Hello everybody! How are you? Last week Raquel gave us the marks of our reading maps. How was yours? I guess you had a great mark!!!

When we did the reading map museum I could see all your works and I have to say that all of them were amazing and really crafted so, congratulations for your effort.

Although most of you have already seen, I am going to show you my reading map, again ;)

For me, it was a very special work, but, personally, one of the most difficult ones. I explain everything in my reading map essay,however, as it is quite long, I prefer to explain it here.

Since I was a child, my parents have instilled my brother and me the reading. My father is a reading-lover; he reads at least 3 books a month, although he does not have too much time, he takes it even from under the rocks. He has hundreds of books, and loves all types of categories, he does not mind if it is a fantasy book, a terror book, or a love one.  That is why he has gave me lots of books.

At the beginning, I loved reading books like “Kika Superbruja”, “Los Cinco”, “Manolito Gafotas”… but everything changed when I started the High School.  I completely lost my interest in reading.That was because of my teachers, and the way they imparted the lessons.

They always wanted us to read books, make summaries and do exams.  This finally discouraged me to read.  In addition, at college, I had to read really boring books like “La Celestina”, “Nada”, "La casa de Bernarda Alba”, “Don Quijote de La Mancha” and so on, and I suppose that you all too. 

Honestly, I have read very few books for myself. Maybe it is because I have never found a book that fits my interests…

Nevertheless, when I started the University, I totally changed my mind when I had to read children books. They really like me!!! I have fun while reading them, they are interesting, almost all of them have morals and they are educative. I love children’s literature and it is fantastic. On the one hand, it is sad that I do not like reading books like most of you, but on the other hand I am happy to find something that I love.

What about you? You like reading? Which type of books do you prefer? I would like to read your opinions and your likes and dislikes.

Thank you, readers! See you soon.

                                       

   SONGS FOR CHILDREN

Welcome again! Today I have an important question for you all… Do you like music?

I leave you some seconds to think

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Ok, I am pretty sure that your answer is YES! Of course, everyone likes music. It forms part of our life. We have music wherever we are: in the street, in the university, in the car, at home, in the school… 

Moreover, we can use it for everything: to make a video, to show pictures, to dance, to sing, and, why not, to teach.

In this post I am going to talk about Educative Songs.

As you all know, nowadays we can use any resource we want to impart a class, like we have seen in the university we can use reading maps, storytelling, nursery rhymes and so on. Then why don’t use a song to make the students learn? It’s a really simple way to facilitate the learning.

We are lucky to live in the XXI century, and have Internet, because if we search on Youtube we will find lots of videos for children. When I did my second training period I saw plenty of children songs with the students of the first cycle. There were songs to learn the colours, the routines, the animals, the numbers, the hobbies…

The best singer of educative songs, since my point of view, is Matt R., an American musician from New York. He has written every song he has, especially for children, because he loves them and he enjoys doing this work. Raquel showed one video of him some weeks ago, and I knew him because of my last training period (my tutor loved his songs).

I am going to show you my favourite videos and, I think, most useful to teach.

This is to learn the daily routines

To learn the days of the week

  

                                     To learn the parts of the body

                       

                       

If you visit his youtube channel, you will discover all of his videos and I imagine that you are going to like them! In addition , he has a webpage where there are lots of songs and resources to use with the students :)

Let's try to use music to teach! It will be funny

I hope you like this post and be useful for you! See you soon