House origami - 3ºC

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After the song "Scooby doo where are you?", in this lesson I told students a story called "Where is Felix?", a story in which Sandra was looking for Felix, the cat ,all over the house ;)
 Afterwards I taught them how to make a house origami and they decorated it and drew the different parts of the house

Reading time with the family -

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Some months ago I decided to implement a project that we (me and students) called "english library".It works as a regular library: students have membership cards,

Each week one student takes a story home and reads it to their family.After that they have to fill in their book review and the family member that listens to the story has to fill in a reading review as well (adapted from Duarte, Alexandra, APPI journal ,Spring Issue, 2012, p.21)

This is a way to develop reading skills , motivation to read, make the family part of the students learning process and create a reading time at home as well.

Origami T-SHIRT and mini clothes book

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Have I ever told you how great  my students are? Well, one of these days , some weeks ago, I decided to start the theme clothes in one of my classes with an origami of a T-shirt. After teaching students how to fold the paper into a T-shirt I taught them a song and some new vocabulary, It was then that they had a GREAT idea: why not use the origami to make a book about clothes, with the new vocabulary and the new song? What a GREAT idea!!!

Já vos disse o quão fantásticos são os meus alunos? Bem, um destes dias, há umas semanas, decidi iniciar o tema vestuário ensinando a fazer um origami de T-shirt . Depois de os ensinar a fazer o origami, ensinei uma canção e novo vocabulário. Foi então que eles tiveram uma ideia FANTÁSTICA: fazer um mini livro sobre vestuário a partir do origami de T-shirt , com o vocabulário e canção novos. Que ideia FANTÁSTICA!!!

"Scooby dooby doo, where are you?" - 3rd grade

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Last lesson 3rd grade have learnt about the parts of the house. One of the exercises was an adpatation of the Scooby doo song with a game.

Na aula passada o 3º ano aprendeu acerca das partes da casa.Um dos exercícios foi uma adaptação da canção do Scooby doo juntamente com um jogo.

Scooby dooby doo
where are you?
We've got some work to do now
Scooby dooby doo
where are you?
We need some help from you now
Come on Scooby doo I see you
You're in the ____________ (bedroom, bathroom, living room dining room, kitchen, basement)

Tongue twisters

Hello! This is something I did with one of my classes: try to guess the tongue twister from the pictures. Have a look and have a try and then post a comment with  your guess :) It's a challenge

Isto é algo que fiz com uma das minhas turmas: adivinhar o trava - línguas a partir de imagens. Vejam e tentem e depois coloquem o vosso palpite num comentário;) É um desafio

B4

APPINEP - sharing practice na Maia

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Para aqueles que estiveram no workshop "Bright eyes bushy tails" , ainda este fim de semana vou colocar todos as actividades da minha apresentação, inclusivamente aquelas que não houve tempo para apresentar.
Mais uma vez obrigada por terem estado presentes!

Vou deixar aqui os títulos das actividades, depois é só procurar as actividades no blog pelo nome (lista do lado esquerdo, podem ter de procurar no link 2011, algumas actividades já são do ano passado)

- Crown origami
- Fruit salad - guess the food
- Guess the story from words
- ABC, what word? tell me (foi apresentado no workshop,mas ainda não está descrito aqui)
- Scooby dooby doo, where are you? - parts of the house
- Change a song  - a partir da canção "When Goldilocks went to the house of the bears"
 - Clothes drawing contest (ainda hoje estará descrito aqui no blog)
 - Twist on the board ( apresentado no workshop e em breve aqui e na APPI magazine)
 - Play by ear ( keyboard + revision game - foi apresentado no workshop)
 - Put on/Take off (está no link "Froggy gets dressed" aqui no blog)
 - skeleton contest
 - They're (pea)nuts for this game (em breve descrito aqui no blog e na APPI magazine)
 - Tongue twisters
 - Your sentence rings a bell (em breve aqui descrito e na APPI magazine)
 - Chant reading ( no link do blog "Pull my grandad's shoe")
 - Try or loose (no link do blog " healthy food testing")
 - Cup cake day
 - Heart compliments ( ainda hoje estará descrito aqui no blog)
 - English library and family reading time (em breve descrito aqui e na APPI magazine)

Water cycle -cross curricular activity - 3ºB

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Last lesson , in 3ºB lesson we talked about something a little bit different. They were learning about weather and clothes but to articulate english with estudo do meio,  we talked about the water cycle.

This was the video we watched

Na aula passada, no 3ºB falamos de algo um pouco diferente. Estavam até aí a aprender o tempo e o vestuário, mas para articular as disciplinas inglês e estudo do meio, abordamos o ciclo da água.

Este é o video que assistimos:

http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/studyjams/water_cycle/


We've also  made a water cycle spinner
Também fizemos uma roleta do ciclo da água

"What's the weather like today?" -1ºB

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Yesterday was a very special day for 1ºB , they've won tickets to go to the Lisbon zoo :) Hoooray!!

In my opinion they've won the competition  specially because they are wonderful kids, they have an amazing TIC teacher: Cristina, and they have very special and motivated parents :) Congratulations 1ºB, Cristina and 1ºB parents!

Let's move on so I can tell you about the english lesson :)

Yesterday we started a new theme: weather . First we played a guess game  with weather drawings on the board, then they learned different answers to the question "What is the weather like?" (It's sunny, It's cloudy, It's rainy, It's snowy, It's windy). We played kim's board game in which they had to close their eyes while the teacher erased one of the weather symbols/drawings on the board, then they had to open their eyes and say which picture was missing.The game continued until there were no pictures on the board and students had to remember the five  kinds of weather.

It's snowy  
       
It's cloudy

It's sunny


It's windy



It's rainy


Finally students learned a new song "What's the weather like today?" 

What's the weather like today?
It's rainy, it's rainy
What's the weather like today?
It's rainy today


What's the weather like today?
It's snowy, it's snowy
What's the weather like today?
It's snowy today


What's the weather like today?
It's sunny, it's sunny
What's the weather like today?
It's sunny today


What's the weather like today?
It's windy, it's windy
What's the weather like today?
It's windy today

Where are you from? - 4ºC

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Today I started to teach a new theme to the 4th grade : Countries and nationalities.
Sometimes the simpliest way is the best and so I decided to use just to materials in this lesson: paper and a world map


First I showed them a map similar to this one and elicit some of the countries names, than I asked them what did all the countries marked on the map had in common( in the map I showed them in each countries there was a flag). Some of them noticed that the flag from Australia had a part similar to the British Flag


And finally they noticed that all the countries marked on the map were english speaking countries.

Than teacher said I'm from Portugal, so I'm Portuguese and pointed to the man in England and asked: If he is from England he is...? (Answer: English) I elicited all the nationalities and they repeated them. The most difficult were Wales-Welsh, Ireland - Irish ;)

Than I gave the tiny bits of paper, in some of them it was a sentence with a country , for example "I'm from Ireland" and in the others there were sentences with nationalities, for example "I'm Irish". First students had to stand up and find their matching pair just by looking and reading the papers of their colleagues. The second time we played the same game but they traded their papers with other colleagues and some of them had to find their matching pairs by asking "Where are you from?" (this time they couldn't look at their colleagues paper). The third time they had to ask "What's your nationality?" to find their matching pair.
We had great fun and I'm sure they really learned in a ludic and more realistic way.(in the real world if they want to know the nationality of someone they have to know these questions they practised today)

To finish the lesson we talked a little bit about the history of the Union Jack , the British flag

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