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WEEK 3 

                                                                                                                         

DATE 15/10/2012  

                                                                                                                                     

Integrating EFL, Art and Science

The first class of this week was really productive. We talked about the importance of repetition in order to make the children get familiar with the word and pronunciation. Moreover, working with images helps too. One of the relevant part is make them participate in the tasks.

The teacher showed us some resources we can use to improve English using subjects like Art or Science. We can do it with all the subjects we prefer, and the idea is take advantage of everything. For example, we worked with some Picasso’s paintings, in order to talk about some animals we know.

The National Gallery in London* is a perfect example to see how we can link English with other areas, in this case Art. A program called Take one picture** is, where every year they choose one painting from the gallery and propose some curricular content to work with primary children.

*http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/

**http://www.takeonepicture.org/about/index.html

Can we work with this kind of programs with children under 6 years old? I think it’s perfectly possible, using for example simple paintings or make them to create their own ones.

The teacher showed us a collection of books Animals in Art. I spy… with some art paintings from different artists combined with a simple identification animal game. For my future as a teacher for young children, I think that this kind of books are really useful because they don’t contain so much words and are really illustrative for them.

DATE 19/10/2012       

                                                                                                                                

Book Trailer

The second class was focused in Book Trailers, which I had never heard of it before. The teacher showed us some examples and different kind of book trailers, created by professionals and by children.

Now, in groups, we have to create our own book trailer using different tools following the story of the book Dog’s Night.

I think that this is a good idea to animate children to read and have fun with books. Moreover, books trailers incite you to find out what’s the story of the book is about. Definetely, I take note of it for my future.