The English bus

As I said in a former post , Nursery Rhymes are essential to language and children's development. In our class, children love to sing and do the actions involved in the Nursery Rhymes we've learnt, and that we recall every day with the Bag of Songs  or at any moment we want them to be relaxed and have fun. You can enjoy some of the most famous Nursery Rhymes below: Baa baa black sheep Five little ducks Hickory Dickory Dock Five Little Monkeys I am a little teapot Humpty Dumpty

One of the bestsellers of artist Eric Carle that takes children all along the week while the animals parade across the page eating their favorite dishes: string beans, spaghetti, zoooop, roast beef, fresh fish, chicken and ice-cream. Which one are you going to eat today? Click on the video and listen to the song we learnt as we sang the book!

We've learnt some vocabulary related to food and lunch time and we've enjoyed some songs from Super Simple Songs that we want to share with you. Have fun doing the actions with your children at home!

Nursery Rhymes take an importan part in children's development, not only in language development, but also in cognitive, emotional and physical development. If you click on the article below you may find some more information about this fact.

Yet another classic lift-the-flap book by Rod Campbell that we've been working on lately in the class.

We've been reading-singing the awarded book "We're going on a bear hunt" for several weeks in the English classroom. The rhythm and the onomatopoeic description at each obstacle found in the book, makes it the perfect story to engage children and stimulate the foreign language acquisition. They follow the story enthusiastically and participate with actions and sounds as they crave for the fright when the characters enter the cave. Click here to watch the story.

As a part of the robotics innovation project we lead at our school, we are now using robots in the  English class to review some vocabulary with children aged 4 and 5, at the time we play and have fun. By using the Beebot and thinking about the commands they have to give it to get to the concrete image, children are also being introduced to directions (right, left, forward(s) and backward(s)), even though this is not the objective of the activity,  in relation to their age and the foreign language learning. Click here to have more information about the robotics project with Primary students at El Faro School.