The End in Sight

This week is the final round of C.E.I.P. Lope de Vega's second annual Spelling Bee.

The inter-school championship round will be held Thursday May 26th when the winners from each level will compete within their cycle for the title of All School Speller. In this year's Bee there will be a Spell-down between the winning students from La Roda de Andalucía and Casariche--may the best speller win!

Easter: Traditions and Where They Come From

If you want to learn more about American Easter traditions...or some new vocabulary in English to talk about Spanish Holy Week, check out this presentation!

Easter

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Happy Easter!

Our Holy Week vacations were rainy, but we've enjoyed our Easter celebrations to the fullest, here at C.E.I.P. Lope de Vega. We decorated eggs, colored pictures and even had an Easter egg hunt! Our auxiliar, Sara, created a great egg hunt with clues to help us find the eggs around the school...and of course practice our English prepositions. :) Nearly all the classes from third through sixth grade have had a chance to participate in this fun-filled American tradition.

All the participants received a certificate of participation.

Is this the Easter Bunny??!! (Thank you Sara!)

Can you find the egg in this picture?

Aunque pasamos una Semana Santa lluviosa, aquí en el centro hemos disfrutado al máximo de las fiestas de Pascua. Hemos decorado huevos, coloreado fichas y hasta hemos hecho una auténtica búsqueda de huevos de pascua al estilo americano gracias a nuestra auxiliar Sara. :) Así hemos podido disfrutar de una tradición típica de la Pascua americana a la vez que practicábamos el inglés.

Visitors :)

I would like to apologize for this tardy update: our visitors for the Comenious Green Globe project were here for four days in mid-March. We were very happy to receive them at our school. We had representatives from Ireland, France and Poland with us to exchange ideas about the Green Globe project, which is focused on the environment and sustainable use of our natural resources.

Our visitors came with us on the 6th grade field trip to the recycling facility in Estepa and they also got to see the 3rd grade performance of our play: Friends of the Forest. We hope their visit was as enjoyable for them as it was for us. :) And from our blog we wish you a Happy Easter and happy end of the school year.

Thanks for visiting!!

Primero, nuestras disculpas por la tardanza con este informe: nuestros visitantes del proyecto Comenious "Green Globe" estuvieron con nosotros unos cuatro días a mediados de marzo. Nos alegramos mucho de poder recibirles en nuestro centro. Vinieron de Irlanda, Francia y Polonia para intercambiar ideas, metodologías y técnicas en el desarrollo del proyecto "Green Globe" que trata del medio ambiente y el uso sostenible de nuestros recursos naturales.

Nos acompañaron en la excursión de 6º al centro de reciclaje en Estepa y también tuvieron la oportunidad de ver la obra de teatro, "Friends of the Forest", de 3º. Esperamos que disfrutaran tanto de su visita como nosotros y desde aquí les deseamos unas felices pascuas y un buen fin de curso.

Gracias por su visita!!

Second Annual Spelling Bee

This spring at CEIP Lope de Vega, the students are practicing their ABC's and brushing up on vocabulary for the Second Annual Spelling Bee. We've already finished the preliminary round and 113 students from 1st-6th grade have classified to participate in the oral spelling competition.

Congratualtions!

This year, we've made some changes to the contest. Rather than competing within our own center, we will compete with the bilingual primary school in La Roda de Andalucía, CEIP Manuel Siurot!

The students who qualified to participate in the oral competition will compete first with their classmates and finally with representatives from their cycle both from Casariche and La Roda. The next stage of the competition (orally, at the class level) will be held the first week after Semana Santa. And the final round of competition with students from La Roda will be held the second week in May.

We're looking forward to the competition and having the chance to test our skills with our neighbors Rodenses.

Good luck to everyone!

Esta primavera los alumnos de CEIP Lope de Vega están ensayando el abecedario y memorizando vocabulario en preparación para el "Spelling Bee", concurso de deletrear en inglés. Este año por segunda vez estamos organizando este concurso tan peculiar pero con algunos cambios. En vez de competir sólo con estudiantes de aquí del centro hemos invitado a nuestros vecinos de La Roda de Andalucía a participar también.

Así que en la segunda semana de mayo competirán alumnos de Casariche y del centro de primaria Rodense, CEIP Manuel Siurot para el título de "Best Speller!".

Mucha suerte a todos!

"No Somos Basura"

As part of the Comenuius Green Globe Project, the sixth grade took a field trip to the waste treatment facility for the Sierra Sur in Estepa. It was a smelly trip, but very interesting. Everything can be used and re-used...it's just a matter of finding out how.

Did you know that the garbage you throw away gets converted into fertilizer? Or that the plastics we recycle can become your winter coat? This is why recycling is so important--tell your parents and start recycling today!

Como parte del Proyecto Comenius de Green Globe, los alumnos de sexto fueron de excursión a la planta de reciclaje aquí de la Sierra Sur en Estepa. Fue una visita pestosa pero muy interesante. :) Todo los que usamos puede ser reutilizado...solo es cuestión de encontrar la manera de hacerlo.

¿Sabías, por ejemplo, que la basura orgánica que tiramos se convierte en abono para los campos? ¿Y sabías que el plástico que reciclamos puede llegar a convertirse en un ingrediente imprescindible de tu abrigo? Por esto, reciclar es tan importante--díselo a tus padres y empieza a reciclar hoy!

These are bales of pressed cardboard and paper.

This tractor is stirring the organic garbage to help natural bacteria break it down into fertilizer.

Here's were the different recyclable parts of our garbage get dumped. Can you tell the difference between the two piles of plastics? Not all plastics are created equal. ;)

We learned a lot...even if we had to cover our noses!

Día de Andalucía

Happy Andalusia Day!

The students at C.E.I.P Lope de Vega celebrated Andalusia Day this past Thursday, February 24 although the real day is the 28th of February. Students from the third cycle (5th and 6th grade) prepared poetry readings, a short theater performance, traditional Andalusian songs and dances and even an original chirigota for carnival, all performed in Casariche's newly reformed municipal theater. We all enjoyed watching our fellow students in this very original celebration of Andalusia.

Aside from the fantastic performance, the students of sixth grade C prepared a museum of Andalusian antiques. Here are some of the pictures from this beautiful exposition of yesteryear.

Enjoy!