Sounds box for reading stories

By Laura Benito

A motivating way for students to listen to a teacher reading a story or a book is the use of this sounds box.

While my colleague was reading a book to the students I was pushing the bottom of the corresponding sound. The story became alive and the children lived the story as if they were inside the book. 

Laughs sound, music sound, ideas sound, clapping hands sound... It is a fantastic device that you may find on different online shops. However, I bought mine in a physical shop called TIGER. It's cheap and I'm sure you would use it very often.

Decoration of classroom doors

By Laura Benito

I love decorating my classrooms' doors when a festivity or a special day is coming. 

My pupils always help me.

I post here some examples of my classrooms' doors.

First week of the school-year: WELCOME! DOOR

HALLOWEEN DOOR

CHRISTMAS DOOR (INSIDE)

CHRISTMAS DOOR (OUTSIDE)

BOOK DAY DOOR

Road Dahl's "The Twits"

By César Martín Pisonero

In our 1st year of bilingual Compulsory Education, our students read Roal Dahl's "The Twits".

The main characters in this book are everything but neat people, so at the end of the year we prepare two activities:

1- They need to think of a disgusting recipe that only Mr and Mrs Twit would attempt to taste. Then, they take it down on a paper and they work in art class so as to produce it with art craft materials.

You can see an example here:

2- After having dealt with persuasive language, they need to produce a radio advert in order to convince potential buyers that these meals are the most appealing ever and that they really are missing out on a must-eat if they do not purchase them

Once all of this has been done, we exhibit their handcrafted recipes with a QR code that takes us to SOUND CLOUD, where listeners can access the adverts.

Flashcards to support teaching "The Very Hungry Caterpillar"

 By Elena de la Puente

What is it? 

MANIPULATIVE MATERIAL: Flashcards to support teaching "The Very Hungry Caterpillar". 

What do you use it for? 

I use it for working the vocabulary that appears in the story. 

After reading the story, students can put the days of the week in order according to the story. Afterwards, we could classify the healthy food and the unhealthy food. You can also work the spelling of the food through games like the snap, the hang man, what's missing...