Monday, March 30, 2009

Holidays in the USA: Thanksgiving

Students in every grade level can have fun learning about the United States' tradition of Thanksgiving.


Sara's slideshow is more appropraite for older students (4th-6th), as it goes into some detail about the Holiday. Though it has a lot of English text, there are also a lot of pictures, and an interactive presentation is desireable. At the end are videos of the famous Macy's Day Parade.

A wordsearch includes all of the traditional Thanksgiving meals, such as gravy, turkey, and corn on the cob.




Watching A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving could also be a fun challenge. I would suggest watching it twice and then completing a questionnaire about it, or filling in the lyrics to a song.

For the younger kids, fun activities include: making turkeys (they can begin by tracing their hands and using the shape of their fingers as feathers!), making other Thanksgiving Day crafts, and learning Thanksgiving songs.

For more thanksgiving activities, visit this French ESL Thanksgiving website that has many English activities about Thanksgiving, and print flashcards here.
This ESL site also has very good activities planned, including crafting and coloring a mini version of the Mayflower!

Friday, March 27, 2009

Blog Help: Uploading New Activities

Virgen de la Cabeza teachers:
Upload any files you wish to add to the blog here: virgendelacabezainenglish.wikispaces.com
Primero, se puede subir cualquier documento en este pagina wiki.

Then copy your file link anywhere on the blog you like!
Despues, copia la enlace en nuestro blog, organizado como tu quieras.

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Activities about the United States


In addition to referring to the auxiliar's home country (USA) in multiple presentations and activities, there are a few school-wide initiatives that introduce Spanish students to her English speaking home.

Facts about Tennessee and the United States,
ranging from historical information about her hometown Oak Ridge to food descriptions of Tennessee Barbecue.

3rd Grade Science: Machines

MACHINES HELP US DO WORK… HOW?:A worksheet about how machines use energy to make work easier. Students must decide what kind of energy four different machines use: human, combustion, wind, or electric.



Monday, March 23, 2009

Looking for something? ¿Buscando algo?

If you are having trouble finding an activity in the archive, remember that you can search on the toolbar at the very top of the page!

Si ud. tiene problemas buscando alguna actividad en el archivo, se debe acordar que se puede buscar en el buscado al encima de la pagina.

Blog News!


Hello, teachers!

The syllabi/programmacion for 1st, 3rd, and 4th grade science have been uploaded. Please help the organization process by reading your course's syllabus and sending any questions, doubts, corrections, or actividies to add to churrianabilingue@gmail.com.
You can also upload activities and documents to google documents on the ecoescuela gmail account, but please send a note to churrianabilingue so that the organizer knows to included it on the site.

Las programaciones para primer, tercer, y cuarto cursos están ya subidos en la pagina. Por favor, obsérvalas y manda cualquier pregunta, duda, correcciones, o actividades para añadir a churrianabilingue@gmail.com.
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4th Grade Science Class Syllabus

1st TRIMESTER
Unit 1: Our bodies
Unit 2: Health
Unit 3: Plants
  • How plants work
  • Plant nutrition
  • Plant reproduction
Enlace
Unit 4: Minerals, rocks, and soil
2nd TRIMESTER

Unit 5: Ecosystems
  • What is an ecosystem?
  • Relationships in ecoystems
  • conservation of ecosystems
Unit 6: Matter
Unit 7: Light
Unit 8: Landscapes of Andalusia
  • Changes in landscape
  • Mountains and plains
  • The coast and the sea
3rd TRIMESTER

Unit 9: Population
  • Population and Customs

Unit 10:Work in Andalusia
Unit 11: Political Institutions
  • Organization of the State
  • Citizen Participation
  • Institutions of Andalusia

Unit 12: Life Thousands of Years Ago

1st Grade Science Class Syllabus

Unit 1. Our Body


Unit 2. Our Senses


Unit 3. Weather

Unit 4. Seasons

Unit 5. Water
Unit 6&7 Coming Soon

Unit 8. Animals I Know

Unit 9. Animals of the Farm

Unit 10. Plants

Unit 11. Landscape


Unit 12. Work

Unit 13. We Use Lots of Materials

Unit 14. Villages and Cities

Unit 15. We Travel


Miscellaneous

3rd Grade Science Class Syllabus

Here is the syllabus for the 3rd Grade Science Curriculum.

Unit 1. Living things, objectives and criteria
  • Living things: life processes (1)
  • Living things: life processes (2)
  • The human body: organs and systems
Unit 2. We can move
  • The motor system
  • The human skeleton
  • Muscles
  • Health and Our body

Unit 3.The Senses

Unit 4. Animals
  • The classification of animals (I)
  • The classification of animals (II)
  • Vertebrates
  • Invertebrates
  • Domestic animals

Unit 5. Plants
  • Plants are living things
  • Types of plants
  • The parts of a plant
  • Vital functions of plants

Unit 6. * Machines
Unit 7. * Our planet

Unit 8. Water, objectives and criteria

Unit 9. Air and Weather

Unit 10. Landscapes

Unit 11. Villages, Towns, and Cities

Unit 13. Work

Unit 15. The Past

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

P.E. ACTIVITIES

15 P.E. class lessons in English. Game directions are included as well as physical education goals and objectives. Examples include the Spanish classic "Handkerchief," or el panuelo.

English Art Activities

Coming soon!

6th Grade English Activities

Coming soon!

Fifth Grade English: Activities

coming soon!

Monday, March 16, 2009

Thursday, March 12, 2009

Unit 1: We Are Living Things

View the concepts, objectives, procedure, and evaluation criteria of 3rd Grade Science, Unit 1: We are Living Things.

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

The Five Senses Activities



Activity Ideas:

  • Flashcards
  • Have students prepare and bring an object that pertains to one of the five sentences, i.e. a bell (timbre) for hearing, a blanket for touch, etc.
  • Pg 112 of Curricular Content (will be uploaded shortly)
  • Pg 111 of Curricular Content ("It smells bad / It smells good"): Students must use these phrases to describe certain familiar smells. Takes the lesson one step past memorizing the five senses in English.

Water

Earth's Oceans: a fun, easy worksheet.

The Water Cycle: Fill in the blank

Facts About Water:
A factsheet and worksheet that focuses on the importance of water in our lives.

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Earth, Sun, and Moon



Earth's Features Worksheet: Identify the Artic Circle, Tropic of Capricorn, Tropic of Cancer, Equator, North Pole, South Pole, Antartic Circle

Planet Earth
: factsheet about our planet

Earth and Moon Worksheet
: Simple English language to discuss relation of Earth and Moon

The Sun: Factsheet

thanks to learningpage.com: visit the site for more exercises

Thursday, March 5, 2009

Rocks and Minerals: Fun Cookie Activity

You really have to keep them buckled down-- they get too excited about the cookies!

Rocks and Minerals

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Unit One, The Body: Body Flashcards

Color flashcards of various body parts: head, hair, nose, face, ear, eye, mouth, teeth, neck, hand, finger, arm, elbow, knee, shoulder, back, foot, toe, leg.


Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes-- A Fun Song for First Graders!

Our body worksheet: students must color different body parts (head, trunk, limbs).

Face cards: Face cards focus on different parts of the face (lips, nose, hair, ears, and eyes).

Cat body parts: These "zig-zag body cards" use a fun drawing of a cat to teach different parts of the body.