ANIMALS: julio 2012

lunes, 9 de julio de 2012

Name: Jessica Seminario

I consider that the learning of farm animals is important because in Cuenca exist farm animals and some students have contact with them. Also, it will help to classify which are the farm animals.

My topic about farm animals contains different activities for children. As a warm-up activity students will read a funny comic in order to introduce the new topic in the class.

Students can develop speaking, listening, writing and reading skills since activities are developed to introduce a topic. For example, Voki is a tool to introduce the class or a new topic, developing listening skill. So students can engage from the beginning of the class through this character. Also, students will be able to develop reading skills through the video "The farm animals.”

I loved this course because I learnt to use some amazing and new programs in order to improve the teaching-learning process. All these technological tools will be helpful to do more fun and dynamic classes.

The use of ICT´s in the classroom is an important resource to be incorporated because it is a useful way to teach and learn in an interesting way. In addition, teacher and students take advantages of the use of ICT´s in the class.

Look and listen to farm animals
http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/preschool/animals/farm/animalfarmmovie.htm

PLAY

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/preschool/animals/farm/animalfarmgameII.htm

Create your own animal farm

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/preschool/animals/farm/animalfarmcreate.htm

VOKI

Intoduction to the topic

THE FARM ANIMALS

http://gradcourse.pbworks.com/w/page/54401271/YOUR%20VOKI%20HERE

Talk about the 7 differences.
Choose the horse or the cow.

Gather the sheep

One player is a dog. The other children are sheep and they crawl around the daycare. The dog tries to catch them. If the sheep lie on their back, they are safe and the dog cannot catch them. If a sheep is touched by the dog when he is crawling, he becomes a dog too. He can try to capture sheep. The game ends when there is only one sheep left.

Pink pig game

Print, laminate, and cut out. Display the big pink pig on the wall. Give each child a laminated tail. Blindfold children. One at a time, children attempt to place the pig's tail in the correct place.

Games

When I go to the farm...

Children sit in a circle. The first player says "When I go to the farm, I see (...)" The player chooses an animal. The next player says the same sentence, repeating the first player's animal and adding another one. The game continues until everyone has had a turn. Students can make the animal sounds, repeating all the previous ones before adding a new one.

Which animal is this?

A child selects a small farm animal figurine and hides it in his hands. The object of the game is to describe or imitate the animal so the rest of the group can identify it. The first child to guess correctly is the next player.