New Strategies For Our Mind by 1º ESO

We have been using new strategies or routines to make our minds work:

CSI: where we have to come up with three main ideas and then give a colour for the first one, a symbol for the second and an image for the last one.

MIND MAPS: is a way of remembering information using a topic and branches from it.

As we  have changed our seats in class we have written our own rules.

Halloween!

This year's halloween was the scariest yet! The primary students experienced the spooky "tunnel of terror", prepared by 4ºESO B, where they met all types of monsters and ghouls.

In the afternoon, it was the students' turn to dress up and be scary! They then enjoyed a special halloween disco followed by a delicious snack of chocolate and churros.

End of year project - Infants (5B and 5C)

It´s hard to believe that our time in Infants has come to an end. We have had an amazing year and learnt so much and although we are sad to say goodbye to our friends and teachers in infants we are ready to embark on our new adventure in Primary.

The five year olds decided that as an end to the year we would undertake a small project to keep us entertained in our last two weeks. The chosen topic  was English speaking countries around the world. Each five year old class was divided into teams and given a country to research. The countries that we chose to study were: England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Malta, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, USA, India and Jamaica.

With a little help from our families,  we looked up information, in some cases copied it out by hand,  printed out photos and brought them into class to put it with what our classmates had gathered. Once we had all the information, we divided it into parts: the flag, the climate, sports, dress, food and drink and famous places. Each team member was in charge of gathering and keeping all the information on one of the parts.

Once this was done it was time to put it all together on a mural. With a little help from our teacher we stuck on our photos and the information we had copied out by hand.

When this was done, we coloured the title, using the national colours of course.

 Now it was time to talk about what we had learnt.

We all learnt a lot about the different countries and above all we worked as a team and had lots of fun doing it.

Thanks to the families who helped us out, it was greatly appreciated.

Happy summer holidays!

First year (1A)

 

 

Summer has arrived at last !!!! We have to make the most of the few good days that we get here in Asturias , so we took our work outside with us.

 

Have you ever done a giant wordsearch in teams ?

 

 

                                                         

 

Each team had 30 seconds to find a word .

 

 

 

Of course the famous AMCO stickers were given as a reward for finding a word. Have a look and see if you can find any. I bet you can´t find as many as them !!!

 

 

 

SUMMER WORK

Are you looking forward to the holidays but going to miss using your English ????
Don´t worry ! Take a look at these activities. There are lots of things for you to do.

2º ESO

I Love English

I love English is a magazine we get every two months.

It contains articles about music, cinema, celebrities and  it is also a useful guide to learn new expressions in English and a lot about life in the USA, England and Australia.

We not only read the magazine but we also do a lot of different kinds of activities such as dictations, listenings and role plays.

With I love English we love English even more.

 

 

 

 

Third year (3A)

Class 3A learned about a new way to tell stories. It is called "Kamishibai" This means" Paper Play" in Chinese. It is an ancient form of telling stories in the form of a small portable theatre, where the storyteller went from village to village. It is still used in China and Japan.

The boys and girls chose a story about Woolly Willy, a sheep who lived on an enormous sheep station in Australia. Woolly Willy played with his other lamb friends and Nipsey, the sheepdog. One day all the sheep were rounded up and taken to have their fleeces cut off. This is called mustering time. Woolly stood very still whilst the wool was cut off his back and tummy. He and the other sheep loved this activity because afterwards they were very cool in the hot Australian summer. And the humans liked it too, because they could use the wool to make clothes to keep warm in the winter.

In our photos you can see the children drawing and coloring beautiful pictures to illustrate the story.

 

They wrote the text and stuck it on the back of the previous picture.  

This is so that when the audience is looking at the pictures the students can tell the story from behind the wooden theatre and change each picture as the story unfolds.

 

 

 

We liked preparing and telling our Kamishibai story so much that we went down to the infants class and showed them - they loved it too!!

 

2 year olds

Although the weather tells a different story, summer has arrived and in the 2 year olds class, we can see the sun everywhere.

 

 

We have been working on the different characteristics of this season. Here you can see how we worked on the type of clothes with puppets, worksheets…

 

As the weather hasn’t permitted us to go outside and use our caps, we have  played with them in the classroom instead. We´ve hidden them (similar to how the sun hides) and afterwards we’ve had to find them.

Have a nice summer !