Saturday, 1 December 2018

American Penpal 2018 and first Graders

Jefferson Elementary School
Winnona, Minesota USA


CEIP PLURILINGÜE TIRÁN
Tirán, Moaña SPAIN

This year, we're going to follow The Flat Stanley Project with the 1st grade student in our American PenPal 2018.
This project was started in 1995 by Dale Hubert, a third grade school teacher in London, Ontario, Canada.
It is meant to facilitate  letter-writing by school children to each other.

We're going to follow our friends in the Jeffferson Elementary School, in this project.

First, we created our particular Flat Stanleys. The girls and boys in 1st grade decorated the clothes of their Stanleys. The teachers took the pictures of the students, and the kids wrote some sentences in English about themselves. Name, age and adress.



The Spanish Flat Stanleys were already sent, they're flying to Winnona, USA.







Now, we'll introduce every student showing the different parts of CEIP PLURILINGÜE TIRÁN.


This is Mateo showing us his Flat Stanley in front of the winners of the last Halloween Spelling Bee poster.


Gael is showing us our special Sea created by Kindergarten 5 students in Art. 
It reflects the main school topic.




 These 3 boys are, from right to left, Anxo, Nicolás and Lucas. They are showing us the Kindergarten building and part of the amazing playground full of trees and grass.



A different view of our playground.





On the right, Xavi Ferral and Xavi Iglesias, on the left are showing the well-decorated gym.




Aitana and Hugo, from the left are enjoying the swings area in the yard.




And now, they are next to the other kindergarten playground.



Nahir, Tiago and Breogán, from the right, are pointing to our loved rock, Madreboa, that means Good Mom, that protects us, in a different view of part of the garden.




From the right, Sabela, Idare and Manu are in the school library.





They are reading English books and showing us their Flat Stanleys at the library.





This is the centre of our Primary and main school building.
Samuel and Emma  are showing us the main hall from upstairs.




Here are Fátima and Ramiro, from the right, in the English classrom.







They are from the right, Vega, Noa, María and Lucía at the 1st grade classroom door. We can see a lot of fish, because our school topic of the year is SEA.


The First grade classroom is empty, everybody is at the gym.




This is Olivia, our American conversation assistant 2018. She's from New Orleans. 
She helps us in the English class, so as in the Natural Science and Art classes. Here is the first grade group in the English class having fun and practice English in pairs.



 
We are looking forward to seeing the American Flat Stanleys in Tirán.

Dear friends, 
we hope you to like our school,
 desiring to watch yours!!!m

Here are the American Flat Stanleys come from USA during Christmas.


Every kid is going to take home one American friend to show to his/her family.


And the teachers have their own Flat Stanleys from the American Teacher, Erin, and the Spanish conversation assistant from Barcelona, Carla.

Thank you all for being here with us. It’s a pleasure to have your Flat Stanleys in Tirán.


The whole class took their Flat Stanleys home, showing and telling their families about them. 

Back at school, we’re going to prepare a nice poster where to show the American Penpal friends to the rest of the school.





This is the original book that our teacher friend, Erin, sent us as a present to get to know the story about Flat Stanley.

Thank you, Erin, you’re so kind!!!👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽💖💖💖

Thursday, 15 November 2018

FALLen leaves in our FISH and glitter on the STARfish

Why Nature trap us? We don’t know... or may be we do. When you walk outside school to the forest, you can imagine lots of Art projects to do with fallen leaves, stones, little sticks, dried plants at the class picked up by kids...

So, a FISH came up from a fern. 
That’s Nature in our particular deep SEA at school.




A little of glue...



You should wait till next week, and draw the shape, eyes, mouth, tail... magic makes the rest.



And the fish can swim next to the seahorses, UNDER THE SEA...





Lovely work!!!
Thank you, Olivia, for your magical Art!!!.💖

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STARFISH glitterring under the sea, next to leaves fish and glowing seahorses.




You should cut the starfish shape made of eva rubber.


Add the eyes, and put some glue on it and a lot of colourful glitter. Nice!




Our deep sea is getting amazing, full of lovely and original sea inhabitants.

Awesome work, kids!!!! Congratulations!!
Thank YOU, Olivia!

Friday, 9 November 2018

Halloween Spelling Bee winners


In our first time for the new spellers in Halloween, we had enormous surprises.
The students and their families did an awesome work, so they got a lot of congratulations and great feelings.



1st Grade. Great job, Mateo!.






 2nd Grade. Congratulations, Sara!!.






3rd Grade.Wonderful work, Mikel!!!!.





4th grade. Congratulations, Estela. 
What a family!! 
Both sisters won the Spelling Bee.





5th grade. Well done, Radu!!!.






6th grade. Amazing job, Jorge!!.



Thank you, boys and girls for your effort!!!!
Next time, Christmas...

Thursday, 1 November 2018

Halloween Storytelling by school parents

The English teacher wants to THANK YOU to the school parents who have participated in this first, but not last, storytelling.

The books read on this occasion were
WHAT’S IN THE WITCH’S KITCHEN? 
By Nick Sharrat
and
TEN TIMID GHOSTS 
by Jennifer O’Connell

Thank you Xiana’s mum
She was showing us magic through her magic wand, transforming nasty food into delicious candy, popcorn or macarroni.

Kindergarten 3 & 4 listening to the WHAT’S IN THE WITCH’S KITCHEN?.


THANK YOU 
Vega’s mum. 
She was reading, acting, giving toys, asking questions, spelling, ... and giving candy after an asked password. We had a lot of fun!

In 2nd grade


In 1st grade. 




In 3rd grade



Thank you, Diego’s dad
He showed the kids magic shaking his magic wand over a special candle.  They enjoyed it a lot.

In kindergarten 5




Thank you, Irene’s parents & Lucas’ mum.
They told them a story about timid ghosts. They used the digital board, posters, acting...
We had a scary time. 
Thank you to this spooky family!.

In kindergarten 5





Thank you, Olivia, for reading, teaching, painting, singing and showing us awesome pictures from your New Orleans Halloween traditions.

Kindergarten 4
Talking about their costumes and counting witch’s hats.


Kindergarten 3
Talking about the costumes colours. Looking for the colours diving on the class carpet.



5th & 6th graders watching an amazing presentation about New Orleans Halloween, parades, haunted houses, and costumes...







At the English class we enjoy the magic of foreign traditions comparing them to our Galician heritage.
This is the multicultural sharing that we want to teach to our students.



HAPPY 
Creepy Halloween!!!!


Sunday, 28 October 2018

Feed the Shark, memory games & fun

Kindergarten 5 are playing the game FEED THE SHARK.
 Through little colour fish they practice numbers and colours.


Diego is saying the numbers or colours, Mateo, Vera or Edgar are feeding the shark.
By turns, one student is the shark and asks fish on certain colours or numbers.



MEMORY PUZZLE GAME
The students say and learn sea animals vocabulary and they put them in their place.
After the learning vocabulary game, the kids do a picture dictation, by the teacher.
" Colour the dolphin...blue".

SPELLING BEE, a very special challenge


SPELLING through games is the best option.


SECOND GRADE

We're practicing the Halloween spelling bee words.
B-A-T
C-A-T
R-A-T


Second graders are learning spelling by means of a game, FEED THE SHARK, with small alphabet fish.



LEARNING VOWELS is very important. 
Great job, Pedro, Sara, Pablo, Martiño and Nazaret.


FIRST GRADE


Mateo, Xavi and Gael are spelling CAT.

ART in KINDERGARTEN is fun

Different topics, different projects.



SEA



This magic "OCEAN IN MY BOTTLE" was one of the favourite project for kindergarten 5, at the moment.




This one is another wonderful sea project for them.
They could do finger paint freely and then put glitter on the very cute seahorses.

We're filling our "deep sea" poster step by step. 


HALLOWEEN
Halloween demands a different approach...


   You can collect leaves from the forest, finger paint them, and when they're dried... Draw a SCARY FACE on your GHOST.






Scary projects need scary faces!!!!






Sunday, 14 October 2018

HALLOWEEN... TERRIFYING SPELLING BEE

This academic year, we want you to participate in a very special Halloween experience.
   READING  ALOUD FRIGHTENING STORIES for kids











TERRIFYING
SPELLING BEE!!!

We have the pleasure to introduce you in the SPELLING WORLD
by means of different videos and games
that were going to upload here...

SPELLING GAMES to have fun

VERY EASY FOR KINDERGARTEN


       

Press on the link to decorate a Pumpkin

--Decorate a PUMPKIN




    EASY FOR PRIMARY






WORDS FOR PRACTIZING AT HOME



HALLOWEEN TRIVIA QUESTIONS for 5th & 6th graders

A very creepy Halloween SONG


Thursday, 11 October 2018

Sea storytelling at the School Library



We love Olivia’s reading in the library, every Thursday during third graders’ reading session.



Third graders are listening to Olivia reading COMMOTION IN THE OCEAN and they’re participating in the questions about sea animals, colours, sizes and different informations that come from the images and content.

Thank you for waiting for your turns, boys & girls!!!
Good job!!





4th graders are really enjoying MR. SEAHORSE at the library read by Olivia.
 


The fourth grade students reading sessions are always at the library. Every Tuesday, we listen to different stories from library interesting books related to different topics.

   This lovely book is available at the school library.


You  can also go to the school library during recess time,  and have a great time through the English class blog, englishnart4fun.blogspot.com. As Erik does, listening the very famous song BABY SHARK.







Tuesday, 2 October 2018

Welcome Olivia, we’re very happy to SEA you in our Ocean.


Olivia is already with us at school.
She’s American. She’s from Alabama.



Olivia is talking about her home, state, family, hobbies, etc. She’s showing us the USA map and explaining characteristics and interesting things about  the different places where she has lived.




She’s an artist, she used to write books, draw lovely paintings, take professional photos and enjoy participating in special activities, like movies, Art collaborations, ...