SEVEN EASY HALLOWEEN ACTIVITIES TO BE DONE WITH YOUR KIDS!!!

Hello everybody! October is almost finished and one of our favorite festivals is coming: HALLOWEEN.

Have you planned what to do with your kids? if you haven't decided yet what to do, do not worry, because today I'm giving to you some great and easy ideas...

ONE: MUSICAL GAMES: 

Normally, kids love movement, action, and fun; for this reason I have chosen three musical games you can teach them in the class, before doing some crafts. Are you ready?

1.- Halloween Stomp from the famous "The Singing Walrus".

2.- Who took the candy from the trick or treat bag?: An adaptation from "Who took the cookie?" from the "Supersimple Songs".

3.-The Skeleton Dance from " Supersimple Songs"

TWO: KINDERGARDEN CRAFTS

Moreover, children need to manipulate and create, and this is what we will do with some crafts found on the website parents.com .

THREE :MONSTER RINGS

For those kids who are older, I've found a beautiful idea: Monster rings!!! Have a look at "Easy Peasy and Fun" and check all the ideas they've got HERE.

FOUR: MATCHING GAME

I'm lucky, 'cause I've found the cutest Halloween cards!! There is a matching game that you will love, and it's free! Here is the link to Simpleeverydaymom.

FIVE: HALLOWEEN PUPPETS

But of course, I have to give a special mention to The Glitter Teacher. She is amazing and she is always creating the best materials for our English lessons, and I'm sure you will choose some of her printables for this Halloween.

These Halloween puppets are gorgeous !! , don't you think so?

SIX: CLIL HALLOWEEN ACTIVITIES

Then, if you want to practice maths or science, I've got a special for you.

These counting cards are really good, it's a pity it's not easy for Spanish teachers and parents to find these counters, as they're expensive and not common, but we can try with clay balls or other cardboard objects, right?These ones are from The Kindergarden Connection.

After this, I may say science is always considered on Halloween units :-D. Just have a look at this worksheet from Supplyme!!

SEVEN:  TIME FOR A HALLOWEEN RHYME!

To sum up, its well appreciated to sing and play with rhymes and Halloween is a good day to do so.

Using this free printable resource, you will let the kids create their song and rhyme and they will have lots of fun sticking the pumpkins on their place. It'll be great if you laminate it and use velcro dots for the pumpkins. 

This activity is from Totschooling, a website with loads of resources and ideas that ca be printed freely. I normally use it in my lessons and with my little child Manuel.

So, well, thats all for this Halloween, but I'm sure you will share these ideas and give me yours!!

Be good or bad but enjoy a lot!

Kisses and hugs,

Daniela A. Ayala Molinari.

Shapes Everywhere!

Hello everyone!
Today I'm sharing with you some activities that you can do with kids related to shapes.
This song is really nice and they enjoy a lot with it.



Also, you can play this game so as to practice the different shapes vocabulary. CLICK ON THIS LINK to play the game.

I believe it would be a great idea to play with kids this game: What shapes can you see everyday? Once you're going for a walk, ask them about the different shapes they see and where they are! Doing so, they will learn a lot.

Enjoy your day!!

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.

English Songs and Games To Learn the Numbers

Hi there!, it's been ages since my last post and It can't be possible! ;-), so today I've decided to share some interesting and fun songs as well as games to be done with our kids.
It's important that the concepts and vocabulary we're studying in the class, would be reinforced at home too. Would you like to watch these videos with your children?


As you can see, there are many ways to motivate our students and kids to learn a different language, and I believe music and games are a great resource to do so.
Let's enjoy English then!!!
See you in a next post and subscribe to my websites, please, :-D.
Hugs and Kisses,
Teacher Daniela A. Ayala Molinari.

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GAMES: I've chosen these ones considering the topics we're working on at school right now ;).

JUST CLICK AND PLAY :D.

JUST CLICK AND PLAY!

CLICK AND PLAY!

Let's play!!

Autumn is here!!! Many different songs to teach kids this nice season ;)

Hello everybody! 

Today I'd like to share with you all a list of different videos that are interesting to be used when teaching Autumn to our students.

Songs and movement will create a different atmosphere in our lessons, so our students will be involved on it in a more natural way.

I'm sure they will all have fun with them!
Lots of kisses,
teacher Daniela Ayala.

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.
 

ScienceNetLinks: A great website to find educative apps ;)

Hi hello!!!

Here I am again with great news! My baby was born last 25th March, and this is the reason why I haven't written anything during the last months. So sorry for that, but he still needs us almost the 24 hours a day.

Anyway, I found this website and in this great relax moment I decided to share the link with you.

You all know how good mobile devices are in education and how I love them, don't you?
Today, I invite you all to visit this website: ScienceNetLinks.
It has a lot of apps to be used in the science class, and they're organised according to age, level and use.

I will try with some of them!!

Clic on the LINK to see the website.

See you in a next post then!

A big hug,
teacher Daniela Ayala.
;)

Learning the ABC and colours!

Learning the alphabet and the colours are the basic things our students should know in the first term of 1st grade Primary Education.

Today, I'd like you test this on called: Color by Letter.

A woman says the instructions. In the right column there're two letters and in the left side you can read and choose the different colours.

Once you've finished the exercise, the word is spelled.

I think this interactive activity is good for 5-6 year old students.

I hope you all love it!!

Do not forget to show this activity in the whiteboard. 

Coloring the star there will be totally different!!

Have an excellent week!!

Love,

Daniela A. Ayala M.

PS: Happy teacher's Day to all of you!!! ;)

A Superhero High School!

Hi! how are you all? Today I'd like to show you this new video from British Council Website.

Have you ever imagined this? Would you like to be a superhero? 

Here is an example of how good it is the experience :D.

Just clic on this LINK and see what happens there....!!

 You can finish the story and complete it with your own videos!! Let's do it!!! :D

Kisses and hugs,

Teacher Daniela A. Ayala M.

How to play games using the Whiteboard: My favourite game, The Hangman.

Have you ever played this game? I'm sure you have played it at least once in your life! 
We sometimes play Hangman with kids when teaching the alphabet, but it is also an interesting game for other types of activities.
Can you guess how?

The Hangman is an incredible time-saver in your lessons. Do not prepare worksheets for that day, and  use the last 15 minutes to play with them. 
Have you got a projector and a whiteboard in the class? Great! Ask your students to be the teachers during the game. They will love using the whiteboard as well as solving the exercises.

Playing games creates a better atmosphere in the class and you can apply this game to any student. You just have to  choose the topic and start guessing the different letters that form missing word.

So... Ready, Steady, Go!!

Let's play together !

Click here and you will access to the game.

Enjoy it!!

Kisses and hugs,
Teacher,
Daniela A. Ayala Molinari.

Play a game to learn vocabulary : CLOTHES

"Learning Game" allow us to learn and play with clothing topic.

It's amazing because it gives you instructions and revise other topics, such as colours.

Whenever you clic in the incorrect option the game invites you to try it again. 

If you do it correctly it congratulates you!

Motivation is also important, don't you think so?

But, let's stop writing now! Do you want to play?

Let's go!!!!

This is the link you need to play this game about CLOTHES :) CLICK ON HERE

Enjoy the game,
kisses and hugs,
Teacher Daniela A. Ayala M.
@DanielaAyalaM

Our body! Trabajitos de mis alumnos de 1º

Hello! We're studying the body vocabulary in the English class in the first level of P.E.

I'm very proud of my students because they're doing their best :D

I wanna show you some of the pictures they did in the last class;)

Kisses and hugs,

Daniela A. Ayala M.

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.

Halloween Activities to be done in your English class!!

Hello friends!!,

I can't believe Halloween is here again!! Have you planned anything for this great festival?

I'm thinking about these three activities to be done in the  first and second course of Primary Education. Of course they can be put on practice in other levels too.

I believe my students will love them. I'd like them to participate in the lessons, so we will also sing a scary song, hahahahaha!!!

1.- Colour different scary Halloween pictures using the Whiteboard.

2.- Download the game "I Spy" and make your students guess what Halloween character you are talking about...

3.- Sing a learn a Halloween song.

I hope you all love these ideas ;). Remember to share the link, please!!

Have a scary and special Halloween Party!!

Love,

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.


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Time for a song: It's raining, it's pouring!

Hello!! Here you've got different versions of a same song :) Choose your favourite one and let's sing along!

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.

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.

How to learn the colours through mandalas

Gines Ciudad Real from Orientación Andújar, has created this activity about COLOURS. I always say that mandalas are a good way of learning in the very first stages. 

We as teachers, can work on attention, psicomotor skills, creativity... and at the same time we can praise them with beautiful mandalas to learn a new language, English.

While they're coloring, they're learning and having fun.

That's the essence of a good activity.

You can find more mandalas in this LINK

I have to thank Ginés for this good resource for our English lessons.

Have a nice week!!

Daniela A. Ayala M.

Alphabet Monster Game

Hello friends!!

I was wondering  how to do something different when teaching the ABC and.... tadan!! Here is the answer!! The Alphabet Monster will help us in the learning- teaching process.

It's a nice activity in which everybody can help and do things.

Come on!! Let's read the information and start playing the game together.

Little Family Fun: Alphabet Monster Game