UNDER TEA ( ALMUDENA ESTEBAN)

 "Undersea Tea". De would draw an octopus with its tentacles bearing the words of the song: "OLIVER THE OCTOPUS UNDERNEATH THE SEA SWIMMING VERY SLOWLY LOOKING FOR HIS TEA MAKES A LITTLE BUBBLE GIVES A LITTLE GRIN, HI THERE, FISHES COME ON IN..."

This is how I would develop the activity: groups of four dancing two by two holding hands, arms straight, and the other pair going under singing and mimicking the words at the same time.
They will get a certain flow in which they will focus on the activity, enjoying it and feeling completely absorbed. This satisfaction isla what I call flow.

THE BUS ( JOSEFINA RODRIGUEZ)

 With students of 6º, I think it would be interesting to make a performance like the one we saw on the video "the bus". We could create a story inside the bus, extending the story using the vocabulary they are learning in class. For example: They are travelling looking at the countryside and they see a castle, animals, people doing different things, a river, a bridge ...etc and while they are in the bus they ask each other a question like :" this thing starts with a B and it´s above a river / this thing starts with a P and it goes along the river and so on.

To make this performance, they have drawn the scenery of this landscape and the audience can see it while they are travelling.
The audience can be involved too

This performance helps them to think about the different words and they make them say properly the sentence to explain "what it is used for, where it is , what they are made of...."

Finally, a song related to travels can be played and sung.

I think that before preparing this short drama, as they are older students, they could write " a Story Map", including signs, gestures, props and materials.

With this same scenary, in the bus, we could change it in another story, for example, they are going to a party and each character has a role in this party.

TEN FAT SAUSAGE (LAURA MINGUÉLEZ)

 Next week, in level 3 Primary, I’m going to use the nursery rhyme “ten fat sausages”. We are in the didactic unit about food and I think this song with its ‘dance’ is going to motivate them a lot. In addition, thanks to it, I am going to introduce the topic about junk food in general and fast food in particular, so then they can prepare a role-play simulating a conversation in a healthy-food restaurant between waiter/waitress and customer/s. To extend the topic, I can do a listening comprehension through extracts from the documentary ‘Super Size Me’, especially the parts when American children are interrogated.

WALKING IN THE JUNGLE ( ANA ESCRIBANO)

 https://youtu.be/GoSq-yZcJ-4

Sog: “Walking in the Jungle”
I really like this song for young children but they also love it.
I would like to get more out of it with the new ideas and resources exposed by Gill.
Thinking about my groups of students and space in the classroom, we are listening to it in 2nd and 3rd year class of Primary.
Allows students to move in a slow and controlled manner within the classroom. (They need to move and nowdays it is quite difficult to do so).
The vocabulary that appears in the song allows you to work on different actions and animals, a topic that they love….
What am I going to improve with Gill's new contributions?
*Make small groups and each one performs an action, according to the corresponding verse.
* Other students can play the different animals in the song and "hide" around the class (imitating the sound of the animal).
* We can expand vocabulary with new actions and animals. We will introduce other different ones to vary and learn new vocabulary.
* Make masks, body parts of animals or other elements that identify each of them in order to revise vocabulary worked in class and they can use it while they sing, too.

A CATERPILLAR´S VOICE (ANA GARCÍA)

 This is an activity designed for students of year 5 in a school with the British Council project. It´s a theatre play called "A Caterpillar´s Voice".

As one of the topics they study in Science is vertebrates, the students are going to act out a piece of theatre about animals.
First, they choose the animal they want to be; it must be a big and strong animal. Once they have decided on the animal, they start making and decorating masks for each of them. They must also practse making the sound of the animal of their choice.
They are given this situation for the play:
A caterpillar gets into a hare´s cave while the hare is taking a walk. As he finds out that the cave has an echo that makes his voice sound loud, he decides to stay there and frighten all the animals that dare to get into the cave, as the hare asks othe strong animals for help. Students are given some clues and structures and with the help of the teacher they have to write a diologue to act out.

THE VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR (RAQUEL GONZÁLEZ)

 The story I choose is "the very hungry caterpillar" by Eric Carle. It is a children's book (for children between 3 and 6 years old). It is about an insect that eats different things every day of the week. Over the weeks it also grows in size until it develops into a butterfly with large, gorgeous, multi-colored wings. What activities can we do? Games, songs, or a short theater related to food, days of the week or the life cycle of the butterfly. I think it is a fairly complete book to carry out many activities in the classroom and take advantage of many topics for student learning.

MINDFUL BREATHING WITH MOJO (TERESA VEGA)

 Mindful breathing with Mojo.

Breathing and streching out is of paramount importance for our wellbeing and specially in this uncertain time we are all going through. In my year 6 class we do chair yoga, which is connected to breathing. We found chair yoga dances and have been doing them to strech out in between lessons. Dancing helps us to express ourselves and when it is a combination of dance and yoga the results are amazaing. My students are now able to create their own chair yoga dances and enjoy it a lot. We contacted Sherry Zak Morris, the yoga instructor based in California whose dances we have been using.My students wrote questions for her and she answered and explain to them all the benefits of yoga dance.