My CLIL Science Corner

  Morning! Today's post is about Cooperative Learning . Cooperative Learning seems to be in style nowadays, but Cooperative Learning has had a lot of supporters for decades. In the school where I have been working for 11 years, cooperative learning has been present in our classes for at least two decades. Since I started working in this school, I have been applying some cooperative learning techniques, but discovering KAGAN STRUCTURES in a training course for teachers was a turning point. Have you ever heard about KAGAN STRUCTURES? Kagan Structures was developed by Dr Spencer Kagan in the 80s. Some months ago I couldn't help buying his book " Kagan Cooperative Learning ". This book is a must if you want to implement cooperative learning in your class. The book is divided into 17 chapters and it deals with both more theoretical concepts and structures that you can do in your class. The theoretical concepts are easy to read and they clarify questions about cooperative ...

Good day! Today I would like to tell you which are my favourite Eric Carle's stories and that I have used with my students. Children love to be told stories, specially if you create a nice atmosphere and if they can be engaged at the same time they are listening to the stories.  I discovered Eric Carle stories loads of years ago, but I still use them with 1st and 2nd graders. I adapt the text for them because English is not their first language. I usually use them at Science lessons to learn about animals and plants, but as you already know there is a lot of vocabulary that we can revise or that they can learn as they are listening to the story. What I like the most about these stories is that there are sentences that are repeated along the story and this makes students participate and learn the structures and the vocabulary. Keep reading and you will find out how I have used these stories in my classes. Here we go! THE VERY HUNGRY CATTERPILLAR " The very hungry catterpilar ...