THEATRE

                                 Learn through art

Theater can be another tool in the classroom with which to make children learn and internalize a second language while having fun.

 

Benefits of theater to learn English in children:

• Learning English through dramatization and theater, implies using language in a more meaningful way since language is used in context and interactively, so that children quickly acquire more fluency and ease.

• It also greatly improves pronunciation. The ear becomes familiar with the correct intonation and the accents of the teachers. This is the first step to end up pronouncing English as a native.

• Learning English through theater helps children develop their own creativity and have a more open mindset. This is not only beneficial for learning English, but for many other cross-cutting aspects of children's education that will make them grow as people.

• Children learn new vocabulary and structures in English very quickly, since by using them in context, and having to memorize them to represent them later, it helps them to fix them in memory.

• Finally, one of the most prominent benefits of using theater to learn English in children is the increase in confidence and self-esteem. Many times, although children have learned many things in class, they feel ashamed to use them, because they don't have the right context. Within the theater environment, it is very easy to be encouraged to speak English, and sometimes the shame that public speaking (and more in another language) can cause in front of many people.

 

 

For all this we do not hesitate to take the theater to the classroom to teach English to children.

 

INTRODUCTION

Anything we teach children should be based in love and English is no exception.

 

 

 

POEMS

The important of poems in children 

Musicality is important to teaching English in childhood education.The rhymes make children lear faster and enjoy learning.

With poems we can introduce from small: colours, seasons, numbers, animals and important values such as peace or friendship. We can tell short poems and use visual material to associate the sounds with words and drawings. It is also good that while we tell poems to children we must be expressive and make movements.

We also stimulate the creativity of children and treir sensitivity to appreciating art.

                 

SONGS

         Why are the songs good for teaching English?

The songs have always been used to teach genereation in generation because of its musicality it is easier to remember what is said.

That's why the songs are a good tool for children to learn and remember. We can find songs of varied topics to introduce vocabulary in English to children. For example, with the songs we can teach children to say hello to others, to remember their routines of the day, time, emotions, the family, the animals, etc.

We can make them repeat the key expressions of the songs, put the background songs in the classroom or at the same time we sing using visual material to associate sound with the word and the object. In short, we can create different activities with children whose main resource is the songs and so the base is English.

The best thing about the songs in children's education is that they have fun of children and they get their attention and thats very important when teaching anything.

Then links where to find musical material:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4WNrvVjiTw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVlcKp3bWH8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUXkj6j6Ezw

STORYTELLING

Storytellings in child education

Storytelling are good for learning new vocabulary and grammatical structures significant.

Storytelling with drawings or sound stand out to children, and they can tell on the assembly in the mornigs and then talk about the story and the characters. Storytelling are a good resource as children like it so much, and they go by assimilating sounds and new words.

The expressive part is very important here for children to learn and enjoy.

• We can use stories with topics of season in which we are, festivities or topics that we are working on classroom.
• If we ask question motivating, the children work the repetition and the incorporation of new words.
• After we finish tell the story we can ask the children to order the drawings to know they've understood the story.

GAMES

      

           Games allow children to learn to enjoy themselves

 

In this section we will talk about games that can help children to expand their vocabulary in English and improve their grammar. 

All games are selected to learn in an affective way and without realizing it. 

The level of English with children must be basic. 

                            

              Benefits to learn by playing:

Learn new words 
 
They revisit vocabulary already learned
 
They understand new concepts
 
They pronounce new sounds by imitation

With games, children enjoy fun moments and learn English almost without effort.

      Different types of games: 

To learn:

 

- vocabulary

- colours

- numbers

- geometric figures

- seasons of the year and the months 

- days os the week

- family

- body parts and face

- clothes 

                           

            You can then see two videos of two English children's classes:

CRAFTS

 

                                 Crafts in child education

It is about learning English through simple crafts that the children spend a fun time while learning English.

With these activities, children can learn the vocabulary of the classroom: glue, scissors, rubber, paper, paint, etc. Also learn to name simple actions: cut, fold, stick, draw. And in general children can learn the vocabulary they learn in Spanish from the different themes that are address in the classroom.

The key is to propose crafts according to the age of children.

These activities are usually very attractive to children.

 

The following video explains what we teach with this technique and how to use the crafts in a didactic way

 

 

In the classroom we can make crafts with different topics such as Christmas, Halloween, seasons of the year.. in the next video we see how to make crafts with children of Halloween.

Other ideas of crafts: