This is a bit of what we did at our school! The group of English teachers set up a special Halloween corner with spooky creatures, scary music and lots of spider webs.
This was the first test I've made for my 5th graders (this year). It's about the first topics we teach here in Portugal - meeting people, school objects, numbers and colours.
It's time to put all our troubles away and concentrate on what really matters for us teachers.
Last June 1st was a very special day at school! Besides being the world's children day, I took the chance to develop a special activity with my students. It was called "The english tea break" . With the help of 2 other teachers, I took the students to the canteen and they baked some scones. While the scones were cooking in the oven and the water was warming up for the tea, I talked about the 5 o'clock tea tradition. The students learned some curiosities such as that it was a Portuguese Princess (Catarina de Bragança) who started this tradition in England. Ps. It was a hell of a job.. but very worth doing!! Specialy when I got back to the classroom and read a message the students' had left for me on the board : "Thank you for today's lesson!" I guess that my stress went all way when I read that!
Hello dear readers,
It's been a while since I've posted new messages or goodies for your lessons. I must apologise for that and meantime explain my reasons.
The year is almost over so we're all in the evaluation frenzy around here. It's been taking some of my time and it's preventing me from developing new materials.
I hope this phase will quickly go away because this is not what teaching is all about...
