Discovering the Planets ;)

Hello there! In 5 years old we're studying the Solar System and our planet among others so I have thought it would be interesting to write a post for this topic too.
You will see some interesting games, songs and ideas to be done at home.
The most important thing is to understand things in a funny way!
Enjoy them all and have a wonderful week!
Love,
Daniela A. Ayala Molinari.

PLANETS MEMORY GAME

NASA SPACE PLACE



PLANETS RAP:





SOME CRAFTS YOU CAN DO AT HOME

Solar System with stones.

Solar System with clay.

Time for a song! Lukas Graham 7 years

Hello dear friends!
My students love this song! In fact I may say this one creates special emotional feelings in my English lessons.
It's great doing this task with them and see how well they behave in the activity. Sometimes teachers get magic with the tasks done in a class, don't you agree?

It has been a day to be remembered in my life!;-D so thank you so much to all my students for following my lessons with beautiful smiles and good disposal.

Enjoy this song, your song, my song ...
Kisses and hugs,
Teacher Daniela A. Ayala M.
 

Here it is!! Saint Patrick's Day 2015!!! Art and Crafts ideas :-D

Hello everybody! Today I'm in a very happy mood, because one of my favourite festivals is coming up!!
Next tuesday, the seventeeth, Saint Patrick's Day is going to be celebrated everywhere, specially in Ireland! .

Will you celebrate it in your English class?

If you still don't have any idea of what this festival is, please, use this button. It's on the right side of my blog. Write there "Saint Patrick's Day" and you will see all the resources and ideas I've been posting in the last years. Don't forget to share them on the net!! ;_)

There are also different ideas I did, wrote and shared on this LINK.

You will also understand the story listening to this beautiful song:

As I know you love English and festivals, I'm sure you'll enjoy these ideas I've found on Pinterest.
You can also follow my PIN BOARD here.


We as teachers, should always motivate our students in the English teaching-learning process. We can do it using different strategies. Why not using art and crafts?
These photos are just a simple example of what you can do with kids in your English class or at home ;).
Enjoy them all!! 
Happy Saint Patricks Day!!! 
Kisses and hugs,
Daniela A. Ayala Molinari.

Snoopy and Teacher Daniela wish you Happy Saint Patrick's Day! ;) 

I can sing a rainbow...

Dear friends!! Once I saw a beautiful poster in my class with this nice song I couldn't resist myself to sing it with the kids. Also, this is one of my favorite songs so you can imagine how motivated I'm feeling with the song :D.

The lyrics is this one, but it is also added in the video taken from youtube:

Red and Yellow and Pink and Green

Purple and Orange and Blue,

I can sing a rainbow,

sing a rainbow,

sing a rainbow too.

Listen with  your eyes,

listen with your eyes,

and sing everything you see.

You can sing a rainbow,

sing a rainbow,

sing a rainbow too.

Red and Yellow and Pink and Green

Purple and Orange and Blue,

Now we can sing a rainbow,

sing a rainbow,

sing a rainbow too.

I'd like you all sing and listen with your eyes everything you see, as the colors of the rainbow ;).

A very big hug from me,

Daniela A. Ayala Molinari.

Practicing the Ordinal Numbers with the Whiteboard!

You can learn the Ordinal Numbers with incredible games on Turtlediary.com

Today, I've been looking for different online games for kids, and I've decided to show you these websites with different games to learn the Ordinal Numbers.

This is an example of many other activities you can find at http://www.harcourtschool.com

It's a graphic way of learning, and of course it will be easier to remember the different pronunciation, written form and numbers.

Children from different ages can play these games and you can guide them to do their best in every game you find useful.

Just clic in the images and you will access to the different games I've found on the internet.
Please, share this article!

Enjoy the week!,
Love,
Daniela A. Ayala Molinari.


PS: See you on Facebook!!!

Back to School 2013-2014!

¡Muy buenos días! :D En esta semana ha dado comienzo el año escolar en España.

En otros países Septiembre también es el mes de inicio y vuelta al cole.

Por ello, os traigo una estupenda canción que puede perfectamente ser utilizada en vuestros primeros días de colegio.

Back to School Song!

Además os recomiendo visitar este enlace con algunas fichitas interesantes para estas semanas.

Otra actividad que me gusta mucho hacer es algo así como lo mostrado aquí. Permitirá que el grupo clase se conozca mejor, buscando en el aula a otra persona que coincida con lo que se pide: Find somebody in the class who...

Si te gustaron estos enlaces e ideas, no olvides dejar tu mensaje y compartir el post con tus amigos.

Un besote a todos, y hasta la próxima,

cariños,

Daniela A. Ayala Molinari.

Healthy Habits in your life! CLIL

To be healthy is one of the most important things in life. We, as teachers, have to make our students understand the importance of doing exercise, eating appropriate food and so on.
With this LINK you can show some basic things that are important to be healthy and see how our heart works.

Enjoy the week!!

Lots of kisses,
Daniela A. Ayala Molinari.

Dora the explorer!! Let's play and colour in our digital board!

Dora the explorer is one of my favourite cartoons ;). Young children love it too.
It's interesting to choose activities with characters that children know and love.
We can teach the colours and revise the basic knowledge of this topic through this great activity.
Please, use the digital board and you will understand the reasons of using it as a feauture in the class as well as the result you get on your students!!

Clic on this LINK and colour Dora!!
Kisses and hugs,
Daniela A. Ayala Molinari.

First cycle resources: Learn and use the Digital board in your class ;)

English for young learners is so important. We should teach English using the new technologies and today we have a very good option.
This LINK will help you, because it's perfect for the interactive and digital board.
Children can use the link at home too, but it would be great to do some activities with them in the class.
As they love touching the IDB, your class will be a total success ;).

Visit the website and let me know what you think about it!
Enjoy the weekend!!
Love,
Daniela A. Ayala M.

Fun with Phonics for children!

I love this methodology because I think children learn more saying and listening new words :). If they practice and practice at the end they will understand the use of English and its correct pronunciation.

Let's see it and use it in our lessons! I'll do it, and you?
Have a wonderful week!
Daniela A. Ayala M.

KS1 Phonics - Fun With Phonics from Pearson Schools

Irregular Verbs learning Game!!

Hello!! I can't be happier!! I've just found on the internet this great wheel game. I'm sure all my students will appreciate it!! It's easy to use and ideal to teach grammar and irregular verbs in our English class.

You can visit the website and add this to your favourite resources list.

Just click and play!!

The use of was and were

Videos are a good way of learning English. They help our students to understand the contents in a better way.
Have a look at this video about the use of the past simple of the verb to be.
Enjoy!
Daniela A Ayala M.

Let's practice our English with Find out 6 games!

Dear children,
Today I've got this surprise for you all. This is a link I've found for you on the internet. It will help you to revise the contents.
You will play and learn at the same time. Would you like to play with it?
Click on this LINK and let's start the adventure!

Kisses and hugs,

Teacher Daniela.

Lets sing and celebrate Thanksgiving Day! Part 3

Hello everybody! I have looked for some great and funny songs, will you sing with me?

Click on the videos and listen :) They're nice and easy song to be sang with children at school.

Have a nice Thanksgiving Day and don't forget to say THANK YOU :)!!

Love,

Daniela A. Ayala Molinari.

 

 

   

   

 

Thanksgiving Day!!! Part 2

 Hi again!! Children love printables. So I was looking for some worksheets about the topic. Do you want to see them? I promise you'll love them too.

Writing exercises for very young learners : Turkey Turkey2
Word Search
Puzzles
Word Scramble
How to draw a turkey  Example1 Example2
Thanksgiving jokes: Jokes 1  Jokes2



You can also apply thanksgiving activities in your art and craft lessons. Here there're some interesting links to make your students enjoy the class:
Coloring pages  Coloring pages2
Thanksgiving crafts

Of course games are also important for kids. They love learning while they're having fun.
How about these links? ;)

Games 1 
Find the differences
Dress up the turkey

Have a nice Thanksgiving Day!
Daniela A. Ayala Molinari.
PS: Please, remember to share the post if you like it ;) Thank youu!

Telling the time, Let's learn and play :D!!

Telling the time is something our students must know and use in their life. 

It's essential for us, teachers of English, to teach the time in an appropriate way, so they can manage themselves to tell the time from now on...

Some years ago, I shared some interesting links to make this possible.

Please, have a look at this LINK.

Although it's important to write some basic rules on the board and make our students copy a short guide and picture on their notebook, I suggest some other interesting activities to use in your English class.

The IDB (Interactive digital board) makes the work easier. Wait and see... :P

This LINK  (Time monsters) suggests different games. Step by step, our students will learn how to tell the time.

British Council website provides the knowledge through some interesting exercises. Click on the LINK

I'm sure all these interactive and digital ideas, will help you a lot.

My students love these activities and they really work :D.

Enjoy the week ;)

Love,

Daniela A. Ayala Molinari.

Halloween is coming soon!!:)

I'm ready for Halloween!! What about you??

These days I'm thinking about different activities to be developed in my English lessons.

I'm still writing chants, songs and thinking about games to make my students have fun on Halloween.

There will be a surprise, I promise!!

In the meantime, I suggest you watch this nice video from Littlestorybug. 

Have fun and enjoy the week!

Lots of love,

Daniela A. Ayala M.

Big and Small: Los dibujos de moda para los peques de la casa

Big and Small

¡Hola a todos! Hoy os traigo a unos amigos especiales.Ellos son Big and Small, y según me han contado, los peques de la casa los adoran. 
Siempre os he animado a ponerle a los niños dibujos animados en Inglés, poco a poco, incrementando así los minutos en Inglés. Eso hará que los niños tomen el Inglés como algo natural y se integren rápido en su aprendizaje.

Big and Small llega desde Canadá y el Reino Unido. Espero que os gusten y que vuestros hijos disfruten con sus juegos, canciones y voces.

Si quieres saber más de Big and Small, pincha aquí

Un besito y mi agradecimiento a mi compañero Daniel Pino, que fue quien me informó de estos dibujitos.

¡Un abrazo!
Daniela A. Ayala Molinari.

Teaching the numbers to very young learners

Today I want to show you different videos that will be very useful in our daily routines. Very young learners love music and videos so this is a good option to teach them the numbers from 1 to 10.

My favourite one is Once I caught a fish alive :).

Have a nice week!!

Daniela A. Ayala Molinari.

 

 

Curiosity Rover landed on Mars safe!

From now on, the 6th of August 2012 will be included in all our calendars. It's an important day because this is the first time a robot lands on MARS to find life.

This video shows how CURIOSITY works.

Este robot llamado Curiosity, ha recorrido ni más ni menos que 567 millones de kilómetros. Esta mañana aterrizó sano y salvo en MARTE, listo para llevar a cabo su misión.

Podéis seguir todas las novedades en los siguientes enlaces:

Nasa
The Guardian
La Razón