I Can Tell It

I Can Tell It!

I am proud to talk you about this marvelous inititive.

The Bilingual students of Cardenal Cisneros lived a fantastic experience, working with kids.
The idea was to divide the bilingual members into different groups.
This groups were in charged of representing different tales from the Disney stories.
We represented tales as The Lion King, Aladdin, Herculesnor Cindirella.

I am going to introduce you what we did in this I Can Tell It Show.
My group was in charged of working with the Alice in Wonderland story. For this we dressed up as the different characters you can find there, such as the mad hatterer, Alice, the white rabbit and the Queen of hearts.
The children realised different activities with us while they explored this tale.
The activities we prepared for them were one mind game, making it easier to understand the tale, a copetition between them in wich they had to paint some roses in red as fast as they could to make them work in groups, a story introduction with the white rabbit and a chair game with the mad hatterer.
I was the mad hatterer and, as we had some difficulties with the media support, I had to sing the song by myself instesd of playing it in the computer.
At the begining I felt shy and a bit ridiculous but when I saw the children singing with me it was a grest experience and I had no fear of making them having fun while they runed around the chairs, waiting for me to stop singing and look for a chair to sit down very quickly.
We gave them even our hats as a present and I had to admit I really felt grest while working with this children. It is enthusiastic and inspiring to see them having fun with what we prepared for them.

I will never forget this experience as it has been one of the best I've lived during this teacher formation period.
 Here you can see some pictures I took that day.

Babar the elephant

The character of Babar appears in the year 1931, when in Europe it was considered to be a progressive, for the children, to present to the animals like they are really in the nature.
The cats were rejected by bows of lace, the dogs by trousers ... though these were preferred by the small readers.

 In this context  appears our protagonist, an elephant that has to leave the jungle and to go to a city nake and helpless. Will he adapt to the city and will learn to walk raised? Will he be able to sleep in a bed? Will he raise happy to a plane? An elephant and his adjustment to the civilization, is a very interesting story for our small readers. 

In the jungle has born the little elephant Babar that plays and amuses himself with his friends. To a little time, a hunter kills his mother and the poor Babar has to flee to be safe in a city. There he, meets an old lady who will turn into his best friend. With her, the little elephant learns to live as a person, buys clothes, does gymnastics in the mornings, baths in the tub...
After remaining a time in the city, Babar receives the visit of his cousins Celeste and Arturo and he will return to the jungle with them.

Babar is a lover of the urban life, but at the same time he faces the conquests of the civilization the proper innocence of the animals. The small readers continues loving the comical and exciting events Babar offers across a beautiful text with lots of  expressive images.

The tale talks about some possible topics: family, education, human relations ... but maybe it is the discovery of the environment that surrounds  Babar the most interesting thing for the child.

The little elephant first shows the jungle, the animals and his games to discover later the environment of a city, the clothes, the college, the food or the bath.







Here you have the link with part of the story: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvUa67ANYr0

David Shannon

The American author David Shannon uses incidents and people from his own life to create his tales.
He is the author and illustrator of many highly praised books for children. His editorial illustrations have appeared in The New York Times, Time, and Rolling Stone.

Shannon knew growing up that he wanted to be an artist, but he did not like the idea of going into the fine arts he preferred making drawings to accompany the stories he was reading.


When Award-winning writer and illustrator David Shannon was five years old, he wrote and illustrated his first book. On every page were these words: “No, David!” ...and a picture of David doing things he was not supposed to do.

 David plays with the food, jumps on the bed, disorders … but his mother knows the magic word to make him to enter reason. Occasionally it is necessary to say not! In time to educate correctly and the children learn what yes it is possible to do. The illustrations, with expression and movement and the short text of the book, answer to the original idea with which the author created the work in his infancy: his own drawings doing pranks and the unique words that he could write Not and David. An album with happy end after the repentance of the naughty child and the immense love of his mother, it tells the history that many parents will feel identified.

David’s teacher has her hands full. From running in the halls to chewing gum in class, David’s highenergy antics fill each school day with trouble  and are sure to bring a smile to even the 
bestbehaved reader.

The reason why I wanted to talk about this author is simple. I had to make a presentation about him at class and started reading his children books. This is when I started admiring this author, so I still defend he is the best!!!! ^^.

In this link you can see a very interesting interview about him.

http://bcove.me/vh1ifjbj

The first black woman with blue blood.

The first black woman with blue blood

Incredible but certain!! Disney has given life to Tiana, the first princess of black race of the history of the factory of animation. The Princess and the Frog is based on the story The Frog E.D’s Princess. Baker.
Tiana lives in New Orleans, and her dream is to be a cook and to have her own restaurant. But her life changes when she decides to kiss to a frog and she is converted into one more of the species, beginning a serie of different adventures to find one recovers to the “enchantment”...

The surprising thing is not the story, which is the purest style “ Made in USA “, the curious thing is the detail that the protagonist is of black race, something

unthinkable for the factory of the princesses’ stories of all the American girls.

This clasic image seems that it wants to modernize, surprisingly, or not, , at the same time as the first black president of the United States comes to the power.It is not necessary to be a black to say that already it was time that the black people was represented in one of the countries of the world with a big racial integration?


Here you have the trailer!: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXG-14H2m7A

The Grimm Brothers

I would like to introduce the Grimm Brothers to you,  because they inspirated a lot of childrens at every age  with their fabulous tales.

Jacob Ludwig Karl Grimm and Wilhelm Karl Grimm were two brothers born in Germany, who took as a profession the study of the philology and the folklore.


They crossed their country and were speaking with the peasants, with the people of the markets, with the woodcutters, to learn of them.
Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm were listening histories of the villagers, they were studying the language and the use of it,  etc.

They were going to many places, were interrogating the people, were asking them to submerge in their memory in search of the stories that were telling them of small, and were taking notes immediately.

The brothers Grimm, in these tours, were listening to the legends that the German peasants had heard their grandparents and that they had learned also of their grandparents.

The brothers Grimm obtained of a woman called Pastora most of the histories that then 

compiled as Stories for the infancy and the home, in two volumes, 1812-1815. And the collection is increased in 1857, and known as Fairy-tales of the brothers Grimm. Infantile and domestic stories, in 1812. These two brothers recreated the histories of the peasants, and told them prettily and great simplicity, and achieved that the children of the world were estimating the beauty and the marvel of their stories. They made know beautiful stories such as Hansel and Gretel, Cinderella, Rapunzel,

Our nice library

I am proud to announce that my group is prepparing a very nice project about the library.

We all know that we have to work on a low cost library and present it to the rest of the class.
My group and I are working in a book cave for children from 1st and 2nd primary year and it will consist in five shells with children literature books.
Each shell will be placed in the way to form a corridor which will be covered with decorated fabric.
At the end of the corridor we will place a chair with a genius sitting down. This genius will be in charged og granting one wish to each student who reads a book from the book cave.
The children will go to the book cave one by one and choose the book he/she wants and keep it for two weeks for reading it.
After the whole reading process we will prepare lots of activities for them to feel identified with what they read and enjoying with what they learn.

This library will be low cost, as I said and the books will be provided by the children parents in a special day, where they will donate a book and receive a snack. This idea is similar as the one we have seen at the university.

We are working on more activities and developing more games you will find very amazing, so my suggestion is to pay attention to what we will show you because I can't talk about all the details and surprised we have for you!

Wellcome to the Book cave!