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