Línea Recta

Concepto intuitivo de línea recta en Educación Infantil. Se dialoga mediante ejemplos y contra-ejemplos para que el pensamiento de los niños participe en la conquista del concepto.
Explicación del maestro Jose Antonio Fernández Bravo.

Fuente: YouTube

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Winter song

RTÉjr’s new Winter Song celebrates everything that is great about Winter – including sprout, bronntanais and Santa! 

Have a look and try singalong with your little ones!

It’s our world
This is what we do
Everything that makes us great
And you can do it too

We all had lots of fun today
Tomorrow’s adventures are on their way

It’s our world
This is how we bring
Everything together
And it makes us sing

HEY, WHAT’S YOUR THING?!

Fog, Ice, Shivering, Sneachta

HEY, WHAT’S YOUR THING?!

Sharing, Cooking, Sprouts, Crackers

HEY, THAT’S OUR THING!

HEY WHAT’S YOUR HEY WHAT’S YOUR THING?

It’s our world
This is what we do
Everything that makes us great
And you can do it too

We all had lots of fun today
Tomorrow’s adventures are on their way

That’s our world
And the things we do
Lots and lots of different things
How about you?

HEY, WHAT’S YOUR THING?!

Crann Nollag, Elves, Santa, Bronntanais

HEY, WHAT’S YOUR THING?!

HEY, THAT’S OUR THING!

Fuente: RTÉ Jr

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Two Little Dickie Birds

Join Twigín for singing, acting, dancing and playing games with Séamus the dog, Blaithín the flower fairy and their friends Emma, Muireann and Clara. 

Séamus and Clara have fun bird watching in the Twigín treehouse today! 

Two little dickie birds,
Sitting on a wall;
One named Peter,
One named Paul.
Fly away Peter!
Fly away Paul!
Come Back Peter!
Come Back Paul!

Fuente: RTÉ Jr

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Irregular verbs

What do you think about this method to learn the irregular verbs? I think they won't be a problem for you anymore!!

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Humpty Dumpty

Join the Twigín gang for singing, dancing and games with Séamus the dog, Bláithín the flower fairy and their friends Emma, Muireann and Clara.

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall
All the King's horses and all the King's men
Couldn't put Humpty together again.

Humpty Dumpty sat on the ground
Humpty Dumpty looked all around
Gone were the chimneys, gone were the rooves
All he could see were buckles and hooves.

Humpty Dumpty counted to ten
Humpty Dumpty took out a pen
All the King's horses and all the King's men
Were happy that Humpty's together again.

 Fuente: RTÉjr

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Postales Navideñas mosntruosas

Christmas Advent Calendar

Si la música no suena o no aparecen las imágenes cuando haces click sobre los números, podéis descargaros el PowerPoint directamente desde Dropbox haciendo click aquí. Os dejo un vídeo de cómo se debería ver el PowerPoint.

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Shakespeare

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Shakespeare

1 - This activity is for the 6th grade of primary. We are learning about William Shakespeare at class. You have to read carefully the next text that I upload for you. Once you have read the text, you have to check the picture below. In the picture there are some key words related with the text. What you have to do is write a summary about the text using the words from the picture. Then, you have to upload your summary in this post as a comment. When all of you have uploaded your summaries, I will let you to read all of them.

William Shakespeare (/ˈʃeɪkspɪər/) (26 April 1564– 23 April 1616) was an English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon". His extant works, including some collaborations, consist of about 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few other verses, the authorship of some of which is uncertain. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.Shakespeare was born and brought up in Stratford-upon-Avon. At the age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway, with whom he had three children: Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith. Between 1585 and 1592, he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part-owner of a playing company called the Lord Chamberlain's Men, later known as the King's Men. He appears to have retired to Stratford around 1613 at age 49, where he died three years later. Few records of Shakespeare's private life survive, and there has been considerable speculation about such matters as his physical appearance, sexuality, religious beliefs, and whether the works attributed to him were written by others.Shakespeare produced most of his known work between 1589 and 1613. His early plays were mainly comedies and histories and these works remain regarded as some of the best work produced in these genres. He then wrote mainly tragedies until about 1608, including Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, and Macbeth, considered some of the finest works in the English language. In his last phase, he wrote tragicomedies, also known as romances, and collaborated with other playwrights.Many of his plays were published in editions of varying quality and accuracy during his lifetime. In 1623, John Heminges and Henry Condell, two friends and fellow actors of Shakespeare, published the First Folio, a collected edition of his dramatic works that included all but two of the plays now recognised as Shakespeare's. It was prefaced with a poem by Ben Jonson, in which Shakespeare is hailed, presciently, as "not of an age, but for all time". In the 20th and 21st century, his work has been repeatedly adopted and rediscovered by new movements in scholarship and performance. His plays remain highly popular today and are constantly studied, performed, and reinterpreted in diverse cultural and political contexts throughout the world.

2 - After that, you have to read a new text about the infuence of Shakespeare. What you have to do is to use the Wordle tool to create a new picture with the key words of the following text and customize it with your favourite colours and fonts. You have to copy the link of your picture with the summary of the activity 1.

Shakespeare's work has made a lasting impression on later theatre and literature. In particular, he expanded the dramatic potential of characterisation, plot, language, and genre. Until Romeo and Juliet, for example, romance had not been viewed as a worthy topic for tragedy. Soliloquies had been used mainly to convey information about characters or events; but Shakespeare used them to explore characters' minds. His work heavily influenced later poetry. The Romantic poets attempted to revive Shakespearean verse drama, though with little success. Critic George Steiner described all English verse dramas from Coleridge to Tennyson as "feeble variations on Shakespearean themes."
Shakespeare influenced novelists such as Thomas Hardy, William Faulkner, and Charles Dickens. The American novelist Herman Melville's soliloquies owe much to Shakespeare; his Captain Ahab in Moby-Dick is a classic tragic hero, inspired by King Lear. Scholars have identified 20,000 pieces of music linked to Shakespeare's works. These include two operas by Giuseppe Verdi, Otello and Falstaff, whose critical standing compares with that of the source plays.[162] Shakespeare has also inspired many painters, including the Romantics and the Pre-Raphaelites. The Swiss Romantic artist Henry Fuseli, a friend of William Blake, even translated Macbeth into German.  The psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud drew on Shakespearean psychology, in particular that of Hamlet, for his theories of human nature.
In Shakespeare's day, English grammar, spelling and pronunciation were less standardised than they are now,  and his use of language helped shape modern English.[166] Samuel Johnson quoted him more often than any other author in his A Dictionary of the English Language, the first serious work of its type.  Expressions such as "with bated breath" (Merchant of Venice) and "a foregone conclusion" (Othello) have found their way into everyday English speech.

Fuente: Wikipedia and Wordle

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3rd grade Primary: The animals

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Postales Navideñas mosntruosas

Como algunos recordaréis, en la Feria del Libro de Madrid 2014 me compré el libro de rol Pequeños Detectives de Monstruos, para jugar con niños a partir de los 3 años. Los jugadores se convierten en detectives y su misión es buscar pistas por una casa y descubrir el monstruo que está causando problemas, para convertirlo en bueno o para ayudar al monstruo porque igual está asustado o triste.

Este juego me encantó desde un principio porque es una herramienta pedagógica en potencia para ayudar a superar los miedos infantiles: miedo a la oscuridad, a los ruidos raros, al monstruo del armario, al de debajo de la cama, etc. Poco a poco esos miedos se asocian a la diversión, a los amigos, a las aventuras… y progresivamente el miedo desaparece.

Pues bien, ya sabemos que casi casi no queda nada para Navidad, y Pequeños Detectives de Monstruos nos han sorprendido con unas postales de Navidad para que mandéis a vuestros amigos y familiares. Os dejo el PDF para descargar e imprimir en Din A4 las postales.

Fuente: Detectives de Monstruos

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3rd grade Primary: The animals

Click here to listen the chant (here).

Click here to listen the next story (here).

Have you finish? I have more activities for you! 

In the jungle What's the word? Click here
True or false game. Click here


Fuente: Surprise! 3, Sue Mohamed, Oxford

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Impresionismo Americano

El sábado pasado asistí a una visita guiada en el Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza en la #NocheJoven dedicada a la expansión del impresionismo en Estados Unidos,  la primera exposición en España dedicada a este tema, que rastrea a través de casi ochenta pinturas el modo en que los artistas norteamericanos descubrieron el impresionismo en las décadas de 1880 y 1890 y su desarrollo posterior, en torno a 1900.

La muestra ha sido comisariada por Katherine Bourguignon, conservadora de la Terra Foundation for American Art y especialista en arte francés y americano de finales del siglo XIX y principios del XX.

Después de la visita, el área de educación del museo organizó un taller en el que cada participante recibimos una postal en la que se detallaba un paisaje. De esta forma tuvimos que sacar nuestro impresionista interior para crear nuestra propia obra de arte impresionista en forma de postal.

Fuente: Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza

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THE EARLY BIRD CATCHES THE WORM

Used for saying that if you arrive somewhere or do something before other people, you will have more chance of succeeding.

`To be an early bird´ means someone who rises early or arrives in good time. You can check the other meanings here.

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Idioms II Birds

TO BE AN EARLY BIRD

Someone who rises early or arrives in good time.
Someone who rises at an early hour.
Someone who arrives before others.
Someone who gets up early in the morning.
Someone who arrives somewhere or does something before other people do.

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Made of and Made from

What's the difference between "made of" and "made from"? 

 In general, the difference is about whether or not the material keeps its form during the process of making an object. Paper is "made from" trees because the trees have changed form and are no longer trees. A chair is "made of" wood because the wood hasn't changed form, just shape.

What other sentences can you make using these two phrases?

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Idioms I Cats and dogs

It's raining cats and dogs!  

(old-fashioned) It's something that you say when it is raining very heavily. It doesn't mean that cats and dogs are falling out the sky!

The origins of the English expression, It's raining cats and dogs, are uncertain, though the most likely source is a satirical poem by Jonathan Swift, A Description of a City Shower, first published in Tatler magazine in 1710. The poem includes the lines "Drown'd Puppies, stinking Sprats, all drench'd in Mud / Dead Cats and Turnip-Tops come tumbling down the Flood."

"The weather was horrible on Saturday. It was raining cats and dogs all day." 

"It's really awful weather outside. It's windy and is raining cats and dogs."

Fuente: Phrases.org.uk

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Slang

I want to share with you some slang or colloquial English.

I'm bursting: I need to go to the toilet very soon.
I'm great: I'm very good and happy.
I'm starving: I'm extremelly hungry.
I'm stuffet: I've eaten a lot and I can't eat more.
I'm wrecked: I'm extremelly tired

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Mary has a little lamb

Séamus meets a lamb called Liam in the magical Twigín tree house.

Mary had a little lamb,
Little lamb, little lamb,
Mary had a little lamb,
Its fleece was white as snow.

It followed her to school one day
School one day, school one day
It followed her to school one day
Which was against the rules.

It made the children laugh and play,
Laugh and play, laugh and play,
It made the children laugh and play
To see a lamb at school.

Fuente: RTÉjr

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Story: The Greedy Robin

Miriam tells the story ”The Greedy Robin” in Story Time irish TV program.

Fuente: RTÉjr

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Punctuation marks

. Period /ˈpɪərɪəd/
... Elipses
- Dash /dæʃ/
; Semicolon /ˈsemɪˈkəʊlən/
: Colon /ˈkəʊlən/
, Comma /ˈkɒmə/
* Asterisk /ˈæstərIsk/
[ ] Square brackets /skwɛər  ˈbrækɪts/
( ) Parentheses /pəˈrenθɪsɪs/
/ Virgule /ˈv3ːgjuːl/
! Exclamation point /ˌekskləˈmeɪʃən pɔɪnt/
? Question mark /ˈkwestʃən  mɑːk/
"" Quotation marks /kwəʊ'teɪʃən  mɑːks/
'' Single quotation marks /ˈsɪŋgl  kwəʊ'teɪʃən  mɑːks/
« » Single quotation marks (French)  /ˈsɪŋgl  kwəʊ'teɪʃən  mɑːks/

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La importancia de leer una historia por primera vez

Patrick Rothfuss, escritor estadounidense de fantasía y profesor adjunto de literatura y filología inglesa en la Universidad de Wisconsin, explica por qué no quiso dar ningún detalle antes del lanzamiento de La música del silencio. La nueva historia del mundo de Kvothe, tras El nombre del viento y El temor de un hombre sabio.

Yo opino igual que Patrick, no hay nada más mágico que abrir un libro y no tener ninguna pista acerca de qué va a pasar. De esta manera se arruina parte de esa sensación que tenías al haberte enterado de lo que va a pasar. Ahora ya lo sabes. Antes era emoción, ahora es frío conocimiento. ¿Qué opináis? ¿Preferís leer un libro sin saber qué va a pasar a lo largo de la historia o sois de los que investigáis para haceros una idea de lo que os vais a encontrar?

Fuente: Youtube

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Present Continous

Fuente: allthingsgrammar

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The weather

Fuente: Woodward English

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Estas fichas están hechas para 3º de Primaria y las estoy usando en las actividades extraescolares en el CEIP La Escuela.

Fuente: Surprise! 3, Sue Mohamed, Oxford.

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Decoración de Halloween de los colegios José Iturzaeta y Virgen de Atocha

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Nationalities

Afghan /ˈæfgæn/ - Afgano
American /əˈmerɪkən/ - Americano
Argentinian /ˌɑːdʒən'tɪnɪən/ - Argentino
Australian /ɒsˈtreɪlɪən/ - Australiano
Austrian /ˈɒstrɪən/ - Austríaco

Belgian /ˈbeldʒən/ - Belga
Bolivian /bəˈlɪvɪən/ - Boliviano
Brazilian /brəˈzɪlɪən/ - Brasileño
British /ˈbrɪtɪʃ/ - Británico
Bulgarian /bʌlˈgɛərɪən/ - Búlgaro

Canadian /kəˈneɪdɪən/ - Canadiense
Chilean /ˈtʃílɪən) - Chileno
Chinese /ˈtʃaɪnɪ:s/ - Chino
Colombian /kəˈlɒmbɪən/ - Colombiano
Costa Rican /ˈkɒstəˈriːkən/ - Costarricense
Cuban /ˈkjuːbən/ - Cubano
Czech /'tʃek/ - Checo

Danish /ˈdeɪnɪʃ/ - Danés
Dominican /dəˈmɪnɪkən/ - Dominicano
Dutch /dʌtʃ/ - Holandés

Ecuadorean /ɪkua'dɒrɪən/ - Ecuadorean
Egyptian /ɪˈdʒɪpʃən/ - Egipcio
English /ɪnglɪʃ/ - Inglés

Filipino /fɪlɪˈpiːnəʊ/ - Filipino
Finnish /ˈfɪnɪʃ/ - Finlandés
French /frentʃ/ - Francés

German /ˈdʒ3ːmən/ - Alemán
Greek /griːk/ - Griego
Greenlander /ˈgriːnləndər/ - Groenlandés
Guatemalan /ˌgwɑːtɪˈmɑːlən/ - Guatemalteco

Haitian /ˈheɪtɪən/ - Haitiano
Hawaiian /həˈwaɪjən/ - Hawaiano
Honduran /hɒnˈdjuərən/ - Hondureño
Hungarian /hʌŋˈgɛərɪən/ - Húngaro

Icelandic /aɪsˈlændɪk/ - Islandés
Indian /ˈɪndɪən/ - Indio
Indonesian /ˌɪndəʊ'ni:zɪən/ - Indonesio
Iranian /ɪˈreɪnɪən/ - Iraní
Iraqui /ɪˈrəkɪ/ - Iraqui
Irish /ˈaɪərɪʃ/ - Irlandés
Israeli /ɪzˈreɪlɪ/ - Israelí
Italian /ɪˈtælɪən/ - Italiano

Jamaican (dchaméikan) - Jamaicano
Japanese (dchapaníis) - Japonés
korean (korían) - coreano

Lebanese (lebaníis) - Libanés

Malaysian (maléishan) - Malasio
Maltese (moltíis) - Maltés
Mexican (méksikan) - Mejicano
Moroccan (morókan) - Marroquí
Nepalese (nepalíis) - Nepalés
New Zealander (niú síilander) - Neozelandés
Nicaraguan (nikaráguan) - Nicaragüense
Nigerian (naidchírian) - Nigeriano
Norwegian (norwídchan) - Noruego

Pakistani (pakistáni) - Paquistaní
Palestinian (palestínian) - Palestino
Panamanian (panaménian) - Panameño
Paraguayan (paraguáian) - Paraguayo
Peruvian (perúvian) - Peruano
Polish (pólish) - Polaco
Portuguese (porchuguíis) - Portugués
Puerto Rican (puértou ríkan) - Puertorriqueño

Rumanian (ruméinian) - Rumano
Russian (ráshan) - Ruso
Saudi Arabian (sáudi aréibian) - Saudita
Scottish (skótish) - Escocés
Singaporean (singaporéan) - Singaporean
Spanish (spánish) - Español
Swedish (suídish) - Sueco
Swiss (suíis) - Suizo
Syrian (sírian) - Sirio

Tahitian (tahítian) - Tahitiano
Thai (tái) - Tailandés
Tunisian (tuníshan) - Tunecino
Turkish (térkish) - Turco

Ukrainian (iukréinian) - Ucraniano
Uruguayan (iuruguáian) - Uruguayo

Venezuelan (venesuélan) - Venezolano
Vietnamese (vietnamíis) - Vietnamita

Welsh (uélsh) - Galés

Yugoslavian (iúgoslávian) - Yugoslavo

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Pedagogical Trends - Corrientes pedagógicas

Consideration of these issues can help to focus on the experiences that would be best for learning from the learner's point of view, rather than just publishing and assessing the information you think they need to know. It can also help you realise how each participant in a course can be a teacher as well as a learner. Your job as a 'teacher' can change from being 'the source of knowledge' to being an influencer and role model of class culture, connecting with students in a personal way that addresses their own learning needs, and moderating discussions and activities in a way that collectively leads students towards the learning goals of the class.

Constructivism

From a constructivist point of view, people actively construct new knowledge as they interact with their environments.

Everything you read, see, hear, feel, and touch is tested against your prior knowledge and if it is viable within your mental world, may form new knowledge you carry with you. Knowledge is strengthened if you can use it successfully in your wider environment. You are not just a memory bank passively absorbing information, nor can knowledge be "transmitted" to you just by reading something or listening to someone.

This is not to say you can't learn anything from reading a web page or watching a lecture, obviously you can, it's just pointing out that there is more interpretation going on than a transfer of information from one brain to another.

Constructionism

Constructionism asserts that learning is particularly effective when constructing something for others to experience. This can be anything from a spoken sentence or an internet posting, to more complex artifacts like a painting, a house or a software package.

For example, you might read this page several times and still forget it by tomorrow - but if you were to try and explain these ideas to someone else in your own words, or produce a slideshow that explained these concepts, then it's very likely you'd have a better understanding that is more integrated into your own ideas. This is why people take notes during lectures (even if they never read the notes again).

Social constructivism

Social constructivism extends constructivism into social settings, wherein groups construct knowledge for one another, collaboratively creating a small culture of shared artifacts with shared meanings. When one is immersed within a culture like this, one is learning all the time about how to be a part of that culture, on many levels.

A very simple example is an object like a cup. The object can be used for many things, but its shape does suggest some "knowledge" about carrying liquids. A more complex example is an online course - not only do the "shapes" of the software tools indicate certain things about the way online courses should work, but the activities and texts produced within the group as a whole will help shape how each person behaves within that group.

Connected and separate

This idea looks deeper into the motivations of individuals within a discussion:

Separate behaviour is when someone tries to remain 'objective' and 'factual', and tends to defend their own ideas using logic to find holes in their opponent's ideas.

Connected behaviour is a more empathic approach that accepts subjectivity, trying to listen and ask questions in an effort to understand the other point of view.

Constructed behaviour is when a person is sensitive to both of these approaches and is able to choose either of them as appropriate to the current situation.

In general, a healthy amount of connected behaviour within a learning community is a very powerful stimulant for learning, not only bringing people closer together but promoting deeper reflection and re-examination of their existing beliefs.

Fuente: MacMillan

Halloween themed reading

¡No queda casi nada para Halloween! Si estáis buscando libros con esta temática para seguir practicando vuestro reading, os dejo una lista que ha facilitado la editorial Oxford para Primaria y Secundaria.

Zombie Attack! A1: 4,90€

Kidnap! A1: 4,90€

V is for Vampire A2-B1: 5,60€

Dracula A2-B1: 3,90€

The Canterville Ghost A2-B1: 3,90€

Frankenstein B1: 4,30€ 

Fuente: Oxford University Press

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