Indoors doesn't mean dull

Hi everyone!!
I know, it's been a long time...I guess working in summer is not so easy!! Anyway, I'll try to keep up!

Summer is a great moment to take your kids outside and play (at the beach, in the park). But, oddly enough, it isn't always a good idea. Sometimes the heat prevents you from going out and you must entertain your kiddies at home. Does it mean you're reduced to crafts and board games? Not at all. There are lots of funny things we can do indoors.

Here's an example. What about a game of hopscotch? If you can make do with some flashcards, it's a great way to revise vocabulary and simple structures. You can put a flashcard in every square of the hopscotch grid. Kids toss their markers, and they have to make a sentences including the word their markers fell onto. If course, they have to hop through the course and get the card, just as in a normal hopscotch game.

As you can't draw the hopscotch grid on the floor if you are indoors, you can try with those foamy big puzzles babies use to learn numbers and letters. 

We tried today at the academy and we had lots of fun. So, why don't you try at home!!

Enjoy it a lot!!

Meet the Gruffalo!!

Hey there!!

It seems summer is finally here!! Kids are enjoying their holidays and maybe they don't want to hear a word about English....or maybe we can find a funny and interesting way to take it to them even these hot, sunny days. The Gruffalo can help you here!!

We are doing a Theatrical Summer Camp at the school I work in. And it's focused on a funny story by Julia Donaldson: The Gruffalo. A theatrical camp is an excellent way to practice a lot of things, in this particular case: animals, parts of the body, colours, simple structures.... It involves reading, listening, speaking, even writing (you may need to adapt the play to some specifical class situation and kids can help you do it). It also involves craft (kids can help you make the costumes and the sets). They learn a lot and they have loads of fun.

But if you think it's too difficult, or too much work, or your class isn't ready for this... anyway, the Gruffalo can be a very valuable friend. There's a lot of staff about it in Internet: the song, the story, flashcards.... You can even download the book!!

Here you are the song and the story about the Gruffalo. I hope you like it as much as we do at school.

Enjoy!!

http://viooz.co/movies/12467-the-gruffalo-2009.html