End of the school year 2.015

This is the last entry of the blog this year. Classes have finished and summertime is here! Now, let's continue in Spanish, as this is for parents.

Las clases han terminado y ha llegado el momento del merecido descanso para nuestros peques. Pero como el verano es muy largo y hay lugar para todo, me gustaría comentaros algunas recomendaciones para estas vacaciones:

• Sería bueno repasar lo que han ido haciendo a lo largo del curso en los materiales de inglés: la libreta, el Activity Book, el Class Book y el Skills Book. 
• Si alguna familia consideráis oportuno trabajar también con algún cuadernillo de repaso, os recomiendo el de la editorial de los libros que llevamos: "Oxford Holiday English". Aunque os recuerdo que no es obligatorio, por eso tampoco lo vamos a trabajar luego a la vuelta a clase.
• Este blog recoge muchas de las tareas realizadas en clase, las vacaciones son un buen momento para recordarlas y practicar los juegos "on line" que nos permiten repasar de una manera más lúdica.
• Ahora probablemente se vea un poco más la tele, esto lo podemos aprovechar para ver programas o películas en inglés.
• Aunque en otras ocasiones lo he publicado también, os dejo este interesante artículo de la página de Oxford University Press, la editorial de los libros que utilizamos en clase.

• Pero, my recomendación más importante para estas vacaciones es:

     Aunque se publicarán también en la página del cole, os informo acerca de los libros del próximo curso, que serán los mismos que hemos trabajado este año, es decir:

• Big Surprise 1 (Editorial Oxford) Libro y cuadernillo, para 1º
• Big Surprise 2     "               "           "               "      , para 2º
• Big Surprise 3     "               "           "               "      , para 3º

... Y para terminar la última entrada del blog de este curso, me gustaría transmitiros mi agradecimiento por la implicación que en general mostráis en el proceso educativo de vuestros hijos. El trabajo conjunto hogar-escuela es el que mejores resultados da. También quiero agradeceros el afecto y ánimo que me mostráis en muchas ocasiones. Con eso y, sobre todo, las muestras de interés y entusiasmo de vuestr@s hij@s veo recompensado el tiempo y esfuerzo que le dedico al blog, este otro recurso didáctico que utilizo en mis clases.Y por supuesto :
Thank you very much to my students, I am really happy for having been your English teacher this year!!

3rd gradres sing "Here comes the sun" by The Beatles

Children in 3rdA and 3rdB ended their English classes singing this classical song by "The Beatles", full of optimism because of the return of the summer.
They did it really great, even if it was a bit difficult for them!!

Well done, girls and boys!!

2nd graders sing a song about holidays

Children in year 2 classes have been practicing words about holidays, and they learnt this cool song.
They are excellent singers!!
Great job, girls and boys!

1st graders sing unit 6 songs

Children in year 3 classes celebrated the begining of the summer holidays singing the song of the last unit.

They did it really great!!

A dolls house projects, by 2nd graders

Again, children in year 2 have made very cool projects about  dolls houses.
They are fantastic!
And this is the video I've made with them:

Food projects, by 1st graders

This time you've also done a great job on food projects! Congratulations!
Here they are:

Food projects, 1ºA

Food projects 1ºB:

Food project 1ºC:

"My bedrooms" projects, by 3rd graders

These are your projects. We've done a great job, as always!!

A summer song for 3rd grade

This is the video I've done with the great song "Here comes the sun" by "The Beatles"
I'm sure you'll love it!!

And this is the Karaoke vesion.
Let's have a great time singing this song!

A summer holidays song, for grade1

This is a very nice song by "Dream English Kids" about summer holidays:

Joe and Lucy's likes and dislikes

Let's watch this video where Lucy and Joe talk about food and their pet.

This video and its rights are property of Oxford University Press. 

The share in this blog has no commercial, but educational purposes.

Hokey-cokey song, for Grade 1

Let's have fun with this popular action song for children:

This video and its rights are property of Oxford University Press. 

The share in this blog has no commercial, but educational purposes.

A game for grammar review, year 3

These days we are working with all we've learnt during this year. Here's a funny game I found for reviewing verbs "have got, like and can", called "Million Pound Drop"

"Hansel and Gretel" play

In this video we can see some English children acting out this traditional tale:

This video and its rights are property of Oxford University Press. 

The share in this blog has no commercial, but educational purposes.

Holidays song for year 2

...and this is the song we are learning about holidays in Year 2:

Places to go to in the summer, for grade 2

These are two videos we are working on these days to practice the names of places to go during summer.
Where do you want to go this summer?

Unit 6 projects, grade 2

In this case children in year 2 are going to write down the instructions of the last project of the year, instead of just sticking the copy with those instructions. Anyway, as it is the first time, I give the explanations also here. And as this entry is aimed at parents, I continue in Spanish:

        Los niños y niñas de 2º  copiarán en sus libretas las instrucciones para realizar el último project. En esta ocasión dibujarán una casa de muñecas (como las que aparecen en sus libros) y en cada una de sus dependencias pondrán algunos de los personajes, animales, comida, ropa de los que hemos trabajado a lo largo del curso (en las páginas 70 y 71 del Class Book están las palabras más importantes que se han trabajado) Por último escribirán oraciones explicando lo que se ve, siguiendo la estructura:

The ______(object, animal, person ... ) is in the ________ (bedroom, kitchen ...) 

La fecha tope para entregarlo será el lunes 15 de junio.

I'm sure you'll do it great!!

Unit 6 projects, Grade 1

Children in year 1 are progressing on learning studying skills and this is why they are going to write down the instructions of the last project of the year, instead of just sticking the copy with those instructions. Anyway, as it is the first time, I give the explanations also here. And as this entry is aimed at parents, I continue in Spanish:
        Los niños y niñas de 1º  copiarán en sus libretas las instrucciones para realizar el último project. Como en otras ocasiones, tendrán que ilustar con dibujos, recortes, etc varias frases utilizando el vocabulario de la unidad (fruta y comida en general). Estas frases estarán formadas por la estructura "I like" (a mí me gusta) y "I don`t like" (a mí no me gusta). La fecha tope será el próximo lunes 15 de junio.

Come on!! You'll do it great!!

Numbers book for grade 2

2nd graders have been practicing numbers to 20 in unit 6. Here's a fantastic interactive numbers book to learn ALL numbers. You have to do only untill page 11 (then you can find numbers that we haven't studied yet!!)

End of unit 6, for grade 2

Children in year 2 are finishing Unit 6. So this week we are reviewing units 5 and 6 because next Monday 8th June, we are going to do the exam.

El próximo lunes 8 de junio, haremos el examen de las unidades 5 y 6 en 2ºC.

One of the review activities we are going to do is the practice of some traditional rhymes. I've used the ones from our books and I've made this video for you to practice them at home:

End of unit 6, for Grade 1

Children in year 1 are finishing Unit 6. So this week we are reviewing units 5 and 6 because next Monday 8th June, we are going to do the exam.

El próximo lunes 8 de junio, haremos el examen de las unidades 5 y 6 en las tres clases de 1º.

To review the vocabulary learnt in these units we are going to do some activities connected to "Shopping". One of them is this rap, with it I've made this video: