Challenge: create a newspaper

This is a great challenge!! Imagine you are a journalist and need to write news for Campillo newspaper.

• Watch the tutorial video
• Click on the link
• Write the name of the newspaper
• Write the date
• Write the headline
• and write your story. ( be original, creative and be careful with writing)

Create a newspaper

Podcast 11

Children create another radio programme. They talk about the weather forecast, school news and the 7 Wonders. Let´s listen to it!!

We are journalists!!

Students talk about newspapers.

• Have you ever read a newspaper?
• Who reads newspapers in your house?
• When does he or she read newspaper? and where?
• Do you prefer newspapers or magazines? Tell the differences.
• Now, read about this newspaper articles   and do the activities .  
• Finally, write a newspaper report. Don´t forget the headline and the image.

Property of ISL Printables

Reading

Students read and do the activities about these two wonders. They have to complete information, answer questions, say true or false....

 

Property of ISL printables

Challenge: Play and learn English

• Click on the link and play these games to show how much English you know.
• Play at least  two different games.
• Send a mail to the teacher and explain which games you played. ( pelesa2@hotmail.com)

Games

7 wonders crafts

After learning about the 7 wonders of ancient and new World, students create a simple craft to show them.

• First, they create a group of 4 students
• Then, they open the envelope provided with ancient or new wonders
• Thirdly, each students draw wonder and they all create a small display to show their creations.

 

 

7 Wonders scavengers

Children  investigate about 7 ancient wonders and complete the following chart after exploring these websites.

Let´s explore!

Let´s learn!

 

7 wonders of ancient and modern World

Students watch this video to know how many wonders there were in ancient times and there are nowadays.

7 wonders of the world from room82012

Challenge: reading

Click on the link and choose at least 2 different stories.

1. Click on the link
2. Click on 1 story
3. Listen to the story and read it to the same time.
4. Click on the pages to listen and read them.
5. When you finish, click on other story. You have 6 different stories to enjoy.
6. Send a mail to the teacher and tell her which stories you have  read   ( pelesa2@hotmail.com)

Reading

New podcast!!

Students from 6th A create this new podcast to talk about the weather, sports, school news and their trip to Caruana

Let´s practice!!

5th level students listen to this song about the most famous city in the World. Then , they  use the following website activities to practice giving directions, prepositions and vocabulary about cities.

• First, students listen to the song without lyrics. They see the images of the city and learn about the " Big Apple". 

Giving directions ( 5th level)

6th level students use mobile devices to learn more about hobbies, and sports. They check their vocabulary and learn about how to use it.

Sports ( 6th level)

When they finish the first part of the lesson ( 35 minutes), they create a flip story using the app "flipaclip" Their creations have to be related to sports.

Writing about sports

Organizing the information before writing a text is very important for writers and students. So , we practice writing about sports with this worksheet.

Challenge: comics

Watch this tutorial video about creating comics using Toondoo, and create your own comic.

• Watch the video
• register
• choose your layout
• create your comic ( backgrounds, characters, objects, dialogues...)
• Share with the teacher . Send it by mail ( pelesa2@hotmail.com)

Patricia´s comic

Carlos Soto´s comic

Leonardo´s comic

Rocio´s comic

Let´s sing!!

Children practice present continuous and other contents  listening and singing  these songs and doing  their activities.

We love the World

Why do we love the World? Children answer this question using this beautiful cooperative task.

• First, they write down different answers using "folio giratorio"
• Second, they choose the most important for them.
• Third, they write them on a heart.
• Then, they decide about the technique they are going to use to decorate their World.
• FInally, they finish their creations and present them to the class.

 

School trip

This week 5th level students go camping to Sierra Espuña. We are going to enjoy playing, walking, tellings stories, and having a great time with our friends and teachers.

Students are very nervous, because they are going to spend two nights with their friends and without their families. 

6th level students will go next week as well. We love this activities!!

Practicing questions

Children practice questions and conversation using  the free chatbot of Alice foundation. It is an artificial intelligence foundation that provides the opportunity to have a conversation about everything.
Using this chatbot in class, gives us the opportunity to:

• practice communication
• use formal and informal language
• write sentences
• mantain a conversation

Chatbot

After practicing conversation with our chatbot, children do some writing activities about questions.

 

Great news!!

We are really happy today, because we are the winners in Espiral Edublogs awards. Our school participate in two different categories with two different blogs, and in both we are the winners:

• Our English class
• Evoluticvos

Challenge

Challenge 1: Answer the questions




Challenge 2: This week, we celebrate Family Day. Families can be different, but they all have something in common: love and care. Children love their families, so in this challenge they talk about  their families and show a picture of them.

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Family day crafts

Children love their families and on May 15th it is celebrated the Day of Family, so we have a great opportunity to create a beautiful craft to say our families how much we love them.

 

 

 

Speaking cards

5th level students talk about members of a family. They talk about their names, age, likes, jobs, .... They have cards with the information they need.

Cards from ISLCollective

Great news!!

Listen to our English radio channel and watch our TV news channel to know what happens in our English class. It is amazing!!

More tutorial videos

Every student has a talent. They show us how to make different tasks they love to do. Follow them step by step in these tutorial videos and you can get it!!

Paper planes

Juggling balls

Paper planes

Ballet tutorial

Drawing tutorial

Varied tutorial videos

Cooking

Inventions

Jules Verne was the father of science fiction. He wrote about a lot of different means of transports and   innovative things. Inventions are really important for our daily life. For that reason, our students will think and discuss about the most relevant inventions for them.

1. They list the inventions  individually
2. Then, they list them in groups of four students. They discuss and take decisions
3. We discuss in class about their decisions
4. Finally, they create their own group invention.

 

Giving directions

We start using a robot to give directions and to start using some simple commands. It is the first time we use it, but students get some interesting movements. Children are great!!

Little by little and step by step, we will get it!!

Test your English

Students use classroom mobile devices to test their English level. They do all the activities they can, and check their own answers.
They move freely from one task to the other depending on their levels and progress.

English test

 

We are finalists!!!!

Today, we are really happy because we are finalist in the "premios Espiral Edublogs". We can´t believe it!!. Thanks for sharing and following us.

Finalistas premios Espiral

Role plays

Students write their own scripts about a speaking situation  and they act  using role plays technique.

Tutorial videos by students

5th and 6th level students create their own tutorial videos about crafts, games, recipes... to show their mates and friends how to make these tasks and activities. They record and edit their own youtube videos and they become real "you tubers " in English class.

Let´s watch their tutorial videos

Male hairstyle

Making a frame ( DIY)

Customize your own phone case ( DIY)

How to throw a good penalti?

Tutorials

3D Hand

Present tenses tutorial

Youtube channel tutorial

How to make a braid

My family tree

Students check vocabulary about the family using this simple template to create beautiful family trees, and then they talk about their family trees

  

Listening test

Listen to the podcast and do the activities ( 6th level)

Listening 

 

5th level students listen to these two podcasts and do the activities provided.

podcast 1

podcast 2

Challenge: writing an e-mail

This challenge is very useful for our students to learn how to write an e - mail.
All them have an Google account , so they have to send a mail to the teacher  following these steps:

• First, open your email account
• Write your teacher email address ( pelesa2@hotmail.com)
• Complete subject and the body text
• Organize your information: Introduce yourself, write about your daily routine, write about what you are doing at the moment,  write about the weather, and what you are wearing, talk about your family or your school..... say goodbye.

Some students´mails