We paint in the digital whiteboard

To introduce children to new technologies we were playing with the digital whiteboard. It offers us a lot of possibilities and great opportunities to learn.

Happy Birthday!

Last friday we have celebrated Olivia´s birthday.

We wish you all the best in your special day

Song: "5 little ducks", 3 y.o. class

Children love singing "Five little ducks" and they do it really well. 

Evaluation Target Board

It is important to review and reflect on the activities we do with children, although many of our activities seem to be fun, we are looking for other benefits  such children well-being. 

There are five core strategies that should be part of any successful formative assessment practice in the classroom.

 1)Clarifying, sharing, and understanding learning intentions and criteria for success– getting the students to really understand what their classroom experience will be and how their success will be measured. 

2) Engineering effective classroom discussions, activities, and learning tasks that elicit evidence of learning– developing effective classroom instructional strategies that allow for the measurement of success. 

3)Providing feedback that moves learning forward– working with students to provide them the information they need to better understand problems and solutions. 

4)Activating learners as instructional resources for one another– getting students involved with each other in discussions and working groups can help improve student learning.

5) Activating learners as owners of their learning– self-regulation of learning leads to student performance improvement.

In Casa do Neno, we want our children to learn and enjoy; their opinion is very important for us, and for this reason, the evaluation target is great to identify what kind of activity is the most appropiate for their development at the same time they can be part of the educational task.

Who is a cheeky monkey? (3, 4 and 5 y.o.)

This week we have read a very interesting book about a cheeky monkey, but what children really liked was the puppet, they loved to play with it, do you want to see it?

Where is Spot?

A great storytelling to learn vocabulary about animals,