INSIDE OUT

Inside out, is a film which shows us how our mind can act when we feel each emotion and what each one means.

These characters are designed for children so, is easy and entertaining for them. There, I will put some examples for different parts and feelings.

GOOD ENERGY SONGS

This is a song which shows a positive way to see positively the diary life.

The song is in Basque. It is sung by Maialen Lujanbio and the lyrics also, are written by her.

INTERVIEW

These are the questions I sent to the teacher responsible in Irura for the coexistence project. Next week, I will put these questions with the answers she gives me.

1.      How do you work the coexistence project at school?

2.      Do you have different methods for Infant school and Primary school?

3.      Can you explain some methods you use for children to express their feelings?

4.      Do you notice any changes since you began using these methods?

5.      Are new projects in precess?

ADAPTING FEELINGS

In this entry I will adapt the feeling expression exercise for Primary school. As we used the three expression faces in the calming down corner, each child will have the three faces in his/her desk.

They will have to value their feeling three times per day (morning, after the break and after lunch) .

As in Infant education, the aim of this technique is to understand everyone is feeling.

The point of doing it  three times per day is that if bad feelings appear  they can notice what the reason was or what made them feel angry or sad.... Thanks to this, teachers can help working on those feelings. The same happens when good feelings show up; they can get to know what makes them happy.

CALMING DOWN CORNER

Today I will present the calming down corner. This is a technic used with children from 3 to 5 and it`s very simple.

It consists in letting the children go to this corner when they have something to express.

Once there, children have to choose one of the three faces that are glued in the corner. One of the faces, represent an angry feeling. The second one means " I am sad " and the third means " I am good but I need to be alone ".

Children identify easily what they have to do and they begin using the calming down corner in everyday situations.

When we see that children have the possibility to learn more feelings, we can insert the faces we feel necessary.

LANGUAGE CHALLENGE

In this learning process language is being another challenge for me. Since I am working a new material in my third language it is taking me some time to develop my work. As long as I am writing and working in English, I am improving my grammar and my spelling little by little.

Even so, my main goal is to improve my listened and read understanding. For that, I will work on those skills with my English teacher, using different listening and reading articles.

ADAPTING THE TIMELINE

This is the timeline I have designed for the learning contract. Is a very specific timeline and now when I am putting it in practice I have realised that it needs some changes. In a learning process all new inputs should be welcome, and therefore, the timeline should have suppleness.

For example, for this week I was supposed to interview a teacher who has experience using these methods but now is the valuating week for them and she called it off. I hope to interview her later but for the moment it led me to change the timeline.

So, this week I am looking for more information and I am designing an activity that I will upload on Friday.

-        November 16-20: Look for information in different website and ask to the specialist about different methods.

-        November 23-27: select the information I think interesting and useful and do a scheme. I will also create a blog and I`m going to start uploading there the information I have selected.

-        November 30-04: Start creating my own project, thinking a group of activities to different cases. First, I will begin creating activities to work with anger, which is the most common feeling in children. After that, I will begin with sadness and nervousness.

-        December 07-11: Start applying the activities I prepared in the class (Primary school and if I have option in Infant School) I will send a letter to the parents explaining my idea and if I have the possibility to start recording some activities or some rituals that I will prepare.

-        December 14-18: Evaluate the results and improve my method if it´s necessary. After putting in practice my methods and after recording the activities (if it`s possible) I will upload the videos to the blog and there I will ask the students about their opinion. With the improvement that I expect, I will improve my project adapting the activities that work best.

-        December 22: Show of the project.

I didn’t write all the activities I will practice with because I need to be informed first.