Despicable Me

It is important to work with the children's relationships with their friends and family. The movie is about a lonely man, who gets to know three children and his life changes.

Pre-teaching

In the pre-teaching we do an interactive activity in which we have to show trust to the other person. So we're going to divide the children into pairs. One person in each pair gets blindfolded and the other has to guide the person. Then the roles are changed. Afterwards the students explain how they felt while they were blindfolded. The teacher writes their feelings on the blackboard. 

In the end we will sit on the floor in a circle and talk about how important it is to trust eachother, and that we as humans need to be with other people.

Teaching

Watch the film Despicable Me.  If there's not enough time to watch the whole movie we can watch only certain parts of it.

Post-teaching

In the post-teaching the students can work with the ICT, for example on Glogster.

The children can choose some images and a video from the movie and they can write about it.

Class activities

There have been interesting activities for this literature course.

Supermarket

How can we teach the different types of fruits to the children?

At the university we spoke about the correct method of teaching English.  For teaching the fruits we can make the fruits and the money with colours, papers etc.

Also  the teacher must explain the vocabulary that the children need.

The children can imagine that they are in a supermarket. The teacher can divide the children into two groups, one group is the customers and the other group is the cashiers. The customers can ask the cashiers the prices of the different fruits.

                                                                 

Dictionary

At the university we talked about creating a class dictionary. This is a good way for the children to learn and remember the glossary that we are teaching.

If the children are small, we can draw an image  and write the word for it. It is a good idea that the children make their own dictionary.

Chocolate cake

I've seen this video in class, This is a simple story, and it is very funny because Michael Rosen who is  telling it is very expressive. The story is about a mother who makes a fantastic chocolate cake. At night the child is very hungry, and he eats the chocolate cake. The next morning his mum gets very angry.

I recommend  the following video:  

Literature book

I want to share with all of you the book that my teacher recommended in the first class of literature. The book is called 500 Activities for the Primary Classroom. The author of the book is Carol Read.

In the first unit we have read and done interesting activities. In these activities you can learn  how to teach the literature in an optimal way, taking into account the age of the learners.

From my perspective the recommended book is ideal for this topic, and in my opinion  I would  have liked to use the book more.

I think the book is very interesting and we can learn fun methods for teaching literature.

Monsters University!

We are going to see a small part of the Monsters University film, because it is a funny film and many children like this film. But before that we are going to look at the emotions.

The following activities are designed for children between 7 and 8 years.

Pre-teaching

The objective is to teach the various types of emotions with the students. The material that we need is emotions or feelings flashcards .

Activity: Guess the emotions


The teacher  distributes the flashcards to the students. Each student has a flashcard. The teacher chooses one person and he/she should imitate the image of the flashcard in order for the other teammates to guess the emotion.

With this activity the students can demonstrate their creativity.


Teaching


Now it's time to watch a video. Children must choose a character and watch the different expressions and emotions that appear in the video.

Post-teaching

Finally we can do an interesting activity. The students have to create their own monster!

We can use the Voki web page! (http://www.voki.com/create.php)
The students can choose a monster and they can add a voice, a background etc. They must investigate!

After that we can describe their monsters.