Welcome to Thanksgiving

HELLO!! HELLO!!

Hello everybody!

We are group composed by Clara González Vaca, Pilar Trejo Martín and Ana Zarza Caballero, from 4º Grade on Early Childhood Educatio, from Teacher Training Collage, from Extremadura's University (Cáceres, Spain).

Clara is from Cáceres, Pilar is from Quintana de la Serena (Badajoz) and Ana is from Villanueva de la Serena (Badajoz).

We met at the University this year, so that, we thought it was really good to create a grupo to work in this blog because each one have an hability and we could do really good this together.

We made this syllabus for a subject called "English metalinguistic skills" that Gemma Delicado taught in our faculty.

This subject is very interesting for us because there we learnd more thing about how to teach and about the material that a teacher always need to have. So that, we chose this topic because we can teach lot of thing with it, not only contents about Thanksgiving Day, and we can do lot of materials for our class.

We want to show you all the material that we create because it maybe will original and people could be interested on watching it.

Finally, we want to make some questions to you to do the best on our blog:

Do you like the blog?
Do you think all material are adapted to Early Childhood Education?
Do you think all material are good explained?
What do you think this blog need?
Would you do any material?

Thanks for everything and GOODBYE! Have a nice day!

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Here we want to show you all thing that we preparad and created for our syllabys which is caller "Welcome to Thanksgiving".
This proyect is for kids with ages between 4-5 years old (2^nd level of 2^nd cycle of pre-school).

This unit is composed by three different sessions of 50’each one divided in three activities and their routines (warm-up, closure, routines to link activities and to get the attention of the children).

We will carry out those sessions in a week (the first one on Monday, and Wednesday and Friday respectively).

OBJETIVES:

The aim of preschool education is to contribute to the physical, emotional, social and intellectual development of the children.

Both levels will be focused on emotional development, movement and body control habits, on communication language, on guidelines for coexistence and social relations, as well as on discovering the environment’s physical and social characteristics. Girls and boys will also be encouraged to form a positive and balanced self-image and to acquire personal autonomy.

Preschool education will contribute to the development of abilities in kids wich will enable them to:

To get to know their own bodies as well as the others’, and their possibilities of action.
To learn to respect differences.
To observe and explore their family, natural and social environment.
To acquire progressive autonomy in their daily activities.
To develop their emotional abilities.
To interact with others and progressively acquire social relations guidelines, as well as practice solving conflicts peacefully.
To develop communicative skills and ways of expressing in different languages.

LEADER PIN

Each day we are going to chose a leader for the class who are going to help the teacher during the hole class.

He/She is going to wear a start and here you have the materials needed for it and the way of doing.

MATERIALS NEEDED:

Cardboard
Scissor
Black pen
Pin

WAY OF DOING:

Here you have a tutorial made by us:

WARM-UP

This is a part of the class that we are going to repeat every day at the beging of the class as a routine. With it childrend could know that the class start and they have to pay attention.

It will take 10'.
We are going to star with a "hello song", thet one of the kids will check who is in class using a poster (in that one we hace photographs of all the children also a house and the school; and one of the kids called leader willput the photos depending on where the rest of the pupils are).

Finally we will say what is the weaher like, using images is, writing...

Pupils could memorice the song, learn the gestures and movements and organize the rest of the classmates. They could check list and learn vocabulary related to weather.

And we will use only two skills to do it: speaking and listening.

Now, here you have the materials needed and the way of doing.

MATERIALS NEEDED for check list poster:

Cardboards
Pen
Pencil
Ruber
Scissors
Adhesive backing
Velcro
EVA

WAY OF DOING:

Here you have a tutorial made by us:

CLASSROOM RULES

We are going to review the classroom rules between two activities use a poster were we can stick the rules that we use this day.

Here you have the materials needed to make this poster and the way of doing it.

MATERIALS NEEDED:

Cardboards.
Pen
Pencil
Crayons
Rubber
Glue
Scissors
Adhesive backing
Velcro

WAY OF DOING:

Here you have a tutorial made by us:

THANKSGIVING STORY

To carry out this activity and needing help from two colleges, we will performance a drama explaining what is thanksgiving about (how the pilgrims land to America, how the Indians helped them and how nowadays thet celebrate this festivity). One of the teacher will be the pilgrim, one the Indian and the other the one who tells the story, the kids will help giving opinions.

In case somethings goes bad and we don´t have help from other adults, we could record the performance and show it to the children. Also, we will use some flashcards to show them the most important vocabulary while we act out.

This activity will take more or less 10' and we can do it in the class or in ICTs class.

Pupils could know what Thanksgiving is and participate in it. They need to remember a story and learn to listen. And they will star knowing some of the vocabulary related to Thanksgiving.

And we will use three skills to do it: speaking , listening and reading.

Here you have the story:

"Thanksging Story"

A shiny day of December the pilgrims land to Playmouth rocks.

They sailed on a boat called Mayflower.

Here, they built new houses.

The winter was very, very cold.

They didn’t have food. They were very cold.

But one sunny day the Indians appeared.

Hello!
Hello
Who are you?
I’m an Indian and I will help you.
Why?
Because here we are all friends. I will help you to plant and haunt to eat.
Oh, thank you so much. We needed it.
Let’s go!

They haunt and plant together and they had fun!

Next winter, they decide to say thank you to the Indians.

We want to celebrate a biiiiiig feast because of your help. We will call it Thanksgiving.
Oh my God!
Here you have some corn, pumpkins, mashed potatoes, turkey, pie, cramberries and watercress.
Thank you very much, let’s eat!

And they lived happily ever after.

After that, the pilgrims and the Indians didn’t celebrate Thanksgiving again.

Then, President George Washington appeared.

Hello, I’m George Washington. I want to celebrate Thanksgiving.

And also his friend President Abraham Lincoln wanted to help.

Hello, my name is Abraham Lincoln.
Hello, friend.
I want to celebrate Thanksgiving the last Thursday of November.
Okay, let’s do it!

And because of this now every family celebrate this day together.

THE END

MATERIALS NEEDED:

Costumes
Flshcards
Decorated wall.

WAY OF DOING costumes:

For costumes we are going to use hats and things like that. Here you have some tutorials made by us:

MATERIAS NEEDED for flashcards:

White cardboard
Pencil
Ruber
Black pen
Crayons
Adhesive backing

WAY OF DOING:

Here you have a tutorial made by us:

We use red for verbs sound, green for food sound and blue for names and events sound.

AUTUMN TURKEY

For this activity we will go out to the playground with kids to pick up several autumn leaves and then we'll choose some of the leaves for each kid (the bigges, the one which they like the most...), after taht we will give them a sheet where they can paste them and design the rest of the turkey.