Xmas 2014

ART CLASS 

Xmas is coming...!

3rd Graders creating their special Xmas tree for their Xmas card.

4th Graders starting the Xmas tree made of wood sticks and wool.

Kinder 5 years and the Xmas reindeer card...

These are the first graders preparing the special Xmas trees made of paint finger prints, stairs and glitter. These Xmas cards are to their American Pen Pals...

They wrote: Dear........(Piper)

                    I wish you Merry Xmas

       

We've already sent them to USA. And we've received theirs.

We show you the  Xmas cards from USA with letters inside.

Kids are crazy about receiving cards from USA. ;))

                                          CHRISTMAS TREEs all around

        This year, 

            Xmas tree of 

               English&Art classroom 

                   door 

                       is vintage, 

                           made with chalks.

         This is the result of all the work done in the Art class.

          Recycled Xmas tree made of newspapers by 3rd graders.

                  Reindeers made by 5 kindergarden kids with the help of their hands and paint.

                           Snowmen families made by 2nd graders. 

                                     Xmas trees made by 1st graders.

           The wooden stick and wool Xmas trees were made by 4th graders, it was a lot of work.

                      They did it great!

                    The running Santas were done by 1st graders guided by a Youtube video.

                 The final exposition.

                                   MERRY CHRISTMAS

           

                                                       Ho ho ho

                                                                     Xo Xo Xo.               Santa is coming!

American PEN PAL Project

          This is the story of 18 children who wanted to have American Pen Pals. 

     So their teacher talked to another American/Spanish teacher who was teaching Spanish to a group of 21 students in Madison Elementary School in Winona, Minesota, USA.

                   Erin, one of our American language assistants, was that teacher. 

                                This is the group of the 21 American first graders.

Then, the Spanish teacher took photos of the kids, one by one, just to paste them on the pictures we wanted to send them...

Here they are...

             From left to right: Mauro, Nuria, Xoel, Telma ( who has two American friends), Nicolás,

Dolores (two American friends), Eva González ( finally smiling), Daniel,

Iago, Eva Piñeiro, Xabier, Aleichem and Radu (Romanian),

Rio, Jorge, Lucía (she's getting two friends), Pedro and Ainoha.

         They were very happy introducing themselves and writing their ages in English.

They made awesome pictures to send to their Pen Pals.!!!! Great job, kids!

                              

                         Here they are. Lovely pictures with their photos.

               

                      They could meet their Pen Pals in a picture of Halloween.

                 

       They saw them in a picture and were very surprised.

    

            As for Thanksgiving Day, Thursday 27th, the letters arrived at Tirán................

                                          

              The children were really happy and a little anxious.

           

                  They couldn't believe it!

                        

          Here are showing very proudly the letters and pictures with the Pen Pals photos too.

               

               

        Some of them have a little trouble to understand " Pokemon" ...

                   

          

         

                It was wonderful to look at their surprised faces, they felt weird sensations to get something from so far place, with their own names on it. They were sharing and showing what they got.

                    

         

Who knows, may be tonight  they could dream with  their Pen Pals...

                               Good feelings, great sensations, open hearts and minds, a lot of expectations...

                                                    They are learning different contents, very important ones...

     

                                                                      More surprises SooN.

                 We are very HAPPY because we have new FRIENDS from very FAR...

We've a big surprise from USA. Our Pen Pal friends sent us a great video introducing themselves and saying hello in Spanish.

You can watch it in this link. Enjoy...

                         http://youtu.be/rt3p6bPqm6k

                  And these are the Xmas cards from USA. Kids loved receiving them.

                                                          MERRY CHRISTMAS,

                                                                 Dear friends!!!

                                                                   HAPPY NEW

                                                                          2015

                             

                                                                             **

                                                                              *

Thanksgiving Day 2014

Thanksgiving Day is the 4th Thursday of November.

Marian, our American language assistant, explained the story to the kids. She used the help of a power point with pictures and an easy description.

After that, the children enjoyed a short musical video.

Finally, they ate a very popular snack for the American kids, "peanutbutter and apples"... Very tasty, ummm Yummy, yummy!!

 cut the apples into pieces, put a little of peanutbutter on the piece of apple and ...to your mouth.

The Thanksgiving project is "a Turkey", of course, made with your own hand.

The exposition

Depending on the level of the group, the lesson is more or less difficult. 5th and 6th graders had to pay attention to the speech and answer questions about the texts.

But at the end, they could taste the snack too.

Thank you, Marian for being with us.

Fall Art

Wreath made of painted dry leaves

Material that you need:

-Paper (recycle)

-Dry fallen leaves

-Glue (paint brushes)

* We'd already got the painted leaves from a previous project (leaves stamping), that  you can see in this same blog.

They had to roll the colour paper...

You have to use enough glue to stick the irregular leaves to the rolled paper and press...

Here is Marian explaining what to do and how.

After the work, they tidied up the class, cleaned the tables and washed the paint brushes.

We have to let them dry... Then...

We'll attached them to the ceiling.

      They already decorated our Upstairs corridors.

Halloween 😻👹🙈💀👑👒🎩🎃👻

    

Kids are drawing Halloween stuff following the directions of a great kids cartoonist and looking at one boy's drawings at the same time.

G H O S T Sssssssss!

   Z O M B I E Sssssss!

First graders are drawing and colouring a Zombie from the letter C.

These children videos come from YouTube. 

Students love them!!

Even third graders enjoy drawing and listening the directions in English from internet.

Cute little manga cartoons!!!

...Cartoons are really weird and tiny... but the students creations are awesome!!!!

We'll continue...

Awesome Scary Trees made by fourth graders. They really enjoyed it.

                                       Halloween ART EXPOSITION 2014

This is the exposition of all the drawings that the kids made. Zombies, Frankensteins, haunted houses, ghosts, death, scary trees...

The youngest children were watching "Winnie the Witch" movie and after that, they drew a picture of the witch house. One part of them in black, at the beginning of the movie, or red & yellow at the end when Winnie transformed it in order to be able to see her  black cat, Wilber.

                                     HAVE you GOT CANDY?...

                  You can have some if you come to the English class.

                                                                                    The English class door for Halloween

First graders were decorating some ghosts.

They could use play-dough or plastic material.