My Special Corner!

  Hi!!  I was reading some partners' blogs and I like the template that Julia has used for her Genially activity. The information here is very interesting. As my students loved this activity, I have decided to do it again, using the template from Julia’s activity. But now, I have changed the objective of the task. In this case, they have to investigate about one of the smallest countries of the world they like. The steps of the task are: 1.       They decide the country. I try to check that every group has a different country. (The groups are the same we used the last time) 2.       They search the necessary information to complete the template. They also have to look for images in order to include them in their Genially. 3.       Once, they have filled out the template (each child has its own template), they start elaborating the Genially. 4.       After finishing the Genially,...

  Hello!!  Today I want to share with you a small project I have done with my 6th grade students. The main objective of this project was learning to use Genially, apart from work in English.  Genially is a web for creating dynamic presentations which gives us countless options and possibilities for doing these presentations as original and striking as possible.  Well, I organise the lessons in this way:  1st lesson: I explained the project, I said the topic (English speaking countries that are not too famous, for example Jamaica), and I made the groups. Then, I explained how genially works and they created their accounts (one account per group). 2nd lesson: I gave the index of the project to them, in order they knew the basic information they had to include. However, they could include more points if they want. After that, they started to work. They chosen the country and then, they searched all the information required and wrote it on your notebooks. 3rd lesson...

  Hello everyone! Today I want to tell you my experience using storyjumper.  Storyjumper is a 2.0 web in which you can elaborate books. It has been, for me, a great discovery.  I have used this web with my 3rd grade classroom. As they have a low level of English, I decided to work all together, so the book has been the result of the ideas and creativity of the whole classroom. I organized four lesson to elaborated the book in the following way:  1st lesson: I explained the task and shown them the webpage and how it works. Moreover, we selected a theme for the book, the characters and the backgrounds.  2nd lesson: we did a brainstorming. I wrote on the board the different ideas students told me and after that we choosen the ones we like most democratically.  3rd lesson: we started to write the story using storyjumper. I wrote the story and put the scenes and characteres (following the ideas we have selected in the previous lessons) while they were watching t...

  Hello!!  Yesterday (2nd May) was the international day against bullying. I think it is a fundamental issue and we, as teachers, should work on that with our students. They need to understand the importance of that topic, they need to know the consequences and of course, they need to know how they can facing a situation like that.  For that reason, I have prepared a lesson about bullying. I have tried to carry out a flipped lesson so, I have organised it in the following way:  - Firstly, I searched for a video on youtube and selected that I will include at the end of this post. I like this video because it is in English and the most important words appear in the written form. So, it is easier for students to follow it.  -Secondly, I have edited the video using Edpuzzle, in order to become it shorter and make easier for my students to understand the general message. Moreover, I have introduced some questions throughout the video, in that way, the children are a ...