Spelling Bee. 100 days of learning

The students in CEIP Lope de Vega started getting ready for the exciting Spelling Bee Contest, the Fourth Annual Spelling Bee. One more year boys and girls will have to study new words about different topics. First Cycle (six and seven year old children) and Second Cycle (eight and nine year old children) will have to be able to spell the different words. However, as they did last year in their first time, Third Cycle (ten and eleven year old students) will have to recognize and pronounce correctly the words that the teachers are spelling to them. I have to say that we had a very amazing and wonderful competition last year, children worked so hard and the results were great!!!

           CHILDREN JUST STARTED WORKING TOWARDS 100 DAYS OF LEARNING!!!

International Day for the Elimination of Violence

In Spain every year on November 25th, we celebrate the International Day for Elimination of Gender Violence. Women and also men, all around the world, are subject to domestic violence and other forms of violence. The purpose of this day is to bring awareness to this issue, so, our school and the whole village are making honor this day during all this week, children wrote stories, they created drawings and they read about real stories. The Town Hall also collaborated with the school, and today there is a huge sign hanging in the front of the big building. There is also a beautiful mosaic where you can read:  'NIÑOS Y NIÑAS CAMINANDO EN IGUALDAD' (BOYS AND GIRLS WALKING TOGETHER ON EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES OR TERMS)

Children read a poem so Violence disappears from the planet for ever

Children sing a song to honor people who suffered violence some time.

Boys and girls walking together on equal opportunities and terms.

BONFIRE NIGHT on November 5th

                                                                                                                                 November 5th

          THE  W E E K L Y  N E W S

  HOLY SMOKE

       BONFIRES MARK FAILURE OF GUNPOWDER PLOT

EVERY YEAR, On November 5^th, firework displays across the United Kingdom celebrate the failure of the plot and the survival of King James I. Tradicionally, effigies of Guy Fawkes were burnt on the top of huge bonfires, and November 5^th is still known as “Bonfire Night”.

Drawings made by Year 6, Group C

November’s event of the Kidlympic Games

November Kidlympic Games brought to you from GERMANY!!‏

Relay Race

Deutschherrenschule would like to host November's event of the Kidlympic Games.  

They propose a 

'Kamelle' Throwing Relay Race

'Kamelle' are called the sweeties which the participants of Carnival Parades during the Street Carnival days in their part of the country throw out to dressed up kids and other people watching the parades in the streets. If you like more information about the Cologne Carnival in particular, you may have a look at the following web page: http://www.cologne.de/events/cologne-carnival 

And then have a good laugh at the crazy Germans ... ;-) 

Here are the rules for the Relay Race:

Have 6 kids team up and stand in line at the starting point. Place a bucket with sweets ( like lemon drops, chewing gums, etc) at a distance of 20 metres. Place a hoola hoop ring another 3 metres away from the bucket. When the race starts the first kid has to put on a funny hat or a clown's wig and run to the bucket, take a hand full of sweets and throw them into a ringshouting 'Kamelle', run back and hand over the hat/wig to the next kid. Winner is the fastest team. Note please: any sweets landing outside the ring will add penalty seconds to the time scored by the respective team.

 

This sketch might help with the setting up:

And now have fun!

HALLOWEEN NIGHT on October, 31st

http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/five-little-pumpkins

Halloween is always fun. When Halloween is coming up, people have fun looking at horror books to give to their friends and family. If you want to find out more about this ‘tradition’, go over to the ‘All Hallows Read’. However, even ‘Five Little Pumpkins’ and ‘Trick or Treat, Smell my Feet’ are not either particulary scary but they are keeping with the Halloween theme.

Younger kids also enjoy Halloween at school, this year, they learnt the basic vocabulary:

http://www.learningchocolate.com/node/329

And also they sang ‘Five little pumkins’ song, a very popular song to sing when you are little.

You can see the lyrics below:

Five little pumpkins sitting on a gate.

The first one said “Oh my, it’s getting late.”
The second one said, “There are witches in the air.”
The third one said, “Why we don’t care.”
The fourth one said, “Let’s run and run and run.” And
The fifth one said, “Let’s go and have some fun.”
“Ohoo”, went the wind and out went the light and the five little pumpkins rolled out of sight.”

Welcome Students of Roehampton Church School

In March we got a link with a school in the U.K, Roehampton Church School, it is a primary school in south west London.  There are about 250 pupils.  This school is multicultural, with about 25 nationalities including British.  The children in years 3/4 (ages 7 - 9) learn basic Spanish.  They were particularly interested in starting a link with our year 3 children who are 7/8 year olds and we decided to start a partnership with them last year school. Once again, we started with new students in year 3 and they are writing a letter to new students in England. They are so excited and we are sending the first letter for them pretty soon. 

Here you can get some information about Roehampton Church School:

http://connectedup.com/rcs/index.htm

Welcome Back once again!!

 We guess it is a little bit late to say ‘hello’ but, we could not update this blog earlier, things got complicated at school during the two first months this school year.

Even it is late, we welcome all students and staff at CEIP ‘Lope de Vega’ in 2012-13. We hope all of us have fun and learn a lot.  We will try to share with you all some of the English and bilingual activities that we have already done and we are doing at the school.

This year, we don’t have any American assistant teacher yet, and we don’t know if we will.