Have Fun with English! 2

A blog for me and my 5th and 6th grade students (2005-2007) in Parede, Portugal.

Happy New Year!!!

Hi, kids!

I hope you had a wonderful Christmas with lots of nice presents. I had a lovely time with all my family.

Today I have a wonderful puzzle to celebrate 2007! It's more complicated than the Christmas puzzles, because it has more pieces, but lots of fun. I loved doing it.

Click the image to do the puzzle. Enjoy!

  Happy New Year!! See you in 2007!!!

posted by: teresadeca at 12/30/06 22:20 | link | comments (2)

Merry Christmas!!!

Hi, kids!

Here's a beautiful animated Christmas card for you and your families. Merry Christmas!!!

Follow all the instructions (bottom left) and click in the correct places in the image. To start, click the image.

 

Christmas carols / Cânticos de Natal (23 Dec. 2006)

Below are six Christmas carols sung by 5th and 6th grade students of Escola de Sto. António - Parede and included in the CD-ROM, "Natal na Santo Antonio" (Christmas at Santo Antonio). They recorded the CD at a studio and it was sold at school before the Christmas break started. It's FA-BU-LOUS!!!

CONGRATULATIONS to all the students involved, among them, Andreia, Inês F, Márcia and Rodrigo (6.C), Diana, Higor, Leonor and Marta (6.D) and Bárbara, Catarina, Débora, Fábia and Francisca (6.E), my students, and to the three music teachers, Ana Paula, Elsa and Pedro! What a great job you all did!!!

Enjoy! And... Merry Christmas!!!

To hear the music, doubleclick on the in the mini-consoles below:

Everybody likes to take a holiday

Natal branco / White Christmas

Vai nevar / Let it snow

Jingle bells

A todos um bom Natal

Miscelânea de Natal

 

Christmas puzzles (25Dec06)

Click each image and... enjoy doing the puzzles! Don't forget to say the time you took (= o tempo que levaste) to solve each puzzle!

             

posted by: teresadeca at 12/22/06 07:41 | link | comments (17)

What we did in class

    Here's Luis (6. C) to tell us about what we did in class in the last two weeks of the 1st term (Dec 4-14):

In the last two of school we had CALL lesson 4 and we made a second movie. We studied directions, prepositions of place, possessive adjectives and pronouns, and interrogatice pronouns. We did lots of practice exercises. Finally, we exchanged Christmas cards and we did self-evaluation.

posted by: teresadeca at 12/21/06 17:23 | link | comments

Thank you! :-)

Dear friends,

"Thank you" for the many and lovely congratulation messages for me, my students and our blog! It's meant a lot to see your enthusiasm and support for something that we've done with "heart and soul", and that is also a part of some of you. 

I'm amazed that the students haven't reacted to the great news - only two so far -, but... the Christmas craze must be much more powerful at this time.

I hope that you will continue to visit our blog and... don't forget to visit the sister/brother blog, "CALL lessons 05-06" (link on the left column), with a new lesson every two weeks.

Merry Christmas and a New Year full of successes in and out of the blogosphere!

posted by: teresadeca at 12/20/06 20:40 | link | comments (7)

And the winner is....

And the winner of the international Edublog Awards in the category of Best Teacher Blog 2006 is... Have Fun with English! 2!!! Please click the image above to see a list of all the winners.

I feel very honored with this award, as I said in the synchronous (= live) awards ceremony earlier today, and extremely happy for my students, my collaborators and... myself, of course.

Congratulations, kids! You are doing a wonderful job that has just been recognized (= acabou de ser reconhecida) all over the world!

Congratulations also to all my friends and colleagues worldwide who regularly collaborate with us!

Finally, congratulations to all 2006 nominees and winners!

And... a big "thank you" to all those who voted for us, because they felt that our work deserved it! And to Josie Fraser and the Edublog Awards team!

What a "very special" Christmas present! 

Now, kids, it's time to continue our great work! I'll include some Christmas activities very soon. Hope you enjoy them. And keep (= continue) sending your comments. And your parents too!

Merry Christmas, everyone, and best wishes for 2007!

Your radical teacher 

VIP: Please identify yourselves in your messages (it's a policy between my students and me) and say where you are in the world to give the students an idea of how far we reach. Thank you!

 

Here's the podcast of the live and synchronous Awards Ceremony last Sunday, Dec. 17!

Interesting Edublog Awards links

And the winners are... (EdTechUK - Josie Fraser)

Comments from the winners (Edublog Awards)

The 2006 Edublog Awards Show (EdTechTalk #75, text and voice)

Winners and Non-Winners (Graham Wegner, Finalist)

posted by: teresadeca at 12/17/06 15:43 | link | comments (37)

Nomination for Edublogs Awards / Nomeação para Prémio Edublog

CONGRATULATIONS, kids!

"Our" Have Fun with English! 2 blog was nominated (= foi nomeado) by the Edublogs Awards team for Best Teacher Blog 2006. This is an international award (= um prémio internacional). What a great honor, isn't it?

You and all the teachers who have collaborated with us have done great work. I'm very proud of you. Thank you all!

Voting is here until Saturday, Dec 16, at midnight GMT. Or you can click the image below to go directly to the "Best Teacher Blog 2006" category and vote.

Let's hope we win!

 

Interesting links to The Edublog Awards

Edublog (Wikipedia)

Edublog awards (George Siemens, 8Dec06)

Edublog Awards/EdublogEvolution/Edublog Echo (Will Richardson, 12Dec06)

Third International Edublog Awards (Anne Davis, 21Nov06)

posted by: teresadeca at 12/08/06 22:48 | link | comments (17)

10,000 visits

    Hi, kids!

I visited our blog at 18:40 GMT and the counter (= contador) indicated 10,000 visits! Isn't it something special? I think so and I wanted to call your attention! I'm very happy with our success!!! 

Now and then (= de vez em quando) remember to click the map with the red dots (= pontos vermelhos) and see that we have visitors from all parts of the world.

Congratulations to you all on your great work!!!   

posted by: teresadeca at 12/06/06 17:50 | link | comments (5)

Zimmertwins

    Hi, kids!

Remember that there are a few messages about Zimmertwins (ZT) which should (= devem) help you. Here they are:

-- How to join: in text and voice (my message to Rodrigo)

-- CALL lesson 3 about ZT (it includes the links to your movies)

-- Registering in ZT ("help" with images)

-- Forgot your password? ("help" also with images)

 I hope it's good for you to have all the files together.

posted by: teresadeca at 12/03/06 13:19 | link | comments (6)