DAY 4

Today we worked on two stories with the kids.

One of them was the book called 'Brown Bear, Brown bear, what do you see?' by Eric Carle and Bill Martin Jr. The is rather not a story in this book, but the enumeration of various animals in different colors. This book is really good to learn the names of the animals and the different colors. 

With my teacher the class went like this: He read 'Brown Bear, Brown bear, what do you see?' aloud standing in front of the class (year 1) and showing the different pictures. Oh the pictures... they are lovely ! He read the phrase of a page out loud and had the children repeat them saying the name and the color of each animal.

At the end of the book there were two pages with all the animals.

After this, the teacher closed the book and made the pupils remember all the animals and colors. He asked for volunteers who had to repeat one child at a time the correct animal in the correct color and say it in the correct order. I mean, there was one child in care of each one of the animals. The child that was in charge of a specific animal got a plastified paper animal and had to stand in line in front of the class in the right order, according to the story in the book.

To end with this session the teacher encouraged the kids to repeat with him 'Good bye, good bye, Brown Bear. Good bye, good bye, red bird. etc.'

It was a really nice class! 

After searching through the Internet I have found an interesting way to work on this book with the kids. In stead of only repeating what the teacher is saying, the story can be sung. I found this amazing video I can't stop watching. 

The other book we worked on today was 'The haunted house' by Kazuno Kohara. This book is so sweet!!!! It is adorable!! At first you might think it's going to be a scary book because of the title itself, but it's just a beautiful story.

It has really nice pictures and good values to pass on to children.

I'm just going to show you this:

 

Isn't it sweet?

DAY 3

Today in school with the kids we sang a chant about Winnie the Witch. The teacher told me it was on purpose to remember what he had done with his students the day before on the same story. After singing the chant a few times, I guess it was 2 times, the kids had a sheet of paper with the lyrics of the song and they had to fill in the gaps wherever words were missing.

I guess the chant was the following:





During lunch break, my teacher trainer and me, we talked about good websites and resources and he recommended the following:

Bembo's zoo

Sparklebox

DAY 2

Today was a great day! We did a lot of stuff at school with the kids. Let me tell you... I am being trained to be an English teacher here in Spain, and I am learning from the English specialist, this is how they call the teacher here who teacher English at Primary School. He teaches English to all classes in school. Well.. normally there are a few teachers in charge of several classes, but in this case there's just one teacher in charge of the whole school. So he teacher 8 different classes.

Today we had no break until lunch time. It was bit hard but since it was fun, I can't even think of complaining. :)

Today this teacher did some storytelling. It was so much fun!!! He put so much enthusiasm and emphasis into his words, that the lesson was just incredible! I learned a lot!!! The story he told was Winnie the Witch. It was so much fun! I am definitely going to buy that book in order to use it in my future classes with my students. I totally recommend the book, especially for Halloween. We used it in 3rd grade today. I have looked it up in the Internet and I have seen that there a lot of books of Winnie the Witch, there's a complete series.

After telling the story, the teacher let his students watch a DVD of the story and then we sang some songs. I think it was a really good way to work on the story. The DVD is also totally recommendable. I just found a link to the complete video on Youtube. Here you are, it is fantastic !

DAY 1

Today was my first day of school. I knew it was going to be OK because this is not the first time that I am a teacher trainee, but I was nervous anyway.

 Some weeks ago I went to school to get to know the teacher I am going to work with and I really felt like we were going to work very well together. He is a very nice person, very caring, very open minded and very helpful. Today was great because the teacher asked me if I had any needs or questions and explaid every little detail to me. He even told me that if it was too much explaining, I should tell him and he'd stop, but I said noooo!!! I love that he tells me every little thing without having to ask him. He is such a great help!!!

The kids were so nice, too. You know, I am in Barcelona and they have two local languages here, Catalan and Spanish. The kids know that I am German and that I speak English, but they think I don't speak too much Spanish or Catalan. This is very good since they try to communicate with me all the time, mostly in English. I think it's a really fun way to do it, since I am improving my English by speaking in English all the time (with the students and with the teacher). 

I felt very happy today when the kids saw me on the street after school and they said goodbye to me in English. I felt so happy and motivated and inspired. And that's when I knew I had chosen the correct studies, Primary School teacher with the specialization in English.