GREAT MEETING!

Hi, folks!

Núria has sent me a couple words about our PE meeting we did last 25th of february. From my point of view, her little text says exactly what I would say about it in a perfect and lovely english. It describes my feelings very well. I was very glad to read it because it tells me we are doing fine and we are all learning and enjoying. That was the point, wasn't it? So far so good!

Once again, I encourage you to follow Nuria's example and try to write a couple thoughts about our experience. If you don't feel like writing a whole text, you might write a comment. I would have been great to show a picture in this article but I think nobody took a picture during the meeting, did you? I guess not. Well, next day I won't miss it! Instead, I will stick a IES Font de Sant Lluís picture.

And now, here you are Nuria's words! Enjoy them!

25th of february 2014

Hi everyone, I'm Nuria.

I would like to share with you some feelings that you made me feel the other day. I spent several years without attending courses in order to dedicate to motherhood and also I have been a tutor of primary education.

Fortunately, this year I'm finally teaching PE and I'm just re-
discovering this subject. Joining this seminar is helping me to 
improve illusion for PE. This activity is oppening my mind and my 
ideas are getting richer with the contributions of other partners.

Thank you for sharing your experience, knowledge and illusion.

Nuria.

AUSTRALIAN FOOTBALL

As many of you know, our school belongs to the plurilingual net of Conselleria. For this reason we are teaching P.E. in English since last September. We started little by little, step by step. And decided to start all the lessons talking about one picture that we put in the P.E. store. Every week our 1st and 2nd grade students draw and write this word in a work sheet. We are trying to make them speak some common expressions in English that are very useful.

And the word of this week is AUSTRALIA.  For this reason we have presented our students a picture of this country painted with the colours of the Australian flag, as you can see on the picture. We have been talking about some costumes and typical animals (koalas, kangaroos...) and we have explained whereabouts is Australia in the world. Our students watched a video on YouTube that explained the different rules and they could learn the shape of the field, the 3 goals and the way they score. But we are playing in a different way, adapting the rules in order to make it easier for them. Here you are the rules we are using to approach Australian football to children of 6-7 years old: 

- we play with a foam rugby ball

- they must throw the ball into the goal without a previous bounce on the floor.

- we can pass the ball by kicking or hitting it.

- we can run up to 5 steps with the ball.

- we can not come into the areas.

- contact between them it's not allowed.

We encourage you to discover and enjoy this sport!

Nuria Climent i Fernando Lázaro

WELCOME!

This is just a little starting article to welcome all PE teachers on board, specially those who have joined València CEFIRE's seminar about teaching Physical Education in english. As I told in the first meeting, there are a couple aims this blog wants to reach. First of all, it will be very useful for us to keep in contact and to explain each other our PE experiences with our pupils. Secondly, it will help you to keep in touch with english by reading the articles that will be published periodically. But, above all, this blog will help you to improve your english by writing your own articles. That's, definitely, the main reason this blog has been created for, its ultimate leitmotiv. So, I encourage you to write down your experiences and publish them in this new blog.

Unfortunately, you will have to send your articles to me, in order to be published. I would have prefer you being able to work on the blog by your own. The think is I've got another blog and, in order to make a new one, I had to use the same gmail address and the same password. Anyway, that should not be any problem for you to practice and improve your writing skills in english. In fact, it makes it even easier because you just have to worry about the writing: I'll do the rest in the blog!

So, here I am! Waiting for yor words!

DIDAC