Improvement of Communicative English Skills: 2015

sábado, 31 de octubre de 2015

DREAM CATCHER

MATERIALS

Flexible wooden sticks (45 centimeters)

Colored braided thread.

Colored feathers

Cigarette lighter

Scissors

Seeds

lighter

PROCEDURE

ü Form a circle with flexible wooden sticks and tie it up

ü Then start to weave making a spider´s net with braided thread

ü To decorate it we use colorful feathers and seeds hanging them at the end of the dreamcatcher.

A dream catcher or hunter is a handmade item whose base is traditionally a ring made of willow wood with a loose network inside decorated with different objects. The circle represents the wheel of life, the cosmos and the cyclical movement.

NET: Good dreams pass through the center of the ring to the sleeper, negative energy or bad dreams are caught in the mesh and fade with the first rays of light.

FEATHERS: They are symbols only able to raise the energy of talisman holder, they are used to unblock stagnant energy.

ACCOUNTS OR PERFORATED SEEDS: You must choose the most appropriate for the temperament of the person who will use it because they symbolize the relationship between the earthly and the astral plane. According to popular belief, its function is to filter people's dreams letting only positive dreams and missions; dreams that you don´t remember are the dreams that slowly go down the feathers; the nightmares are trapped in the account (stone) and the next day they burn with the daylight to avoid dream comes true.

COLORS WORDS PUZZLE

Play is not an exclusive activity for children but also for all people who want to make the most of mind in a different way. In this game, students have the opportunity to combine their thinking with the language because they work with a word puzzle related to colors, also it stimulates students, generates pleasure, benefits communication, integration and teamwork, all students tried to be very agile physically and mentally to run with speed.

Twister Game: It is a game that consists of four columns with four circles of the same color each red, green, yellow and blue with a white background and can be played individually, in pairs or teams

This is an excellent game to listen to instructions, understand and perform in English. Students can use their body flexibility, learn colors, ordinal numbers, human body parts and laterality, but the most important it applies learning by doing and speaking and listening skills

playing twister with fifth graders from Sucre Educational Institute