contentas porque todo el mundo está avanzando a su propio ritmo! ¡Es emocionante ver a estos pequeños y pequeñas lectoras crecer aprendiendo!
Other themes that we have worked on this year include different places (through our celebration of European Day of Languages in September, our Mediterranean Culture Week, and the different international holidays and festivals we have celebrated.) Additionally, we have revised and added to our knowledge about food, transport, actions, the parts of the house, animals, and bodies.(It’s been a productive, fruitful year in English class!)
Otros temas que hemos trabajado este año incluyen diferentes lugares (a través de nuestra celebración del Día Europeo de las Lenguas en septiembre, nuestra Semana Cultural sobre el Mediterráneo, y las diferentes festividades internacionales que hemos celebrado).
Además, hemos revisado y añadido a nuestro conocimiento muchos conceptos relacionados con la comida, el transporte, las acciones, las partes de la casa, los animales, y nuestro cuerpo. (¡Ha sido un curso muy fructífero y productivo en clase de inglés!)
For our SUPER REVISION activity, we began by reading Harold and the Purple Crayon! This classic book written by Crockett Johnson in 1955 is still relevant and magical today! The book is about Harold, who takes his supersize purple crayon to dream and draw his many adventures in the moonlight. We discussed the book, and then asked the students what color crayon they would use to take them on an adventure! Of course, their adventure included saying what transport they used, places they visited, food they ate, and animals that they saw. What a fun excuse to put our learning to good use!
Para nuestra actividad de SUPER REVISIÓN, empezamos a leer Harold and the Purple Crayon (Harold y el lápiz morado)Este clásico libro escrito por Crockett Johnson en 1955 sigue siendo relevante y mágico aún hoy en día. El libro nos habla de Harold, que coge su lápiz de color morado y con él dibuja y sueña sus muchas aventuras bajo la luz de la luna.
Primero hablamos sobre el libro, y luego hicimos ronda de preguntas para averiguar qué color elegirían para crear su propia aventura. Por supuesto, su aventura debía incluir los lugares que visitarían, qué medio de transporte utilizarían, la comida que comerían y los animales que verían. ¡Qué excusa más divertida para poner en buena práctica todos nuestros conocimientos!
Finally, after discussing our adventures, we set to the task of reading and writing our own fill-in-the-gap books. Here are some examples of a few pages the students created:
Finalmente, después de charlar de nuestras aventuras, pasamos a la tarea de leer y escribir nuestro propio libro personalizándolo a nuestra manera. Aquí tenéis algunos ejemplos de algunas de las páginas que han creado:
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You can watch this delightful story together with your children by clicking below! We hope you enjoy it and that your child will tell you about the adventure they chose to write! You will see their creations at the end of the term!
Podéis ver esta deliciosa historia con los peques haciendo clic en el enlace de abajo. ¡Esperamos que la disfrutéis y que vuestro hijo o hija os cuente la aventura que eligió escribir! ¡Veréis sus creaciones al final del trimestre!
We hope you enjoy the story and your weekend!
Esperamos que disfrutéis la historia y también vuestro fin de semana.
During this week, we have continued working on BUGS! The children can now identify and name some of them, and sort them according to their color or size.
One day, they fancied playing with the hoops, so we had a VERY FUNNY session of physical activity in English, using some action verbs (jump / go / stop / sit down / stand up), our class BUGS and the hoops!
We also had time for relay races and singing some songs!
