Mother's Day

Today is Mother´s Day in Spain. Here is the present our second grade students have made for their moms. Hope they like it!

Mr. Bucket

The father of two students of our school is a professional actor in the company: 

TELÓN TOLÓN

Last Wednesday we enjoyed a lot with his performance in our school. It all starts in a very simple way... Let me introduce you to Mr. Bucket... He seems very nice, but there is a problem, he refuses to act!

Our narrator, wants to tell us a story he has read, The Wizar of Oz. As Mr. Bucket does not want to act, he calls out for volunteer... No problem! Here they are:

Little by little, with the help of a few disguises that come out from Mr Bucket,  he turns children into actors!

Have a look at Aunty Emma!

He tells the students what they have to say and how they have to say it. 

Wonderful experience both for the "actors" and the audience. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=33&v=pd_aaa3emGA

Groups

Today, in Social Sciences class, with my second grade students, we have reflected on the groups to which we belong... We already belong to some of them when we are born. We join others...

Fold the paper

I share a very easy activity...

Students fold a paper in half. One of them draws a body and gives the paper to the partner to draw the head (without seeing the body). The results are very funny and generate a lot of expectation in children. 

RASTRE-ARTE

This morning, some student of our school took part in a Scavenger Hunt (RASTRE-ARTE) 

 around our nieghborhoud to know the Urban Gallery. Wonderful experience.

Sorting and Using Materials (III)

Today, the third lesson on the topic...

First, we have made predictions about which material would let more water through

 

These are our predictions.

Finally, we did the VIRTUAL EXPERIMENT, and our predictions were not very accurate. Our only correct prediction was plastic: it does not let any drop through.

In the graphic you can see the comparison between our predictions an the results of the experiment. 

What I like most, as a teacher, about this resource, is how easy it is to talk about these topics using the English language in a "real context" and making it possible to use language to speak about difficult content in a significant way. 

Using and Sorting Materials (II)

This is the second lesson on the topic... (LESSON 1)

Students produced some beautiful sentences, i.e.:

"A kite is made of plastic because it is light."

This is me!

Here I leave some drawings of myself, by my second grade students.

That's how they see me...

Sorting and Using Materials

I have used VIRTUAL EXPERIMENTS years 1&2 with my second grade students. 

They were able to produce wonderful sentences, such as: 

"A climbing frame is made of metal because it is hard."

(I include a screenshot for reference)

There are six people next to the road.

My second grade students have written sentences using the vocabulary they have learned throughout the unit. We have used LEGO STORY STARTER so that they could represent the reality described in the sentence, making the activity completely contextualized and significant for the students. It was a perfect match, as they were using the structure "THERE IS/THERE ARE.." and PREPOSITIONS OF PLACE

In the pictures you can see the wonderful results... It was not only writing "THERE ARE six people NEXT TO the road," but also building that sentence in a literal way...

GOODS and SERVICES

In Social Sciences we have learned that SERVICES are something that people do for us... For example:

doctors,

street cleaners...

police officers...

or schools...

On the other hand, GOODS  are something made or grown that we buy, such as for example, 

toys, 

or the supermarket items that we buy...

Here you can see people queuing at the supermarket.

or having dinner at a restaurant...

We decided to represent shops in our neighbourhood, so we planned very carefully what places should be included...

and how to represent them in our mini "scale models" of the neighbourhood...

We started working on our models!

And here they are...

Playing with mathematics.

Here are some games to motivate students with mathematics.

1. Addition using LEGO. 

2 tens and 6 units + 1 ten and 5 units...

= 3 tens and 11 units

then, we group the units: 4 tens and 1 unit.

2. Paper fortune teller + dice.

We write multiplications on the fotune teller paper and roll the dice...

3. Plastic cups. 

They are perfect to represent HUNDREDS, TENS and UNITS. 

4. Mental calculation.

I use popsicle sticks to match a pair of students...

I say a number, then roll the dice and we add it or substract it. 

The fastest student passes to the next round.