Are you in a "mud" to celebrate this day? Ideas

Book suggestions

Harry The Dirty Dog - Gene Zion
Milk Rock - John Kaufman
Stone Soup - Ann McGovern
The Mud Pony - adapted by Caron Lee Cohen

Activities & Games

Mud Painting
Gather some squishy mud in a bucket. Mix water with it till you feel it is the right consistency. Spoon some mud onto cardboard and using an old paintbrush begin. The children can use their fingers, an old comb or anything else to make interesting patterns. When finished let it dry to take home.

Dirt Prints
Mix up mud in a bucket and spread it along the ground for about 2 yards. It will need to be about 3/4 inch thick. Now put on two old shoes that are each different and walk along your mud road. Next change to two different shoes again. Take giant steps and baby steps. Smooth the mud to start again.

Poems & Songs

I love to play

Tune: "My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean"

I love to play in the sand box.
I love to play in the dirt.
I love to play in the wet mud.
I squish it and watch it squirt.

More ideas

Delicious mud

3 spoons instant chocolate pudding
1/2 cup milk
2 chocolate cookies

Place the cookies in a resealable plastic bag. Use your hands to break the cookies into tiny bits. Pour the milk and the pudding mix into a small jar or a margarine tub with a tight-fitting lid. Shake for three minutes. Pour the pudding (mud) into a clear plastic cup. Sprinkle the cookie bits (dirt) on top of the mud. Dig in!

Another mud treat from Simply Homemade

You can see the linky below hosted by Hands on: As we Grow..

Happy Birthday Eric Carle!!

Today is Eric Carle's birthday and I want to celebrate his life and wonderful work sharing some ideas for his books.

Brown Bear funfolder for take me home time

puppets and glove for retelling the story

We colour, cut and store characters in the book in a retelling bag.

(we made one retelling bag for the books we read in a paperbag)

I pasted a pocket in the books with activity cards for independent and guided reading.

Stay tuned! I will be adding more pics!

You can read more about him at his official site or blog

Carson Dellosa has a bunch of freebies for Eric Carle, too

An amazing child is celebrating Eric Carle's birthday with AmAzInG ideas.

The Wizard of Oz and the red ruby slippers

Have you read The Wizard of Oz? I have read it TONS of times and I LOVE it!

Last month we worked with colours and I found that R is for Red as well as R is for Rojo in Spanish so I introduced both the English and Spanish version of the word.

and these are some of the activities we did.

clip cards. I pasted a crayon wrapper to a clothespin to resemble the crayon in the cards

we made the word rojo in upper and lower case

and her favourite activity, YES, red glitter to paint letter R

You can download Jolanthe's amazing pack here

http://homeschoolcreations.com/WizardofOzpreschoolpack.html

You can download the Spanish resources here

Download clip cards here

Download mat here

Download Rr is for Rojo here

Download letter tiles here

I made these resources with the Wizard of Oz clipart pack bought at Jessica Weible's store

Enjoy!!

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Friday Freebie! The little mermaid

Catch the next wave to Mermaid cove and be ready for a fun splash to read The Little Mermaid

Last summer we had a great time reading the story and doing some activities related to the ocean.

We played some games such as "Sea monster are you hungry?" "Pin the fin on Ariel" and a "Mermaid race". We read the story and we did some of these activities

These are a door hanger, bookmarks, stickers and a reading journal.

These are matching cards for vocabulary and sentence strips. 

Children can use the sentence strips for copywork, they can look for special words, sight words,etc

These are clipping wheels for beginning sounds. M is for mermaid, F is for fish,etc

These are crosscurricular cards with ideas to work in the centres and an envelope to store the cards.

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Book report poster

As a complement for my Cook up a story collection I made this Book report recipe poster.

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Take me home readers - Linky party

I am linking up with Time4Kindergarten 's linky party to share ideas about Take me home Readers. As a teacher of foreign language I see my kids twice a week and I teach in different levels so I can't move bags from one class to another. After a couple of years I came up with this idea.

I made folders for almost everything, including Take me home readers.

I call my folders Fun folders

I made labels for the readers we have to read according to our curricula

I place the books in the folder with some games and activity cards.

I also include a pocket on the book to store small pieces.

My goal as a EFL /ELL teacher is that children read one book each 2 weeks.

I use library cards to keep record.

What do you think? Come, join us!

Time4Kindergarten

Spanish resources & your opinion

Learning a new language has its own principles. Knowing a language implies the building of meaning, understanding and producing in different novel situations.

Language is considered an instrument, a tool for communication, which is the reason why it should be used with a purpose and adequate to it by means of different linguistic and pragmatic forms.

Cognitivism and constructivism are the sources of learning considered from this point of view

The main role of the speaker is to be a facilitator of communication. It is his obligation to propose different learning situations, in agreement with children’s level and interests, in which the children should be able to carry out activities from the very beginning.

Mistakes are considered the natural outcome of the learning process and fundamental in order to reflect upon a language and the way it is learnt. In this way, children should be able to acquire the necessary tools to correct themselves and make progress in their language.

Listening, speaking, reading and writing are developed together, integrating receptive and productive skills.

Fluency in the new language is considered more important than accuracy during the initial stages of the learning process. The latter is regarded as important as fluency in the intermediate and advances stages. Children should approach grammatical knowledge through contextualised activities specially designed to explain how grammar works and the effects produced by different linguistic constructions.

Integrating the learning of the new language to other areas of knowledge is a must.

It is our responsibility to create the feeling of self confidence in our children encouraging them to learn this new language following their own learning pace and taking mistakes as part of it.

 I have just finished some games in Spanish. 

Colores en verano / Summer colours is a game to introduce, review and practise colour recognition. 

I need your input. Any suggestion will be very appreciated!

Components:

4 mats

cards

pockets

cover

labels

These are some pics of the game

Cover

Inside: labels, pockets, mats

Labels: Instructions

Mats: colours 

Pockets: to store the cards

Mats: colour words

 You can match  words and pictures

You can match pictures and pictures

Thanks!

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Argentinean Flag Day

The national flag of Argentina dates from 1812. 

It is a triband, composed of three equally wide horizontal bands coloured light blue, white and light blue. In 1818, a yellow Sun of May was added to the center.

The full flag featuring the sun is called the Official Ceremonial Flag (Spanish: Bandera Oficial de Ceremonia). The flag without the sun is considered the Ornamental Flag (Bandera de Ornato). 

While both versions are equally considered the national flag, the ornamental version must always be hoisted below the Official Ceremony Flag.

You can read more about this celebration here:

http://www.manuelbelgrano.gov.ar/bandera_colores.htm

http://www.manuelbelgrano.gov.ar/

The National Flag song

Salve, Argentina, bandera azul y blanca. Jirón del cielo en donde impera el Sol. Tú, la más noble, la más gloriosa y santa, el firmamento su color te dio. Yo te saludo, bandera de mi Patria, sublime enseña de libertad y honor. Jurando amarte, como así defenderte, mientras palpite mi fiel corazón.

Hail, Argentina, Blue and white flag Part of the sky Where the sun reigns You, The Most Noble The Most Glorious and Saint The sky gave you its colours I salute you Flag of my motherland Grand symbol of freedom and honour Swearing to love you as well as to defend you for as long as my faithful heart beats

And you can also listen to the Argentinean Anthemn here

Happy Flag's Day to all my Argentinean brothers around the world!

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