HI TO ALL!!
Here you have the direction of our project and we hope you like it!!

http://issuu.com/nereaarbelaiz/docs/inglesekoproiektua

HAVE A HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

Presenting Projekt´s first ideas

Hi everyone!!

Like the last week it said, we have to talk about a little about our projekt. So now we are going to explain you about it.
The school that we have choosen is Ondarreta Public School. This school is near San Sebastian.

Ondarreta is a public School and the reason which we have chosen it is because we think it is very interesting working in a public school and also because there are a lot of type  of students for example: portuguese, moroccan, gypsy and basque students. We have to say that the most of them have as maternal language Spanish.

On the other hand, we have to talk about the characteristic of our students. Our students are five years old and some of them are immigrant. 

The topic that we decide to teach is about family. We will work the topic about the family with the english. Also,  we introduce in our project for example: general objectives, objectives of the unit, contents, competences, activities, criteria for evaluation, methodology, differents models of education that we would aplicate in our project, and finally the parents collaboration.

Well, this is our project, but not all of it. If you want to know more you have to wait until we publish it or ask personally and we will give you more information.

 

 Have a nice long weekend!!

Role-play

Hi to all!!

The last week we started with the role-play in class and nowadays we can say that we have learnt those points to have in mind.

1. Talk in English. From our point of view, the teacher must to speak all of the time in English. That’s to not mix the English and the Basque languages. So, in the English class time the teacher has to talk in English. That’s why the teacher has to divide the normal class (Basque) and the English one (in case that there is just one teacher for both languages, like in Zerain). For it we can use some extra elements or accessories to make easier the division. For instance, wigs. 

2. The teacher must be careful with the vocabulary and the grammar forms that uses. It is necessary to keep in mind that the recipients are children.

3. We think that giving examples is the best way for teaching. For example, if we are teaching colors we can show them some color manleys.

4. When we were seeing the different role-playings, we realize the importance of patience. The teacher has to be patience to teach slowly and repeat everything more than once. Apart of this, the teacher must do signs.

5. The possibility of doing extra activities. In those role-playings we saw a big variety of different examples of activities; singing songs, painting, pointing, watching videos, going to trips, reading books… we can accurate the activities or the styles depending on the teachers interests. Also is important to star teaching from the teachers’ interests.

6. In our role-playing, we had the chance to teach to the children some extra contents that we hadn’t prepared before. But the kids started saying the colors of the crayons and we can use that moment to teach them the colors names. So, we don’t have to say what we had planned, we can afford every moment to teach English.

So, that’s what we learnt. We are waiting to see your publications

See you!

Hezkuntza in the World. 

Hi to all!!

I´m Nerea and yesterday I was the journalist of the class. So now I´m going to explain you what happed in the class.

First, Natalia read us a part of a book called, THE ELEPHANT IN CHAINS. The books topyc was about if you don´t try something that you really want to do it, you will never get it. It was very interested topyc, because, we can connect it with something in our lives.
Then, Eli, Maialen, Leire and me, explain our activities about how to introduce the English in a class, but we had to use the Zerain model of education. 

• The first activity was meet Uxue and sing a song if she was awake.
• The second activity was draw Uxue.
• The third activity was show you a album family.
• And the last activity was draw their each one family and then write your family members.

And that is all!!

Have a nice day!!
See you later!!

Hi to all!!
Today we have done our child profile to make a roleplay in class, so now we are going to show you our child profile.

• Our child is boy and his name is Aitor
•  He is 5 years old
• Aitor is relaxed and out-going boy. Also, he is intelligent and always be ready to take part in the class.
• He doesn´t like animals and sometimes it´s difficult to catch his atention.
• When the teacher is talking about some topic that he really dislikes, he gets very angry.
• His father is English.
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AITOR WISH YOU A GOOD WEEK!!!!!!!!!

Is it clil?

In this publication we will talk about one especific proyect that is still going on Zerain.
When Uxue was borned in Zerain, the teacher Kontxi thought that it was the moment to start with a new proyect. She decided to learn maths but without book. She thought that will be more interesting and motivating for the students to learn something that they would like to know. So, she decided to start teaching from the students interests.

Moreover, the proyect wasn't just in maths the proyect was based on teaching all the subjects like maths without books. So they will learn just one toppic and will start teaching it and go wherever the students like.

So, the cuestion is; is it clil?
Of course it is clil. Clil means or consists on convining the contents with the languages. So on the english/spanish case (because we will refere to a foreign or second language) in Zerain they work with clil. They work the family toppic but in english or spanish so they are mixing the contents (always from the students interests) with s language. So IT IS CLIL!.


Here we see that what we see on the theory can be used on the practise, so come on, if we want we can!

Have a really nice weekend

See you soon xxx

hezkuntza in the world



  

ACTIVITIES TO LEARNING ENGLISH IN ZERAIN SCHOOL

Hi friends!

Today we have been speaking about activities that we would do to learning English in Zerain school.

The first activity: TO DO A FAMILY BOOK/ALBUM
 In this activity, the students are going to take their family book.

The second activiy: RECOGNISE TO THE FAMILY
The students will put in the wall their families photos and the teacher will  say, for example: "Go to your father´s photo" Then, the children have to go to their father´s photo (there we can say like, go but, runnig, or walking, or jumping, or dancing... to make the activity funnyer).

The third activity: TO DO A DRAW
The students are going draw and in this draw will appear their father, mother, siblings, grandmother, grandfather... (their familiars)

The fourth activity: WHO IS WHO
This activity is to deducing who is the person of the family that the teacher is describing. for this exercise we can use the family album of the teacher or some students, so the teacher willl show the picture and after xplain who is who (she is my mother, he is my father) and after all the explanation, will say something like this: "Is someone that has sunglasses" or "Is someone that has a red t´shirt" and the students have to guess.

The fifth activity: FAMILY SONG
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjFcrv6Lfx8

The sixth activity: INDEX CARD
The student are going to give at home the index card and their parents have to fill in. In this index card appear these information:
Name
Age
Job
After, we can analize all the information, and work differents toppics (but also if the students are interested on all of this).


The seventh activity:  PIGGYBOOK
The teacher is going to read the "piggybook "book. This book explain the story of a traditional family.
So, if the students are interested on the differents families, we can go through it.

That's all!!

We hope you like it!!

xxx

ELEANITZ PROIEKTUA

ELEANITZ PROIEKTUA

In this case we will talk you about Eleanitz Project.

The student who participate in this project, begin studying english with four years.

The positive sides of the Eleanitz project we think that are those that are below:

- The creative thinking.

- More flexibility talking about mental intelligence.

- Abilities/skills to the social communications and relationships.

- More facilities to learn another language.

This aproach, complements to the multilingual approach. Thats what we mean, although the Basque is the main language, this project helps you giving some facilities that are obtained to learn the Spanish, and so, other languages ​​such as English. The most innovative topic is the early exposure of the foreign language.

With this project  the objectives determined are those:

1.- Same opportunities to all the students to learn the two official languages, and to get the normalization and use of the Basque language.

2.- Achieve those skills: understanding, creating, reading, writing, analyzing, thinking over, attitude…

The requisites to can participate in that project:

a) To be schooled in “D eredua”.

b) To start learning english with 4 years old and continue until 16 years old.

c) Furthermore, to be completed the courses and the hours that are predicted for the cycles and states.

d) The projects equipment use on the right way.

e) They will chosse the teachers that make conditional on the project.

f)The teachers that take part in training meeting.

g) Take part in evaluation meeting.

h) Pay the expense of the project.

Also, it´s so important the knowledge of the teachers, becouse they have to use the correct tools to trasmit their knowledge to their students. But, we can´t forget about the tools that uses the school as well. These too things are so important to learn a new lenguage.

For this project the most important thing is the material that use in the classes, so for this reason if they don´t found the right material, they make their own material.

This are the list of the project´s material: (4 years to 18 years)

• Ready  for the story.
• The Adventures of Hocus and Lotus.
• Story Projects.
• The Explorers.
• Subejct Projects.
• SSLIC (Gizarte Arloa ingelesez)
• The culture of Europe.

Finaly,  the conclution of  the expert about this project is that the students that use this methon to learn English (child above everything), they don´t affect on their mom lenguage, in our case the Basque lenguage (we think that this is very important). So that means, the little children since four years can learn English without any problems of forget their lenguage.

Some questions to how to make the English learning happened.

Hi friends..... :#

Sorry friends, we had forgotten about writing the questions.

But, there we go;

1.- The English lesson is appropriate to do in the same class or is better to go to other class (to separate the languages with spaces and don’t  mix)?

2.- Is better to have 3 lessons for 30 minutes or is better to have one intensify lesson per week for 1 h and a half?

3.- How can we teach them in HH the written English if they don’t know writing their first language properly? Or is adequate to just work with the speaking English?

4.- Do we have to obligate the students to speak in English?

5.- Apart from groups  should we make exercises individually?

Those are our questions

xxx

PD: (Mejor tarde que nunca).

OUR EXAMPLE OF CLIL

Hello classmates,

In today's lesson we talked about the CLIL project. CLIL stands for Content and Language Integrated Learning. It refers to teaching subjects such as science, history and geography to students through a foreign (or not necessarily foreign) language. This can be by the English teacher using cross-curricular content or the subject teacher using English as the language of instruction.

So, we will do our own example of CLIL project.

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 The most important point for us is to teach English but in a funny way. We don't want our students to get bored; we want them to participate actively (of course, meanwhile learning). So the activities will be games.

-       Moreover, we will group our students. The objective is to cooperate and work in groups. (That’s because we think that in that way we can learn more and better).

-        Talking about methodology, we think that some rituals or routines makes the students feel better and be more relaxed (because they know that will happen). So to start the class we will sing a song. After, we will tell them a story, and this story will be related with the next activity that we are going to do. For instance, we will tell them a story about some colors and after they will draw the rainbow). And for the end of the class, we will finish it with a song or with a game. OF COURSE ALL THE TIME THE TEACHER WILL SPEAK IN ENGLISH AND ALL THE ACTIVITIES, SONGS AND EXERCISES WILL BE IN THAT LANGUAGE.

-       More things that we talked about our project; the teacher will make some open-questions so that the students will answer. Furthermore, the teacher will make repeating sentences or some words. (In our project, we decided that for us the most important thing is the speaking language, but we don’t rule out the written English.

-       The topics that we will work in our project are the ones that are interesting for OUR students. So, when we know our students we will decide the examples of the didactic units. But those who usually have much success or the most used are; animals, family, feelings, means of transport and community workers, body parts, colors… But as teacher, we will work the ones who are significant.

-     Talking about material, and according to the text we read about CLIL, we will use, CDs, DVDs, puppets, books, songs… (We require for the material; native English speakers).

Finally, we want to use English with a natural way (in discussions…).

WE KNOW THAT ALL OF THIS IS EASY TO WRITE, BUT NOT TO PUT IN PRACTISE, BUT DON’T DESMOTIBATE!! WITH PRACTISE AND WITH PATIENCE WE CAN ACHIECE.

COME ON FUTURE TEACHERS, YES WE CAN !!!!!!!!!!!!!

HELLO!!!

The last class, I was the journalist and we were talking about when, why and how learning a foreign language.
In our class we talked about different topics and now i'm going to share with you:

WHEN, WHY AND HOW LEARNING A LANGUAGE

• Some of us thought that beginning learning a language with four years is appropriate but you must know how to do it. But others, said that it´s not necessary to start learning English with four years. On the other hand, there are who said that it´s better begin learning English with 4 years because they will learn better the pronunciation.
• It´s more important the methodology than the age to start learning English.
• You can learn English hearing speaking to your teacher.
• Firstly you have to know speaking your mom language perfectly and then, you can study or learn the second or the third language.
• Begin learning English with 4 or 6 years doesn´t change the level that the child will get. But, there were others who said that  the children that begin learning English with 4 years have better level than the other children. 
• So, learning a language depend on two factors:

Exposures
The cuality

• High exposure does not neccesary correlate with higher competence. It´s the form, intensity and timing of exposure that may be more important factors.

HAVE A GOOD WEEKEND!!!!!!

                                                                                                 

Hi friends,
How are you? In this case, we will talk you about the age of the children of our project, and the reasons. We have been talking about it, and finally we have decided that the age of the children will be five years old.
On one hand, some of us thought that the ideal age is 6 years old, because we think that the first languages has to be learnt perfectly. And after, the foreign languages can take place on their lives.
On the other hand, some of us thought that the ideal age is 4 years old, because we think that if we start as soon as we can with other language is better and easyer to learn better, but also is important not to forget the first languages.
So finally, both of us agreed and decided that our proyect will be for children for 5 years old. We think that is important to start early but, before it, they have to  have learnt well the first languages.

Thank you for reading and have a nice wekeend!!!!!!

Hi everyone!

Last week we were told to write down about some principles for our project. After talking a lot we decided those principles that are separate on three headlands:

The first headland is THE TEACHERS’ COMPETENCES OR ATTITUDE:

• We think that the teacher is supposed to be flexible: what we mean is that the teacher has to respect the children rhythm. Each person has our specific rhythm and our work as teachers is to adapt ourselves to their rhythm and to adapt it on all the class, to go everyone at the same time. So other attitude can be to be patience but, we think that is related with the flexibility and respecting the rhythm, because sometimes everyone is fast but just one is slower, so with a lot of patience we have to achieve to stay everyone together. Al so, the teacher can’t shout to the students.
•  To stay everyone together we can observe that the collaboration is essential. Work in groups, help to other students. We don’t have to forget never that the teacher is the model, so we have to work in groups and the students will watch it and copy us.
• The teacher has to be motivated. If the teacher is motivated the children will be to. And for us it is very important because, with motivation the learning will be more and more significant.
•  The positivism is also so important. The teacher has to believe in the children abilities and believe that all the children will go on, on their mode.
• Almost creativity is very important. From our point of view mathematics, languages and all those subjects are important, but we can teach them those subjects in other way. With creativity we can make some activities attractive. Moreover, we can teach them just being creative with activities like; painting, drawing, acting, singing…
• Active. Is one word that can say lots of things but what we mean with it is that the teacher needs to be active and teach things by doing. It is also one strategy but we think that to use this strategy on the classroom.
• The last competence is that the teacher has to be interested in children previous knowledge.

The second headland is the strategies to be used in the classroom:

• When we mentioned the creativity we talked about using some material that creates interest. For instance, when we are teaching them the names of the colors, we can show them some “Manleys” or when we are teaching them the names of the instruments carry there some instruments and let them playing them. Moreover, and related with the creativity, we can let them doing some activities like; playing with dolls, doing manual works, reading book, watching videos, singing songs... (all of them  are objects that create interest on them and help them learning better).
• We will use some rituals, like start and finish the class with some songs…

And to the last headland we use the others name:

• We want to show them that English is funny, that they can use English wherever they want and have fun with it. So for that, we can use English with exercises they like, going out of the classroom or school territory…
• Moreover, we have to take in count that there are children and we have to teach things that are related to their level.

After listening to other class groups, we had added more principles.

On teachers’ abilities:

• Take account the children needs and point of interest. (We can relate and add it with being interested on students previous knowledge)
• Work with other schools, using Skype… (We can related and add this with our point of collaboration).
• Being open-minded.
• Be passionate with our work. (We can related and add it with being motivated).
• Create equal opportunities for all the children. Respect see them as a person (they are children but are person too). (We will relate and add it with flexibility).
• To be a researching teacher.

On strategies:

• Use those activities too: crafts, create histories, workshop…
• Activities to experiment…
• Use body or corporal expression and make kids also using it.
• Respect the interests of OUR CILDREN. (Not curricular, the interests of our students).

On others:

• Use English with other subject. (We can relate it with using English with funny activities and go out of class.
• Talk in English all the time.
• Feel English useful. (We will relate it with funny and using it out of school).
• Some works to do with parents and at home. (With this exercise we can make collaboration school-home/family).
• Evaluate their process as small as they are.
• Do not obligate do to nothing.
• Don´t keep them the chance to participate.

Wainting to your publications to take more information.

Se you

hezkuntzaworld

JOURNALIST

Hello! Today, I am the journalist. My name is Leire.

In the class of the 23 of October, one student for our class, red us one book that it is called “Don´t let the pigeon drive the bus!”. So, all the class we put in a circle and we listened her carefully.  It was very nice! She made us talk and take part!

The book is a children´s picture book by Mo Willems. Released by Hyperion Press in 2003. The plot is about a bus driver who has to leave so he asks the reader to not allow the pigeon to drive the bus. The pigeon tries many excuses and tries to finagle readers into letting him drive the bus.

Without we realize, “Don´t let the pigeon drive the bus” obligate us to put ourselves in the place of an adult that he have to deny something to someone younger than him. And we must confront to faces of 'good boy', tantrums and desperate emotional blackmail.

Also, the book can be considered as a game: every time that the pigeon say us that it wants to drive the bus, children will have to say “NO”.

After the book, we have put in groups and we have done one list about the principles of our project. The principles are about what we want to do for children learn English in a fun and active way.

When we have finished doing the list, we have spoken about our principles all the class. So, we can have put or change other principles in our list that we have liked.

Then, all the groups will publish in the blog their list. So, all the people who want, will can see it.

Finally, in the next publication, my group and I have published our list with some principles that we would use in our school to teach English. We hope it will be interesting for you and for all the people.

BYE! 

Hi to all!!
This is our list of good things and bad things to learn a new lenguage.
GOOG THINGS:

• Speaking in that lenguage.
• Reading a books or something like that in that lenguage.
• Watching videos.
• Doing exercises.
• Singing songs.
• Practising.
• Speaking with other people.

BAD THINGS:

• Not practise.
• Having a bad teacher.
• Having a bad lenguage.
• Don´t be motiveted.

Also we wrote about bad and good education. This is our list of it.

GOOD EDUCATION:

• All the time practise the leguage.
• Feel like home.
• Have flexibite.
• The teacher have to be goog teacher and be motivited.
• Arts activites are more inportant than learning maths.
• No memorise LEARN.

BAD EDUCATION:

• The class be not interesting and every day do the same thing all the time.
• Having a bad books and notes about the lenguage.
• If the books are not modern.
• If the all class the student are doing only grammar and not practise the lenguage.

Hi everyone!

In the other class we saw a documental about school prohibited and we liked it a lot. We did some reflections and we would like to announce you:

• In the school you must know reading, writting and calculating. If you don´t know these others activities you aren´t educated.
• The student must be free to learn.
• Love is necesary for learn.
• Learning in group is better than learning alone.
• If you aren't happy in the education it means that you aren´t educating

Definitely, the most important thing in education is that the student must be free and must do freely the diferent activities.

Kisses!!!

Wellcome!

Hello,
We are Maialen, Nerea, Eli and Leire and we just want to share with you our blog with our insights and contributions to our didactic unit about different topics.

In the next publication we will show you our picture.

we hope you will enjoy it...

xxx and hugs

Take care ;)