Instituto Internacional: Inglés Americano para Jóvenes

Please Join our Free BrainPOP Workshop for Educators

June 30, 2014 at 5:13 pm | Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

July 3^rd, 2.30pm, Rm 101

American Space Madrid

International Institute, C/Miguel Angel, 8

To discuss the use of online resources to teach English to children who speak Spanish and other languages, Ms. Comis will focus on BrainPOP, an award-winning online educational resource that utilizes animated curriculum content for teaching subjects such as English as a Second Language, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, and Arts/Music.

Ms. Comis’ presentation will be highly valuable for elementary school teachers who want to use English-language materials like the BrainPOP ESL program to provide lessons in an entertaining and interesting way.

Ellen Comis is a highly-experienced, certified multi-subject teacher for the bilingual Spanish program at the primary school level in the Los Angeles (California) Public Schools. She has developed curriculum materials for use across the Los Angeles school system.

Kids’ Club finishes off a great year

June 30, 2014 at 4:55 pm | Posted in Kids Club, Parents | Leave a comment

Kids’ Club finished the term with a performance for their parents. Patti’s class sang three songs and performed a play of The Very Busy Spider.

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Alicia’s group sang three songs from the film version of Charlotte’s Web. The class read the book throughout the term, and finished off with these happy (and fast) songs. It was a wonderful way to end the year. Thank you to all of the parents and students who joined in. See you in October!

The Young Learners’ Spring Program

June 27, 2014 at 1:56 pm | Posted in Clases Young Learners, Summer in the City/ Campamento Urbano, Uncategorized, Young Learners 1, Young Learners 2, Young Learners 3, Young Learners 4, Young Learners 5 | Leave a comment

On June 21, 2014, all the Young Learners celebrated their accomplishments by giving a grand performance to family and friends.

The Young Learners 5 group were fantastic emcees, walking the crowd through each act.

Young Learners 1 sang three songs, “Changing Seasons,” “The Seasons Song,” and “Spring is Here.”

Young Learners 2 also sang three songs, “On the Boardwalk,” “Keep the Oceans Clean,” and “The Water Cycle.”

Young Learners 3 presented a play that they wrote, “The Spectacular Shows!”

Young Learners 4 closed the show with Pharrell Williams’ contagious song, “Happy.”

Happy summer to all, and see you next week at our summer camp!

Spiders and Insects

June 17, 2014 at 1:46 pm | Posted in Kids Club, Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Kids’ Club has continued to read, talk and sing about spiders and insects. Here are some pictures of the ants they made out of egg cartons. Everyone loved pretending big ants were crawling up their arms!

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They also learned this song: “The Ants Go Marching.”

They changed some of the words for their end-of-year performance.

It has been a fun year for Kids’ Club and they are looking forward to showing their parents what they have learned this term. On Monday, June 23rd, they will be acting out The Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle, and singing The Ants Go Marching and two other songs.

Summer in the City ¡Nuevo grupo para niños de 3º de infantil!

June 17, 2014 at 12:05 pm | Posted in Summer in the City/ Campamento Urbano, Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Les anunciamos que hemos abierto un grupo nuevo para el campamento urbano SUMMER IN THE CITY:

¡un grupo de niños y niñas de 5 y 6 años!

Los niños y niños tienen que haber terminado 3º de educación infantil, listos para empezar 1º de primaria. Este verano pueden venir con “los mayores” a hacer manualidades, cantar, jugar y divertirse, ¡todo en inglés con profes norteamericanos!

Por ahora el grupo se ofrece para la primera quincena de julio (del 30 de junio al 11 de julio). Se podrá ampliar a otras semanas si se animan a venir. Si lo prueban, estamos seguros que les va a encantar.

Preparing for the Show

June 16, 2014 at 12:00 pm | Posted in Uncategorized, Young Learners 3 | Leave a comment

With the end of the trimester approaching, the YL 3 weekday group began making decorations for their play, “JDDCAF.” The Young Learners wrote the entire script themselves, based on research they did throughout the term in the computer laboratory. We look forward to seeing their performance on June 23, 2014!

Memory!

June 6, 2014 at 6:04 pm | Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

The Young Learners 1 group did a great job of creating cards for a memory game! In the pictures you can see them enjoying their hard work. Keep up the excellent work!

Spiders and Insects

May 30, 2014 at 5:52 pm | Posted in Kids Club, Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Kids’ Club is still learning about spiders and insects. They have read two more Eric Carle books, The Very Grouchy Ladybug and The Very Hungry Caterpillar. They looked at the life cycle of a caterpillar and compared fiction (story) books with non-fiction (information) books.

This Kids’ Club group loves crafts! They made ladybugs with movable wings and played a game where they tried to get as many segments of a caterpillar’s body as possible so they could make the longest caterpillar. After playing the game the students decided to make their own caterpillars to take home.

This term a student from the University of California Irvine, Cynthia Torres, is doing an internship with the International Institute English Program. Cynthia is helping out in Kids’ Club and Young Learners 4, and will be with us for part of Summer in the City, our Urban Camp in the month of July. Cynthia is majoring in English and Spanish, with a minor in Education.

Here are some pictures of the students and Cynthia at work:

And a video of Eric Carle reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar:

The Very Grouchy Ladybug:

Your Neighborhood Part II

May 30, 2014 at 11:49 am | Posted in Young Learners 3 | Leave a comment

Remember when the YL 3 members sent Kate Sullivan, author of “On Linden Square,” drawings of their own neighborhoods? She responded! Not only did she send them pictures of her artwork, personalized with notes commenting on the Young Learners’ drawings, but she also mentioned them on her blog which you can see here. Thank you Kate Sullivan for being a great pen pal!

Have You Ever Tried Sushi?

May 24, 2014 at 2:59 pm | Posted in Uncategorized, Young Learners 3 | Leave a comment

Today the YL 3 Saturday group practiced the present perfect tense with questions like, “have you ever tried sushi before?” They also learned why raw fish is much softer than other raw meats such as chicken or beef. In the ocean fish swim and feel the effects of gravity less than land animals because of their buoyancy. Their muscles do not have to work as hard as a cow’s, for example, to move around, and so their muscles do not grow to be as dense! With this theme, the YL 3 members made their own versions of sushi and an accompanying menu.