7 Reasons educators/teachers should blog

Hello!
Here's some of the reasons to have a blog if you are a teacher:


http://www.ictineducation.org/home-page/2012/12/28/7-reasons-educators-should-blog.html

Merry Christmas !!!

Dear students and students' families, have a wonderful Christmas!!

Queridos alunos e respectivas famílias votos de um Natal maravilhoso !!!

ps: falta um r em "Merry"

Audio postcards - Voki- 3ºA

Hello!
Last lesson I recorded my students Christmas messages to their loved ones and we used the Voki.com to make audio postcards.
Here are some of  the results:
Na aula passada gravei as mensagens de Natal dos meus alunos do 3ºA para os seus entes queridos e para isso usamos o VOKI.COM e fizemos postais audio visuais . Ficam aqui alguns  resultados, uma vez que não consigo publicá-los a todos Cliquem nos videos e encontrem a  mensagem do vosso familiar:)

Merry Christmas! Feliz Natal!

My Christmas tree - 4th A

Hello! 
Here's the song 4th A is learning in the english lessons

Aqui está a canção que o 4ºA está a aprender nas aulas de inglês.

Lyrics:
Christmastime means laughter
To buckets in the snow ,
Caroling together
With faces of Love

Stockings on the mantel,
A wreath on the door
And my Merriest Christmas
Means just one thing more

Christmas Tree,
My Christmas Tree,
Lit up like a star;
When I see my Christmas tree,
Can loved ones be far?

Christmas Tree, I'm certain
Wherever I roam ,
The glow from your branches
Will light my way home.

Ornaments collected
From every Christmas night,
Memories reflected
Through tin-sel and light;

Gratefully we gather
As ever before
To rejoice in the season
And sing out once more.

Christmas Tree,
My Christmas Tree,
Lit up like a star;
When I see my Christmas tree,
Can loved ones be far?

Christmas Tree, I'm certain
Wherever I roam,
The glow from your branches
Will light my way home.

It's Christmas!
It's Christmas
And I'm going home!

Christmas trees

Hello!
Here are some examples of Christmas trees my students made

 - 3rd grade

 - 1st and 2nd grade

 - 4th grade

 - 4th grade

Blog new look

Hello!
Do you like the new look of the blog? This is an artist work from the illustrator and designer Charlotte Vallance. I'm a fan of her work since I saw this picture in her blog.
 http://charlottevallance.blogspot.pt/2012/05/best-of-british.html

She was very kind and let me use this picture in the blog. Thank you Charlotte Vallance :)

Gostam do novo aspecto do blog ? É um trabalho artístico da ilustradora e designer Charlotte Vallance. Sou uma fã do seu trabalho desde que vi esta foto no seu blog.
Ela foi muito generosa e deixou-me usar a imagem no blog. Obrigada Charlotte Vallance :)

Countries and nationalities - football players poster - 4ºA

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Last week I asked the 4th graders to make a poster with a world map and  some football players on the countries where they play. They would also have to make speech bubbles next to the football players and complete the sentences " I'm ___________(nationality), I play football in _________(country).I told them to do this with some help from their family.

Here are some results

Last Tuesday students presented their map and introduced the football players they chose. 

Semana passada pedi aos alunos do 4º ano que fizessem um poster com um mapa e com jogadores de futebol nos países em que estes jogam. Eles tinham de colocar balões de fala junto aos jogadores e completar as frases :" I'm ___________(nationality), I play football in _________(country). Disse aos alunos para fazerem o trabalho com ajuda dos familiares.

Ficam aqui alguns resultados.

Na passada terça-feira os alunos apresentaram o mapa e os jogadores que escolheram.

Froggy gets dressed and students dress up their dolls-3ºB

Hello!
Last week, 3rd graders listened to the story "Froggy gets dressed" and afterwards they played a game in which I told them Put on...(an clothes item) or take off...(clothes item) and they had to stick the precise clothes item I mentioned on froggy.

The following lesson they made a doll and dressed it up, afterwards they had to tell what their doll was wearing.

Semana passada , os alunos do 3º ano ouviram o conto "Froggy gets dressed"e depois participaram num jogo em que eu lhes dizia "Put on...(uma peça de vestuário)  ou Take off... (uma peça de vestuário) . Eles tinham de colar ou descolar peças de roupa no personagem do conto, o Froggy .

Na segunda aula da semana passada fizeram um boneco com roupas e depois tiveram de descrever o vestuário escolhido.

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