My CLIL Science Corner

  HELLO! HELLO!   How are you doing? It's the countdown!  The end of the school year is always stressful and the temperature isn't helping at all   But... teachers are here to help    Two days ago @teach.and.learn.english shared a post about REVISION GAMES (visit her account to read it) on Instagram and I decided to create a new version of the game called "GIVE ME FIVE"  . Today 3rd graders have played this game and you can't imagine how much they have loved it!  How to play GIVE ME FIVE   I have created a wheel with the topics I wanted my students to revise. I have used the app "Wheel of names" to create the wheel (Click on the image to play "Give me five"  I have divided the students in 5 groups and I have given each group a sheet of paper, a pencil and a rubber  It's time to spin the wheel! They have had 1 minute to write 5 words about that topic. I have used the app online-stopwatch to control the time  The speake...

 💖 Hi teachers! 💖 Just three school days for our desired and deserved Christmas break 😉!  I'm sure you have worked very hard writing your lessons plans, creating your own materials, dealing with classroom management, attending meetings, working during the weekend... Yes, as teachers, sometimes we think we are superheroes with superpowers and we end up  the first term overwhelmed.  At the beginning of each school year,  I promise myself it is going to be different. I try to convince myself that I will only be working during the week, but this never happens. I end up working at school, after the school and at weekends. Too often, as teachers, we think we must create all our resources and that is really exhausting and time-consuming. Does this sound familiar to you? If it does, keep reading 👇👇 As many of you, I have been creating my own resources, but then I realised I didn't have free time for me and my hobbies. That is why this term I have started implementi...

WELCOME JULY! 💞 We all agree that it has been a hard school year, don't we? We have had to get used to new routines (face masks, hand sanitizers, classrooms with open windows in winter, online teaching, lockdowns...).  Each school year I need the first days of the summer holidays to get over the stressed of the school year and today I would like to share with you some tips I put into practice to recover and make the most of my summer. 1) SET OFF THE ALARM CLOCK . This is one of the first things I do on 30th June. I sleep until my body has enough. This doesn't mean I get up at 11 am, but I let my body "speak". Ok, you may have kids and that's not so easy. Then, make sure that you have time for you before everybody wakes up. During this time you can do those activities you like the most: reading a book, stretching, having a cup of coffee or tea in silent... 2) EAT HEALTHY . You may agree with me that when we are under stress we tend to eat more junk food, drink mor...

Hi teachers! How are you doing?💖 Today I would like to ask you a question: do you bear in mind the 4 skills ( listening, speaking, reading and writing ) when planning your CLIL units or projects? I try to do so, even if sometimes it is a bit tricky. From my point of view, it is highly important that our students have time to practise the 4 skills in their CLIL class because, in fact, they are using a language to learn in a similar way they would if they were learning content in L1. Whenever they are learning contents from any subject in L1 they are also using the 4 skills: maybe they are watching a video and they are listening to information they need for a purpose (listening) ; they are discussing a topic (speaking);  they are searching for information in books or on internet (reading) or they are writing a report (writing). So, why not practising the 4 skills in our CLIL lessons?  Would you like to find out what activities I use in my CLIL lessons to practise the 4 skill...

  Good evening! How was your day? Mine was great, but now I am exhausted. However, I don't want to go to bed without sharing with this post. How many times have you asked your students to do an investigation and when they search for information on Intenet, the web pages they find are too difficult for them to understand? As you know, I teach Science in English and that happens most of the time. Some months ago I discovered KIDDLE . KIDDLE is a visual search engine for kids, offering safe kids webs, image and video search. It is in English, so it is perfect for CLIL and English teachers. Keep reading to find out how it works: 1. SAFE SEARCH . Sites appearing in KIDDLE search results satisfy family friendly requirements. 2. KIDS-ORIENTED RESULTS . KIDDLE returns the results in the following order: 3. BIG THUMBNAILS . Most KIDDLE results are illustrated with big thumbnails. Thumbnails serve as visual clue and are especifically beneficial to kids as they don't read as fast as ad...

  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 ...

  Hey!  Wednesday already! How's your week going? Today I want to share with you how I am trying to go PAPER FREE. Nowadays there are a lot digital tools which can help us to save paper and help the environment  These are the apps I have started using as a teacher.  Would you like to know how I use them? Keep reading  ☑️ Additio allows me to keep track of the students' attendance among other registers. I also use it to grade my students.  ☑️ Drive  is great for keeping the materials you create using Google docs, Google presentations,...  In addition, I can share folders and documents with other teachers and the students. ☑️ Google keep is the replacement of the post-its and notebooks I used to write my To-do lists  ️. I love it! The best is that you can download the app in your portable devices  ☑️ Since I discovered Google Calendar  , I haven't bought any diary ☑️ And the most recent incorporation: OneNote! These last years I would...