Ukranian Fun and Games

 

Ukrainian Fun and Games

There are quite a few Ukrainian games that both adults and children will definitely enjoy playing.  

Here is one of the national games played at Ivana Kupala night on the 7th of July. All people sing Ukrainian songs and dance. Girls pick up flowers and let them float on the river. If the flowers go down the river, the girls will get married. And if the flowers go back to the girl, she won’t marry soon. The second part of Kupala game is jumping over the fire. It is dangerous, but people like this game. This old tradition is still popular in Ukrainian villages.

The next game has two names: “Blind Cat”, “Eyes”. Number of players: 5, but 10 players can play too. A cat must be chosen. A mouse covers his eyes with a black handkerchief, and then the cat has to find a mouse and guess the person. A cat becomes an angry mouse and a mouse becomes a blind cat.

The next game is called “Dragon”. All children taking part in a game make a chain and put their hands on friend’s shoulders. First person has name “a head of the dragon” and last one – “a tail of the dragon”. The chain of kids starts running. “The head” tries to catch “the tail”. Using hands is not allowed. If “the tail” has caught “the head”, they switch the spots. “The head” becomes “the tail”. It is an ancient game. You can play this game with your friends and parents. You can sing your favorite songs when playing this game.

“Jungle- Jingle” is a song-game, loved by many Ukrainians. The children sing, when they are moving in the circle and holding their hands. “Jungle” is running in the circle and when the song is over, “Jungle” stands in the circle, then “Jungle – Jingle” will be a new person.

The game “Old Woman Kutsia” – anybody ties the eyes of another person and turns him around. The other children begin to clap hands together. The person with the blindfold on his eyes must catch the first nearest person, at this time all children around call his name. The first caught man is called “Old woman Kutsia”.

Ukrainians also do crafts and sing for fun. They are known for their Easter eggs-pysanky. Kids love to paint eggs both at home and at school.

Source: https://blog.dinolingo.com/ukrainian-language-culture/ukrainian-fun-and-games-ukrainian-culture-for-kids/

P.E. Reading list

 

Reading in English can be a very interesting interdisciplinary activity in the bilingual school. These books can be used in the English and P.E. classroom widening the scope of the students' learning.

This is a sample provided by Ms Warren a librarian at the South Nottinghamshiere Academy (a regional association of schools). The poster includes title, author and topics.

Source: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/pe-curriculum-linked-fiction-reading-list-for-year-7-8-12296238

Scaffolding is a great way to engage students in a lesson from the very beginning. Scaffolding helps building skills and competences by helping learners to understand the contents and the language using different estrategies that support them to build skills and competences which will be transferred to other 

In order to make scaffolding  effectively, we should always have in mind the objective of our lesson, the students’ needs and the task sequencing, and focus our scaffolding where the help is needed to achieve intended learning outcomes.

Remember that Scaffolding means helping learners to build and develop skills and competences, and it helps teachers to attend diversity and foster creativity and autonomy within the classroom.

   “I’ve seen teachers burn out because of the effort they put into planning, so it’s important to start slowly, to take small steps, bite-size pieces and ideally work in a team –with language and content teachers.”

David Marsh: Extract from a Foreword in: 

101 Scaffolding Techniques for language and teaching and learning,

 by Donna Lee Fields. Octaedro Editorial. Barcelona 2019.

Donna Fields was at the Centro de Formación del 
Profesorado teaching the course: Scaffolding for CLIL Secondary. 

                                                      Click on this image to see her presentation

Download the activities carried out during the face to face course

  

If you click on your subject, you can see the activities created by @educacyl teachers after the face to face session course held by Donna Fields:

Physical Education

icy day inside the class

Here goes a few suggestions for those really icy days where you can't play outside:

You are developing coordination

https://youtu.be/IDvIo_LRIZ4: to understand what I'm talking about

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5kYLOb6i5I ; to do in class when it's raining. With this tutorial, you will learn how to do it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmFe7SV4LIo : the same, but in couples (it's more difficult to follow).

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmSbXsFE3l8 : The top, in a song with Anne Kendrick

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I62vz9sO1Tc : if you want a show for the school

 

pickleball

We are always looking for inspiration and this could be an idea
pickleball from USA
We can use other rackets and our floorball balls.
It's a modify sport you can add your personal ingredients.

DÍA DE LA ACTIVIDAD FÍSICA EN LA CALLE

Keep running 😃
Here you have your opportunity.
Take your students out of the school and give them a motivation (like an extra point or whatever) to join this type of activities