Why not becoming a cartoonist?

Invite your students to create a comic strip. This is a very simple project that will allow them to learn a lot. While creating a comic strip they will read, write, plan and communicate in a fun imaginative manner. There are lots of online resources that might help you to start a project like this. Here you have some of our suggestions.

The following is a very simple, effective and short lesson plan. It will be very helpful if you are introducing comics in the classroom for the very first time.

A comic strip (click here)

This is a very short video explaining the process of desinging a comic strip. It shows a real cartoonist drawing. He shares ideas, suggestions and tips that will help your students to start their own comic strip.

 

Illustration and Tips: how to draw a comic strip.  (click here)

Your students can draw a comic or  design a comic strip online. Here are three useful links:

 (click here)  Read, write and think.   Very easy comic creator for all ages.

 (click here)  Make belief comics  This is one of my favourites.

  

(click here)  Stripcreator  With lots of options.

Comics can be created for many different purposes: to make someone laugh, to tell a short story, to explain a concept, to criticize, etc...

Invite your students to become cartoonists.

Set up an exhibition in your classroom or school. Send your students works to CEP Valle de La Orotava, they might win a special price and receive an award certificate.

Be an english detective awards.

Four students from CEIP Santa Úrsula have been awarded as excellent english detectives.

Congratualtions.

Let's go for a walk. Students from CEIP Santa Úrsula share their photos with us.

We are very happy to publish some of the wonderful photos that four students from CEIP Santa Úrsula have sent to us. They have become English detectives and have looked for the presence of english around them.

Thanks a lot to Aitor, Alejandro, Óscar and Raquel.

Aitor and Alejandro's photos.

 

 

 

Oscar's photos.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Raquel's photos.

 

Visual poetry project

Did you know you could paint with letters and draw with words?

Teaching your students how to write a visual poem can be a great activity. A visual poem is also known as concrete poem or shape poem. In this type of poem the words form a picture. The letters and the shape of the words work together to convey the theme, meaning and emotion of the poem.

Exploring this art form along with your students can be a lot of fun. The combinations of drawing and words opens up many creative possibilities. Begin by showing your students examples of visual poems. Look online. Many poets are now publising online, so you are likely to find quite a few. Reading some of this poems together will give your students a feel for how visual poems work.

Here you have a well structured presentation that will help to start a project on visual poetry.

Invite your students to become visual poets. Set up an exhibition and share their works with your school community. You can also send their pieces of art to us, indicating name, age and school. You might see your students' poems published in our blog. We will send a diploma and a small present to the best creations.

IMPORTANT NOTE: If you cannot view the video or prefer to work with a power point presentation (with greater definition and image quality), please, do not hesitate to contact us at the CEP Valle de La Orotava, we will send it to you by e-mail.

English is everywhere. Why not an English Safari?

English is everywhere. Maybe you haven’t noticed but it is just around the corner. Sometimes we think that English only exists in schools, in the text books. Many others believe that English is only useful when you want to travel. Most of us know how important it is to speak English if, for example, you have to work in the tourist industry or the stock market. But English is much more than that, English is everywhere. Visit your kitchen, read the instructions of your Nintendo, take a walk and pay attention to the signs, posters, shop windows, names of soft drinks, movies and chocolates… English is everywhere.

The other day I took a half an hour walk in Puerto de La Cruz, I decided to bring my camera and take pictures of all the places and things where English was present. Here is the result.

Why don’t you do the same? Become an English detective. Discover where else English is hidden and use your camera or cell phone to take a picture. Print your photographs and share them with your English teacher. Your teacher can set up a small exhibition so everybody can see it. You can also send your works to us, indicating your name, age and school . You might see your photograph published in our blog. We will also send a diploma and a small present to the best images.