Sixth Annual Spelling Bee

This spring at CEIP Lope de Vega once again, the students are practicing their ABC's, and brushing up on vocabulary for the Sixth Annual Spelling Bee. We've already finished the preliminary round and 80 students from 2th-6th grade have classified to participate in the oral spelling competition.

Congratualtions!

Why so many kids cannot sit still in school today

The Centers fo Disease Control tell us that in recent years there has been jump in the percentage of young people diagnosed with Attenton Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder, commonly known as ADHD. The reasons for the rise are multiple.

In the following post, Angela Hanscom, a pediatric suggests yet another reason: the amount of time kids are forced to sit while they are in school. 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2014/07/08/why-so-many-kids-cant-sit-still-in-school-today/

Lope de Vega working on Spelling Bee

All-School Spelling Bee


As part of our Europe Day celebrations, the students of C.E.I.P. Lope de Vega are practicing their ABC's and brushing up on vocabulary to prepare for the Sixth Spelling Bee Competition.

There will be contests first at the class level, then in each cycle (first and second grade, third and fourth, fifth and sixth), and finally we will hold a competition with the Primary School in Herrera. Then, we will decide the school spelling champion to commemorate the Europe Day.

Stay tuned for updates on the Spelling Bee!

Put your Clothes On

Dressing is an important but sometimes challenging skill for children to learn. You can lay the groundwork when your child is a baby, then build on it over the next few years. 

Learning to dress requires patience, persistence and practice from both you and your child. 
It also involves getting to know the things you have to do to get dressed:

• picking out clothes that are right for the time of day, the weather and what you are doing that day - the tutu might not be the best thing for a bushwalk!
• deciding what to wear - the dinosaur t-shirt or the truck t-shirt today?
• putting on and taking off clothes and shoes.
• doing up buttons or zips, getting collars and waistbands, and getting socks on the right way around.

Step by step

Getting dressed can have a lot of steps. It helps to break it down into smaller steps -- for example, putting on underwear, then t-shirt, shorts, socks and shoes.

A good way to teach your child to dress is to break each task down into small steps and teach him the last step first. Once he can do the last step of the task, teach him the second laststep, then the third last step and so on. For example, when putting on shorts, you might help your child face the shorts the right way, hold the waistband and put his legs through the leg holes. Then teach him the last step -pulling up the shorts to his waist by himself. Once your child can do this, teach him to put his legs through the leg holes and pull his shorts up. You can keep working your way backwards through the steps until your child has mastered them all and can put his shorts on for himself.

A big advantage of this approach is that often the most rewarding thing about a task is getting it finished -- and your child gets to this reward sooner when she masters the last step first.

When your child can almost dress himself (usually from three years and up), you can check whether he understands the steps by asking. 'What is the first thing you need to put on?' If he can't remember, you can help get him started by reminding him.

http://raisingchildren.net.au/articles/getting_dressed.html

Put your clothes on song

Quick, quick, it's getting cold
Put your jumper on. (coat, scarf, socks, boots)

Quick, quick, it's getting hot
Put your shorts on (T-shirt, shoes, sandals)

St. Patrick's Day

Hope you all had a very happy St. Patrick's Day.

Spelling Bee Competition

A Spelling Bee is a competition in which contestants are asked to spell a broad selection of words, usually with a varying degree of difficulty. The concept is thought to have originated in the United States, and spelling bee events, along with variants, are now also held in some other countries around the world. 

A spelling bee at an elementary school, with a speller addressing an audience and a judge, with a table of contestants behind them.

Historically, the word BEE has been used to describe a get-together where a specific action is being carried out, like a husking bee, a guilting bee, or an apple bee. 'Bee' is derived from the Old English word bēn , meaning 'prayer'.

Frank Louis Neuhauser (1913-2011) was born to German American parents. His father, a stonemason, worked on spelling with his son on weekends if the weather was bad. Newhauser became an American patent lawyer and spelling bee Champion, who won the first National Spelling Bee in 1925 by successfully spellingthe word 'gladious'. Today, the bee is know as the Scripps National Spelling Bee. As well as covering the 50 U.S. states, several competitiors also come from Canada, the Bahamas, New Zealand and Europe. 

Favourite Dates in March and April

Please, take a look at what the students in Sixth Grade decided about  their favourite dates in the months of March and April. As we said in September, they 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 7th and 8th months of the school year below and this is what they said about, they are very interesting.