Learning in Spain

Wed
11 Jul
2012 by Lita Lita

Space unit resources

Craftivities, Foldables, Freebies, Spanish, Store

I am currently working on my Space Unit.

We are required to do this, and other units, from scratch as we don’t use textbooks for Science or Social Studies in my school.

I have started with some planning looking at our Science Common Core Standards (we call them Competencias).

At the end of this unit my Second Graders should be able to understand the explain between day and night, moon phases, a little bit about planets, seasons…
But I just started with the MOON:
This is what I have so far:

Some good read alouds that could cover from K-2.

My favorite is A que sabe la luna? It is a story of a group of animals that want to taste the moon. It is a very sweet story that will teach some team work to my students.

I have also prepared a new science Fold and Learn activity that you can find on my TPT store: Moon Phases Fold and Learn.

I have a inclusion classroom with high diversity so I always try that my crafts work on different levels.

I have also found this video from Discovery Kids that teaches about the moon.

And I have left the best part until the end, as a little recompense for the ones that have been reading the whole post 😉

You may have use NASA website with your students to teach about Space.

It has been translated into Spanish so I include a link.

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We have ESA in Europe (European Space Agency). And the good news is that it also has a kids site, and you can read it in many different languages.

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I still have much to do on my Space unit but I’d love reading everyone’s ideas on this unit.

Tue
10 Jul
2012 by Lita Lita

Summer fun and a giveaway

Craftivities, Foldables, Freebies, Spanish, Store

I have been very busy enjoying my first holiday week

Yesterday I went shopping with my high school friends. We had lots of fun buying some clothes, accessories and books. I could not avoid the children section of the book store and look what I found!

The Gruffalo, Marcianos en calzoncillos and Dinosaurios en calzoncillos! The three of them for only 7€!!!

And two of the are hard back!

I also bought a new laptop bag and some magic paint activity books. Those ones that you just need a brush paint and some water and the colors ‘magically’ appear on the picture. I used to love them when I was a kid.

I love SALES! 🙂

Next week I want to start working on my new science unit. We don’t have science books in our school so I have to build our new Astronomy unit from scratch. I have started with some fun printables… But check out at the end of the week to find some online free resources to teach your Space Unit in Spanish.

I have also joined Lacey’s great giveaway. She is celebrating that her great bolg Wild about Teaching has reached 500 followers. Can you believe that?

I donated my Summer craftivity as a prize. Check it out and participate. It has more than $100 worth of products from different teachers and 2 TPT giftcards.

Wed
04 Jul
2012 by Lita Lita

currently July and new award

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This has been a very festive week here in Spain. We are not celebrating 4th of July, but we won the Eurocup last Sunday. I can tell you that everyone I know was watching the game, even if they don’t like soccer.

It’s been a busy week for me, with lots of cleaning that I had been postponing. So there is no better way to get you updated than linking with Oh boy Fourth Grade with this Currently July.

On the other hand, I also went to a great concert (as you can read on the currently July that I wrote before). We were specifically told by the singers to take photos/videos of the concert and send them to our friends so they could see what they were missing.