EASTER EGG HUNT 2016

Before our holidays we had some fun reviewing some of the things we've learned through an Easter egg hunt. We went outside (well, today we had to use the gym because of rainy weather...) and had a different egg hunt. Our mission was to find the eggs with the image representing our sentence cards. Here you are some photos if you'd like to see!

If you click on the picture below you can download the cards we used to paste in the eggs and to give to the children as cards for them to match with the eggs. 

IT'S EASTER TIME!

Here's a video about Easter in Britain. Let's learn about their Easter traditions!

A FOOD ALPHABET FROM 2nd GRADERS

We're enjoying our last days travelling on top of a plate. During their trip, 2nd graders, have discovered lots of new food names, we hope you like it!// Mientras disfrutamos de nuestros últimos días dando la vuelta al mundo montados en un plato... os traemos el abecedario de alimentos elaborado por los niños de 2º en colaboración con sus familias.

We also made a book out of it. It's in our school library for everybody to enjoy. We hope you like it!// Hicimos un libro con él que esperamos que os guste. Está en la biblioteca para que todos los podáis disfrutar.

  

 Thanks to the families for their cooperation! //¡Muchas GRACIAS a las familias por su colaboración!

OUR EASTER CREATIONS

We enjoyed some American Easter traditions this year at school. Here's a little compilation of our Easter fun actvities if you'd like to see ;) // Este año hicimos algunas actividades típicas de la época de Pascua en Estados Unidos. Aquí os dejamos un pequeño vídeo con un resumen.

EASTER IS ALMOST HERE...

Hi kids! Easter is almost here, and that's why we've been talking about Easter traditions in UK. Here you are a video with some of their traditions:




 We'll be decorating Easter eggs in the classroom, so here's a video explaining how to blow out an egg.// Decoraremos huevos en clase, así que aquí tenéis un vídeo que explica como vaciarlos sin romperlos. Y AQUÍ, un vídeo explicando lo mismo en castellano.

HEAD, SHOULDERS, KNEES AND TOES

Here's the video of the popular "Head, shoulders, knees and toes", a perfect song to introduce body parts. Enjoy it! //Aquí tenéis el vídeo de la conocida "Head, shoulders, knees and toes", una canción perfecta para iniciarse en las partes del cuerpo.

And of course, another classic, "One little finger"

And a little game for you: Build a monster!

SECOND GRADERS PRESENT... THEIR TOYS!

Last month, in 2nd grade,  we worked on toys vocabulary, we described their size, colour, shape... As a final task, 2nd graders had to bring in their toys to school and we did our first "Show and tell" activity. As experts in their toys, they made a little presentation for everybody to see and listen to. Here you are a video with their pesentations if you'd like to see (because of some technical problems we could only video record some of them, of the rest we only have the audio). // El mes pasado estuvimos trabajando sobre los juguetes, describimos su color, forma tamaño... Como tarea final, los niños tuvieron que traer un juguete y presentárselo al resto de la clase. Fue nuestro primer "Show and tell". Como expertos en juguetes que son, hicieron una pequeña presentación para los compañeros (por problemas técnicos, solo pudimos grabar en vídeo algunas, del resto solo tenemos el audio)

Here you are 2nd gtrade A presentations:



And 2nd grade B presentations:

VAENTINE'S DAY 2015

Last week, we worked on Valentine's Day. Here you are a little presentation with some of our activities.

 

If you'd like to see all the photos, just click HERE.

And we also worked on the song "Count on me", with its perfect lyrics to reflect on friendship and love towards our friends. We ordered some images of the song while listening to it without watching the video and then we completed the lyrics with the missing words

THE PEACE BOOK

Next Friday 30th January, we'll celebrate Peace and Non Violence Day. As an introduction to this celebration, we've used "The Peace Book", by Todd Parr, a great reminder of those peaceful little things.  There are also a few activities. Thanks to CHELSEA, our auxiliar de conversa, for recording the story for us.

We hope you like it as much as we do. We love Todd Parr books!

And, in case you're interested, some more Peace Day resources for Peace Day in English, Galician and Spanish (stories, printables, games...)

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

In this beginning of a new year, our best wishes for all of you!

GETTING READY FOR CHRISTMAS

Christmas is almost here... Since we are learning toys names these days, we'll be also practising the following song // La Navidad ya casi está aquí... Como estos días estamos estudiando los juguetes, vamos a aprender esta canción:

We will also work on this story.

For more Christmas resources and previous years' activities just click HERE.

And for some more Christmas ideas, a Pinterest board!

Follow Teacher's board Christmas time on Pinterest.

OUR THANKSGIVING PROJECT (part III)

This year, at school, we are travelling the world on top of a plate. 

In our English lessons we've been travelling the USA with our "auxiliar de conversa" Chelsea. She's from Wisconsin, USA. She told us about the Thanksgiving tradition in her country, and told us the story of the first Thanksgiving. We worked on this and 4th and 5th graders, very concerned for her feeling homesick on Thanksgiving day, decided we should have our own Thanksgiving party at school. We thought it was a good idea, so we started preparing CONMENIÑO'S FIRST THANKSGIVING. We decided to recreate the first Thanksgiving, the one celebrated by the pilgrims and the indians. 4th and 5th graders represented the indians, and  1st, 2nd and 3rd graders were the pilgrims. The pilgrims were in charge of the whole organization and acted as hosts during the party, greeting the indians in English, asking them questions, leading them in the games... It was a great experience, and below is the video in case you'd like to see.



Este año, en el colegio, estamos trabajando en torno al tema "LA vuelta al mundo montados en un plato". En las clases de inglés hemos estado viajando por EEUU con Chelsea, nuestra auxiliar de conversación que es de Wisconsin, EEUU. Ella nos habló de la tradición de Acción de Gracias en su país, y también nos contó la historia del primer Acción de Gracias. Trabajamos en ello y los alumnos de 4º y 5º, muy preocupados porque Chelsea fuara a echar mucho de menos esta celebración, propusieron celebrar una fiesta de Acción de Gracias en el colegio. Pensamos que era una buena idea y comenzamos un mini proyecto sobre ello, a través del cual aprendimos todos los pasos a seguir para preparar una fiesta.Decidimos recrear el primer Acción de Gracias, aquel en el que indios y peregrinos compartieron banquete. Los alumnos de 4º y 5º, representaron a los peregrinos, es decir, los anfitriones y encargados de la organización de la fiesta; y los alumnos de 1º a 3º representaron a los indios. Los peregrinos actuaron como verdaderos anfitriones dando la bienvenida a los indios en inglés, haciéndoles preguntas, siendo los encargados de los juegos... Fue una experiencia genial, con la que aprendimos muchas cosas. Os dejamos el vídeo por si os apetece verlo.

SAVE THE TURKEY-A THANKSGIVING-RELATED ACTIVITY (PART II)

Other of the activities we made related to Thanksgiving, apart from the "Preparing a party" project, was the "Save the turkey" tradition.  After watching THIS VIDEO, we decided to help some turkeys by disguising them. Everybody took a turkey home and disguised it. Below you can see some of the very creative turkeys our kids made, GREAT JOB and THANKS to the families for their cooperation! // otra de las actividades relacionadas con Acción de gracias que hicimos fue la de "Salvemos a un pavo". Tras ver este vídeo decidimos ayudar a unos cuantos pavos a sobrevivir la noche de Acción de Gracias disfrazándolos.  Aquí os dejamos unas fotos de los pavos hechos por nuestros niños. Una vez más, ¡BUEN TRABAJO y MUCHAS GRACIAS A LAS FAMILIAS por su AYUDA!

 

 

TURKEY TROUBLE + SAVE THE TURKEY!

Hi kids!

here's the video of the story we've watched in class this days. What an intelligent turkey!  // Aquí tenéis el vídeo de la historia que hemos visto estos días en clase con motivo de Acción de Gracias. Qué pavo más listo!

And, related to this story, this year we're doing the popular "Turkeys in disguise" project. We sent the activity to be done at home with the families. We'll be soon posting their fabulous ideas to help save some turkeys! In case ypu're interested in the note we sent home and the rpintable turkeys, just click HERE. And for some ideas, click the picture below.// Y, en relación con esta historia, este año hemos propuesto la actividad "Disfraza un pavo". Enviamos la actividad a casa para ser hecha en colaboración con las familias. En breve iremos mostrando las ideas tan geniales que han tenido para salvar unos cuanosmpavos justo a tiempo para Acción de Gracias.

MORE ON THANKSGIVING - PRESENTATION, THANKSGIVING DINNER DISHES, INTERACTIVE GAMES

Here's one of the presentations we've used to learn about the story of the first Thanksgiving. //Aquí está la presentación que utilizamos para conocer la historia del primer Acción de Gracias.

A little video with some Thanksgiving dinner dishes //Un pequeño vídeo con algunos platos típicos en la cena de Acción de Gracias.

THANKSGIVING DISHES on PhotoPeach

And here you are a few interactive games related to Thanksgiving. Have fun! // Y, para terminar, unos juegos interactivos relacionados con Acción de Gracias.

Be a historian and discover the story of Thanksgiving, its characters...

A fun game: Swap the turkeys

Thanksgiving dinner bounce: move the tray to take the dishes to the table.

And... A WORDSEARCH!

"FIRST THANKSGIVING" -WORKING ON SEQUENCING A STORY

After watching a presentation about the story of the first Thanksgiving, the students had to sequence it. Second graders sequenced it using a very simple flow map ith six parts and just illustrating the different parts. //Despues de presentarnos Chelsea la historia del primer Acción de Gracias, los niños de 2º tuvieron que secuenciar al historia. Para ello utilizaron un sencillo mapa conceptual en el que tenían que ilustrar 6 eventos importantes de la historia en orden.



Older kids, worked on more details of the story, so they sequenced the story using some of the printables you can find HERE.//Los mayores trabajaron en más detalles de la historia, por lo que para secuenciarla utilizaron los imprimibles que podéis encontrar AQUÍ.

And also, here you atre one more Thanksgiving video, this time, a different version of the story ;)

THE FIRST THANKSGIVING, A CARTOON

Thanksgiving is coming, and we're learning a lot about this American tradition this year thanks to our American language assistant, Chelsea. First things first, a cartoon about the FIRST THANKSGIVING. // Ya se acerca Acción de Gracias y gracias a nuestra auxiliar de conversación, Chelsea,  estamos aprendiendo muchas cosas acerca de esta tradición estadounidense. Para empezar, un simpático vídeo con la historia del primer día de Acción de Gracias y  motivo por el que se sigue celebrando actualmente.



And one more video: a few kids tell us the First Thanksgiving story

A NEW FAVOURITE FOR US - ONE LITTLE FINGER

Here's a song we've been using to review some body parts. Listen, sing and have fun!

SCHOOL MATERIALS

A video to review the name of some school materials.

A LIM activity to practise this vocabulary (thanks to teacher Belén Junquera for sharing her good work)

And also, a memory game!