Happy Thanksgiving Day!!!!

Each year on the fourth Thursday in november, Americans gather for a day of feasting, football and family. While today's Thanksgiving celebrations would likely be unrecognizable to attendees of the original 1621 harvest meal, it continues to be a day for Americans to come together around the table - albeit with some updates to pilgrim's menu.

The Mayflower

The American Natives

 The Pilgrims

The Colonies

Then and Now

The Parade

http://www.plimoth.org/learn/MRL/read/thanksgiving-history

This article explores the development of our modern holiday. For information on food at the First Thanksgiving, go to Partakers of our Plenty. For additional children's resources on Thanksgiving, you might want to view Scholastic's Virtual Field Trip to Plimoth Plantation, explore our Online Learning Center, or visit our Homework Help page. If you'd like to join us for Thanksgiving dinner, please visit our Thanksgiving Dining and Special Events page.



That was the way how children in Lope de Vega worked about one of the most popular Festivals in America:

-They thanked for so many different things that they have as children.
-They made cards with drawings about the Festival.
-They looked for recipes of typical food that Americans eat on Thanksgiving Day.

Physical and non-physical activities

Fifth Grade Students worked on a final activity about how much physical activities they usually do at their weekends. And that what they wrote and drew:

Colours and Weather

Rain, rain, go away
come again another day
Sun is out, out, out
high in the sky.  ( A version of  the Song, by www.dreamenglish.com)

Five year old children asked the rainbow about its colours:

Rainbow, rainbow...
What colour are you?
I am blue.  (yellow, green, pink, purple, orange, red)


We wanted to play with the colours to review the vocabulary so we played with another version:

Rainbow, rainbow...
What colour are you missing?
I am missing .... (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, pink)

Another day we sang the song that say:

The Rainbow colour song
Red, ... orange,... yellow, ... green, ... blue, ... purple, ... pink.
It's a rainbow, it's a rainbow.
A beautiful rainbow in the sky.

( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRNy2i75tCc)  

Children worked on a worksheet by colouring a rainbow. We did some games of memory and they had to find out where the position of the different colours was in the rainbow.

What they don't know yet is that they are going to find a treasure at the end of the rainbow. It is going to be a very nice surprise!!!!

Our Favourite Dates in November and December

As we said, Sixth Grade Group worked in the English Lesson on their favourite dates all along the year. Each one talked to their classmates and their teacher about some of their favourite dates. We have posted the month of November and December and this is what they said about, it was hilarious.

All about me!!!

Well, the students of 5th Grade have been working on how to explain about themselves, all about their likes, dislikes, their family, the way that they look and so on. And these are some examples of what they did:

Songs and Games for Weather and Clothes

Five year old kids are working about weather and clothes topics and they are learning these concepts with different songs and games with flashcards. We made up a song for that topic in the time that they were learning the vocabulary by trying to find out the name of the flashcards. And that is what the song says:

Song:

Look through the window
what do we need?
It's cold  (warm, hot, rainy, snowy)
I need
a scarf for me. (coat, boots, hat, jumper)

 

Halloween 2014 (This Blog got behind with Halloween but our School was on TIME!!!)

We Celebrated Halloween

A little bit of the story of Halloween:

Many americans celebrate Halloween on October 31. Celebrations include costume parties and trick-or-treating.

Halloween celebrations include costume parties where people dress as witches, ghosts, and animal figures associated with Halloween, or as fictitious characters from horror films, television shows or books. Costume parties are often held at people’s homes, a hired venue, or venues that are supposedly haunted.

Many schools around the world, including international schools, celebrate Halloween by hosting costume parades and award prizes for creative costumes. Schools also provide fun classroom activities such as bobbing for apples, Halloween-themed coloring or drawing contests, and other games associated with Halloween. Students also learn about the observance’s origins and history.

Many children dress in costumes and form groups that are accompanied by adults to embark on a trick-or-treating adventure. This activity involves children knocking on doors in their local neighborhood and requesting a trick or treat. Some people give out treats while others request a trick, which often involves children presenting a small joke or trick. Many homes are decorated to fit the Halloween theme during this period. Decorations include fake cobwebs, jack-o-lanterns and images of black cats or witches.

http://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/us/halloween

Lope de Vega school didn't want to miss Halloween Celebration this year again. So there were so many different activity that were done with the students. 

The doors of the buliding were covered with scary  faces:

Teachers were wearing spooky hats on Hallowen Celebration:

And a frightening play went on to perform on stage on Halloween Day, October 31st.

The children made chilling spells:

Teachers drew some kinds of ghastly posters:

              We will see you again,......next HALLOWEEN!!!