THE BEST WAY TO WORK WITH 8, 9, 10, 11 AND 12 YEARS OLD CHILDREN.

In college we have seen that to work with elementary students must perform more complex activities in which students are able to think for themselves, where the habit of reading is encouraged and use the new technologies to attract them. A good way to create projects are using ICT's like Glogster, Goanimate, Vocaroo, Voki, Mindomo, Linoit.com, etc. To work all these aspects I decided to create two different tasks from a film and a book.

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"GRU, MY FAVOURITE VILLAIN" (8-10 years old)

PRE-TEACHING

First we will see the film: "Gru my favorite villain", then we should discuss among all analyzing the content. We will aim the things we liked most write them on a cardboard and the less ones in another. After that, I will give them a glossary which is going to contain some words about personality, physical, behavior and personal tastes. 

ACTUAL-TEACHING

Each student must choose the glossary words he/she prefers to create his/her own minion. Once they have thought about it, the next task is to prepare an essay explaining how will be the minion. For that, we are going to use a computer program that will give life to the minion that they have been described. 

POST-TEACHING

Finally they have to introduce their minion into the story and to create a vignette with five clouds.

"MATILDA" (11-12 years old)

PRE-TEACHING

To work book Matilda let's talk about the good deeds. Because the protagonist is a girl of good heart trying to help others, who likes to read books, study and research. So I'll give a glossary containing the names of different cities. 

ACTUAL-TEACHING

Students should wonder about the problems in these cities, look up information on the Internet and choose the three issues they consider mostly relevant. 

POST-TEACHING

After that they must invent spells to end these social problems. Spells must be written in English.

I hope you enjoyed this educational proposals!

Created by: MªJosé Inestal Santolaya.

GREAT VIDEOS TO TEACH

In college we saw some interesting videos that can be useful in the classroom. We tend to give more importance to the video, but from it you can teach the students new vocabulary about the topics that had appeared. So my proposal is to create a workshop of textures and learn new vocabulary in a fun and dynamic way to be sure the students will not forget it!

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"THE VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR"

The story of the caterpillar is about how a little caterpillar grows up and gets fat while he eats. Every day he eats a little bit more until he is enough fat to make a cocoon. After some weeks he turns into a beautiful butterfly that comes out of the cocoon.

After seeing the video of The Very Hungry Catepillar, we would make a textures workshop in which students should touch the skin of the fruits, separate them by colors and smell them. Also, we will do the day of the fruit, where they will taste a piece of fruit for lunch.

"SIMON SAYS"

Simon Says is a game for three or more people. One participant is "Simon"which directs the action. The others must do what Simon says.

The trick is to listen to the magic phrase that is: "Simon Says". If Simon says "Simon says jump", players must jump or get out. If Simon says simply "jump" shouldn'tjump or you will be eliminate. In general, it is the spirit of the mandate that matters, not the actions; If Simon says "Simon says touch your toes", players must only show that you are trying to touch your toes. What is at stake is the ability to distinguish between valid and invalid requests, rather than demonstrate the physicalability to do so. Simon is up to everyone to try to get left out as quickly as possible, and work of each stay 'inside' as long as possible. The last of the followersof Simon on keeping gains (although the game does not always play to the end).

With this video we can teach the parts of the body. It can be useful to show the students a song and then we can create a mural all together. 

I hope you enjoyed this educational proposals!

Created by: MªJosé Inestal Santolaya.

MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCE

We were talking about the theory of multiple intelligences by Gardner in college.

Howard Gardner has argued that the traditional notion of intelligence is too limited and we have multiple intelligences (see table), all of them important, that education should be considered equally for all children to maximize their individual capacities. In practice, not all learn the same way or have the same interests and in a changing world like today, where the diversity of information is a reality, the choice is inevitable.

The educational implications of the theory of multiple intelligences are enormous. He is suggesting teachers need to implement pedagogical strategies beyond the linguistic and logical that predominate in the classroom and creative approaches that depart from traditional distributions tables in rows and columns with the teacher in front (and often above), slates or excessive reliance on textbooks. New times require environments that foster creativity and collaboration.

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To introduce the Multiple Intelligences, we are going to watch a great video:

After seeing it, we should have understood at least the names of the different Multiple Intelligences:

Let's go on to see the different meanings in a schedule:

Our main interest as teachers is to developt the Multiple Intelligences in our students. That's why we have to prepare activities whhich developt the Verbal-Linguistic, Mathematical-Logical, Musical, Visual-Spatial, Bodily/Kinesthetic, Intrapersonal, Interopersonal, Naturalist and Existential.

I can recommend you a web page:

EscuelaConCerebro

I hope you enjoyed this educational proposals!

Created by: MªJosé Inestal Santolaya.