Cuentos con mucho valor // Stories with great value

Durante estos días tan locos, en los que hasta he rescatado este blog, (imaginaos si son locos), he recibido muchos mensajes compartiendo materiales y recursos fabulosos. No puedo dejar de compartir, esperando que los disfrutéis tanto como yo, los cuentos de la fantástica ilustradora y contadora de historias Olga de Dios. En su generosa página web podéis encontrar en formato descargable muchos de sus libros como Rana de tres ojos o Leotolda, y muchas cosas más.

During these crazy days, in which I have even rescued this blog, (imagine if they are crazy), I have received many messages sharing fabulous materials and resources. I can't stop sharing, hoping you enjoy them as much as I do, the tales of the fantastic illustrator and storyteller Olga de Dios. On his generous website you can find many of his books, such as Rana de tres ojos or Leotolda, and much more in downloadable format.

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Isabel's Story Time: Little White Fish

Hello! This week we will focus on Sea Animals. Especially selected for our younger children we bring you this sweet story, Little White Fish, by Guido van Genechten . Furthermore, to review the story and help you with the vocabulary, we have prepared for you a little game. Have a nice weekend!

Nature Hunt // Earth Day

Hello! I'd like to invite you and your children to a Nature Hunt at home. Yes, you did read well, at home. As we can not go out and look for little treasures from Nature like stones, sticks, pine cones, flowers, leaves etc. I propose you to look around your home and retrieve that fine stuff that can fill in that "Natural Treasure" cathegory, those objects that you and your family gathered through hikes, park days and picnic moments. If you and your kids feel crafty, you can use your treasures to design mandalas or other pictures. You can help your kids to take beautiful pictures to save their master pieces forever. Go wild and change the canvases, play with filters, combine colors... Another game that you could play with your little treasures is to reproduce patterns. Classifying and ordering are good skills, related to our Kindergarten stage, to practise with your children at home. For older kids, you can also give them codified patterns to reproduce, o...

Lemon Volcanoes

Hello! Next week we have planned some activities related to fruits and vegetables for our children from school. We have also prepared a great experiment that you can do at home: lemon volcanoes. MATERIALS: 1 or 2 lemons. Baking soda. Food coloring (optional). A little stick. PROCEDURE: First we have to cut the lemon's top and bottom, so you can place the lemon standing and they don't fall. Carve a little bit of the pulp, to make some room for the baking soda. Add some food colouring, in the hole you 've made before, if you want to make the eruption more expectacular. Pour a couple of tea spoons of baking soda inside too. With a wooden stick, let your child to prick the lemon to let the juice out and mix with the baking soda and enjoy the expectacle. If you are up for a more visual explanation, Maria O. explains how to do this great experiment in this video. After the experiment we encourage your children to make a picture of the part of the experiment they've enjoyed th...

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