ALADDIN WORKSHOP

Taken from: http://mentirassobreelislam.blogspot.com/2012/03/el-no-tan-inocente-aladdin-de-disney.html

• I think some stories can change lives, because those give examples or advices about what to do in some situations.
• I always enjoyed reading the little prince because it is a story that involves adults and children. This story shows us the social problematic  from point of view a child which is very good.

	WILL HAPPEN	MAY HAPPEN	WON’T HAPPEN	YOUR OWN COMMENTS
Abanazar opens the cave to release Aladdin	X
Aladdin’s mother finds him and helps him out.		X
Aladdin finds a secret way out.		X
Aladdin’s mother dies alone.			X
Aladdin and his mother become rich.	X

	WILL HAPPEN	MAY HAPPEN	WON’T HAPPEN	YOUR OWN COMMENTS
The Sultan kills Aladdin because his daughter has gone.			X
Aladdin runs away and lives alone.		X
Abanazar marries the Princess.		X
Aladdin uses his magic ring to find Abanazar.	X
Aladdin kills Abanazar.			X
The Sultan’s men find the princess.	X

IMPROVING THE ENGLISH 

Photo taken from: http://helendipity.wordpress.com/2010/02/11/what-would-you-do-if-you-were-minister-of-education-by-david-corell/ 

I think the best way you can improve or help improve english to someone is when the class is personalized and you can focus on the problems of that person. Another way is when you change the configuration of the technological devices to the language what you want to learn  in this case English. Also you should try to watch TV in english and better if you can with subtitles to follow it.

In the classroom teachers should make students listen to music in english to complete the lyrics of the songs so would improve their listening, and also television programs, so classes will not be boring and the children enjoy learning. 

DO SCHOOLS KILL CREATIVITY?

I think in many schools don't care about creativity and thinking this is a waste of time but it has been shown that children learn through creativity with dynamics, painting, listening to music, etc.

Theodore Roosevelt said: "do what you can, with what you have, where you are" This statement challenges us to not be routine and to take advantage of the resources we have, to be creative with what we have, so give the best of us and show us that we can go beyond what we think ...

PINOCCHIO

This film was created in 2002 and main character was Roberto Benigni but the most representative film of Pinocchio was made by Walt Disney in 1940.

Pinocchio teaches children that lying is wrong, it always brings bad consequences, but if they talk with the truth the people can help them and always we to pay attention to our Jiminy Cricket (awareness)...

GRIMM BROTHERS

 Jacob Grimm (1785-1863) y Wilhelm Grimm (1786-1859).

• The Grimm brothers inspired to start collecting folktales and faity stories in their study of linguistics.
• Jacob Grimm collected many of the stories.
• Brothers Grimm published their first collection in 1812.
• Snow White was a story with an oral tradition written and published by the brothers Grimm.
• The brothers Grimm collection featured the body of Snow White displayed in a transparent glass coffin.
• Brothers Grimm said to have edited-out a striptease from Little Red Riding Hood.
• The Grimm brothers were deported for their political activities.
• In Germany the dictionary is known colloquially as The Grimm.

RAPUNZEL

A lonely couple, who want a child, live next to a walled garden belonging to an enchantress. The wife, experiencing the cravings associated with the arrival of her long-awaited pregnancy, notices a rapunzel plant (or, in some versions of the story, rampion radishes or lamb's lettuce) growing in the garden and longs for it, desperate to the point of death. On each of two nights, the husband breaks into the garden to gather some for her; on a third night, as he scales the wall to return home, the enchantress, "Dame Gothel," catches him and accuses him of theft. He begs for mercy, and the old woman agrees to be lenient, on condition that the then-unborn child be surrendered to her at birth. Desperate, the man agrees. When the baby girl is born, the enchantress takes the child to raise as her own, and names the baby Rapunzel. Rapunzel grows up to be the most beautiful child in the world with long golden hair. When Rapunzel reaches her twelfth year, the enchantress shuts her away in a tower in the middle of the woods, with neither stairs nor a door, and only one room and one window. When the witch visits Rapunzel, she stands beneath the tower and calls out:

Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair, so that I may climb the golden stair.

One day, a prince rides through the forest and hears Rapunzel singing from the tower. Entranced by her ethereal voice, he searches for the girl and discovers the tower, but is naturally unable to enter. He returns often, listening to her beautiful singing, and one day sees Dame Gothel visit, and thus learns how to gain access to Rapunzel. When Dame Gothel is gone, he bids Rapunzel let her hair down. When she does so, he climbs up, makes her acquaintance, and eventually asks her to marry him. Rapunzel agrees.Upon hearing these words, Rapunzel would wrap her long, fair hair around a hook beside the window, dropping it down to the enchantress, who would then climb up the hair to Rapunzel's tower room. (A variation on the story also has the enchantress imbued with the power of flight and/or levitation and the young girl unaware of her hair's length.)

Together they plan a means of escape, wherein he will come each night (thus avoiding the enchantress who visited her by day), and bring her silk, which Rapunzel will gradually weave into a ladder. Before the plan can come to fruition, however, Rapunzel foolishly gives the prince away. In the first edition of Grimm's Fairy Tales, Rapunzel innocently says that her dress is getting tight around her belly (indicating pregnancy); in subsequent editions, she asks the witch (in a moment of forgetfulness) why it is easier for her to draw up the prince than her. In anger, Dame Gothel cuts short Rapunzel's braided hair and casts her out into the wilderness to fend for herself. When the prince calls that night, the enchantress lets the severed braids down to haul him up. To his horror, he finds himself staring at the witch instead of Rapunzel, who is nowhere to be found. When she tells him in anger that he will never see Rapunzel again, he leaps from the tower in despair and is blinded by the thorns below. In another version, the witch pushes him and he falls on the thorns, thus becoming blind.

For months he wanders through the wastelands of the country. One day, as Rapunzel sings while she fetches water, the prince hears Rapunzel's voice again, and they are reunited. When they fall into each others' arms, her tears immediately restore his sight. In another variation, it is said that Rapunzel eventually gives birth to twin boys (in some variations, a girl and a boy). The prince leads her to his kingdom, where they live happily ever after.

In another version of the story, the story ends with the revelation that the witch had untied Rapunzel's braid after the prince leapt from the tower, and the braid slipped from her hands and landed far below, leaving her trapped in the tower.

TAKEN FROM: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapunzel

BILINGUAL CHILDREN

Children who are bilingual, have a lot of opportunities in the society because don't have any problem with their communication also they develope their two hemispheres.

Is important that education and family going together, so will be easier to learn.

If children don't practice their mother tongue, they could lose their mother tongue between two or three years for that reason is important that they practice with their parents or teachers.