Why Literature is important?

We always talk about how important it is to develop creativity in our future students but not only through painting, drawing or coloring  we can  also develop the creativity and the critical sense  with literature.

Literature is a way of communication that serves to enable people to enjoy the beauty, have dreams, visit new pleaces, develop imagination, meet new personalities, situations and opinions and of course acquire knowledge.

When a child reads a books, for example, he identifies with characters, he learns about values, ethics and standars of behaviour as love, hard work, sincerity, honesty, courage and friendship, happiness, solidarity and equialty. So literature is an excellent way through children can learn to distinguish right from wrong and expands their knowledge on history, science, politics,real situations and much more.

If as teachers we promote reading, are examples to our children, they will learn and imitate us. They will learn not only vocabulary or knowledge also develop imagination and creativity will learn something new every day.

Julia Donaldson knows very well how to make good children's literature so if you want to investigate something more about her visit these links!!

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Brief!

In this second post I want to write a brief summary of the classes that I liked

The first class that we had for introduced the subject , was very special for me , especially for the song " I was here" because I remembered very nice moments that I lived in Peru and also why I´m studying this degree. I liked this class very much!!!

Another class that i liked very much was a practical lesson, where we show and sang a NURSERY RHYME , in that case my group and I decided to sang "London Bridge" like most of the class!! I think that nursery rhymes are very usefull  because with those songs you can teach routines, vocabulary, pronunciation also are very short, rhythmic and very simple and basic structures.

A important topic that we have seen in class are the Jolly Phonics. It's a different way of teaching phonics to children. I had heard of this method in the Practicum III, but had never put into practice. I loved it, I'm looking forward to having a class and to teach through this method. I declare myself a fan of the JOLLY PHONICS.

Finally another class that also impressed me was The Jazz Chant. Patricia Pelaez, Itziar Rebollo, Cristina Moneva and I did a little rap, doing our body a rhythm. We had to do a song about the muscles. It was fun. I think this kind of activities are very useful and can have many different applications in class. Children can create their own songs, not just repeat.

That´s all!!!

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Dear classmates: 

The idea to create a blog it seems to me super! Because we can share our ideas, thoughts, feelings and impresions. Moreover this activity can help us to develop our creativty and of course come close to new technologies, I´m deligthed with the blog inasmuch as I´m not keen on use these new tools.


To conclude I wish a good year, our last year. Probably this year is the best moment to learn new things, consolidate knowledge, become in good and competent profesionals and definitaly meet more and best to our friends and partners.  Good Luck!!!!