Today in the yellow class we expanded our normal conversation about fruit and colors to include the ingredients in salad! Â It was very exciting to go to the dining room and make our own salad for lunch! First, we talked about the vegetables, their names and colors. Then we got to tear the lettuce up, and our teachers helped us cut tomatoes, carrots, and apples. Â We also added corn to our salad, and finally we dressed it with salt and olive oil. Â The best part was tasting each ingredient.
Here is a song about vegetables in English to continue to practice veggie names in English at home! Click on the salad below to hear the song.
I want to say a happy «Welcome back!» to the Yellow class!  It is so lovely to see everyone again and see how much every student  has grown!  We have had English class several times now, and as we get through the adaptation period, we are getting back to routines!  We have begun to share fruit again – mostly  apples and pears. Some students even remembered the words from last year!
We are also beginning our study of colors starting with yellow, and learning a rainbow song to practice all our colors.
The  «W.O.W.» or «Word of the Week» is a new initiative this year.  Each week in pre-school, we will post an English word for tutors, students and all specialists to use as much as possible with the children, instead of using the Spanish equivilent.  We started with please and thank-you, and this week the word is school!  We hope all the pre-school families will enjoy using some English words at home too, to reinforce the words  and demonstrate that language learning is natural part of life, not just something «academic» for school.
Keep reading here for news of what is happening in English class!
¡Quiero dar una feliz «Bienvenida de nuevo» a la clase amarilla! Estoy muy contenta de veros a todos de nuevo y de haber conocido los nuevos miembros de la clase.
Due to so many exciting happenings at school such as end of the year school trips, parties, bank holidays and Trinity exams, recently the English classes in the Yellow and Blue classes have been somewhat interrupted. Here is a link to a song to enjoy at home, so we can sing together again!
We have taken advantage of spring’s arrival and the celebration of «Book Week»  to discuss the animals duck and rabbit, the colors pink and orange, and the body parts bill and ears.Â
In class we read:Â
and then we made our own duck/rabbit puppets.  To make them the students had to ask for their duck/rabbit and the correct color: «pink, please» or «orange, please» for the bill or ears.
We hung up the final result today:
This is the first of several English class/Book Week activities!
Hemos aprovechado la llegada de la primavera y la celebración de la " Semana del Libro " para discutir si el animal en la portada del libro era un pato o un conejo , y los colores rosa y naranja , y los partes del cuerpo el pico y las orejas.
En la clase leÃmos "Duck! Rabbit! y luego hicimos nuestras propias marionetas pato / conejo . Para que los estudiantes lo realizaran, tuvieron que pedir su pato / conejo y el color correcto : " rosa, por favor" o "naranja , por favor " para colorear el pico y las orejas
