Back to school ideas for primary and ICT

Today I hurry off to school, to work and learn and play. I'm in a brand new grade this year. What a happy day!     

Cockroaches and Ladybugs: Back to school ideas for primary and ICT

Happy Saint George Day!

Cockroaches and Ladybugs: Happy Saint George Day!:

Saint George's Day in Catalonia 

As Saint George is also the Saint Patron of England we benefit of this in the ESL class by talking about castles, legends, knights, kings and princesses, reading books or just listening for fun and enjoyment.

Cockroaches and Ladybugs: Pretend Play in Teaching ESL to VYL

Pretend play (or symbolic play) is a vital experience of childhood that allows transform and create other worlds, other lives to live,play at being other, learn to think and to feel as others and, ultimately, know that there are ways of thinking and feeling different from their own.

"As children develop the ability to represent experience symbolically, pretend play becomes a prominent activity. In this complex type of play, children carry out action plans, take on roles, and transform objects as they express their ideas and feelings about the social world" (Garvey, 1984)

Cockroaches and Ladybugs: Pretend Play in Teaching ESL to VYL