DAY 3
On Wednesday we went to Cela’s school. The 2nd graders had prepared a dramatized reading of The iridescent fish. Kindergarten students went to see them. The text appeared on the digital screen and each student read a fragment. Their projection, intonation and expressiveness were impressive. The teacher commented that she did not follow any specific methodology but that it was a teamwork between the teachers and the families. At school they work a lot on reading and writing and at home they reinforce it.
We were also in the 1st grade classroom while a mother explained a book in Spanish, her mother tongue, and then the teacher read the same book in Portuguese: Corre, corre, cabacinha, a traditional Portuguese story. Then, in pairs, they had to write vocabulary in Spanish from the one that had appeared in the story. The great majority of students had a very good level of reading and writing.
We spent the afternoon at Alfeizerao school with the 1st grade students. Ana Paula started the session with a game book of trades and the students had to find out which trade it was. With the special education teachers they played another game, they put a letter on the head of a student and the student had to find out which object or animal was on the letter by asking questions related to the syllables of the words or rhymes (for example: How many syllables are there? What is the first syllable? Which word rhymes with what?...).
We were also able to see how the 4th graders were borrowing from the library, but before that Ana Paula explained a legend from Mallorca: “Garlic soup”, taken from the book “Around the World in 80 Stories”.