African art and crafts

Yesterday, we received the visit of our Nigerian friend.  Today, we are going to make a great craft activity: we are going to make African masks and collars

Let´s art!!

African Necklaces

African Masks

 

 

A special day

Today, we have a great surprise in class. The visit of a special man. Yesterday students made predictions about the man.

• The man speaks English, Where do you think he is from?
• How does he  look like?
• Do you think he can speak more languages?
• Where is English spoken as an official language?

 

Click on the image, and read about Nigeria. Make questions to our guest about his country and city. 

Africa for kids from nivaca2

We are animals!!

We are animals and we create a display at school hall. Children decorate their photos and add the QR codes they generate before.

 

 

 

Creating our tour magazines

Students use the app "storify" to create their own travel´s diary. They will write about a tour around the countries our characters goes through .
In groups of 4 students, they will read information about the country they choose and they will write a diary or digital magazine about places they can visit and activities they can do there.

Click on the following link to read and select the information you want to publish about  your travel 

Countries attractions and activities

Once, you have the information you need, create your own travel diary for a week.

Instructions:

1. You need to register
2. Listen to the teacher explanations about Storify app
3. Create your group travel´s diary
4. Publish it,
5. Share it with your classmates

Storify

 

Travel to Rome

Travel to Paris

Travel to Italy

Challenge: Animal QR codes

This is a very simple challenge. Students create QR codes about their art class animals.

Instructions:

1. Which animal are you?
2. Go to Google and write QR code generator
3. Write a short text about your animal and generate the QR code. Try to use comparatives.
4. Send it to the teacher mail ( pelesa2@hotmail.com)
5. That´s all!!

Watch this video and learn how to do the challenge

Some of my students QR about their animals

 

 

Skype

Spanish and Turkish students had a videoconference in class using Skype. They asked questions and talked about their interests. They met their pen friends and they are very happy!

Images from Spain

Images from Turkey

Our virtual travels

Students have enjoyed London virtual tours using this Virtual glasses. They have travelled to London without flying in a plane.

This activity is amazing!!

We are animals!!

Students are learning about animals around the World. So, in this creative activity, kids make -up their friends and compare animals.
Later, they will create a QR code with a text about each animal to create a school display.

our zoo - Kizoa Movie Maker

Art class: degrading technique

Students love this art technique. It can be used for many different topics and it is really easy to do with crayons or paintings.

Students talk about all what they have learnt about dinosaurs and make a drawing about it.

Students go to the radio

This afternoon,  our 6th level students have had a great experience: they have visited radio Ser. They have participated in "Hoy por hoy" programme , and they are really exciting about it. It has been amazing and really funny for them. Thanks to Ana Patricia Meca to give us this great opportunity.

radio experience - Kizoa Movie Maker

Oral class

6th level students talk about past simple was / were using different activities.


First, students play "Who is Who " with dinosaurs

Then, they practice past simple using two different activities from a Heinneman book " TeamWork" by Pilar Cuder Dominguez, Raquel Rodríguez, David Spencer and David Vaughan

Using comparatives

To compare things , people or animals , we need adjectives.
Watch these videos and try to create your own rules to learn how to use comparative adjectives.

Now, click on the link and do these activities about comparatives

Let´s practice

Who wants to be millionaire?

Students answer these questions in groups and try to be the winners of the quiz. Thanks to "Primary resources website" for this material

"Primary resources website·"

After this warm-up activity , our students in pairs, will create an animal and they will write about it.

Adjectives

5th level students learning about adjectives: What is it? what is a synonym? antonym?...
They practice with a very simple worksheet to write them correctly and in the correct position in a sentence.

Now, it is the turn to talk about our friends: Describing friends using adjectives

Writing skill

Students write about past using was / were. They have to describe dinosaurs and a city comparing its past and its present situation.

Inphographics about dinosaurs

6th level students start learning about past tense. They start discovering interesting facts about dinosaurs :

• Where were these dinosaurs been discovered?
• How big were they?
• Who discovered their bones?.....

Challenge: Create an interactive animal map

This week, students have a great challenge to do!! They create an interactive map with animals around the World. They can include text, or multimedia elements.

Instructions:

1. Watch this video
2. Go to Genially website
3. Register or Log in
4. Create your new Genially
5. Upload an Atlas map
6. Include images of animals in their correct habitats and countries
7. Write a text about them and include some multimedia elements.
8. When you finish, send your link to my mail ( pelesa2@hotmail.com)
9. You will get an extra point in Class DOJO!!!!

Look at this example. Alvaro Re´s Genially

Present Simple practice

Students use their tablets to practice about present simple and vocabulary a. The teacher moves around the class and helps students who has doubts or problems.

Let´s practice 1

Let´s practice 2

Discovering dinosaurs

Students surf the web and search for the information they need. In pairs, they use their classroom tablets and they create a book about dinosaurs.

Click and learn 1

Click and learn2 

Click and learn 3

When you finish, you can click on this link and practice about past simple ( was / were) 

Let´s practice!!

Creating inphographics

Inphographics are excellent opportunities to read information and learn about animals. Each group of students create their own animals inphographics.

Instructions:

• Choose one animal
• They Search some important information in the web
• They take decisions  about inphographic distribution and organization
• Each member of the group write about some specific information of the animal choosen
• They decorate and color the inphography
• When they finish it, they present their work to the rest of the classmates

 

Dinosaurs, dinosaurs!!

Let´s play and learn about interesting dinosaurs facts

Interesting facts about dinosaurs

Watch this video and answer the following questions