miércoles, 25 de febrero de 2009

Come to my festival.

Would you like to learn a new dance? well students made a great job by inviting everyone to their dance festival, each student made a dance festival poster to invite everyone to assist, students presented their posters in a very unique way, they tried everything to sell their event to their classmates, this activity was good because they had a need, the need made students invite everyone to their festival and the urge of use of the language used in this activity was great because most of it came out of them, their invitations were sincere and self-expressive.

Competence based learning
-Skills: Conmunicative (creativity for publicity)
-Knowledge: To speak in public
-Values: Friendship / Risk-takers / Knowledgeable

Paper Aiplanes



Flying and writing, that's how the 4th grade students were working in this activity, moving up and down, meausiring, calculating, counting, gathering information and writing on their information charts the details about their flights of their paper airplanes. This activity was interactive, dynamic, fun and informative, students decorated their paper airplanes, followed instructions by logging on the web to a paper airplane web page that had the steps on how to make paper airplanes, students used a "technology based approach"(computer/internet) to learn new things and practice the language, all this by visiting and web page, reading the web page information and using vanguard tools as a computer and printer to do their task.

Competence based learning
-Abilities & Skills: Writing & Measuring
-Knowledge: Mathematics
-Values: Sharing information / Inquirers / Reflective

miércoles, 11 de febrero de 2009

Super Reading & Power Instructions

Super Reading.

Today's class requiere more experience and significance approaching as a real experience inside the classroom for kids to really learn.

The superspeed reading game provide a simple, extremely and entertaining way to help students improve their reading speed, skills and vocabulary knowledge.

Power Instructions.
In our classroom we use fun dynamics and techniques to keep an order inside, like for example, if kids are noisy, the teachers says "1,2,3, SILENCE" then the teachers asks the class "what do you do? and finally the class makes a gesture with their hands and repeat the instruction given with a "yeah" at the end.
Teacher: 1,2,3, silence, what do you do?
Kids: Silence, (gesture) yeah!

Competence based learning
-Abilities & Skills: Reading and Phonics
-Knowledge: Vocabulary Usage
-Values: Teamwork / Well-balanced / Principled