THE TEACHING EXPRESS: February 2015

PUNK'S NOT DEAD IN CARNIVAL

This year's carnival theme was music styles so obviously we had to be PUNKS.
The families made the costumes, and they did an amazing job!!!

Here you can see the pics of one of the classrooms, i will get the others next week, and as soon as the video of our dance is ready i will post it.

SOME LITERACY IN THE 5 YEAR OLD CLASSROOM.

As some kiddos are having "problems" with blending we decided to come back to doing some rhyming and word families reading to encourage and reinforce them.We have also been practising some beginning, middle and ending sounds.

the rhyming practice is part of this fantastic packet

This another great fluency reading activity by Miss Kindergarten

We have also been working in some independent literacy centers:

and we have also been working on one of my favorite reading games where kids have to throw two dice and find the word to read following the coordinates, if they read it right they write their name on the square.

INTER-LEVEL SENSES WORKSHOP

Some 5th graders came to our classrooms in December to teach us about the 5 senses.
The experience was fantastic, it was lovely seeing 10 year olds explaining things to 5 year olds in English.
Can't wait to do more! In a few weeks we will be explaining things about astronauts in english to the 4 graders.

here the 5th grader is working with the kids on a sound memory game

here the kids are guessing the objects by touching them

this is a reflex experiment where the kids have to try to catch the ruler quick.

in this activity the girl is teaching them about braille language and showing them how to write their own names in braille using plasticine.

SPACE ADVENTURE: A SECOND TERM PROJECT IN 5.

space adventure

During this term we will be working on the Space, Astronauts and Planets. Kids are excited and learning millions of things.

My spanish cotutor and I decided to split the project in two main themes: Planets and Astronauts. Kids will be investigating Planets in Spanish and discovering things about astronauts in English.

We started by saying things we knew about the space, things we wanted to know about astronauts and drawing astronauts and the universe. At the end of the project we will draw the universe and the astronauts again to see how the things we have learn help us improve our drawings adding more detail to them.