Library Project

This post has been written by Alberto Salcedo and me.

We want to talk you about the library project we developed some weeks ago in Raquel's class.

Our library (the object) is not bought neither made of wood, it is painted in continuous paper with pencils. The library has three levels in wich children can find their books.

The books that we have in our library are not real ones, we mean, we don't have physically the books in class. The thing is that children have to read a book that they have at home, then they have to do in a drawing in a paper in wich they can show what is the book about and if they like it or not. This paper, that we call curler, will be posted in the library using velcro. After that, children have to take one curler and see the picture, if they like it they have to ask for the book to the partner that has done the drawing. Next day children give the books to the partner that has asked for it and they read it. This process will be done as many times as children want, because we want to engage children reading not to transform it in a compulsory activity.

So, as you can see, the budget we need to create our own library is really cheap, because we only need to buy velcro to post the curler into the library and it costs about 5 €, due to it is thought that the rest of the materials (continuous paper, pencils and papers) can be found in the school.

To carry out this project we also need one person in charge of the library. The work of this person is to collect in a notebook the people that take books, when they do it and when they bring them back to the class. This in charge changes along the year, it is always a student, one week per each.

We have thought not only about having a library in our class, we think it is a wonderful idea to have one in all classes. If we do it children will visit the rest of the classes to see their libraries, their books and to exchange curlers with partners of other classes. That would be a good activity to work on Literature but also in values, for example the values of: sharing, caring, communication and companionship.

Finally, we want you to have clear that this kind of library can be developed in any age. However, we have to change the content of the curler. The older they are, the more information the curler should contains. For example, they could make a short description about the book or the protagonist or whatever they want to transmit.

We hope you like our project :)

Ester and Alberto ^_^

Different versions of a story

Hello everybody!

Today I want to talk in my blog about the different versions that exist about an story. For example, in class, we were talking about "Cinderella", which story changes if you read Grimm's version or if you read Perrault's versions.

Perhaps, if I ask you to close your eyes and to think about "Cinderella" story you will have another version in your mind, you will see Disney movie version.

In this version you can see first of all the two mice (Gus and Jaq) that are always helping Cinderella...

 Then you will think about Cinderella, who is showed like a housemaid that only work to her stepsisters and to her stepmother...

And obviously, automatically you will think about the stepsisters (Drizella and Anastasia) and the stepmother (Lady Tramaine)...

Later on, you will think about the moment in which the royal messenger goes to Cinderella's house and give them an invitation to the royal ball. In this moment, the stepsisters, the stepmother and Cinderella start to create their dresses...

As all of us know, Drizella and Anastasia hated Cinderella because of her beauty, so they decided to break Cinderella's dress...

Once they broke the dress, Drizella and Anastasia went to the royal ball with their mother, but...they don't know that while they are going to the royal ball Cinderella is with her fairy Godmother, who was helping her to be really pretty to attend to the royal ball...

Thanks of the help of the fairy Godmother, Cinderella went to the royal ball, she met the prince, they danced together and they felt in love. However...not all was as beautiful as it seems. Cinderella had to go at home at 12 pm, so she had to run. While she was running she lost one of her glass shoes...

As the prince felt in love with her, he ordered to the royal buttler going house by house to find the misterious girl that was dancing with him. All the girls wanted to be the chosen.

The shoe was broken but as Cinderella had the other one there was no problem...

Finally, she was the chosen one, and Cinderella got married with the prince and they lived happily ever after.

I hope more or less this is the story that you have in your minds. But, as I told you at the beginning of this post, there are many versions of Cinderella's story. All of these versions have more or less the same strucutre but they have some differencies. Two of these versions are Grimm and Perrault's version: 

Grimm	Perrault
-The ball lasts 3 days.	-The ball lasts 2 days.
-Cinderella has a bad relationship with her stepsisters.	-Cinderella has a better relationship with her stepsisters.
-This version is really hard, it is not focused for children.	-It is focused for children.

If you want to know more about these two versions you can find them easily on the Internet :)

I hope you have enjoyed reading my post,

Ester ^_^