I hope you are doing well! We are almost entering the final stretch of the school year and our little learners from the Orange Class have enjoyed all the activities during the last weeks.
We did not want to miss the opportunity to benefit our garden and park to learn and study the spring and the bugs and all the natural events that the spring brought to us.
We played games, made role-plays and we had to “fish” the insects as well in the class! (Fake insects, by the way).
We also made a spring scavenger hunt in our park! It was so funny and we found out many spring elements such as puddle, ants, leafs and sunshine.
Here some songs they love to mimic and dance:
Then we had to prepare ourselves to visit the school farm so we started learning more about the farm animals in English: sheep, cow, pig, rabbit, duck, cat, horse, dog…
We played several games to identify which animals live in the farm and which animals live in the jungle or in the sea…
We read some books about farm animals and sing along many songs!
Our Orange class is willing to learn, it is incredible!
Old McDonald’s farm has also been a central key to us during this topic so we sing his song along together during all our English lessons. We also had a “stick farm” to hide the farm animals inside and let the other kids in the class guess our hidden animal using sounds! It was really funny!
Steve and Maggie’s videos seem to be so interesting for our kids so we used this one to learn more facts about farm animals:
During the next weeks, we will be focus on the summer topic, getting ready for our holidays 🙂
And… Last but not least… we are glad to announce you that we have started our learning about phonics in English while dancing and singing along with the song below!
https://youtu.be/FHfp3ZAUeqw
We love start or finish our English lessons with this song and playing fun games while learning how to pronounce the phonics in English!
These past weeks have been amazing getting to know your kids!
We now know each other very well as we spend a lot of time together during the week for our English classes and I see them in the park every day, as well.
Below is a summary for you of what we have learned from the end of February in the Green Class.
We started our connection during the Carnival week at Alqueria and we made our own animal masks to dress up!
We have also revised the numbers that we previously knew and we also learned new ones until 20 through different games and songs. They love to sing along!
We have played a bingo game and we also done a «number hunt». We had a good time!
Also, we have been using Jolly Phonics to learn and practice the letters sound in English and they love to sing the songs related to these sounds while doing the actions!
We are even able to recognize some of the sounds and to turn them into letters, wow!!
Our kids on the Green Class have built a di with the sounds of the 1st Group and played a game using it.
We use Jolly Phonics when we have difficulties with a particular sound or word in English to make it easier to our little learner ears!
Our next topic was a very interesting story about a Brown Bear. He sees a loooooot of things, including a teacher! It make us laugh at each time that we read aloud the book together.
https://youtu.be/WST-B8zQleM
We have played role games with some head bands and done a play using puppets. It has been so much fun!
During these last days, we have been putting into practise all that we have learned about animals in the Red Class, focusing on the Sea animals, but also revising previous vocabulary!
Through games, we keep learning new verbs, actions, we get familiar with the words that we already know… And, of course, we enjoy so much in class!
Next week, we will start learning about Summer and the beach, so here you are a video to start with, if you like… 😉
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.
This week, the Green Class had so much fun during the English lesson!
We practised our communicating skills by talking between us and with the teacher about the animals, the greetings, the days of the week and the calendar…
Can you guess the word when the music stops?
We also spent some time playing funny games in group!
Finally, we went to La Vega and could put into practise some of the words we had learned (chicken, rooster, ladybug, butterfly…)
