My Family by Alexandra

Music:
I am the owner of this music. This is one of my first attempts at making music in Garage Band.

My Family by Belkis

Belkis is beginning English. And this is her first writing in English!

Music Credit:

I made the music using the Garage Band application for iPhone. All of the instruments are electronic. I really like to learn about new programs. In the future, I want the students to try making music for their videos. For now, we will probably continue to borrow music from FreeMusicArchive.org, because I can't make music fast enough for all the new videos!

-Eric, NYC, USA

Emma's Narrated Picture Story

Video: Emma's Narrated Picture Story

Music Credit:

"As I Figure"
Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Jose's Narrated Picture Story

Jose is learning his first words in English. He describes his learning process: "poco a poco." This means little by little in Spanish. 

And he is correct! You can learn English in little steps.

From Pixabay.com, Creative Commons license

English is a difficult language to learn. There are many difficult sounds. And English spelling can be very confusing. But you can learn a little English every day!

-Eric, NYC, USA

Video: Jose's Narrated Picture Story

Music Credit: Barranquilla Tiene Un Swing, By Frank Guerrero y Su Grupo Aché. Click the link to download the song. Go to FreeMusicArchive.org to find more free, Creative Commons music.

En Beta 0.1 (Frank Guerrero y Su Grupo Aché) / CC BY-NC-ND 3.0

Action Verbs! They draw.

The students in our classes love to draw. In this post you can learn about the verb draw, and see a video from Fidel, drawing a face. Soon you will see the completed flip book made from the video.


In August, Maria R drew pictures of her family at home.  

I and My Family Like to Dance

The Family Project

Fidel likes to draw. He drew a picture of me last month.

I think this is me!

Video: He draws a face.

Past Tense:       drewI drew a picture of my home.
You drew a picture of a dad.
We drew a picture of the class.
They drew a picture of the school.

She drew a picture of the family.
He drew a picture of a face.

Present Tense:  draw or draws
I draw a picture of a house.
You draw a picture of a dad.
We draw a picture of the class.
They draw a picture of the school.

She draws a picture of the family.
He draws a picture of a face.

Ana sometimes draws in class. In May, Ana drew her family at the park. Ana also drew her apartment building.

You can see more art from students here: Drawing.

He puts on a hat: Our First Paper Movie (flipbook).

Updated with new video!

This is my example for our new project: Paper Movies! (These are also called flip-books.)

He puts on a hat.

The action here is put on. You can use put on for clothing. 

For example: 
She puts on a coat. 
They put on glasses when they read.
In the winter, I put on gloves.


-Eric, NYC, USA

Video with English Text

Video of Flipbook

This video features music from Discount Fireworks. For more information about the music, and to download the music for free, click the link below.

//\\ (Discount Fireworks) / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0

  MARIA POINT THE DAY.