Christmas Animated Postcards
If you have access to internet, this website http://www.northpole.com/Mailroom/Postcards/PCIntro.html%20 is perfect for you! I know you will find it useful for a writing lesson. Students can email a Christmas animated postcard to their parents or friends, adding their own messages. It is a fun activity, students will enjoy it! I will include this project in my planning for December. But before starting I’ll need to follow SIX STEPS. STEP 1: I will tell my students a little bit about Christmas and talk about the Christmas animated postcard project. STEP 2: I will ask my students to create a web and remind them that in the center of the web they will have to put the name of the person they want to send the postcard. STEP 3: they will write their ideas for the postcard in the web and later create a paragraph with those ideas. STEP 4: I will ask my students to exchange papers to revise their work and I will edit their work. STEP 5: I will ask my students to find out the email address of their father or mother; to send the postcard. (Check with their parents to be sure it's OK.) STEP 6: if your students have access to internet, they will be able to type the letter and send it online. But if your students don’t have access, they can type the letter in Word; you can paste it and send it.
By Maria de Lourdes Lopez Pereira
4 comments:
Halloween has been accepted for many people in our country, since globalization has made Ecuador an open window for many foreign customs, imitation takes place. But most of the people only imitate those customs in which they can have fun, because those are the ones that the movies show the most.
Halloween is not a bad holiday that we need to take away, but as good keepers of our culture and identity we need to remember and know better about our native symbol. Government needs to develop and encourage education programs about them. Banning this holiday is not enough if we really want a collective change!
Students need to learn Ecuadorian History in English too; Apart from teaching them Halloween vocabulary and read about it, we can make projects to show customs of the National Seal’s Day.
HI - I like your blog. Where is Vol. 1, No. 1?
As for Halloween, did you know there is a holiday similar to Halloween celebrated in the penninsula de Sta. Elena, on Nov. 1, All Saints Day? It remembers little children who are angels. Families have bread dolls and little children go from house to house saying "Angelitos somos, Del cielo venimos, Pedimos pan." Karen
One thing is clear, national seal day will never compete for attention with Halloween! Adults usually complain about Halloween because of its Pagan roots but the kids don't care too much about that. They just want to have fun, and that is what Halloween is all about anyway.
There are plenty of stories related to Halloween, most of them are about death, monsters, blood, and so on!!!!! However, most of the kids don´t see this holiday in such a negative way. Instead kids take this holiday to represent their favorite heroes, play with other kids, ask for chocolate , and show up their customes.
Hugo
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