03-CLASSROOM+SCENERY

Everyone has a responsability in order to organize the classroom and be mature. Every responsability is written in spanish and English in order to learn more and better. Every week if they fullfil their responsability they can pass to the next one. I decided to use QUIQUE and CECI as the characters of the poster becuase we are learning how to write in Spanish different words with qui-que and ce-ci...so that was the ideas and they could motivate and learn at the same time.
 * RESPONSIBLE CHILDREN **


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TIMETABLE **

Every day they know what we are going to do. It transmits them confidence and you as teacher won´t never forget what you are going to do.


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** PRAY **

Every morning we pray and we always learn some lines about GOD in English. It is a way to work on listening and to memorize short senteces.



** THE DATE **

Every morning, one in the class is the responsible of the date so he/she has to ask some questions:  Their partners have to answer them. The responsible writes on the blackboard the date. Then, every children has to write the date on their workbooks or on the different activities they´ll do in the morning.
 * What day is today?
 * What is the month?
 * What´s the weather like?


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** WEATHER REPORTER **

One of our responsabilities is to inform about the weather and the clothes we need to wear. Therefore the responsible has to ask them about the TEMPERATURE and CLOTHES. Then, he/she has to stick the correct picture.


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** HOW DO YOU FEEL? **

In order to work different feelings what I do is to name one responsible abour feelings. He/she has to ask them about how they feel. Sometimes the responsible ask about herself...I AM... sometimes about one of them....YOU ARE.... sometimes about a girl or a boy....HE IS ,SHE IS....and so on....That is a way to work on feelings and verb to be. (They have to use the red labels)


 * [[image:CIMG7231.JPG width="432" height="576" caption="WE ARE!!"]] || [[image:CIMG7169.JPG width="432" height="576" caption="PICK UP THE CORRECT FEELING"]] ||

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">** NEWS BROADCAST **

Everyday one of the children has to investage about news and inform the class about important things around the world. We register every new and at the end of the week we talk about what has happened every day. We usually make up headlines for news. <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">

MANNERS **

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">At the beginning of the year we all deceide which are going to be the rules and of course which rules will be respected. This year as they are in 2nd grade, they are very keen on HIGH SCHOOL, so I decided to use one of the song as a vehicle of the rules...It sounds like this WE ARE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER... In this way they were more motivated and wirte and decorete the rules in Spanish and English, because when we are in English class I use the same rules and that is a way to learn more in the second language.

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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">At the top of the poster appears this sentence: WE ARE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER. They did it at the begining of the year.



LINE UP **
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">One of the responsabilities is to fill a paper about how they behave at the line. Therefore, the responsible has to write a tick or a cross depending on the way they walk on the line quietly. At the end of the week I encourage those who have behaved correctly.



<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">** WALT ** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Every unit I keep the main poster of the class for WHAT WE ARE GOING TO LEARN) (WALT) One part is for math, another for language and finally one for english. They motivate themselves beacuse some days I ask them about the objectives they have covered and they encourage on their learning. Above all, the most I like is that they know what I expect of them. NOTE: I write the objectives with an edding so I can rub them when I change the topics or the objectives.


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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">** ABC GAME **

I love this game. They enjoy a lot. When they´ve got free time so to say when they finish their work they pick up a white paper and they write a word in English that begins with A, B,C D...SOUNDS...they can´t repeat them and every time they get one they get a sticker. They collect stickers and at the end they can fill a worksheet about a funny animal which at the end is a mask. They love them...they can only cut it out when they have coleected all the stickers and then they have been practising on English words, writing... Sometimes when they don´t know the word they may ask me how to spell it...

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I combine the alphabet with JOLLY OHONICS. I don´t really use them as an instrument of learning. I like them beacuse they learn vocabulary, funny songs and of course pronunciation but most of all to read some words which sometimes can be difficult for children.
 * [[image:CIMG7162.JPG width="415" height="559" caption="ABC GAME"]] || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[[image:CIMG7201.JPG width="448" height="336" caption="THE PRIZE"]] ||



<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">** FLYSWATTERS **

This is a game really funny. When we work on vocabulary, key sentences, expressions, stories...we use the flyswatter to hit on the blackboard what they hear. For instance, if we play on the vocabulary I stick on the blackboard different words, then I say one word and between two children they have to hit on the correct word (flashcards). Sometimes it is with actions, sometimes with riddles... They love it.



CLASS LAYOUT ** From my point of view, I consider that it is very important the way they sit down...at the end it implies the way they will work. I change the distribution of the class every term. Last term I had the class as in an U shape. This term I´ve chosen a new distribution in which they can work as a team and individually depending of the activities. Every 15 days I change them and I chose the places because I try to sit them in a wide section of skills and capacities. Every group is represented by a house (as Charo shown us in the last workshop). With the houses they can collect stickers if they keep silence, if they work as a team, if they learn something new... They are THE SMARTS, THE LIONS, THE SCOOBY DOO and THE INCREDIBLES...they invented their names.


 * [[image:CIMG7160.JPG width="375" height="501" caption="THE HOUSES"]] ||= [[image:CIMG7211.JPG width="448" height="336" caption="CLASSROOM LAYOUT"]] ||


 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">WHY THE TENNIS BALLS? **

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> One reason is because you avoid being too noisy. Another reason is because it seems to be funny. And the best reason is because is a way to get learning as a teacher. For instance, they´ve got all the balls, four balls, but they keep them if they write capital letters at the beginning and a dot at the end. This is one of the objectives they have to learn in literacy but I don´t know why they always forget it. Therefore if they forget it they have to give me one back. I would have never imagine that this silly thing would motivate them in such a way. In this way, you may change the objective...if you work in silence... if you speak in English at English class... <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">** THE IMPORTANCE OF VISUAL LEARNING: **

In the first cycle all children know the class material in Spanish...so what I do is to change everything I can into English. Somehow, they may learn the material they just know in another language. I´m referring to those things they use constantly so the more they see them the best to remember how to say and write... I´ll show you...



<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**PEACE DAY** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Every year we celebrate this day and this year has been very special. We gave to them a piece of material (cotton, material of sheet...) and they had to decorate the piece with their families at home. It had to be something related with sentences, pictures or whatever related to PEACE. The result was amazing... I sewed all pieces together and then here you are...an incredible PATCHWORD...