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Sep 16

5 fun ways to learn vocabulary.

photo credit: BRODY STAR via photopin (license)

photo credit: BRODY STAR via photopin (license)

The course has already begun, cole the early days have passed and the kids start to get used to the routines that parents blessed you were throwing so much.

For our part, the teachers are deeply involved in the frantic pace of the first week course. looking resources, preparing our classes, and meeting our new students.

This week I decided to write a post about a topic that I think is fundamental when we refer languages: learning new vocabulary. But not learn anyway, 'Learn in a fun way!!

I leave 5 ways to learn vocabulary effectively and fun and, of course, not only in English, in any language.

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14
Dec 15

How We gave life mascot iKidz.

iKidz English_Vamos Growing

As you know, I opened in September iKidz, a small school located in Torrejon de Ardoz with a special methodology. In learning is iKidz truly personalized, What does it mean? This means that We do not use books. The materials are generated based on the student's needs and concepts for the teaching-learning process it shows that you need to learn. But, further, in the game is essential iKidz, motivation and integrate language learning in all aspects of the lives of our kids, and not so little ones ...

In iKidz we give importance to all, from the pillars of our methodology, even the small details that make this "center" such a special place. If you walk into our muro de Facebook you'll see what I mean by "those little details".

Further, Today I want to show a little surprise, the video of how life gave Owly, owl iKidz.

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15
Sea 15

Manualia will touch your heart!

Manualia you reach the heart

Last weekend I had the opportunity to be on the Education Week organized by IFEMA.

Besides many ideas and resources that I will gradually sharing with you I met Manualia, a brand that touched my heart.

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08
Sea 15

Chess in the classroom.

Chess in the classroom

Surely you have heard or read about this issue because it is of key education issues currently circulating.

Paul Martin, PSOE deputy, has made a non-legislative proposal to convert chess in a subject in cabbage, and it seems that this proposal has been welcomed by the other political parties.

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10
Aug 14

6 Apps to play and read English.

photo credit: Oscar_Shen via photopin cc

photo credit: Oscar_Shen via photopin cc

We are in the middle of August, but that does not mean the kids leave to go over what they have seen during the course. Unlike, Now we approach the start of the new course the ideal is to review the concepts worked during the year in order to start with a solid foundation.

A good way to "work" is through reading. Thus, Children go over vocabulary, pronunciation and those somewhat older, read during the summer.

Today I will make a review of 6 Apps for you to practice English in a fun and dynamic as you read with the kids.

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07
Jul 14

Future Games. Osmo para iPad.

Image property of Tangible Play

Image property of Tangible Play

A few weeks ago, I wrote un post on applications that break barriers between analog and digital. With this article we saw that wanted all games or applications need not create a dependency, or a barrier to the "real world", rather the opposite.

They are becoming more and higher quality, the games intended to create a link between the real and the digital. But what, above all, They have a clear objective, improve skills in a particular area.

This is, from my point of view, the objective of Osmo, iPad accessory that connects what is happening on the device with reality.

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23
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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