Estuding english

There is some people like in this video, which doesn´t like this language!

(is a video to have some fun, i think you will like!)

Hi!!

Here we leave this video which transmits the great role of hospital clowns in Denmark. Is really beautifull watch how children smile thanks to these clowns. Gitte Madsen (Hospital clown) explain how she work.

We recommend you see this video!

Age criteria for the project.

HI everybody! We talked about how age criteria put to our project. We think that the age to our project should be between five and six. Also, after discuss a lot of time, we arrive to an agreement: this is the best age to learn a third lenguage, because before that age can be very early to understand three languages, in the case of the basque country. Children have enough learning the two lenguages they heard in the day a day, so the third lenguage can be create a trouble in the early learn process of the youngest children. Also, we think that we shouldn´t have hurry to teach langeguages. So because of those ideas we arrive to the accord of the age criteria we decide.

QUESTIONS FOR THE PROJECT

Some interesting questions for our project:

1. If we have children of different level in the same class is better? Or of the same level? And children of different age? How  influences it in their development? And, how could we evaluate that?
2. What is better, learn english in group or with individual activities?
3. We think that we can`t obligate children to speak english but, how can we motivate and help children to express in that language? Normally in a class there are different level of english and in any language, how can we keep the atention of the children who have good level in english to learn the children who haven´t so good level? And vice versa?
4. Are the films in english good tool to learn english in preschool? We have studied in literatura that for a child who knows to read the films in english language with subtitles in him language tongue are a good tool to learn it. But what happens with the children who don´t know to read the subtitles? Some researcher of this topic say that for get children used to the english is suitable, and other researches say, that watching films in a language that the children don´t know , the children only listen to noise. What have to do if we are  using a wrong tool? How can we know what is the appropiate tool to get our objective?

Everyone to dance and to sing!

We found a fantastic website which offered various resources to learnd English. Here, there is a wonderful list of songs for children. These songs are represents with lyrics, pictures and dances. There are very attractive. We think that it is a fabulous material to encourage regular use of English in Preschool.

To see more:

 http://www.angles365.com/classroom/songsci03.htm

The Forbidden Education

In class, we saw The Forbidden Education documentary (in spanish, La Educación Prohibida), that is released in 2012. The film documents different alternative education practices and unconventional schools in Latin America and Spain. The documentary is presenting a different aspect of education in the school context, such as the history of the school system, authority and power in school, the role of teachers...

 Here, you can see the trailer:

Boiseko Ikastola, EEUU

Now we are learning english, but in this video we can see who in a different place of the world children also are learning vasque. Here appear Broiseko Ikastola, in EEUU, that apart of english, they teach vasque. It´s the only Basque pre-school outside of the Basque Country. As they grow, they have an advantage in areas such as mathematics, language and cultural awareness. We think that it´s very interesting and exciting.

We hope that you like it!!

   


To more information, you can see this page: http://www.boisekoikastola.org/