Holiday Drawing Activities

Ideas for the holidays: Why not try drawing your favourite animal or cartoon character?

This is a link to "Art for Kids Hub" playlist on youtube. The same one we used to draw the Kookaburra.

Running Dictations

5ºB Running Dictation from Atalía 5 Gijon on Vimeo.

We went outside on a cold friday midday to do a "Running Dictation". Working in teams the students have to pass a written message from one end of the playground to the other via a chain of communication. Sentence by sentence, bit by bit. The final writing is never the same as the original but it is interesting and fun to see the end result then discuss which parts are "easy" and which parts cause difficulties.

Photos from 5ºA:

"Hot-seating" Drama and Storytelling

After reading a story or in a drama activity we sometimes do "Hot-seating" which is a common method in drama for developing and understanding a character.
It's also fun and gives a chance for spontaneous speaking and dialogue.

In this example the student in the "hot seat" is taking on the roll of The Iron Man. There is no preparation so she has to think and answer very quickly.

  5B Iron Man "Hotseating" from Atalía 5 Gijon on Vimeo.

Dictionary Work: Alternatives Verbs.

We are working on different ways to write the words that a person says.

(página 17 en el libro de texto)
We are going to use lots of alternatives to the verb "say" (said). Today we used dictionaries to check the meaning of a number of verbs and we need to select the ones that can be used for speaking

List of verbs with those we can use for speaking in red:

• grumble - quejarse

• shake

• go

• moan - quejarse, gemir

• whisper - susurrar, hablar muy bajo

• look

• groan - gemir, quejarse

• shout - gritar

• do - hacer

• yell - gritar, chillar

• ask - preguntar

• smile

• murmur - murmurar, susurrar

• croak - croar, decir con voz ronca

• jump

• start

• cry - gritar, llorar, llamar en voz alta

Who Am I? (actualizado)

Pupils have to guess their "new identity" as a famous person in this speaking activity. In this video there are very good examples of :

• Self-correction, 
• Question formation
• Listening and speaking in context

... and excellent interaction between pupils. Well done!

5ºB:

Who Am I? from Atalía 5 Gijon on Vimeo.
5ºA:
5A Who am I? from Atalía 5 Gijon on Vimeo.

Types of Questions the students asked:

• Am I a man? Am I a woman? Am I an actor? Am I Spanish? Am I a singer?
• Can I speak English? Can I run fast? Can I play the piano?
• Have I got long hair? Have I got a famous wife?
• Do I live in Hollywood? Do I play for Real madrid? etc etc

3D models: Birds of Oceania, Part 1 (Art)

In the art class we are making big models of birds from Oceania. We are using old newspapers, boxes and sticks (from the tree-cutting in the school playground) to make them:

We are working in groups of 3/4. We started by looking at flightless birds and and checking which ones are from Oceania, because many people forget that the Ostrich (avestruz) is from Africa.

Now we are building each part of the bird separately. The head, neck body and legs.

Cassowary

Emu

Kiwi

In the photos below the pupils from 5ºA and 5ºB are working on the initial structure of their models. They have to work together and resolve the problems which appear as the work progresses.





Step 1 Basic Structure

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Reading: Winter Birds

In this link the students can read about common birds which are easy to see in the UK in wintertime. From the BBC cbbc children´s website (abre en una ventana nueva).
Esto es un recurso que se utilizará en el aula
En este momento hay un problema con el link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/joinin/10-birds-you-can-spot-this-winter