2ºA Body and Christmas

Hello!
Today in 2ºA lesson we revised the five senses with a simple matching exercise but with Christmas pictures. The pictures were the following:

Senses from salanabela

Afterwards we talked about basic daily hygyien tasks as having bath, brushing the teeth, washing hands and face... We talked about this because it's related to the theme body and the topic they are learning in Estudo do Meio. I made a version of the song "This is the way..."

 but I added the character Santa Claus, as we're near Christmas
 The lyrics are very simple 
This is the way Santa Claus brushes the teeth
brushes the teeth
brushes the teeth

 This is the way Santa Claus brushes the teeth, in the morning

 This is the way Santa Claus washes the face
washes the face
washes the face

 This is the way Santa Claus washes the face, in the morning 

This is the way Santa Claus washes the hands
 washes the hands
 washes the hands
 This is the way Santa Claus washes the hands,  in the morning

 This is the way Santa Claus has a bath
 has a bath
 has a bath
 This is the way Santa Claus has a bath, in the morning.

We've also started to make our Christmas tree but I don't have the picture yet, I'll post it here tomorrow .

family competition - 4A ( I scream you scream...)

Hello!
A week ago I told my 4th graders to start a competition with their older brothers or sister, not any competition but a healthy  tongue twister competition.The tongue twister not only train pronunciation but develop reading and speaking skills as the practice of it stimulates the brain. As someone recites that twister over and over, your brain listens and processes the  sounds and tries to recreate it again and again until this twister is established it becomes a habit.

The first tongue twister was "I scream you scream we all scream for ice cream" :)
The second tongue twister is "Elizabeth's birthday is on the third thursday of this month"

Here are some results

Há uma semana disse aos meus alunos do 4º ano para começarem uma competição com os seus irmãos ou irmãs mais velhos, não uma competição qualquer mas uma saudável competição de trava línguas.Os trava línguas não só treinam a pronúncia como também desenvolvem as capacidades orais e de leitura pois a sua prática estimula o cérebro. Quando alguém recita o tal trava línguas vezes sem conta, o cérebro ouve  e processa os sons e tenta recreá-los vezes sem conta até o trava línguas se tornar um hábito.

O primeiro trava línguas foi "I scream you scream we all scream for ice cream" :)
O segundo foi :"Elizabeth's birthday is on the third thursday of this month"

Aqui estão alguns resultados.

See you soon ;)
The teacher

Thanksgiving -3rd graders

Hello!
Yesterday was Thanksgiving day and so last week  I started speaking about that to students.
They've watched some slides and a video about it.

Click on the link to see the slides:

http://prezi.com/lsywlv7j19gi/copy-of-thanksgiving/?utm_source=share&utm_campaign=shareprezi&utm_medium=email

 

the video:

 

 

The video also taught the students a song that helps them memorize the history of thanksgiving.

 

Ontem foi o Thanksgiving e na semana passada comecei a falar sobre esta festividade aos alunos.

Estes assistiram a alguns slides com a história por detrás da festividade do Thanksgiving e viram um video também.

 

 



 

 

Thanksgiving joke

What is the best thing to put into a pumpkin pie?

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your teeth ;)

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 What's the key to a great Thanksgiving dinner?
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 The turKEY

Story time - " Go away big green monster" - 1ºA

Hello!
Yesterday, 1ºA had a surprise, my little friend, the owl "uggla" visited them and told them a story " Go away big green monster"

 

 

This story is very good to teach the parts of the face ( hair, eyes, nose,ears, mouth, teeth) and some adjectives and colours related ( big, small, green, blue, yellow...) but it also taught them some expressions as "go away", "don't come back", "I'm not scared"...

 

 

Afterwards  they made a monster and pasted the parts of the face as I retold them the story.

 

 

Go away big green monster, 1ºA is not scared !!!

 

Spelling and writing -3ºA and 3ºB

Hello!
On Mondays the 3rd graders only have 45 minutes lesson so it's always difficult to think about what to do  as my fellow teachers will agree, 45 minutes pass by really fast.
So today the 3rd graders only had two activities but in my opinion it was a very productive lesson.
As I wanted to finish the family and physical appeareance topics we had a spelling competion:
two volunteers had to use the letters I gave them to form the word I told them , the rest of the class had to write the word on their notebooks.The first student to finish would have to spell out loud the word, the other volunteer would sit down and I called another student to challenge the previous winner. This activity was challenging and fun to all students and there were no students distracted as all wanted to be correct and have the chance to use the colourful letters.

(ps: o aluno na 1ª imagem com um livro diferente é um aluno que veio para a sala porque a docente faltou e como tal a atividade que estava a fazer era diferente)

 

The second activity was to put words in order so they could build a sentence. I wrote the words on the board and students copy them to their notebook and after that they built the sentences.

 

 

ex : tall/is/mother

 

The mother is tall.

 

 

are/brothers/short/my

 

My brothers are short.

 

Once again I used the competion as a motivation factor.The first ones to finish the sentences correctly came to the board and wrote the sentence and at the end of the lesson the winners had two stamps as a prize :) 

Na segunda-feira os alunos do 3º ano têm apenas 45 minutos de aula e é sempre difícil pensar sobre o que fazer porque como os meus colegas professores concordarão, 45 minutos passam realmente rápido. Assim hoje os alunos tiveram somente duas atividades mas na minha opinião foi uma aula muito produtiva. Como eu queria terminar o tema família e aspeto físico nós tivemos uma competição de soletrar: dois voluntários tiveram que usar as letras que eu as dei para dar forma a palavra eu lhes disse, o resto da turma teve que escrever a palavra nos seus cadernos. O primeiro aluno a terminar teria que soletrar alto a palavra, o outro voluntário sentar-se-ia e eu chamava outro aluno para desafiar o vencedor anterior. Esta atividade era desafiante e divertida e não houve alunos distraídos pois todos queriam estar corretos e ter a possibilidade de usar as letras coloridas.

A segunda atividade era ordenar palavras para construir frases. Eu escrevi as palavras no quadro e os alunos copiaram para o seu caderno e em seguida construíram as frases.

ex: tall/is/mother

Mother is tall.

Usei de novo a competição como um fator de motivação. Os primeiros a terminar as frases vieram ao quadro escrever a frase e no fim da aula os vencedores tiveram dois carimbos como prémio:)

Halloween - 3º A

Hello!
On the 31st October 3ºA had a different lesson because it was HALLOWEEN.
They played two games, "grab the ghost"  in which some of them had a ghost made of paper tissues and one member of the group was the monster and was tryng to catch the ghosts.To do that the monster had to say two numbers between one and six and roll the dice; if it landed in one of his numbers he could try to catch a ghost.If he succeeded the ghost would have to give him a card and describe the picture in the card.

 

 

The other game that the class played was "Witch stew" in which they had some cards with Halloween symbols or characters .The teacher placed the cards in a pile beside two  small bowls.Using the straw as a vacuum, each student in each group  tries to pick up a card and place it in the group bowl to create the Witch's Stew. who got all ten in the bowl the fastest? ;)Afterwards they had to say what was in their stew 

 

No dia 31 de Outubro O 3ºA teve uma aula diferente porque era HALLOWEEN.  Jogaram dois jogos, “Agarra o fantasma” no qual alguns alunos tinham fantasmas feitos do lenços de papel e um membro do grupo era o monstro e tentava apanhar os fantasmas. Para fazer isso o monstro tinha de dizer dois números entre um e seis e lançar o dado; se saísse um de seus números poderia tentar apanhar um fantasma. Se conseguisse apanhar o fantasma, este teria de dar-lhe um cartão e descrever a imagem no cartão.

O outro jogo que a turma jogou foi  “witch stew” no qual os alunos tinham alguns cartões com símbolos ou personagens de Halloween. O professor colocou os cartões num montinho ao lado de duas bacias pequenas. Usando palhinhas como aspirador, cada aluno de cada grupo tenta aspirar um cartão e colocá-lo na bacia do grupo para criar o guisado/ensopado. Quem colocou os dez cartões na bacia mais rápido? No final os alunos tinham de dizer o que estava no seu guisado/ensopado ;)

 



 

bats and vampires in coffins - 4ºA

Hello!
For Halloween the 4th grade decorated the classroom with bats and coffins with vampires.
The materials needed are very simple and not expensive,
for the bats :
black cardboard, crayons a piece of white paper(to make a speech bubble)

for the coffins and vampires:
a box of matches
EVA foam
white paper or cardboard ( to draw the vampire)
crayons

 

 

We've also had a skeleton hunt ( a mix of scavenger hunt and peddy paper) and besides me and the students, the  teachers Fátima, Rosalina and Marco and  our friend Gisela helped in this skeleton hunt.

 



 

1st grade halloween -

 

Last Tuesday the 1st grade students sang the song "Go away big green monster" and played a game in which one of them had to hide behind a witch poster and repeat some Halloween rhymes as

 

The witch turned the bat into a green cat

The wizard turned a ghost into a piece of toast

The warlock turned the dog into a big fat frog

 

The rest of the class had to draw what they were hearing

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

Afterwards we made some cute halloween bookmarks: