Read aloud March 9

Group: EIN 702 - EIN 703
Time: 10:00 -11:30 - 12:00-1:30
Teacher: Diana Gaviaria
Book 1: The Paper Bag Princess
Book online: click and look by alphabetical order

Book 2: Princess smartypants

Activities:

Pre-reading activity:

Ask students: How do you imagine a prince and a princesss. Would you like to be a prince or a princess? why?

Show some images of the prince and the princess

 

During-reading activity:

Read the story The Paper Bag Princess. Predict the story with the title. Read the story aloud with the students. Students read and point out to the sentences.

Post-reading activity:

Ask students about their impressions on the story:

Why does Roald have a tennis racket?

Why are they named "Ronald" and "Elizabeth"?

Why a paper bag anot a _________ ?

How can you describe Elizabeth?

How can you describe Ronald?

How can you describe the dragon?

Students design their own paper bag princess - print out

 

International Women's Day

Reflect about the role of women in the world

video

Read Aloud March 2

Group: EIN 502
Time: 10:00 -11:30
Teacher: Luz Stella Hincapié
Book: Otto goes to beach by Todd Parr

Activities:

Pre-reading activity:

Ask students about the activities they like to do in their free time.
Show a video about different leisure activities. Explore vocabulary.
 

Ask students who are their best friends and what activities they do with them.

Ask students if it is easy for them to make friends and How they feel when they have to be alone.

During-reading activity:
Read the story Otto goes to the beach. Predict the story with the title. Read the story aloud with the students. Students read and point out to the sentences. Ask questions as the students read.

Post-reading activity:
Ask students about their impressions on the story.
Students color and write their own version of the story.
Todd Parr fun activities

Group: EIN 701
Time: 12:00-1:30
Teacher: Silvia OrtizBook: The Paper Bag Princess
Book online: click and look by alphabetical order
 

 Activities:

Pre-reading activity:

Ask students: How do you imagine a prince and a princesss. Would you like to be a prince or a princess? why?

Show some images of prince and princess

During-reading activity:
Read the story The Paper Bag Princess. Predict the story with the title. Read the story aloud with the students. Students read and point out to the sentences.

 

 

Post-reading activity:
Ask students about their impressions on the story:

Why does Roald have a tennis racket?

Why are they named "Ronald" and "Elizabeth"?

Why a paper bag anot a _________ ?

How can you describe Elizabeth?

How can you describe Ronald?

How can you describe the dragon?

Students design their own paper bag princess - print out

Read aloud February 23

Group: EIN 304
Time: 10:00 -11:30
Teacher: Ana Maria Echeverri
Book: The no-tail cat, I like what I am.

Activities:

Pre-reading activity:
Explore feelings about being different:
Watch the videos: It's ok to be different and Sesame street song: I love my hair
Ask students about the things they like and don't like about themselves. 

 

 

During-reading activity:
Read the story The no-tail cat. Predict the story with the title. Ask students about the different pets they have. Read the story aloud with the students. Students read and point out to the sentences.

Post-reading activity:
Ask students about their impressions on the story.

Do the poster: I like what I am: students draw themselves and highlight their body parts they like the most.

They present posters to the class.

Group: EIN 203
Time: 12:00-1:30
Teacher: Wilson Gallo
Book: Happy Mother's Day, dear dragon

Activities:

Pre-reading activity:

Show the video about families of the world. Ask students about the differences and similarities of families.

Ask them for the mothers they saw on the videos.

Watch the video-song about mothers
 

 

During-reading activity:
Read the story Happy Mother's Day, dear dragon. Predict the story with the title. Ask students about their celebratios on Mother's Day.

Read the story aloud with the students. Students read and poin out to the sentences.

Play the game: puzzle to build sentences from the story.

Post-reading activity:
Ask students about their impressions on the story.
Invite students to write a letter to their mothers.

Read aloud February 16

Group: EIN 202
Time: 10:00 -11:30
Teacher: Lucy Coava
Book:

 Group: EIN 201
Time: 12:00-1:30
Teacher: Lucy Coava
Book:

Families are different

FAMILIES AROUND THE WORLD

Families of China

Families of Costa Rica

Families of Kenya

 

Read-aloud September 29

Group: PIN 1201
Teacher: Oscar García
Time: 2:00-3:30
Book: My Nasa Community: this is the beutiful story of Lina, a woman from the Nasa community who feels proud of her traditions, people, and mother earth.

Activities:

Pre-reading activity: ask students about the indigenous communties they know in Colombia.

Show the Colombian map with the location of the indigenous community. Focus on the Nasa community and explain the Nasa's main characteristics.

Present the video about the ceremony: "El despertar de las semillas" and listen to the explanation of this ceremony in Spanish ans Nasa Yuwe.

During-reading activity: 
Read Lina's story: My Nasa Community and ask questions while reading about the story.

Post-reading activity:
Ask students about their impressions on the story.
Invite students to write a letter to Lina expressing thier opinions about the story and about  the problems the Nasa community is having now.

Group: PIJ 401- PIJ 803
Teacher: Johana Cano

Teacher: Alejandro TorresTime: 10:00-1:30
Book: Mysteries. Believe it or not

Activities:
Pre-reading activity:Ask students about the mysteries they know.
Show them a video with some of the most important mysteries in the world.
Top 20 greatest mysteries of the world
UFOs

During-reading activity: We'll read together, pointing at words, predicting events, describing illustrations and clarifying new vocabulary. 

Post-reading activity: students solve the wordsearch and find the mysterious message.
Encorage students to write thier story about mysteries using storybird

Read-aloud september 22

Group: PIN 1001
Teacher: Oscar García
Time: 8:00-9:30
Book: My Nasa Community: this is the beutiful story of Lina, a woman from the Nasa community who feels proud of her traditions, people, and mother earth.

Activities:

Pre-reading activity: ask students about the indigenous communties they know in Colombia.

Show the Colombian map with the location of the indigenous community. Focus on the Nasa community and explain the Nasa's main characteristics.

Present the video about the ceremony: "El despertar de las semillas" and listen to the explanation of this ceremony in Spanish ans Nasa Yuwe.

During-reading activity: 
Read Lina's story: My Nasa Community and ask questions while reading about the story.

Post-reading activity:
Ask students about their impressions on the story.
Invite students to write a letter to Lina expressing thier opinions about the story and about  the problems the Nasa community is having now.

Group: PIJ 702
Teacher: Alejandro Torres
Time: 10:00-11:30
Book: Be real and true to who you are
Storybird

Create your storybird here
Storybird helps people connect, play, and create and enjoy stories.
Storybirds are short, art-inspired stories you make to share, read, and print.

Read them like books, play them like games, and send them like greeting cards. They’re curiously fun.

Group: PIJ 503
Teacher: Juan Rivera
Time: 12:00-1:30
Book:

Read-aloud September 8

Group: 602
Teacher: Diana Gaviria
Time: 10:00-11:30

Group: 301
Teacher: Danny
Time: 2:00-3:30
          

Books:
I wish
Link

Activities:
Pre-reading activity:Ask students about their wishes.
Show some images about wishes. Review actions and the structutre: I wish I could.... fly to the moon, sing beutifully, swim fast.
Show a video about caterpillars and butterflies. Explain their transformation.

Listen to the caterpillar song.

Review Vocabulary from the story. Watch the video How a caterpillar becomes a butterfly

Show the worksheet Life Cycle of a butterfly

During-reading activity: As we read the story I Wish, we'll read together, pointing at words, predicting events, describing illustrations and clarifying new vocabulary. 

Post-reading activity: students design their butterfly book.
Worksheet 1
Worksheet 2


Group: 603
Teacher: Danny Sánchez
Time: 12:00-1:30
Book: Mysteries. Believe it or not

Activities:
Pre-reading activity:Ask students about the mysteries they know
Show them a video with some of the most important mysteries in the world.
UFOs

During-reading activity: We'll read together, pointing at words, predicting events, describing illustrations and clarifying new vocabulary. 

Post-reading activity: students solve the wordsearch and find the mysterious message.