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TITLE: "YOU'VE GOT M@IL" image: fanpop.com If you remember this film was about e-mailing. People from all around the World is using the e-mail for working and for other aims: romantic meetings, to keep familiar contact, etc. That's why our students should know how to use it and in our case, how to do that using English Language. I hope the meaningfull objective of getting to know other children of their same age is enough to motivate them to produce natural language. TOPIC: MAILING IN ENGLISH Areas: ENGLISH (ESL), GEOGRAPHY, SPANISH AND VALENCIAN, ARTS&CRAFTS, PHOTOGRAPHY, ICT. LANGUAGES: English. Collaborative Tools: Twinspace, Videos, padlet, genially, Prezi, e-mail, postcards, letters. Google maps. Skype. AIMS:   The aim of this project is that students get to know other students from Europe, specially we are looking forward to Portugal were we have the TWIN CITY of Moixent, it is called Arruda dos Vinhos.  We want them to learn how...

This year we have planned to incorporate a new methodology for learning phonics and enhancing reading in English as a Second language. It is new for our school, but it is not a new methodology in the world, in fact we could say it is a native speakers' method. It combines "blending" and "segmenting" words for spelling and reading, with learning some tricky words or tricks for remembering certain special words. SYNTHETIC PHONICS Look at this information provided: CORAL GEORGE   http://coralgeorge.com/ JOLLY LEARNING  http://jollylearning.co.uk/ SYNTHETIC PHONICS  http://www.syntheticphonics.com/ PHONICS INTERNATIONAL  https://phonicsinternational.com/ RRF https://www.rrf.org.uk THEATRE PLAYS FOR KIDS On other side, when our students from courses 3rd and 4th would finish with that, we will incorporate come projects about THEATRE PLAYS. Look at these: -  http://www.tadatheater.com/ -  http://www.teachingheart.net/readerstheater.htmç ...

HAPPY YEAR COURSE 2016/17! I'm happy to see you again. Let's start to organise ourselves with some information. Remember that when you start the year course you should be updated with some information. This outline helps me to do the bases of my programming: 1- Year Calendar, to organise your course. http://www.ceice.gva.es/web/centros-docentes/calendario-escolar 2- International year and festivities: remember to celebrate 6 holidays/festivities at least: Halloween, Christmas, Peace day, Valentine's, Easter, Reading week/month. And obviously some of the traditional days of your community, i.e. Fallas. http://en.unesco.org/celebrations/international-years This year 2017 is the International Year of Sustainable Tourism:  http://media.unwto.org/press-release/2015-12-07/united-nations-declares-2017-international-year-sustainable-tourism-develop 3- Laws in the Valencian Community. Each community has its own web with the laws and decrees. - DOCV  http:...

This year course I'm planning to do phonics once a week with my students. Looking for one specific and clear methodology I've asked one of my friends in Gloria Fuertes (Alzira), Vanessa is teaching Infant education there and she says the method is quite good. Their 3yo students are doing this 80% of the weekly time. It's not my case, but my students are older than hers. So I'm doing some Courses by the CEFIRE and we will see how it works. Here you have some more information about this native methodology for reading and learning English. Link:  http://jollylearning.co.uk/ Basically the students learn phonics with an easy way, through songs, rhymes, tricks, books and workshops. This is the information provided by the web: "How does Jolly Phonics work? Using a synthetic phonics approach, Jolly Phonics teaches children the five key skills for reading and writing. The programme continues through school enabling the teaching of essential grammar, spe...

Along your student career a person could learn different study techniques depending on the degree or level. But the most important to know is to adapt what works to you individually to the different circumstances and moments in your life. That's why there are thousands of techniques. But to shorten the length of time I have selected some documents to help my students. 1- Complete guide for Primary students: you can download the complete document for free. Link:   http://boscosprimaria.blogspot.com.es/p/tecnicas-de-estudio.html 2- A complete section by Monica Diz to develope techniques, tips, resources, practice...in her blog Link:  http://monicadizorienta.blogspot.com.es/search/label/T%C3%A9cnicas%20de%20estudio But that's one of my favourite sections:  http://monicadizorienta.blogspot.com.es/2013/02/tecnicas-de-estudio-fichas-de-trabajo_4.html 3- Secondary and adults education guide, by Junta de Amdalucía. Link:  http://www.juntadeandalucia.es/averro...

I have checked how to get better in summer. My students' parents many times have asked me for some tips and educal jarafe is a good reference. Remember that tips: 1- Make the students enjoy learning, through visual or technological supports 2- To enrich their environment, you may visit museums, science exhibitions, etc 3- To place an orderly table and to set a time during the day, preferably morning time. 4- To spend time with other students with the same interests who motivate each other. 5- To make a planning: organisation is important. Try to create a timetable for studying and leisure hours. 6- To stick to the timetable. More info:  http://www.educaljarafe.com/recomendaciones-para-vencer-los-suspensos-durante-el-verano/ Nice Holidays ;-))

How important is to reflect on our teaching practice? What do I want to change about it? Do I care about my students' interests? Can I use ICT resources at school? This week I took some time to reflect on all this questions which I never did. Sharing my opinion about my job and the teaching practice is important for me. And the idea of following other people with the same interests makes me think that I'm not alone. Well, my list of wishes are: - To introduce more project collaboration methodology in my classes - To coordinate to other departments at school in order to involve them with my own practice - To use much more ICT reources and always explore new ones - To ask my students about their interests and the changes they would make in the english classes In the same line, to analize other E-twinning projects and to see that another world exists is very provocative and proACTIVE. When you are working in a school with no collaboration, no ICT resources and little tim...

Level: 4/5 years Old children Topic: The alphabet As a teacher we can choose different ways of teaching the letters. In this case I Have chosen a song from the web called  phonic song  http://youtu.be/BELlZKpi1Zs Then, after a couple of classes Learning it by heart and repeating it with actions (TPR), I did these handmade worksheets to trace and paint in the following days.  I hope you like it! Enjoy teaching!