TOONTASTIC STORIES

5th grade pupils have been having a good time using Toontastic. Toontastic is a really nice app to create stories.

The pupils make pair and have half an hour to familiarize themselves with the app. Once they knew the application they write a story taking into account the three parts Beginning, Middle and Ending.

Here you've got some of the stories :

RAPPING ENGLISH GRAMMAR

Hello there,
6th graders have been working a little bit on grammar. At the end they have written a poem and have rapped it. Do you want to know the process:

1. first they watched some rap from previous years.
2. they split up in groups of 4 or 5.
3. they choose a grammatical aspect.
4. they became expert in this aspect and did the activities related to it.
5. Then, they explain to their classmates their grammatical topic and ask them to do the activities. 

1. While doing the activities they go through the groups helping them.

1. when all the group finish their explanation, they start to write their poems. they could use the Google bar. What for? ask them to explain ...

1. finally they memorise the rap and dance it.

Here you have the rap they wrote:




And here you have some of them RAPPING IT!!

SALAD OF STORIES

Anna,the trainee teacher is finishing her internship period in our school. She has bee working hard. She programmed an activity with 5th graders. This activity adapts the classic strategy Salad of stories proposed by Gianni Rodari in Grammar of Fantasy.

Pupils have been working hard too. they chose characters from different stories and they have been creating a new story with the characters chosen.

What is interesting about the project is that Anna has been working in collaboration with another trainee teacher in a different school, whose pupils were creating stories too.

Pupils in Pins have read the stories written by  the pupils in Sant Jordi School and have scored them. Pupils in Sant Jordi school have done the same with our stories. 
All the group has gotten a prize. Here they are with their certificates and their stories. if you click on the photo you'll be able to read the story they wrote.

THE PLANTS

The project of the plants is finished.

After doing the experiment, 

investigating about the parts of the plants and their functions 

we have become experts on the plants. By groups we have made a poster and we have explained it to the rest of the class. Would you like listening to the explanation:

OUR MACHINES

Pupils in year 6 have been studying and investigating about energy and machines. As a final product they were supposed to design and make their own compound machine. They have been working hard. Look at them presenting their machines:

 

DAILY ROUTINES

Pupils in year five have been working on daily routines. 

Working in pairs, they have studied the vocabulary, they have read some models,

they have done a running dictation 

and then they have corrected it.

They have written about their day and they have made a poster explaining what they do in a normal day.

And finally, they have explained their day to the rest of the class. 

Have a look at them. They explain themselves very well:

our day 4 from Antonio on Vimeo.

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OUR BEDROOM

Pupils in year 6 have been working on the description of their bedroom. 

They have split up in pairs. They have worked with the bedroom vocabulary and with the structures needed to write the description. 

Then they have wrote their description, and finally they made a PowerPoint presentation.

Here you've got some photos of them designing their presentation and a video of some of them showing it to their mates.

Our bedroom from Antonio on Vimeo.

MY DAY

Pupils in year 5 are working in daily routines. They are supposed to do a poster in pair, explaining their day. 

Before that, they should work on some topics and vocabulary.

Here you have them doing a funny activity: A Running dictation.

First of all, they have 5 or 10 minutes to prepare a dictation related to my day.

Second, one in the pair sits, and the other  have to run to the the dictation, which is on the wall at the other end of the room,memorises a word, two words or a sentence, runs again where his or her partner is sitting down and dictates what he or she has memorised.

Third,when the pupil who dictates finishes his or her part, sits down and it is time for the other pupil to run and to dictate.

Finally, when they finish, they sit down together and correct.

OUR MONSTER

• pupils in year 4 are working in a monster project.

• Firstly, they watch a video where a monster is described. 

• Secondly, they practice with the vocabulary. 

• Thirdly, they split up in group and do some reading activities, showing them different monster descriptions

• Fourthly, they make a draft with the description and drawing of their monster.

• Then, they do definite drawing and description in a piece of card.

• Finally, they show their monsters to the their mates.

Shh! Listen, they can speak:

My monster 1 from Antonio on Vimeo.


My monster 2.mp4 from Antonio on Vimeo.


My monster 3 from Antonio on Vimeo.

FIRST PINSWOOD FESTIVAL

Pupils in year 5 have evaluate the short films recorded by the pupils in year 6.
And the winners of the 1st PinsWood festival have been the films:



CEREMONY from Antonio on Vimeo.

READING IN PAIRS

During this term pupils in year 6 are taking part in the programme Reading in Pair. We implemented

it 3 year ago, after we were trained by the "Grup de Recerca de Aprenentatge entre iguals" in UAB.

It is an educational programme for improving reading comprehension skills. It is based on peer tutoring, both at school –between pairs of pupils- and, if possible, at home, with a family member.

This is the process:

1st.- The tutor takes the reading home and prepares it during the week.

2nd.- Tutor and tutee sit drown together. The tutor asks the questions in the "before reading" section.

3rd.- The tutor reads.

4th.- The tutor and the tutee read together.

5th.- the tutee reads and the tutor corrects (PPP technique)

6th.- They do the reading comprehension section.

7th.- The groups that finish do the extra activities.

8th.- They evaluate each other.

9th.-  If they have agreed so, the tutor gives a little prize to the tutee. 

10th.- The teacher gives the new reading to the tutee, who now becomes a tutor, for preparing it during the next week

MY BEDROOM

Pupils in year 6 have been working on the description of their bedroom.

firstly, they watched a video from Mary Glasgow Magazine, where two British teenagers describe and compare their rooms.

Secondly, we revise the bedroom vocabulary and the comparatives.

Thirdly, they work in pair and each one describes his or her room and compares them. They make a PowerPoint presentation and show it to their partners.

And here you've got a sample of the presentations: