Young Learners 1 Gets Ready for Easter
May 5, 2014 at 10:58 am | Posted in Clases Young Learners, Holidays, Uncategorized, Young Learners 1, Young Learners 2 | Leave a commentYoung Learners 1 had a great Saturday class before Easter week. They had a great time joining Young Learners 2 to paint Easter eggs, make chicken cupcakes and do an Easter egg hunt. They found all of the eggs in the end! Great job!
YL1 Celebrates Halloween
January 8, 2014 at 2:33 pm | Posted in Holidays, Young Learners 1 | Leave a commentTags: holidays
The Young Learners 1 group celebrated Halloween by making pumpkins and ghosts. They also practiced the famous phrase ‘Trick or Treat’ with each other. We also made skeletons, the following week, in order to talk about the parts of the body. Great work, kids!
Learning Scary Vocabulary
January 8, 2014 at 2:24 pm | Posted in Holidays, Young Learners 2 | Leave a commentTags: holidays, Vocabulary
Our YL2 class celebrated Halloween by learning all about Halloween house decorations in the United States. We viewed several images of the scariest Halloween house decorations. We learned several new vocabulary words. The students then took large pieces of drawing paper and, with partners, drew their own houses and decorated them to make them the scariest. They labeled the house decorations with the vocabulary they learned in class. The students then presented their drawings to the rest of the group and explained their decorations, providing another opportunity for them to use the new vocabulary.
The students also read a play about bones and body parts. They split into two groups and rehearsed the play, coming up with their own ideas on how to act it out. I was very impressed with the actions they added to the play and their teamwork. Below are some pictures of the kids reading their play.
Valentine’s day and Candy Conversation Hearts
February 20, 2013 at 11:47 am | Posted in Clases Young Learners, Holidays, Kids Club, Young Learners 4 | Leave a commentTags: writing
This Valentine’s Day we were lucky to receive a present of candy conversation hearts from Boston! These candies are typical American Valentine’s day treats. Some people like eating them, but some people don’t think they taste very good. Our students really liked them!
Conversation hearts are also fun to use for decoration. The Kids’ Club students made Valentine cards for their parents, and the YL 4 students used the hearts to write love letters. Who were the love letters for? Only the students know the answer to that! The Young Learners 4 students also matched words and definitions to fix “broken hearts.”
Here are some pictures of the students’ Valentine’s Day messages.
Decorating Christmas Cookies
December 21, 2012 at 6:03 pm | Posted in Clases Young Learners, Holidays, Young Learners 1, Young Learners 2, Young Learners 3, Young Learners 4 | Leave a commentTags: Food
Young Learners 1, 2, 3 and 4 classes decorated Christmas cookies on the last day of classes. They were very creative in their designs, which they then got to eat!
Los alumnos de las las clases 1, 2, 3 y 4 decoraron galletas para la navidad el último día de clase. Se mostraron muy creativos con sus diseños…¡que luego comieron!
Esperamos veros a todos de nuevo en enero. ¡Felices fiestas! ¡Felices vacaciones!
Kids’ Club celebrates Thanksiving
November 28, 2012 at 5:40 am | Posted in Holidays, Kids Club | Leave a commentTags: Art, Food, kids club, Poetry, thanksgiving
Kids’ Club has done several activities to commemorate Thanksgiving this November. We prepared marshmallow Pilgrims’ hats and Native American tepees that children could take home and eat. Tepees were dwellings used by the Native Americans of the Great Plains, so the Pilgrims did not actually see them. The Native Americans where the Pilgrims arrived, the Wompanoag, lived in dome-shaped houses called wetuash (singular wetu).
We also made some origami turkeys and learned some Thanksgiving songs and poems. Some students even wrote poems of their own. In the pictures you can see examples of some cinquain poems the kids wrote. On November 26th, the students performed a Readers’ Theater script and sang a Thanksgiving song for their parents, as well as showing them some of their work. Then the families shared some Thanksgiving snacks.
Thanks to all the students and their families for being with us this year!
Happy Halloween 2012
November 20, 2012 at 4:32 am | Posted in Clases Young Learners, Holidays, Young Learners 1, Young Learners 2, Young Learners 3, Young Learners 4, Young Learners 5, Young Learners 6 | Leave a commentTags: Food, holidays
Once again, Young Learners and Kids’ Club students got involved in some American Halloween traditions. Some classes, like YL 3 on Tuesday and Saturday, and YL 5/6 on Wednesday, carved pumpkins. Kids’ Club and YL 3 and YL 4 made popcorn balls, a tasty treat that some Americans eat at Halloween and Christmas. Our popcorn balls were made with candy corn, a special Halloween candy from the U.S. Some students made lollipop ghosts to take home, too.
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