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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Can I cross the river mr crocodile? game - 1ºB

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Last lesson as a lot of students missed the lesson due to provas de aferição, I decided to revise the theme animals. So we played a game called "Can I cross the river Mr crocodile? , in which students imagine that they were on one side of a river and the teacher was a crocodile.They had a card with a picture of one animal and in order to cross the river they had to ask "Can I cross the river Mr crocodile?" and the "Crocodile" had to say "Only the _______(name of one animal, for example cat).The students with the picture of a cat should try to pass the crocodile without being caught.

After that the students watched an episode of "Tom and Jerry" and revised some vocabulary related to animals and parts of the body.

Finally students  draw Tom the cat in a paper and created an origami hat with that paper.

Na aula passada, como muitos alunos faltaram, devido a provas de aferição, decidi rever o tema “animais”. Assim nós jogamos um jogo chamado "Can I cross the river Mr crocodile?”, em que os alunos imaginaram que estavam  num lado de um rio e a professora era um crocodilo. Eles tinham um cartão com uma foto de um animal e de modo a  atravessar o Rio, tinham que perguntar "Can I cross the river Mr crocodile?" e o "Crocodilo" tinha de dizer "Only the  ______ (nome de um animal,  gato por exemplo).Os alunos com a imagem de um gato deviam  tentar passar pelo crocodilo sem ser apanhados.  

Depois os alunos assistiram um episódio de "Tom e Jerry" e foi feita uma revisão de algum vocabulário relacionado aos animais e partes do corpo.  Finalmente os alunos desenharam Tom, o gato num papel e criaram um chapéu de origami com esse papel.

(esta imagem foi retirada do site rainbow resources)

School - have you got a______? 3ºC

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Last lesson one of the exercises was to draw some school materials and in pairs ask "Have you got a _____?" in order to find which materials their classmate had in his/her worksheet. Students also practised the question "Could you lend me a ______?" with the same worksheet.

Na aula passada um dos exercícios foi desenhar materiais escolares e em pares perguntar "Have you got a ____?" de forma a descobrir quais os materiais que o colega tinha na sua ficha/folha. Os alunos também praticaram a questão "Could you lend me a _______?" com a mesma ficha.

questionário sobre impacto do blog

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Desde já obrigada.Thank you!
Teacher Anabela

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"Mommy I love you" song 1ºB and C

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Here's the original song from which I decided to teach a little part to my two 1st year classes. I think it's lovely and I hope the mother's enjoyed listening to their kids singing it.

Aqui está a canção original da qual eu retirei uma pequena parte para ensinar às turmas do 1º ano. Eu considero a canção maravilhosa e espero que as mães tenham gostado de ouvir os filhos a cantá-la. :)

"Mommy, mommy I love you mommy
No chores for you today
Bear hugs and kisses to show how I feel
I love you mommy dear!"

Mother's day recipe book- 3º ano

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I hope the mother's from the two 3rd year classes enjoyed their present, the recipe book. 3ºC didn't had time to copy the recipes in the two languages, but I promise that they will copy the recipes in portuguese too next week :)

Here is some photos of two of the recipe books:)

Traditions: 1st of May - May day

The first day of the month of May is known as May Day. It is the time of year when warmer weather begins and flowers and trees start to blossom. It is said to be a time of love and romance. It is when people celebrate the coming of summer with lots of different customs that are expressions of joy and hope after a long winter. 

Traditional English May Day celebrations include Morris dancing, crowning a May Queen and dancing around a Maypole.

O 1º dia do mês é conhecido como May Day . É a altura do ano em que o tempo mais quente começa e as flores e árvore começam a desabrochar. É dito que é o tempo do amor e romance. É quando as pessoas celebram a vinda do Verão com diferentes costumes que são expressão de alegria e esperança após o longo Inverno.

O May Day tradicional inglês  inclui celebrações como (1.)Morris Dancing, (2.)coroar a rainha de Maio e (3.)dançar à volta do Maypole.

Ps: Em Portugal parece que o tempo de Verão ainda está bem longe, por isso alegremos a vista com estas tradições  interessantes e que nos fazem lembrar de alturas do ano mais solarengas :)

"Who let the pets out?" song - 1º C

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As 1st graders are learning about pets, this week song is an adaption of the well known song "Who let the dogs out?" by Baha men.
The lyrics of the song I taught 1ºC yesterday and I will taught 1ºB next week is the  following:

Como os alunos do 1º ano estão a aprender os animais de estimação, a canção desta semana é uma adaptação que eu fiz á conhecida canção dos Baha Men "Who let the dogs out"
A letra da minha adaptação, que só ensinei, por enquanto ao 1ºC, é a seguinte:

Who let the pets out?

Who let the dog out?
woof, woof, woof
Who let the dogs out?
woof, woof, woof

Who let the cats out?
Meow, meow, meow
Who let the cats out?
Meow, meow, meow

Who let the birds out?
Chirp, chirp, chirp
Who let the birds out?
Chirp, chirp, chirp

Who let the hamsters out?
hiii, hiii, hiii
Who let the hamsters out?
hiii, hiii, hiii

Who let the fish out?
Pop, pop, pop
Who let the fish out?
Pop, pop, pop "

ps: Esta canção era para ter sido ensinada também ao 1ºB esta semana,mas devido à demora com outros trabalhos, os quais não podemos contar às mamãs;) tivemos de adiar. Para a semana também o 1ºB irá aprender "Who let the pets out?" 

story "Taking care of mom" - 3ºC

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Last lesson 3ºC listened to a delightful story called "Take care of mom" by Gina and Mercer Mayer

Before listening to the story I wrote some important words from the story: mom, dad, grandma, sick, eat breakfast, chips, get dressed, sister, spill the jar, bed, sandwich, puppy, box of tissues, toys, clean up take care. After discussing the meaning of the words and expressions, through gestures, descriptions and drawings, students tried to guess what was going to happened in the story. Some ideas were:

“Puppy spill the jar”  

“Grandma is fun”

“Mom clean up”

“Dad eats breakfast”

“Puppy eat sandwich”

Etc… Apart from the grammar mistakes (not to worry) it was interesting to listen to their guesses and imagination ;)

When they listened to the story for the first time, they had to check if their first guess was right or not, a simple task because I think a story is something to first of all to enjoy. The second time they’ve listened to the story, they had to order the words previously given. While correcting this task I asked them some questions about the story, for example: “Who spilled the jar?”, “Who made the sandwich?”, “What were the tissues for?”

Na aula passada o 3ºC ouviu uma história maravilhosa chamada "Taking care of mom" de Gina e Mercer Mayer . Antes de ouvir a história eu escrevi algumas palavras importantes da mesma no quadro: mom, dad, grandma, sick, eat breakfast, chips, get dressed, sister, spill the jar, bed, sandwich, puppy, box of tissues, toys, clean up take care. Depois de discutir o significado das palavras e expressões, através de gestos, de descrições e desenhos, os alunos tentaram adivinhar o que estava iria acontecer na história. Algumas ideias foram: “Puppy spill the jar”

“Grandma is fun”

“Mom clean up”

“Dad eats breakfast”

“Puppy eat sandwich”

etc... Tirando os erros de gramática (não muito preocupantes nesta fase) foi interessante ouvir as suas suposições e imaginação;)  Quando eles ouviram a história pela  primeira vez ,tinham que verificar  se sua primeira suposição estava certa ou não, uma tarefa simples porque eu acho que uma história é algo que antes de mais deve ser para apreciar/desfrutar. A segunda vez que ouviram a história, tinham que ordenar as palavras anteriormente dadas. Enquanto corrigia a tarefa , fui fazendo algumas questões sobre o conto, por exemplo: “Who spilled the jar?”, “Who made the sandwich?”, “What were the tissues for?”

I love this story and I think students loved it too