Year 2: The Drop goes Plop!

The Drop goes Plop!The Drop goes Plop!

 

This story is going to help us to explain children the water cycle (something important in science class) First, we read the stry with children and make a nice pyramid with the vocabulary important and the connectors, openings and punctuation:

 

 

 

 

 

Now, we can work the water cycle using the pictures of the story:

And finally we can do another simpler about it:

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Year 2: The very hungry Caterpillar

Our story is: The very Hungry caterpillar

We can work with the story in two diferents ways.
First, we will represent the story with children, using movements and sounds... we can help ourselves with the video:

Later, we will work word level by selectin all the words of the story and classifiyng it:

THE VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR- words wall
-          Days of the week o   Monday o   Tuesday o   Wednesday o   Thursday o   Friday o   Saturday o   Sunday	-          Character Word o   Beautiful butterfly o   Fat Caterpillar o   Hungry Caterpillar	-          High frequency o   In o   The o   Of o   A o   On o   He o   One o   Ate o   Through o   But
-          Fruits and food o   Apple o   Pears o   Plumps o   Strawberries o   Cherry pie o   Watermelon	-          Numbers o   One o   Two o   Three o   Four o   Five	-          Sweets o   Chocolate cake o   Ice-cream o   Lollipop o   Cupcake o   Cherrypie
-          Opposites o   Tiny o   Little o   Small o   Big o   Day o   Night	-          Part of the day o   Morning o   Night o   Next day	-          Salad o   Picked o   Swiss cheese o   Salami

Then, we choose a few words to work with the children during the week:

 Secondly we can work sentence level, choosing sentences that summing up the story, for example the next one:

Simple Cycles

First, a little egg lies on a leaf.

Second a hungry caterpillar comes out of the egg.

Next he builds a coccon.

Finally he is a beautiful butterfly.

 Besides, with this story we can work the cicles (caterpillar live circle) with kidspiration:

After, reading the story we can work with a few activities others areas of the language in different ways, for example sounds of the words, rhyms, opposites,maths...

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Year 1: Fat cat on a Mat & I Spy an Alphabet in Art

 

How can we start to teach English to children?

With easy books of course!

The best way to introduce childrenin the English languague (phonics, phnology, vocabulary, sentences...) in through the  BOOk. 

Books help us as teachers to focus in the main parts of the structure of phrases, texts and introduce children in a easy and fun way, step by step