The English Pre-school Almazan Corner

Phonics

Before going on Easter Holidays, our infants participated in the Easter party. They decorated eggs, learnt a poem, and made the egg hunting. I present you some pictures and movies:

Making a shaker--5 Years

After the concert, 5 year-students made a hand-made shaker with recycled materials.

Instruments in 5 Years

5 year children aré studying instruments. They were playing dome of them, and we decided to have a miniconcert for 2 year pupils. Both classrooms enjoyed a lot, and they had a funny time.

THE ENORMOUS TURNIP

This is the story of a farmer who grows an enormous turnip. It comes a time when he wants to eat it and he needs some help to pull it up. Let's see what happens!

Pupils can learn basic topics and concepts such as big/small, vegetables, animals, collaborative work...

December is here, and with this month Christmas is also coming! During these days, our children are enjoying with some cartoons, songs, videos, crafts or games. In the next webpage you can find many Christmas songs:

http://www.links2love.com/christmas_songs.htm

And some of the songs they like most and which we listen in the classroom are the following:

FROSTY THE SNOWMAN

JINGLE BELLS

RUDOLPH THE RED NOSE

PINOCCHIO

The last Friday, 18th of November, our preschool students went to see Pinocchio play. They enjoyed a lot with characters and songs, and even some of them were fortunate enough to be able to meet him.

PREPARING HALLOWEEN

The previous days to Halloween children were preparing decoration for the party. They were very happy and excited about it, as well as involved in the tasks. Some of the results can be seen in the following pictures.

Literacy

Here I leave you a webpage to work literacy with your children. You will find concepts such as letters (uppercase and lowercase), numbers, shapes, numbers, etc. In addition, and thanks to some games, listening and so on, children will have the opportunity to put into practice what they are learning.

http://www.literacycenter.net/lessonview_en.php

HOPSCOTCH-PLAYING WITH NUMBERS

We have started the new course in a funny way. With a traditional game and numbers from 1-8, today children have played hopscotch. You can look at the following pictures:

Having Fun While Learning

It is a good for children to enjoy at their learning time. Today, 5 years old children have been practising specific vocabulary, and right and left (hands or legs) while they were playing twister.

Phonic Fun Game for the Alphabet

THE ALPHABET

In order to learn, memorize and practice the alphabet, children will have the chance to play with this funny abc's game.

http://www.supersimpleabcs.com/games/phonicsfungame/index-a-i.html

Easter Holidays

As Easter time is coming, pupils have learnt some of the symbols more common in the English culture. They have been decorating 'Easter Eggs' attending to different colours, depending on each classroom:

-RED for 3 years old.
-YELLOW for 4 years old.
-GREEN for 5 years old.

Apart from that, students have memorized a poem which will be recited the Easter fair as follows:

MR. Rabbit gave me an egg
I painted it green, yellow and red.

I found a basket with a bunny
It was so funny.

It's time for cards,
For Mummy, Daddy, Brother and Sister
To say: 'HAPPY EASTER'.

Another activity programmed for that day will be the decoration of a 'Bunny Cake'. The own children will be the responsible for preparing it and, at the end of the party, they will eat it.

Finally, pupils will also look for the decorated eggs, with the Easter Egg Hunt.

I hope my students enjoy it!

If you want to know more things about Easter tales, games, worksheets..., you can visit:
http://www.animatedeaster.com/?s=36f524334dad6e4e4a3e8

Trip to the Farm School

Before going to the Farm School, pupils were studying the vocabulary of common animals they were going to find there as well as the sound of each animal and songs.

Once they had learnt this vocabulary, we were creating a farm animal mural with different textures: cotton, true leaves, aluminium foil, wax crayons, etc.

Look at some of the following pictures to know about it!