Here are some songs we sing during the classes. Sing with your children and have fun
Abc alphabet song.
There was as old lady who swallowed a fly
Old MacDonald Had a farm.
Five little monkeys sitting in a tree
Benefícios da aprendizagem bilíngue
Muitos pais me perguntam sobre a real importância de uma criança aprender Inglês ou outra língua. Portanto estou postando o resultado de um estudo que divulga 5 razões para que esse aprendizado aconteça.
1 – Muitos especialistas em educação concordam que quanto mais cedo uma criança for introduzida a segunda língua, maior é a chance desta criança se tornar verdadeiramente proficiente.
2 – O aprendizado de uma língua adicional está diretamente relacionado à habilidade duradoura de comunicação com muitas pessoas.
3 – Crianças podem derivar outros benefícios com este aprendizado incluindo a melhora no desempenho escolar geral e na habilidade de resolução de situações problemáticas.
4 – Saber uma segunda língua possibilita uma vantagem competitiva na força de trabalho através da abertura de oportunidade adicional de emprego.
5 – Estudos demonstram que alunos de língua estrangeira, estatisticamente pontuam mais alto em testes de uma forma geral.
Quanto antes seu filho aprender uma segunda língua, mais chances ela terá de se desenvolver melhor em diversas áreas durante sua vida social, acadêmica ou profissional.
In English
Many parents ask me about the real importance of a child learning English or another language . So I’m posting the results of a study which discloses 5 reasons why this learning happen .
1 – Education experts agree that the earlier a child is introduced to a second language , the greater the chance of this child become truly proficient .
2 – Learning an additional language is directly related to the lasting ability to communicate with many people .
3 – Children can derive other benefits with this learning including improved overall school performance and the ability to resolve problematic situations .
4 – Learn a second language provides a competitive advantage in the workforce by opening up additional job opportunities .
5 – Studies show that foreign language learners , statistically score higher on tests in general .
The sooner your children start to learn a second language , more chances they will have to better develop in several areas during their social , academic or professional life.
Como funciona a aprendizagem em Língua Inglesa
Tanto adultos como crianças não mantêm a atenção por muito tempo em algo que seja chato ou desinteressante.
Para que uma aula seja envolvente e seu conteúdo aprendido e fixado, não necessariamente esta atividade precisa ser monótona com exercícios de lousa ou de caderno.
Quando alguma atividade acontece em sala de aula, mesmo que esta não envolva leitura, mas que as orientações sejam dadas em Inglês, já se trata de uma aprendizagem.
Ao desenvolvemos um jogo, um artesanato, ou assistimos à um vídeo; se essas atividades estiverem acontecendo em Inglês o aprendizado também está acontecendo em paralelo, mas de uma maneira envolvente. 
O ser humano tem diferentes formas de aprender: visual, auditiva, linguística, sinestésica, musical, espacial, lógica e matemática. Todas estas formas devem ser estimuladas durante a aprendizagem para que essa seja facilitada. Através de diferentes tipos de exercícios ao longo das aulas, este objetivo é alcançado de uma maneira gostosa e eficaz.
Não se enganem, pois aulas chatas de cópias da lousa, repetições ou exercícios de gramática não levam ao aprendizado da língua ou fixam mais o conteúdo. Estas apenas cansam e desmotivam o aluno a aprender uma segunda língua.
Quer mais informações, leia outros artigos sobre Ensino Bilíngue em meu blog.
Are you sad or lonely? Find 8 solutions!
Hera are some ideas I have just found on Twitter from Sue Ellson by” The Tiny Buda”. I think they are very true and helpful. I hope you´ll like them.
People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.” ~Joseph F. Newton
1. Connect through sports, hobbies or interests.
.Meet likeminded people who share something that you also love. They will make time for you; other people already have full calendars.
2. Borrow or adopt a dog and go walking.
People talk to people with dogs.
3. Talk to senior citizens.
They have plenty of wisdom, time, and advice that they can share. By listening, you are also validating them as well as yourself.
4. Expect it to be challenging.
It may be difficult for you, but don’t give up. Keep going but start with the easiest options first.
5. Find out why you feel lonely.
Perhaps there is some bitterness, resentment, or guilt that you are carrying around. It is time to forgive and forget.
6. Celebrate
Develop new routines and rituals to celebrate special occasions and reward your new healthy behaviors.
7. Be brave.
It takes courage and persistence to overcome your bad habits—but it all starts with you, not someone else. Ask for help, seek some guidance, but take full responsibility for your happiness.
8. Dream big.
Visualize what you want in the future and watch it materialize. Keep your vision sharp and clear.
Can you see how none of these suggest finding a partner or fixing the one you have? Isn’t that liberating? By connecting through various people, activities, or regular commitments, you are no longer dependent on a partner to complete you or help you overcome your feelings of loneliness.
And you may just find that when you are no longer lonely, you will be happy—with or without a partner.
About Sue Ellson
Sue Ellson BBus AIMM MAHRI is the Founder and Director of Newcomers Network, a socially responsible business providing information, events and advocacy for newcomers and networkers in Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, Brisbane and Perth. Sue started this enterprise in 1999 as a result of her own difficult transition from Adelaide to Melbourne. Connect directly to Sue via LinkedIn.
Seeds, Seeds, Seeds
Prezados Alunos, Pais e Amigos,
O projeto que estaremos desenvolvendo nas aulas dessa vez será sobre sementes. 
Vamos coletar os mais variados tipos de sementes que existem: de frutas e cereais que comemos no dia a dia, de flores, de plantas, de árvores. 
Faremos muitas atividades relacionadas ao tema como: leitura de história, assistir à vídeos, confeccionar livretes, coleta e plantio de sementes e acompanhar o crescimento e desenvolvimento das sementes que plantarmos em sala. 
Todos podem colaborar enviando para a aula fotos, CDs, livros, sementes ou demais objetos sobre o tema.
Com certeza este projeto será muito educativo!
The project that we are developing in class this time will be about seeds.
We will collect several kinds of seeds that exist like: fruit, flowers, plants, and trees.
We will do many activities related to the theme as story reading, watching videos, making booklets, collecting and planting seeds and monitor the growth and development of seeds we sow in the classroom.
You can contribute by sending to class photos, CDs, books, seeds or other objects on the topic.
Surely this project will be very educational!
Thank you very much from Brazil
Happy Easter Everyone!
Dear Students, Parents and Friends,
The activities for Easter Week are done! I am tired, but very happy with the outcome.
The children had a lot of fun doing the activities for Easter.
They enjoyed assembling their baskets.
They loved decorating their eggs.
They looked for hidden chocolate eggs during the egg hunt with happiness and joy.
It was a great time and we all learned and had a lot of fun.
We at Paula Lyra ELT School wish you a Peaceful and Happy Easter!
Plenary by Sugata Mitra at IATEFL
The 48th Annual International IATEFL Conference & Exhibition
Dear Teachers and English Learners,
Check this conference because it was very good.
Sugata Mitra is Professor of Educational Technology at the School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences at Newcastle University, UK. His interests include Children’s Education, Remote Presence, Self-organising systems, Cognitive Systems, Physics and Consciousness. Professor Mitra’s work at NIIT created the first curricula and pedagogy for that organisation, followed by years of research on learning styles, learning devices, several of them now patented, multimedia and new methods of learning. Culminating and, perhaps, towering over his previous work, are his “hole in the wall” experiments with children’s learning. Since 1999, he has convincingly demonstrated that groups of children, irrespective of who or where they are, can learn to use computers and the internet on their own using public computers in open spaces such as roads and playgrounds. He brought these results to England in 2006 and invented Self Organised Learning Environments, now in use throughout the world. In 2009, he created the Granny Cloud of teachers who interact with children over the Internet. Since the 1970s, Professor Mitra’s publications and work has resulted in training and development of perhaps a million young Indians, amongst them some of the poorest children in the world. The resultant changes in the lives of people and the economy of the country can only be guessed at.
The future of learning
In this talk, Sugata Mitra will take us through the origins of schooling as we know it, to the dematerialisation of institutions as we know them. Thirteen years of experiments in children’s education takes us through a series of startling results – children can self-organise their own learning, they can achieve educational objectives on their own, they can read by themselves. Finally, the most startling of them all: groups of children with access to the internet can learn anything by themselves. From the slums of India, to the villages of India and Cambodia, to poor schools in Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, the USA and Italy, to the schools of Gateshead and the rich international schools of Washington and Hong Kong, Sugata’s experimental results show a strange new future for learning.
5 Ideas for Classroom Management
Às vezes fica difícil para professores organizarem suas aulas de forma atraente e eficaz, principalmente com um orçamento limitado.
Aqui seguem 5 boas ideias de http://www.scholastic.com
These ideas are from Scholastic.com. We can find many more useful tips there.
Classroom management can be a challenge, especially for those on a budget. Here are five tried-and-true ideas that have seen me through many years of teaching kindergarten. Follow these guidelines to make managing your classroom an inexpensive and painless experience.
1. Give privileges, not prizes or presents
This goes for individual and group rewards, as well as for birthdays and holidays.
Ideas for individual privileges:
- Choose where to sit
- Play a game instead of working on an assignment
- Play on the computer
Ideas for group privileges:
- Special activity
- Outdoor fun
- Show and Tell
I make punch cards so students can pick a reward and then earn it. Once a reward is cashed in, they can pick a new reward. Punches are free for birthdays and holidays.
2. Keep a music player and a well-stocked music library.
Music can be used for many different things. Examples include:
- Play slow instrumental music to create a peaceful environment
- Play upbeat tunes for a mood or energy boost
- Celebrate an accomplishment by singing and dancing
- Designate a song that is used for transitions
3. Make a variety of ways to motivate and encourage students, or to prevent certain behaviors.
- Quiet as a Mouse Bubbles (bubble solution, bubble wand)
- Smarty Spray (spray bottle, water)
- Speedy Clean-Up Spritzer (spray bottle, Alka-Seltzer tablet
- Helping Hands Soap (pump dispenser, foaming hand soap)
- Magic “Pay Attention” Mist (mister, water, peppermint extract)
- Tattletale Repellent (can of air freshener)
- Fear Extinguisher (spray bottle, water, vanilla extract)
4. Buy snacks with small pieces for longer use.
Some snacks that work well are:
- Cereal
- Goldfish-type crackers
- Pretzel sticks
- Cheez-It crackers
- Popcorn
- Chex Mix
- Raisins
- Graham crackers
5. Use cheap toys and tools for fidgety kids.
Good items for kids who can’t sit still (something that appeals to each of the five senses):
- Silly Putty
- Headphones
- Sand timer or sensory bottle
- Leftover candy canes
- Chewing gum
- Stuffed animal or pillow (musical ones are a bonus!)
Source: http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/top-teaching/2014/02/5-ideas-classroom-management-budget?eml=INTL/e/20140407////INTLeNews//clsrmmgmt////&ym_MID=1523843&ym_rid=12982663
IATELF Conference
Attention, Parents, Students, and English Teachers,
Atenção, pais, alunos e professores de inglês,
Estou muito orgulhosa de anunciar que fui aceita e serei uma blogueira registada nas conferências do IATELF através do blog da escola. http://paulalyra.com
ASSOCIAÇÃO INTERNACIONAL DE PROFESSORES DE INGLÊS COMO LÍNGUA ESTRANGEIRA
Como em todos os anos, o British Council irá gerenciar IATEFL online. Se você não puder comparecer a Conferência Harrogate IATEFL de 2014 pessoalmente, acompanhe o evento online! Cobertura contará com palestras, sessões e entrevistas gravadas com conferencistas e delegados.
A cobertura ao vivo da conferência começa 01 de abril de 2014. Cada dia haverá as plenários de conferências, entrevistas de estúdio e ao vivo de sessões de Harrogate a partir de 09:00 (UK).
Paula Lyra ELT Escola já está registada como Harrogate blogger.
I am very proud to announce that I am going to be a registered blogger at the conferences through the blog from the school. http://paulalyra.com
INTENATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF TEACHERS OF ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE
As with every year, The British Council will be managing IATEFL online. If you can’t attend the 2014 Harrogate IATEFL Conference in person, follow the event online! Coverage will feature talks, sessions and recorded interviews with conference presenters and delegates
Live conference coverage starts 1st April, 2014. Each day watch the conference plenaries, studio interviews and sessions live from Harrogate from 09:00 (UK).
Paula Lyra ELT School has already registred as a Harrogate blogger.
Paula Lyra ELT School 