The Forbidden Education/ La Educacion Prohibida

It's been a while since I last wrote. You know how it goes ;-) Anyway, I came a cross a post that Montessori Para Todos wrote in their blog. If you live in  Spain, and even if you don't, stop by and visit their store and their blog! The post is about La Educacion Prohibida/ The Forbidden Education.
I am not going to do a re make of their post since it is well written and it is worth to read it, I just want to share with you their post and the documentary about the educational system.

This documentary talks about why the educational system is not working, and much more. It is a 2 hours and 25 minute documentary that it is in Spanish with English subtitles. I highly recommend both the post by Montessori Para Todos and the documentary. This is an eye opening documentary that ALL parents should watch before sending the children to school.

If you can't for some reason open the link to La Educacion Prohibida post by Montessori Para Todos
you go directly to the La Educacion Prohibida documentary.


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Ha pasado un tiempo desde la ultima vez que escribi...Ustedes saben como es ;-) Bueno, me encontre con un articulo de Montessori para Todos al cual queria compartir con todos ustedes. Si vivis en Espana , y si no tambien, pasa a visitar su tienda y su blog!! Este articulo se trata de un documental llamado La Educacion Prohibida ( haga click aqui). No voy a rehacer su articulo el cual esta muy bien escrito y vale la pena leerlo, yo solo quiero compartir con ustedes su articulo y el documentario acerca del sistema educativo.

Este documentario habla a cerca del sistema educativo, porque no funciona y mas. Dura 2 horas y 25 minutos y esta en Espanol con subtitulos en Ingles. Le recomiendo a ustedes que lo vean, tanto el documentario como el articulo de Montessori para Todos. Este es un documentario que les abrira sus ojos y TODOS los padres lo deberian ver antes de mandar sus hijos a la escuela.

Si por alguna casualidad no pueden abrir el link del articulo de La Educacion Prohibida de Montessori para Todos puedes ir directamente a ver el documental haciendo click aqui!

Writing and Reading System

This is the reading and writing system I got together for Umi. It consists of little printable books from 

Primera Escuela. Below there is alphabet posters with poems that I bought here and I printed them in color card stock. It happened that I chose blue for the vowels and beige for the consonants. If I would do it again I would use the color of the sandpaper letters.

Sandpaper letters. I bought them in Montessori Concepts. I bought several materials from them. It is a long story but to cut it short for now, they were VERY nice to me. They even gave me free materials! I am planning to review them soon. 

Here you can see the book up close. The child has to match words since 

there wasn't any pictures on the square part of the book. To make this you need to 

print the letter sheet that has the little words with pictures that you need to cut for the books.

This books has a page for tracing!

I use this cards for his calendar. It is from Learning Resources but I can't seem to find it neither in 

amazon where I bought it and on their website.

The pages on this book have the letter in upper case  and pictures with animals and things

that start with that letter and underneath it has the word written and it is in lower case.

Rhyming Word Cards in Spanish

Umi is interested in rhyming words. So I was trying to find rhyming words cards in Spanish and I came across a website that lets you print 30 rhyming picture cards in Spanish and also there are other printables work sheets.

This website is called Colorear y aprender (click on the name and the cards will pop up in a new page).


You can print them in card stock and laminate them.


I will add picture of them when I finish making them!

Saint Valentine Lapbook/ Lapbook de San Valentin

This is our first lapbook that we made for Saint Valentine.

It is in Spanish. It was easy and fun to make. 

It has a couple of songs and a poem on the left, a pattern game, a

memory/matching game and the Happy Saint Valentine sign on the center, and a

heart story book on the right. And behind it BB colored a heart.

This little heart notebook it was a left over from the Valentine's Day gifts

I prepare for the class I teach. So I made a little story about two 

friends that always played together and fell in love.

I printed this patters on line and laminated them. I stuck a

magnet on the back of each row and to the cards that 

are in that heart box you see on the bottom right. That box came from the 99 c 

store. It contained stickers. So I used the stickers for the Valentine's

party favors and used the box to for it and for the matching/memory game you see above

in yellow. I just cut the boxes and turned them into the cards for the game.

BB painted the heart that is on the face of the lapbook on 

cardstock and I used velcro to fasten it so it would stay closed.

It is not totally done, I am still looking for a history on St. Valentine's Day in Spanish and that will go on the inside right part of the lapbook.

Songs, and Poems for Saint Valentine in Spanish/ Canciones, y Poemas para el Dia de San Valentin

Las zapatillas me apretan

Las medias me dan calor

Y la nenita de enfrente

Me tiene loco de amor!

_____________________________________

Late Late Corazon

(Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star Song)

Late, late corazon

Dentro mio y con amor

Para mamis y papas

Mis hermanos y demas.

Late, late corazon

Dentro mio y con amor.

_____________________________________

Yo me amo mucho

Asi te puedo amar a vos

Asi vos podes amarte a vos

Asi me podes amar a mi.

 The first one is an Argentinean poem. Below that there is a song of my creation (not the music of course ;-) and the last one is a song too but in order to show you how to sing it I would have to make a video and I wouldn't win  first price in a singing competition if you know what I mean :-(

You can add this songs to your Saint Valentine's lapbook. We are in the process of creating our first lapbook. I will post it when we are done!

DIY Easy Halloween Matching Cards

To make this cards you need:

- Halloween stickers
- Sheet of paper (Use card stock if you don't have laminator)
- Laminator

If you don't feel like cutting the paper use sticky notes and laminate!

Counting Pumpkins Song (Spanish)

Uno, dos, tres calabazas

cuatro, cinco, seis calabazas

siete, ocho, nueve calabazas

diez calabazas pasan.

Al reves!

Diez, nueve, ocho calabazas

siete, seis, cinco calabazas

cuatro, tres, dos calabazas

una calabaza pasa.

(Song of Ten Little Indians/ Cancion de los Diez Indiecitos)

Halloween counting activity

Materials:

1) One halloween garland (99 cent store)

2) Paper

3)Marker

4) Scissors

Instructions:

1) Hang the garland

2) Write numbers and the words on pieces of paper 

3) Ask the child to help you count and pin the right number card under a number 

Second Part:

1) Write the words of the items that are in the garland.

2) We had bats and spiders. So I wrote bat in one square piece of paper and spider in the other.

3) The child has to help you pinning the right card under the figures.

DIY Felt Counting Pumpkins in Spanish

Materials:

- Orange and green felt

- Black fabric paint

- Scissors

-Glue gun

- Pencil

- Paper

Instruction:

1) Draw a pumpkin on a paper

2) Cut it

3) Place it on the orange felt and cut it

4) Draw a stem on paper and cut it

5) Place the stem on green felt and cut it

6) Glue the stem to the pumpkin

7) Use the fabric paint to write the numbers and the words (make sure you let them dry for 4 hours)

Done!!

Cancion de Halloween

I found this video in youtube. It is in Spanish.I think is great because not only I like the music you can teach about the clock and time with it. I am not planning to let my child watch it...He doesn't watch TV or videos at home but I can use the music for circle time or may be I'll make a felt story with it. ( I will post it if I make it)
Anyway, here it is:

Encontre este video en youtube. Es en Castellano. Esta bueno, porque no solo me gusta la cancion sino que podes encenar acerca del reloj y la hora. No estoy planeando dejar a mi hijo ver el video...El no mira TV o videos en casa pero podemos usar la cancion para aprender o tal vez tambien hare con ella las piesas para el pizarron de felpa que tenemos.

Serie Rosa

Aqui les doy ideas de palabras para la serie rosa. Son palabras de dos y tres letras.

oso
sol
pan
uno
pez
ajo
dos
luz
sal
rio
oro
te
rey
boa
pie
tul
pua
ala
~nu
dia
ola
aro
ojo
Ana
red
tos
u~na
uva


You can find the cards to print here! <---- Tarjetas para imprimir y laminar serie rosa y azul!

More cards to print there! <----- Mas tarjetas para imprimir!

Felt Activity in Spanish/ Actividad de felpa en Espanol

5 Centavos 

(Monica)

5 centavos lleve al mercado

me compre queso por ¼ y solo quedan 4

4 centavos me quedan esta vez

me compre un pez y solo quedan 3

3 centavos los comparto con vos

te compre arroz y solo quedan 2

2 centavos es mas que uno
compre pan para el desayuno y solo queda 1

1 centavo es mejor que un hada

me compe una empanada y no me quedo nada

Sugerencias:

Para esta actividad necesitas 5 monedas de centavos

Una foto de un queso, preferiblemente ¼ de queso

Un pez

Arroz
Pan

Empanada

Hay varias maneras de hacer esta actividad:

1- Hacelo de felpa. Para el arroz podes cortar un circulo como si fuera un plato o cualquier otra forma y pergarle arroz.

2- Usa materiales reales, centavos reales,  pez de plastico, un platito con arroz, un pedacito de pan y una empanada;

3- Usa fotos de cada cosa. Para usarlo en la tabla de felpa ponele Velcro.

Usa los materiales para ilustrar la actividad.

Suggestions:

You need:

5  one cent coins

A picture of cheese. Preferably ¼  of a cheese.

A fish

Rice
Bread

Empanada

1- Make them out of felt;

2- Use real materials like real pennies, a plastic fish, small plate with rice, a piece of bread and an empanada.

3- Use a picture of each of the materials. To use it in a felt board you can glue a Velcro dot.

Use the materials to enrich the activity.