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May 14

68 Songs to practice English with your child.

photo credit: Philippe Put via photopin cc

photo credit: Philippe Put via photopin cc

On previous occasions we talked about the importance of play during early childhood education. The game favors the development of the social skills, mental and physical, besides being a natural and spontaneous way of knowing the world for small.

As we saw in the previous post in this topic trying, There are many types of games that we can use for teaching-learning kids, one of these types are the corporal games, that are included in the songs, topic that will be discussed at today's post.

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May 14

Everything about the English classroom in child. The best, the minute 1.16 video!

Many already have seen the video of the speech I made last 30 in March I Congress of Educating Learning Childhood Education, even so, I wanted to prepare this post so that everyone may have a direct access from the blog to this video and, further, resumiros a little the main issues deal.

When I raised this challenge, I was told they wanted to speak English classroom in early childhood education, "but, What specifically?", I remember asking, "whatever you want, you can approach it as you think best ". With this information I started to work and decided that I wanted to do was to provide all the information that I would have liked to have had when I started as an English teacher in early childhood education.

Therefore, this paper is what I intend, basically, answer two questions: when and how, that is to say, When learning a second language beginning, in this case English, and how to do it.

Further, If you arrive at the end of the video (1 hour 16 minutes about), you can see in "scoop" the early stages of the educational app, Children´s Day Map, in whose development I have the privilege to participate as Pedagogical Director. If all goes as planned, The web version will be available late next week and the version for tablet and iPad in about three weeks.

Take this opportunity to tell you that if you have problems when reading with the kids in the house, do not fail to see the post on Sunday in which I will give you ten ideas of activities to stimulate interest in reading in smaller.

I hope you find useful information in every minute of this video.

Happy worker's day!

Kisses to all,

Cristina


12
Apr 14

Smile and Learn. A new way to work reading.

You know that one of the points that usually try my post is the use of new technologies in the teaching-learning process, and not just in the classroom, also at home.

There are many applications that help us work the direntes areas with small house and my, personally, I like to stress upon the applications for language learning, especially English. In fact, the last week I spoke of an app in which I have the pleasure to participate as an educational consultant.

Today I asked my friends Smile and Learn, of which I already talked in the past Education Congress Educating Children to Learn we explain firsthand what their stories and above all provide added value.

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SMILE AND LEARN

I think no one better than them to tell you first hand all the characteristics of these stories.

I leave with them!

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Sea 14

The game. Key learning of the smallest.

The game. Key kids learning

The game is one of the main aspects in the growth of children, not only favors their social skills, mental and physical, further, It is their way of knowing the world. Through play they express their feelings, your ideas and fantasies naturally and spontaneously.

During the Nursery Education, the game gives us the opportunity to create situations that actually cause one significant learning in small, that is to say, situations that do not go unnoticed by their little heads, but they are interesting, something that is directly related to the already treated theme motivation. In fact, along this post, let's see how motivation and game are directly related.

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12
Jan 14

Best websites to practice English with your child.

Today all know the importance of teaching and learning a second language, in our country mainly English.

Further, it is indisputable that if this process of teaching and learning is done at an early age the results will be much more effective. But, How to teach English to children? How grab their attention when they are very small? The answer to these questions is: THE GAME.

There are many parents who are surprised by the evolution of their children learning a second language, but the truth is that learning occurs almost naturally if we know how to do it. between the 0 and the 6 years children have a special capacity for language acquisition and that is why we as teachers or parents must seize this capacity.

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Nov 13

What we do today?

Comes the weekend and do not have very clear what to do with your children, Are you tired of the usual offers leisure and I like to do something that gives them more?

Increasingly wider the range of activities for young and, above all, are becoming more interesting activities pedagogically.

In this post I give you five very different cultural and leisure options for smaller house, Monster from a workshop to a stroll through Europe to reach your hand ... you urge you?

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