Prototyping©

Magnetic Moments!!!©

Here we are!!!
Another trick to get your students involved in learning English.
You can do it by yourself, buying:
"stacks" (little squared magnets) at the newsagent's and white sticker paper, so you'll be able to draw, colour and write on it.

Game example:
These Magnetic Cards could be used for many different classic games: Dominoes, Bingo, Memory, or, simpler, throwing the matching pair at the magnetic board from a certain distance (my students, currently do it with their "staks" of Star Wars).

It’s a MODULAR GAME, rechargeable like ‘Trivial Pursuit’, for example.
You ‘buy’ the first box with the base and one or two subjects,
then when you need another one because you’re explaining it in class,
you can buy the "recharge" that contains Cards dealing with the subject you need only.

Subject Areas:
Clothes, Body parts,
Seasons and weather,
Days, months, holidays,
Sports, Professions,
House - furniture,
City, Telling time,
Park, The classroom, Animals, Verbs, everyday routine, Food and Drink, Colours, Adjectives (opposites) Verbs.

Functions:
Combine words with their
correspondent pictures.

Combine present tense with past tense.

Connect verbs with subjects, or objects,
words with definitions.

LITTLE BLUE and LITTLE YELLOW by Leo Lionni

Little blue and little yellow share wonderful adventures. One day, they can't find one another. When they finally meet, they are overjoyed. They hug until they become green. As a single green shape, they play and then go, first to Little Blue's house and then to Little Yellow's only to be rejected and unrecognized.

When you read this passage try to emphasize the dialogs between the colorful parents and the green ball!!!
You will notice all the eyes of your pupils gazing at you with a mixing of suffer and curiosity, it's great!!!

In the link below you can find a downloadable pdf with some activities concerning the tale:
http://teacher.scholastic.com/lessonrepro/lessonplans/profbooks/blueyellow.pdf

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More translations... more languages

Pequeno Azul e Pequeno Amarelo
Editora: Berlendis & Vertecchia
ISBN: 8586387916
Ano: 2005
Número de Páginas: 44
Acabamento: Encadernado

Este é o Pequeno Azul.
Está em sua casa com a Mamã Azul e o Papá Azul.
O Pequeno Azul tem muitos amigos.
O seu melhor amigo é o Pequeno Amarelo,
que vive na casa da frente.(...)

Leo Lionni

Pequeño Azul y Pequeño Amarillo
(Little Blue and Little Yellow, 1959)
Leo LIONNI
Kalandraka, 2005;
44 pp.;
col. Libros para soñar;
trad. de Pedro Almeida;
ISBN: 84-96388-25-5.
3 años: prelectores.
Álbumes ilustrados.
El mejor amigo de Pequeño Azul es Pequeño Amarillo.
Un día que Pequeño Azul abraza a Pequeño Amarillo se vuelve verde.
Y cuando los padres de ambos también se conocen les pasa lo mismo.

Piccolo Blu e Piccolo Giallo
Autore Lionni Leo
Prezzo € 10,00
Prezzi in altre valute

Dati 1999, 48 p.,
illustrato
Editore: Babalibri

Petit Bleu et Petit Jaune
Series: Lutin Poche
Authors: Lionni
Market: Ages 0-4
Level: Beginners
Subject: French
Publication Date: July 1997
Price: £6.25
ESB Code: 74303
ISBN:9782211058780

Numbers and balls

This morning my students had a review of numbers.

I brought a yellow ball in class, I moved all the desks to create a space where they could stay in a circle and I threw the ball to one of them shouting 3!!!

The first part of the game was quite simple, they have to throw the ball to a classmate shouting the numbers in ascending order.

When they got bored I complicated the game in many different ways:

Tell the numbers in a descending order

or

Add 2 (or 3, 4, 5...) to the number you've just said trowing the ball

or

Subtract 2 (or 3, 4, 5...)

or

Don't say the numbers that contain 3 or 4 or 5 etc...

The game is quite useful because apart from using numbers, they'll improve their knowledge of multiplication table and mathematical calculations as well.

Where is the playground?!?©

Where is the Playground?!?!?©

Ok, I discovered that my 8 year old spanish pupils have a problem with left and right.

So, today, I started the class making them raise their left hands than the rights.

Finally I told them to fold their left sleeves (to have a visual reference).

The second step was explaining them how to turn left or right (it's not obvious for them).

Finally we played Simon Says with this (now easy) 4 commands:

Go down 1st (or 2nd...) street

Turn right

Turn left

Go on

Stop