A DINOSAUR WAS BORN IN OUR CLASS!

During the last week of June we did an experiment in our class. We put a dinosaur egg into a recipient full of water to see what was happening, day after day. We wrote down each change until the dinosaur was born. It was nice to see it hatching, we take off the small pieces of the cracked eggshell and we could see a lovely yellow dinosaur. We deduced it was a vegetarian, because it has got a long neck, probably to eat leaves from tall trees. 

 Last day of school, we realized that our dinosaur was going to be alone all the summer. So we raffle it to set up who was going to assume that responsibility. Pablo was the lucky one. 

Hope our little dinosaur enjoys the summer with Pablo! Congrats!

ALPHABLOCKS - Letter sounds "ng", "ay, ai, a__e", "w" and "oa".

Letter sound "ng"

Letter sounds that have the same pronunciation:  "ai", "ay" and "a__e". 

Letter sound "w"

Letter sound "oa"

LEARNING LITERACY: ABC RAP

Have fun singing and dancing along to this ABC Rap to learn the letter sounds and phonics!

TOPIC OF THE WEEK: WHAT CAN YOU DO?

Vocabulary: play the piano, play basketball, play the guitar, play tennis, play football, ride a bike, swim, sing, draw and fish. 

 Grammar: I can / I can't. He can /can't.  She can /can't. 

Asking questions: Can you sing? Yes, I can. / No, I can't. 

Here some songs and videos to practice the verb To can: 

ALPHABLOCKS - Brilliant show from the BBC.

Episode 1

Learn all the alphabet letter sounds. 

Episode 2

Blending simple sounds. Difference between e and ee. 

Episode 3

Blending sounds. Vowels a, e, i, o and u.

Episode 4

Blending sounds. Vowels a, e, i, o, u and y.

Episode 5 

Blending sounds. Consonants c and ck. 

Episode 6 

Blending sounds. Consonants f, ff, n and ow. 

Episode 7

Blending sounds. Consonants b and d. 

PHONICS - Sixth group of letter sounds.

This group consists of these letter sounds: y, x - ks - cks, ch - tch, sh, th - th. 

Actions for the letter sounds:

y - Pretend to be eating a yogurt and say y, y, y. 
x, ks, cks - Pretend to take an x-ray with an x-ray camera, saying ks, ks, ks. 
ch, tch - Move arms and sides as if you are a train saying ch, ch, ch. 
sh - Place index finger over lips and say shhhh.
th - Pretend to be naughty clowns and stick out tongue a little for th (this) and further for th (thumb). 

PHONICS - Fifth group of letter sounds.

Letter sounds related to this group: z, zz, w, wh, ng, v and oo. 

For letter sound z, we put our arms out and pretend to be a bee, saying zzzZZZzzz. 

For letter sound w, we blow on to open hand, as if we were the wind, and we say wh, wh, wh.

To make letter sound ng, we'll imagine we are a weightlifter pretending to lift a heavy weight above our head saying nggg...

To memorize the letter sound v, we'll pretend to be holding the steering wheel of a van and say vvvvv.

For oo, we'll move head back and forth as if it is the cuckoo in a cuckoo clock, saying u oo u oo. 

MY CLOTHES

Vocabulary: T-shirt, skirt, socks, shoes, jacket, trousers. 

Prepositions: in, on, under, next to. 

Grammar: He's/She's got... He/She hasn't got.... 

Speaking: E.G. "The t-shirt is next to the computer" "She has got a red skirt"

Song

WILD ANIMALS

Interactive activity:

Can you take a picture of the right animal?

Stories to listen and read:

WILD ANIMALS

Vocabulary: tiger, elephant, hippo, snake, giraffe, crocodile, arm, hand, foot/feet, leg, tail, big, small, short, long, dirty and clean. 

 Grammar: They have got .... They haven't got... 

Songs: 

INTERACTIVE ACTIVITIES: TO HAVE VERB

INTERACTIVE ACTIVITIES: MY FACE

MY FACE

Vocabulary: eyes, nose, hair, mouth, tooth/teeth, face, head. 

Song: "Head, shoulders, knees and toes"

Grammar: I've got... Have you got ...? Yes, I have.  No, I haven't. 

READING IN ENGLISH: ZAC THE RAT

PHONICS: FOURTH GROUP OF LETTER SOUNDS.

This week we'll learn the fourth group of letter sounds: ai, j, ee, or, oa and ie. 

CONCURSO DÍA DE LOS ENAMORADOS / ST. VALENTINE'S DAY COMPETITION

Para celebrar el Día de los Enamorados (St. Valentine's Day) realizaremos un concurso de poemas de amor en el colegio. 

Cada niño y niña que quiera participar, podrá entregar su poema a su profesor antes del 4 de febrero. Se puede realizar en varios idiomas (castellano, gallego o inglés) y puede ir acompañado de un dibujo. El formato de entrega es libre, cuidando siempre la presentación, sin límite de versos o estrofas. 

Los poemas seleccionados serán expuestos en el colegio y los ganadores de cada etapa recibirán un premio el día del Festival en la Semana Calasancia. 

¡Mucha suerte y a escribir!

PHONICS - Third group of letter sounds.

This week we will study the third group of letter sounds: g, o, u, l - ll, f - ph - ff and b. 

To learn the sound of letter "g" we will act out as a GORILA. 

For letter sound "o", we will pretend to turn a light switch ON and OFF.  

It's raining a lot, so for letter "u", we will have to open our UMBRELLAS. 

To learn the "l", "ll" sound, we will pretend to link a  LOLLIPOP.

We can pronounce this sound through these three graphemes "f", "ph","ff", pretending to be an inflatable FISH deflating. 

To learn "b" sound we will bounce a BALL.  

PHONICS - READING - Groups 1 and 2.

Blending the sounds that we have learnt at the moment (group 1 and group 2) we can read a whole word. Here some words we are able to read at this stage. 

Each dot below the letters means a sound. If a word has got three dots it means that if we want to read it we have to produce three sounds. First we have to read the sounds separately and then blend them all together to read a word. The picture shows the meaning of each word.

OUR CHRISTMAS CAROL

This year we are going to sing this Christmas carol at the School Christmas Festival. You can rehearse it at home clicking on the link below.  

TOPIC OF THE WEEK: THE FAMILY

Here some resources to learn more about the family and its members. Click on the picture to go to the website.