My Dream Classroom

Have you ever wished to have a jacuzzi in your classroom? Or, maybe a tennis court, a piano, some clothes shops and, of course, plenty of computers and mobile phones everywhere?
Students of ESO1B at IES La Zafra in Motril have had the opportunity of designing their ideal classroom. Most of them are in Hawaii, but we also have classrooms in New York, London and even...Jupiter!!! Five to ten students per classroom as average and most of the times, with no teachers. (...)
They have even been allowed to chose the subjects taught in those Dream Classrooms and, of course, the winner is: Wassap. One hour everyday, followed by lessons of tuenti, shopping, football, and, of course, PSP, XBox... No need to have a recess as you can sit comfortably in the huge sofas placed everywhere or have a swim in the huge swimming pools that you can find in almost all of our classrooms. And, believe it or not,  in mid november, in Motril, most of the classroom didn't forget to install... Air Conditioned!!
You can find more details about the process of building those classrooms as well as the evaluation rubric on our CLASSROOM BLOG
And here is a little sample of our work so far:

MY DREAM CLASSROOM on PhotoPeach.
Enjoy!!

How Should We Address Poverty? Do Now as a class!!!

How should the U.S. treat people who are living in poverty? 

What would an anti-poverty agenda look like? 

Devise one piece of legislation that could make a difference.

The issue comes up as the US Census Bureau announced that the US poverty rate has remained roughly at this same level since 2011. 46 million Americans — 15 percent of the population — are now counted as living in poverty.

The main resource is an interview of  Robert Reich who talks about “Inequality for All,” a documentary about the former labor secretary’s personal crusade to explain to Americans why everyone should care about the nation’s growing economic disparity and divisiveness. 

There is also a great comic infographic that defines poverty from KQED's The Lowdown (under the More Resources section).

If you are teaching B2 - C1 lessons, join Do Now and get in touch with lots of students and teachers around the world at the same time as you make your contribution on current issues through social networks, from an educational point of view.

Here's the Do Now: http://blogs.kqed.org/education/2013/11/01/how-should-we-address-poverty/

To respond to the Do Now, you can comment below or tweet your response. Be sure to begin your tweet with @KQEDEdspace and end it with #DoNowPoverty

Create a Comic with Marvel

Every kid knows Marvel characters: the Avengers, Captain America, Spiderman, Ironman, Thor, and so on, but now you can you use them in your classroom, break creative and have your students write their own Marvel comics, and all that, online.

Visit Marvel and start creating. Either a whole book or just a strip, your students will surely love it, have fun and at the same time, practise their writing skills in English!

 

Great for Primary Education Storytelling Lessons!

Let's cook to celebrate Halloween

Year 2 of Primary School

San Gregorio School.

Last week  one of my collegues gave me a big Pumpkin and we decided not only to decorate it for Halloween day. We decided to COOK IT! We cooked Halloween Cream. 

1. First of all we wrote down the Recipe in our notebooks. 

2. Then we needed to check if we had all the ingredients and the materials.

3. Let's follow the recipe. Peel the potatoes and the pumpkin.

 

4. Chop the pumpkin and the potatoes. And then put everything into the pot.

5. Let's boil it for 1 hour. (Mari Luz, our school cook, helped us with this). And then we had to blend everything with the cheese.

6. Then we set the table (We used the school library for it).

7. We ate it and IT WAS DELICIOUS!!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN FROM 

CLASS YEAR 2B OF SAN GREGORIO SCHOOL !!!

I hope you like it and you had found it useful for your lessons.

Javier Ramos Sancha

@javiramossancha

SGAguilar Javier Ramos

Halloween VoiceMail

Enjoy receiving voice messages through SpeakPipe?

What about spooky Halloween voice messages?

Halloween is just around the corner, so we built a public Halloween voicemail board for recording, listening to, and sharing scary Halloween voice messages.

Visit the board here.

Go ahead, record your spooky messages and share them with others.


Don't be shy - you can become a Halloween spooky-star!

MY SUMMER HOLIDAYS BY YEAR 2B

MY SUMMER HOLIDAYS

BY YEAR 2B

Colegio San Gregorio.

At the beginning of the school years we wanted to start with our Portfolio we decided to tell everybody what we did along OUR SUMMER HOLIDAYS.

We drawn a picture about the thing we have liked the most of the holidays. Later, we learnt the past tense of the verb go. We wanted to put into words where we were and who were with us. So we write a sentence in our pictures using the past.

These have been our final products:

My summer holidays  on PhotoPeach

We hope you liked it and if you want let’s do it with your students.

Javier Ramos Sancha

@javiramossancha

http://sgaguilarjramos.blogspot.com

EUROPEAN DAY OF LANGUAGES AT CPR LOS CASTAÑOS

Hi, everybody.

CPR "Los Castaños" have celebrated the European Day of Languages through an Etwimming Project. 

This project consists on an exchanges of "Greeting Cards" between the countries which are partners of  it. These were written in the mother tongue and English. 

Schools from most of European countries have taken part in it. We have received in Pitres cards from England, France, Portugal, Sweden, Island, Ukraine, Slovenia, Poland, Italy, Greece, Denmark, Ireland, etc.

After that, we have been working on looking for information about these countries and each pupil has done a small presentation to their partners of this country.

Of course, we have also sent our "Greeting Cards" to schools.

You could find the post in our classroom blog.

Greetings. 

Alberto Molina Cervilla