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Day and night

Exploring our wonderful world.

We are Christian so we believe God made the world. The Bible tells us how He did it.

Genesis 1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 2 Now the earth was unformed and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the spirit of God hovered over the face of the waters. 3 And God said: 'Let there be light.' And there was light. 4 And God saw the light, that it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness. 5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day. 

Day and night

We talked about day and night. To introduce the theme I asked her some questions like

• How do you know when it is time to get ready for bed?
• What happens at night?
• What type of activities do you do during the day?
• What activities do you do at night?
• Do all people sleep during the night?
• Do all animals sleep during the night?
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Then she drew things she did during the day and things she did during the night.

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We went outside and checked the sky. I asked her.

• How is nighttime different from the daytime?
• What gives us daylight?
• What do you see in the day sky?
• What do you see in the night sky?

Then she had to sort day and night images in the wheel.

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TBA Science week

My favourite books of Science

Rebecca Kai Dotlich is the author of many picture books for children, such as In the Spin of Things: Poetry of Motion and Away We Go!, winner of the Oppemheim To Portfolio Gold Award. She lives in Indiana with her husband, Steven.

The varied activities in this book make learning both fun and effective.Designed to make learning comprehensive, organized and enriching for children aged 5 to 7, these books serve as wonderful teaching and learning tools that can be used both at home and in school.

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Versatile Blog Award

I want to thank Pam from The Vintage Teacher, and Janine from Faithful in First for this wonderful award. 

The rules to receive this award are these:

1-Thank the person who gave you the award and link back to them in your post.

2- Share 7 things about yourself

3- Pass this award along to 15 other blogs

7 things about me:

* Teaching English is my second career, I am a kindergarten teacher

* I  like learning about everything

* I teach about Jesus at church

* One of my most rewarding jobs is training other teachers

* I am learning to sew and to paint 

* I live in the capital city of Buenos Aires but I want to move to the beach

* I love chocolate. yeap!

Now..15 blogs that I love

Learning with TBA

Primary graffiti

Extra special teaching

What the teacher wants

Ms M blog

Miss Kindergarten

Little Miss Kindergarten

I can teach my child

Kindergarten works

Vintage teacher

Faithful in First

Musing of me

Mrs. Patton

Kleinspiration

Kindergarten crayons

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The 7 up experience

I have seen somewhere a post to stretch sentences using a can of 7up. I dont remember where so if you are the owner of the idea, let me know and I will link to it.

I made cards with short sentences and challenge my older kids to stretch them using adjectives, adverbs, connectors, etc.

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National Punctuation day- Free posters

September 24th is National Punctuation Day.Are you ready to celebrate it with your kids? 

I found this website where you can find some suggestions to celebrate this day. What about this rap?

www.nationalpunctuationday.com/index.html

What about this rap?

Punctuation Rap

PUNK, PUNK, PUNCTUATION
PUNK, PUNK, PUNCTUATION

I am a QUESTION MARK, what do I do?
I’m at the end of questions, like Where? What? or Who?

PUNK, PUNK, PUNCTUATION
PUNK, PUNK, PUNCTUATION

I am a PERIOD, that means full stop,
At the end of a sentence, just make a dot.
© 2006 Jeff Rubin   National Punctuation Day®

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Clipart by  Jessica Weible

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Falling words! Bilingual Wednesdays

Fall is here and we can take advantage of this teachable moment to learn some fall related words in Spanish.

Are you ready? Get some stuff to talk about Fall, you can use pics of some like crow, squirrel and real props like dried leaves, corn, pumkin and acorns.

Let children talk about the pics, ask questions such as 

• What's this?
• Where did you find it?
• What colour is this?
• What animal is this?

Tell children they will learn the Spanish form of these words:

Squirrel / Ardilla

Leaf / Hoja

Acorn / Bellota

Crow / Cuervo

Corn / Maíz

Pumpkin / Calabaza

Let children form the words using the tiles in the cards.

To prepare the letter tiles you just need to print, cut and laminate them.

Happy Fall you all!

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Happy Spring!

I made this set of seed packets and bookmarks to celebrate Spring.

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Happy Fall to all my friends!

Happy Fall dear friends!

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Ahoy mateys!

Weigh anchors and get ready for a Pirate adventure day!

We celebrated Talk like a pirate yesterday at school. We began the unit with  K-W-L chart about pirates.

Then we learnt about the vocabulary of pirates. We made a dictionary or a big book with words and drawings for the classroom library.

We also learnt about pirates clothing. I sent home a note to design a pirate costume or hat, making it either authentic or imaginary with parents.

The custom of singing, or chanting, various Pirate Songs was an extremely important part in life of a pirate. The pirate song was sung, or chanted, to accompany the hard and sometimes tedious tasks that had to be performed as part of the daily tasks of pirates.

Do you know this chant? My kids love it!

When I was 1 I ate a bun (mime action)

The day I went to seaI jumped aboard a pirate ship (cover one eye with hand)

And the Captain said to me (salute)

We're going this way, that way (sway from side to side)

Forwards and backwards (sway forwards and backwards)

Over the Irish Sea (use hand to make wave actions)

A bottle of rum (mime drinking)

To fill my tum,(rub tummy)

And that's the life for me (thumbs up)

Oy! (slap thigh like pantomime principal boy)

When I was 2 I buckled my shoe (mime action)

When I was 3 I banged my knee (mime action)

When I was 4 I slammed the door (mime action)

When I was 5 I learnt to dive (mime action)

When I was 6 I learnt some tricks (mime action)

When I was 7 I sailed from Devon (mime 'look-out')

 When I was 8 I jumped the gate (mime action)

When I was 9 I walk the plank (mime action)

When I was 10 did it again...

These are some of the resources I made for my Talk like a pirate day.

Word mat.

Pirates lotto with chocolate coins. Vocabulary revision with my younger kids.

Pirates board game and chocolate coins to review the vocabulary learnt.

Cards to review vocabulary. I punch a hole in one corner of the cards and use a ribbon or ring to bind them.

Pirates homonyms cards to work with my older kids.

Talk like a pirate cards

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We celebrated our first 100 classes !

As I am an ESL teacher I teach my kids twice a week. I decided to celebrate our 100 first classes of English at school.

I was looking for some ideas to celebrate with my kids and found tons of wonderful activities in the web.

I chose these:

Count and color

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I made these 100 charts with their favourite characters: George and Angelina.

Or you can use this blank chart

Children had to bring 100 things (small ones). Most of them brought 100 stickers, boys brought 100 marbles, two of them brought 100 buttons.

We made a mural with our 100 favourite things.

We played in the playground to Old Simon says. It is a variation of the traditional Simon says. I told them that now Simon is 100 years old (could you believe it?) and he just came up with things like 

Old Simon says to jump 100 times, to count to 100, to stomp your feet 100 times....

We were exhausted after playing that so we sat and sang this song

Happy 100 Day

Tune of "Happy Birthday to You"

Happy 100 classes to us,

Happy 100 classesto ..............(name of group or school)

Happy 100 days to us!

and after that we enjoyed a delicious snack in the playground.

Do you celebrate 100 classes at school? 

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DIY- my velcro apron and hanger

Ok. These are my first attemps with my new sewing machine. :)  I made a hanger with velcro to use in my class. 

and I also made a apron with velcro and a pocket to keep cards and pieces.

I have to admit that mom helped me with the ribbon but I am on my way to new DIY!

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Some printables to celebrate Roald Dahl day

One of my favourite books is Charly and the chocolate factory. I made these story stretchers with clipart bought at Digicute store. I love the Oompa loompas! 

What's your favourite book?

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Roald Dahl day

On September 13th fans from across the globe celebrated Roald Dahl Day.  Originally launched on in 2006 to celebrate what would have been the writer’s 90th birthday.
Dahl died in 1990 but his books remain as popular as ever, published in almost 50 languages.  Favorite titles such as Matilda, James and the Giant Peach and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory have been enjoyed by children and adults alike for generations in both book and film form.

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