Songs and Games for Weather and Clothes

Five year old kids are working about weather and clothes topics and they are learning these concepts with different songs and games with flashcards. We made up a song for that topic in the time that they were learning the vocabulary by trying to find out the name of the flashcards. And that is what the song says:

Song:

Look through the window
what do we need?
It's cold  (warm, hot, rainy, snowy)
I need
a scarf for me. (coat, boots, hat, jumper)

 

Halloween 2014 (This Blog got behind with Halloween but our School was on TIME!!!)

We Celebrated Halloween

A little bit of the story of Halloween:

Many americans celebrate Halloween on October 31. Celebrations include costume parties and trick-or-treating.

Halloween celebrations include costume parties where people dress as witches, ghosts, and animal figures associated with Halloween, or as fictitious characters from horror films, television shows or books. Costume parties are often held at people’s homes, a hired venue, or venues that are supposedly haunted.

Many schools around the world, including international schools, celebrate Halloween by hosting costume parades and award prizes for creative costumes. Schools also provide fun classroom activities such as bobbing for apples, Halloween-themed coloring or drawing contests, and other games associated with Halloween. Students also learn about the observance’s origins and history.

Many children dress in costumes and form groups that are accompanied by adults to embark on a trick-or-treating adventure. This activity involves children knocking on doors in their local neighborhood and requesting a trick or treat. Some people give out treats while others request a trick, which often involves children presenting a small joke or trick. Many homes are decorated to fit the Halloween theme during this period. Decorations include fake cobwebs, jack-o-lanterns and images of black cats or witches.

http://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/us/halloween

Lope de Vega school didn't want to miss Halloween Celebration this year again. So there were so many different activity that were done with the students. 

The doors of the buliding were covered with scary  faces:

Teachers were wearing spooky hats on Hallowen Celebration:

And a frightening play went on to perform on stage on Halloween Day, October 31st.

The children made chilling spells:

Teachers drew some kinds of ghastly posters:

              We will see you again,......next HALLOWEEN!!!

Red Colour with body parts

I have been working with the very youngest kids during last week and the current one, and it has been fun.

Kids got their face parts coloured with red face paint, they looked being happy with that activity. 

I decided to make a different version of the song so I could teach the colour red and the face parts:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a144ozGho-I

Red song

"Red, red, red
red, red, red.
I love red.
I love red.
I've got red
I've got red
red, red eyes
red, red eyes."  

Students learnt about how to say eyes, ears, nose and mouth, and they also learned where they could find them in their face. 

We can sing the song using other colours and other body parts.

"Fingers, nose, tummy, toes"

(Tune: 'Head, shoulders, knees and toes' song)

Fingers, nose, tummy, toes
Tummy, toes
Fingers, nose, tummy, toes
Tummy, toes
Fingers, nose and tummy and toes
Fingers, nose, tummy, toes
Tummy, toes.

The youngest children were singing this song using some cut outs of some body parts for their bodies. Once again, they had fun.

Show me your body!!

A four year old kids group did in turn a funny activity in which they asked the rest of the class to show some body parts like their hands, ears, nose and tummy.  

It was too much fun when the kids were repeating the whole sentence, It didn't sound like the one from the teacher; however, you could understand what they were trying to say. 

Our Favourite Dates in September and October

The students in Sixth Grade were talking about their favourite dates in English this month of September. Each one talked to their classmates and their teacher about some of their favourite dates all along the year. We are going to post each month so you can see what they said. Here you can take a look at the months of September and October. It is funny what they think about.

Hello,Goodbye Song for the youngest kids

 It is amazing how much fun a simple song can be for the kids and what you can do with that one.

    

The four and five year old students have been singing 'Hello, Goodbye' song of The Beatles for a week and they really enjoyed it, I also enjoyed singing with them, to be honest!!!

If you want to renew your soul, please sing a lot, and do it with the youngest students as well, you will see a big difference!!