Christmas games

Here you have some games for Christmas. I hope you like them

Getting ready for Christmas

During these last days before Christmas Holidays we will be doing different activities related to how this festivity is celebrated in some English Speaking countries. We will sing songs, deck the halls, play games, watch videos etc.

Look what we did today!!! Aren't they lovely?

And this is our display

Christmas Festival

Hello everybody, as I said in class, here you have a video with the song we're gonna dance in the school festival next December the 20th. Remember that our dance is different.

The house

It's time to start a new unit in English. This time we are learning about the house: rooms, furniture, types of houses and we are introducing prepositions of place as it is a Trinity content.

At the end of the unit children will be able to talk about their house, say and write brief descriptions of a house using there is/are/isn't/aren't and they will be able to use the main prepositions  of place.

First let's start with the parts of the house. Here you have some activities to practise them.

Here there're some games about some house furniture

Practise now the prepositions of place

 

Plants

After learning about the food groups we are studying now where the group of fruits and vegetables come from, that is, the plants.

We are starting reviewing what they learnt last year. Here you have two songs about the parts of a plant and what plants need.

 

This year we will study these parts deeply. We we'll find out what these parts do for the plant to stay alive, that is, their functions. 

This story by Eric Carle is perfect to illustrate the life cycle of a plant. In the school we have the book, I will tell them the story in class and we will work on it. 

 

Food

After knowing how the digestive system works we are learning what food is good for us because it helps us to grow, to stay healthy and gives us energy.

Let's review

Once we know how to name in English lots of food items it's time to classify them in groups. In class we have made a big food pyramid using the supermarket leaflets children brought. They've learnt what are the food groups and why we use a pyramid to represent them (in the smallest par of the pyramid we put the kind of food we have to eat less and the in the biggest part the food that we need to eat everyday).

In this game you have to classify the food and put it in the corresponding box.

We also know that the group of bread and cereal give us energy, the group of meat, fish, eggs and milk and dairy help us to grow and the group of fruit and vegetables keep us healthy and away from the doctor.

Describing people

Hello everybody, in unit 2 we're learning about people:

• Vocabulary: man, men, woman,women, child, children, baby, babies
• Adjetives to describe people: tall/short, pretty/handsome,young/old, strong, nice, lovely, friendly, smart, funny.

Here you have a game to practise some of these adjetives and a video.   

Halloween is here!!!

Halloween stories

Halloween songs

Halloween games

The digestive system

Hello everybody, after finishing unit 1 in science and before starting unit 2 we are studying the Digestive system as we think is the perfect link between the two units. In the students book there are no contents about it, so we have presented the topic through these videos and a worksheet.

The human body

The first science unit is called "The human body". In this unit we will revise things children already know and they will learn new things about what's inside our body.

One of the things we are revising are the 5 senses. Have a look at this video and find out what can you remember.

Do you remember this song? Don't forget that the five senses are: the sense of sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell. Due to the sense of sight we can see.

Practise what you know with these games

The new contents we're learning have to do with the inside of our body. Inside our body we have the skeleton, which is made of bones, muscles and important organs such as the brain, the heart and the lungs.

Watching this video you can reinforce what's been already taught in class about the skeletal system. Notice that it mentions many bones, at this level you only need to know the skull, humerous, femur, ribs and hips.

The alphabet

Last year in 1st grade we learnt the English sounds and the most common way of writing them, that is, we learnt how some letters sound. This year we are learning the name of the letters, that is, the alphabet.

Here there is a song in which you can listen both, the name of the letters and how they sound. It can help you to understand the difference.

El año pasado en 1º aprendimos los sonidos en inglés y las formas más comunes de escribirlos, es decir, aprendimos cómo suenan las letras. Este año vamos a aprender el nombre de las letras, es decir, el abecedario.

Aquí tenéis una canción en la que podéis escuchar ambos, los nombres de las letras y cómo suenan. Puede ayudaros a entender la diferencia.

And here is the alphabet song

Y aquí está la canción del abecedario

Let's revise

Hi kids, after practising speaking about our holidays it's time to get into some curricular topics. This year in Science we will start learning about what's inside our body. 

Let's revise what we already know playing these games

Hola chicos, después de hablar un poco sobre nuestras vacaciones es hora de entrar en materia. Este año en Science vamos a empezar a estudiar qué hay dentro de nuestro cuerpo. 

Vamos a practicar antes las partes del cuerpo que ya conocemos con estos juegos

Here you have the well known songs about the body we learnt last year.

Aquí tenéis también las canciones ya conocidas por todos que aprendimos el año pasado

Welcome back to school!!!!

Welcome back everybody!!!!

I'm looking forward to seeing you. I hope you had a great time during your summer holidays but now it's time to go back to school and do lots of things. Some of you may wonder why you have to go to school. Here you will find the answer. Play the video.

Bienvenidos!!!!!

Estoy deseando volver a veros. Espero que halláis pasado una buenas vacaciones pero ahora es el momento de regresar al colegio. Alguno de vosotros quizá se pregunte por qué tenéis que ir al colegio, aquí tenéis la respuesta. 

Summer holidays

Hello everybody, how are you doing? How are your summer holidays? Have you been anywhere? I'll tell you about mine.

I did not write here before because since the end of june I have been very busy. In July I went to the Pirinean Mountains. I had a great time there, hiking, swimming in a swiming pool, climbing mountains, etc. After that I went to Norway, it's a beautiful country in the north of Europe. There, people speak Norwegian but most of them can also speak English so I could ask anything I needed to know. The natural landscapes  there are awesome: there are waterfalls, glaciars (a frozen sea), fiords, lakes, rivers, mountains, etc.

What about you? Where have you been in July? Are you going anywhere in August? Have you spoken English with somebody? Tell me about you holidays, the lanscapes you have seen. Leave your comments.

Remember that summer holidays are a time for relaxing, playing, swimming, doing things with friends but there is also time for practising english. At the end of June I gave your parents a list of things you could do, I will remind you:

1. Tell me about your holidays, places you have visited, describe the lanscapes (there is/ there are), activities you have practiced (I swim, I climb, etc). Write it in the comments chart.

"In July I went to____,

 In August I'm going to ____"

2. Go to the entries in the blog and review science and english activities.

3. Read books, in the "literacy" page or in the "reading books" entry you have some books you can read.

4. Watch cartoons in English, you can press the dual button or watch then in you tube. Here you have a Peppa Pig episode

5. Ask your parents to dictate you some English words (choose them from you books, the jolly phonics worksheets you completed or from the phonics entries in this blog).

6. If you have the opportunity to speak in English do it (maybe at the beach where there are usually foreign people, or if you go to another country).

7. Read science books too, if you don't find them in English read them in Spanish. Read about the human body, the Solar System, Materials, Animals, Plants, etc.

8. And finally, something new, write a postcard to the school saying where are you, we can read them in September.

The school address is: Colegio Público Bilingüe San Gregorio
                                     Ctra. de la Navata s/n
                                     28260 Galapagar. Madrid

Image taken from: www.livinglikeatourist.com

Materials II

Practice a bit more the characteristics of the materials with this game.

Practica un poco más las características de los materiales con este juego

Deep Sea Phonics

A fun activity to help children to review what they have learnt about phonics.

Un actividad divertida para ayudar a los niños a repasar lo que hemos aprendido sobre fonética.

More stories

Here you can listen and read some of the most popular stories from Charlie and Lola's collection.

Aquí podéis escuchar y leer algunas de las historias más populares de la colección de Charlie and Lola.

The Sea

In English, this week we are starting unit 8. It's about sea live and sea objects. Here you have a song called "Everything beneath the sea" and a story about dangers under the sea.

En inglés esta semana empezamos la unidad 8. Trata sobre la vida y los objetos del mar.Aquí tenéis una canción llamada "Todo bajo el mar" y una historia sobre los peligros del mar.

By clicking here you will watch the scene of "The little Mermaid" by Disney in which her friend Sebastian sings the song "Under the sea".

Pinchando en este  enlace veréis la escena de La Sirenita de Disney en la que su amigo Sebastian canta la canción "Bajo el mar"

Reading books

In this web site you will find lots of books for children to read. You can select books according to the colour of the band (each stage has one colour, in class we are reading now lilac and green band books that correspond to stages 1 and 2. Grey band books are stories to listen). It will be great if during the summer holidays children will read at least one book per day and speak about the story with an adult.

Anytime you read a book please write in comments the following information:

• Book title
• Characters
• A sentence about the book. For example: "It's Chip's Birthday"
• Did you like the book?

En esta página encontraréis muchos libros para que los niños/as lean. Podéis elegir los libros según el color de la banda (Nosotros en clase ahora estamos leyendo los de la banda lila y los de la banda verde que corresponden al nivel 1 y 2. Los de la banda gris son historias narradas). Sería fantástico que durante el verano, los niños/as pudieran leer un libro al día y hablar sobre él con un adulto.

Cada vez que leáis un libro escribid en comentarios la siguiente información:

• Título del libro
• Personajes
• Un frase sobre el libro
• Escribir si te ha gustado

Materials: Unit 12 Science

In unit 12 we're learning about materials. First children will be introduced different materials and if they are natural or manufactured materials. Then they will be taught the most common properties materials may have. Finally they will review the three r's rules: Reduce, recicle and reuse materials.

Natural or manufactured materials.

Here is an episode of Curious George in which you can see all the process from sheep to scarf.

Types of materials

Properties

Here you have a game to practice the properties materials may have.

Let's recycle

 Games

Notice that in other countries the colour of the bins can change.

En algunos paises los colores de los contenedores cambian.

Videos

Seasons

As you know in science we are studying unit 11. As we are learning about the Sun children already know that the two movements of the Sun make the day and the night and the Seasons. Here are some good resources for practising and learning about them.

Song (Notice that autumn in American English is Fall)

Learning about the sesasons

Magic English: Changing seasons

Game

Action verbs - Expressing abilities

ENGLISH 

UNIT 8. Lola the athlete.

Action verbs games. I can

What can you do?

Traditional songs and stories

In the page of this blog with the same name you will find a selection of good stories and songs for children. Click below to go there.

image taken from: appfinder.lisisoft.com  

En esta página del blog con el mismo nombre encontrareis una seleccion de buenas historias y canciones para niños.