4. PINE TREE
Pinheiro

Group 1 (2-4 year olds)

Welcome to Pine Tree!

Congratulations for the progress you are helping your students achieve. In the following cycle, students should become engaged with the class in an increasingly active and participative manner. This is why some of the proposed activities in Cycle 4 will require a more dearing involvement from the kids.

OBJECTIVES

THE OBJECTIVES OF THIS CYCLE ARE:

Consolidate understanding of class structure.
Interact with the concepts of past, present, and future.
Speak spontaneously and creatively experiment with the target language.

When you see that there is progress in these areas, you can move on to the next cycle. Check the rubric that will help you know if the group is ready to move forward!

EVIDENCES

WE SUGGEST YOU CHECK THE EVIDENCES WITH WHICH YOU WILL OBSERVE IF YOUR STUDENTS HAVE ACHIEVED THESE OBJECTIVES

CLASS PLANS

CLASS PLAN

*Printable Version

1. STARTING SONG

Just like in previous cycles, the Starting Song is the moment for preparation of the Vivadí class. It is also necessary to carry out the playful tasks that the song proposes.

3. STORYTELLING

That children feel protagonists of their learning process by inviting them to engage as creators in a narration experience.
To challenge the students to find agreements as a group through the process of choice making.

5. BRAIN BREAK

It is a transitional break to regain the student's attention, to keep them focused and to integrate their minds and bodies into one same action.

7. ENDING SONG

To end the class in the same way it started.
That children take responsibility for ordering their learning space and to make them feel owners of it.

2. MOVE YOUR HIPS

That students strengthen their sense of team-work and collaborate with their peers in an immersive activity through active participation.

4. CRAFT TIME

6. HARMONY TIME

To let the children begin to embrace the postures they have been learning and start to play with them. Fewer poses are guided step by step.

CONTENTS

• Actions

• Feelings

• Pets

• The Alphabet

• Colors

• Places

• Simple past

• Adjectives

• Farm animals

• Numbers

• Animals

1. STARTING SONG

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

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As always, the Vivadí Class will begin with the Starting Song. Considering one of the main objectives of this cycle, we propose a small activity to start the class and generate spontaneous group responses while the children get ready for Vivadí.

During this cycle, you will play the starting song without giving any indications to the children. In other words, you will stay still and wait to see their reaction to the introduction of the song without giving instructions. Wait for a few seconds and see if they begin to arrange the classroom, or if they take their shoes off, or somehow show that they are ready to start with the class.

Lyrics

If your friends are in the classroom, say hello.

If you see your teacher smiling, show your teeth

If you want to show your feelings, give a hug

If you feel like being silly, make some noise

If you want to get together, make some room

Let your heart feel so much better, make some room

Let’s get ready for Vivadi

Let’s have some fun and play with english in our world

Let’s get ready for Vivadi

We are all in this together

We’ll do it you and me

We’ll be a big great family

If you notice that the kids haven’t reacted to the song, you should intervene by giving the usual instructions of the beginning of the class. Nevertheless, it is very important that you try this exercise every class.