With the help of your body language, try to understand something about the meaning of the story, which will be connected, in some way, to a scene from a previous video.
The purposes of this activity are: to familiarize the students with yoga practices and meditation in English; make the students conscious of time and place and aware of how they can use their bodies.
With the help of your body language, try to understand something about the meaning of the story, which will be connected, in some way, to a scene from a previous video.
The purposes of this activity are: to familiarize the students with yoga practices and meditation in English; make the students conscious of time and place and aware of how they can use their bodies.
With the help of your body language, try to understand something about the meaning of the story, which will be connected, in some way, to a scene from a previous video.
The purposes of this activity are: to familiarize the students with yoga practices and meditation in English; make the students conscious of time and place and aware of how they can use their bodies.
Just like in previous cycles, the Starting Song is the moment for preparation of the Vivadí class. There are different proposals to carry out this activity to strengthen the pedagogic use of the use.
To “clean the house”: the objective is to go through the main articulations of the body and renew those joints with some simple exercises that will refresh the energy.
To ask your students about the video experiences (jornadas), ask them how they did them, if they are liking them so far, which were their favorites, etc.
Remember
1. STARTING SONG
Starting Song - Vivadí
00:00
As usual, we will begin the class with the starting song.
We suggest you let the kids start this activity by themselves, even with abit more autonomy than in previous cycles. Once you see they’ve started singing and dancing, you can join the fun.
If the kids are concentrated, we propose a few activities that will help you manage the energy of the group.
MIRROR DANCING
Ask the children to get in pairs.
One of them will be the dancer and the other will be the mirror.
The idea is that the dancer moves freely to the rhythm of the starting song and the mirror has to imitate the dancer’s moves.
You can tell the children to switch roles halfway through the song so that they all get to act as dancers and as mirrors.
FOUR WORDS EACH
In a circle, start the song by singing the first four words.
The student sitting by your side should sing the following four words, and the next student the four words after that, and so on.
The idea is that the kids listen and pay attention to the words they have to sing out loud.
They win the game if they manage to sing the whole song in this manner!
EUPHORIC MODE
If the kids are euphoric, we propose a few activities that will help you manage the energy of the group.
ADJUSTING VOLUME
Open your hand and raise it as high as you can. While your hand is up and the starting song is playing, sing the lyrics in a loud volume and encourage the kids to do the same.
Then, as your hand goes down, slowly lower the volume making them understand they should lower the volume too. Once they understood the game, play with the volume of the kids singing of the starting song with the use of your hand.
*you can use this resource anytime to adjust the volume of the class by raising or lowering your hand.
CHANGING PLACES
Choose a few of the words that are repeated during the starting song, for example “room” “English” and “Vivadí”.
When the children listen to these words they should switch places with another student or just move to another place in the classroom.
This activity will require an active listening of the song, which will help with the general concentration of the group.
ORCHESTRA
Tell the children to sit in four separate groups. During the starting song, you will be an orchestra director. This means that you decide which group has to sing in different parts of the song.
So, you will point at the group that has to sing and the others will have to remain silent until they are pointed at.
After the starting song you will guide a brief harmony exercise based on breathing movements.
This exercise will help the children gain awareness of their body and concentrate in the present moment.
Divide the students into groups of four and tell them to form small circles.They should remain standing throughout the exercise
BLOOMING FLOWER
Guide:
“Concentrate on your own breathing, without worrying about anyone else or looking at how your classmate’s are breathing. It is important that you focus on your own body now. Observe the rhythm of your breath and gently, when you inhake, open your arms to the sides of your body and bring them up above your head, like a blooming flower.
When you exhale, bring your arms to your chest like a flower that is closing. When you finish exhaling, your forearms should be crossed in front of your chest and your hands on your shoulders.”
FIRST STAGE:
Individual breathing
1
You will first tell the children to focus on their own breathing and do the blooming flower exercise. Show them how the movement is done as you guide them through it.
*We suggest you watch this video before the class to be able to explain the exercise more clearly to the students. Let the children repeat this exercise until they manage to coordinate the inhaling movement and the exhaling movement.
SECOND STAGE:
Group breathing
2
Now, the children should do the same exercise but trying to maintain a breathing rhythm in their groups of 4. The idea is that all four students do the inhaling and exhaling movements at the same time.
THIRD STAGE:
Whole class breathing
3
Finally, you will do the blooming exercise trying to maintain the same rythm with the rest of the class. This means that every student should try and inhale and exhale at the same time.
Benefits of the activity
The rhythmic movements and the synchronization favors a calm atmosphere of the group.
This exercise clears the mind and sharpens thinking by increasing the flow of oxygen throughout the body, particularly the brain.
Interpersonal relationship is favored when paying attention to the group’s breathing and seeking a single rhythm.
3. POPCORN TIME
3. POPCORN TIME
In this section, choose one of the following stories for your students to listen to!
How: Students are first paired and are placed in a position such that they don’t face each other. A student will be given a picture and the other student will be given a plain paper and pencil. The student with the picture has to describe what is in the picture without actually telling what it is. The other person has to bring in some creativity and imagination to draw a picture according to the student’s description. Online: Put the students into breakout rooms (2 in each), the student will look for a picture online. The other student will have a paper and pencil. The student with the picture has to describe what is in the picture without actually telling what it is. THe other person has to bring in some creativity and imagination to draw a picture according to the student’s description.
Game: Mime
How: The class is first divided into teams. Teacher writes action words such as running, gardening, singing etc in pieces of paper. It is then folded and placed in a bag or box. A student from a team comes and picks a paper and enacts the word. The other team has to guess the word correctly to win a point. Online: The class is first divided into teams. Then you will ask for the first volunteer. You can send the action/verb by private message or you can make the list beforehand, show the student and they have to silently choose one of the words. The student will then need to enact the word. The other team has to guess the word correctly to win a point.
Game: Craft Time
How: Choose one of the following videos to do with your students for craft time!
How: Students will all be sitting in their chairs, and at any time, a student can jump up and say, “Pop!” Once they do, that student remains standing. If two students pop up at the same time, everyone takes their seats, and the game starts over. How quickly can the entire class pop without having to start over?
Game: Craft Time
How: Choose one of the following videos to do with your students for craft time!
This exercise consists of making different movements with your feet and hands. Use this harmony phase to get the attention of the kids back to themselves by doing the short movement exercises.
FEET MOVES
ROTATION
This means moving your feet 5 times clockwise, and 5 times counterclockwise. To help the children imagine the movement, tell them to draw circles in the air with their feet.
FLEXION AND EXTENSION
This exercise consists of extending your feet to the floor and then flexing it back pointing towards your body. Repeat this movement 5 times with each foot. You can tell the kids to press the floor downwards with their toes and then raise their toes to the sky.
HAND MOVES
PASSIN THE BALL
Alternatively, open your hands and then close them back again. Tell your students that they have to pass an imaginary ball from hand to hand.
ROTATION
Make five clockwise rotations with your wrists and five rotations counterclockwise.
BOUNCING THE BALL
Extend your arms forward with your palms facing down, and then raise and lower your hands 5 times as if you were bouncing a ball against the floor.
TIPS:
You can count out loud to guide the students with the movements and those who want to count aloud with you can do it too.
These exercises are simple and do not require a prior training. The hands and feet are important nerve centers in the body. Therefore, these exercises that appear to be insignificant have a balancing effect.
6. STORYTELLING
5. STORYTELLING
It is time to read a story that expands the content we have been working on in our English classes. We remind you that, even if you have audio-visual support, your body language is key to make students understand the meaning of the story and also make it more significant to them.
You can choose from these options with no particular order, but remember how important repetition is. So, if you choose to repeat a story more than once, don’t worry if another story is never told.
Reading 1
We have to use different kinds of clothes to go to different places.
What do you like to wear when you go out?
And what do you usually wear when you go to school?
What do you wear when you go to the beach?
It’s time to sleep! What do you put on?
Talk about the vocabulary in the store before starting the reading:
T-shirt
Shoes
Sneakers
Bike
Books
Bag
Cricket
Ball
Ice cream
Home
Shorts
Pants
Skirt
Jacket
Dress
Socks
A nice way to practice this vocabulary is to print the pictures. You can make bingo game with the kids, a game called “pass on”, where the kids must “pass” the words to it’s colleagues, chinese whisper or “when I go to the store” game, where the kids say an object, and the next one must say the previous object and add one more, and so on.
During the storytelling show the pictures and ask your students to help you to complete the story with the clothes.
What does the boy wear to go to school?
How do they go to school?
What is inside Samir’s bag?
What candy do they eat together?
Activity: The Parade
How: Provide students with different types of clothing and accessories. Then have students divide into two groups and choose one of the students to be the role model. Groups should dress their partner using their creativity to create a very different and fun look. That done, put on a song for the parade. The most creative look voted by the students wins.
Activity: As many clothes as you can
How: Split the class into groups. The group must choose one student to be the model, and the others must dress him up with as many clothes as they can. Three shorts, 4 socks, 5 jackets! The group which puts on more clothes and says their name as they take them off, wins.
Activity: Online game
How: Find an online game that your kids like a lot. “The Sims” or “Roblox” are good options. Tell them “my brother and me” story, and as you say the objects from the story they must put on the clothes and accessories to suit their character. You can make a fashion show afterwards.
Reading 2
When it's sunny the mamma bird goes to a hot place to have fun with her friends and search for some food for her babies. However, sometimes they can’t find their way back home.
What did the birds do to make mama bird come back?
When did the yellow one sing the mama song?
What did help mama bird to find her way back home?
Activity: Marco Polo
How: The player who is Marco Polo, with eyes closed, uses call and response and their sense of hearing to locate other players. The player who is Marco Polo is working to tag another player in order to win the game. He shouts “Marco”, as the rest of the kids answer “Polo”.
Activity: Find out who
How: One player is chosen as "It". The "It" player, with closed eyes, stays in the middle of the circle. The teacher points out to one student who says a word from the story of the day. The player who is "It" must find out which one of its colleagues made the sound.
6. HARMONY TIME 3.0
7. HARMONY
CLEANING THE HOUSE (part 2)
This exercise, just like the previous harmony exercise, consists of making different movements with specific parts of your body only, that this time you will move your shoulders, your arms and your head.
Another alternative is to choose one of the following videos in the playlist for your students to do.
ARMS AND SHOULDERS MOVES
SHOULDER ROTATION
With your fingers fixed on your shoulders, make five circles with your elbows in one direction and five in the opposite direction. Try to synchronize your respiration with the rotations
FLEXION AND EXTENSION OF THE FOREARM ELBOW
While you slowly inhale, extend your arms so that they are parallel to the floor and with your palms facing up.
While you slowly exhale, bend your elbows by bringing your hands toward your shoulders.
HEAD
MOVES
HEAD TO THE SIDE
Drop your head to your right side first, and hold it with your right arm. Then do the same but to the left side.
HEAD ROTATIONS
Slowly make five head rotations to one side and then five rotations to the opposite side.
Repeat these movements five times.
They favor the development of the thoracic cage and a good ventilation of the lungs, which in turn, increases the flow of oxygen to the brain and improve your overall muscle tone.
These exercises should be done with caution. Make sure that the cervical vertebrae are aligned with the dorsal axis. It is very important that the spine remains erect. Also, remember not to stretch your head too far forward or backwards.
They relieve tension from your head and neck. They have a calming effect, especially if you manage to synchronize the movements with your respiration. Also, they are an excellent way of bringing back the attention when you feel your students are restless and disperse.
Finally, as always, you will sing our well-known Ending Song.
Make sure everyone sings it out loud together. Encourage, especially those kids that don't participate much in class, to see if they can repeat the song phonetically.
Do not forget to put the class back in order while you sing.
