We have been so busy during last weeks that I have not had time to come here to the blog, all my excuses! I spend all my time caring for our little learners.
During these past weeks, children in the Orange Classhave been learning a lot about the Three Little Pigs.
We have read the story together and we watched a video with the story once we knew it. We have a lot of fun with this wolf on his car!
Our kids have also built their own three houses using the materials that we collected from our playground (straw, little sticks and some homemade «bricks» using playdough 😉).
We have also played many funny games related to the story and, of course, we sang and danced a lot!
We then started our following topic: parts of the body! They have learned a laaarge number of body and face parts and we have played many games with songs and flashcards. These kids are amazing!
They love to sing along these songs and dance and dance and dance!
Our Red Class had lots of fun today singing the Rainbow Colors and learning about Pete, a funky cat who loves to wear boots!
This past couple of weeks in the Orange, Red, and Green Classes, we have been working on different topics, such as: routines, class rules, emotions and now, the colors! Our little ones are very enthusiastic about English and love to sing along different songs.
Nuestra Clase Roja se divirtió mucho hoy cantando la canción del Arcoiris y aprendiendo sobre Pete, un gato al que le gusta llevar botas.
En las pasadas semanas, nuestros grupos de infantil han estado aprendiendo sobre temas variados como las rutinas, reglas de clase, emociones, y ahora los colores. Nuestros peques están llenos de entusiasmo cuando toca clase de inglés y disfrutan cantando diferentes canciones en dicho idioma.
Hello from the Foreign Department. This is Julia. I am going to be your English and French teacher this year and I am so excited to work with you!
Before, we go further, as the newest member of the language department at Alquería, I want to introduce myself. My name is Julia Aguilar and I am a native of Granada who has lived in the United States for more than a decade. I am so excited to be back in my hometown doing what I love most: teaching! I look forward to meeting all of my new students and their families. I will be teaching all the preschool classes and Year 1 and Year 2 English and French (Lindley will be co-teaching Year 2 ENG with me).
Watch this space to find out more about what we do in our foreign language classes!
See you soon,
Julia and Lindley
Hola desde el Departamento de Idiomas. Soy Julia. Quiero presentarme como maestra de idiomas para la clase naranja, la clase roja, y la clase verde, además de Primero y Segundo. ¡Estoy muy emocionada de trabajar con los niños y las niñas de estos cursos y con sus familias!
Además, como nueva incorporación en el departamento de idiomas, quiero presentarme. Mi nombre es Julia Aguilar, soy de Granada aunque viví en los Estados Unidos más de una década. Estoy muy emocionada de volver a mi ciudad natal haciendo lo que más me gusta: ¡enseñar! Espero conocer a todos mis nuevos estudiantes y sus familias. Enseñaré a todas las clases de infantil y Primero y Segundo en inglés y francés (Lindley será la co-docente de Year 2 ENG conmigo).
¡Consulta a menudo este blog para obtener más información sobre lo que hacemos en nuestras clases de idiomas extranjeros!
Hi everyone! First of all, I wanted to show you my apologies for not having updated the blog during the last days -as you already know, I’ve just arrived to the school and needed some lessons about how the blog works (thanks, Lindley and Isa!)
Now that I’ve learned some basic steps (hopefully I will get used to it as I practice with these first messages), let me talk to you about what we’ve been doing during these last two weeks in the Orange, Red and Green Class.
Orange Class
Starting every class with the greetings and some songs they already know (Hello Song, the Colours Song…) we played a lot with the colours, both in the classroom and in the park. Taking advantage of one of the pupils’ birthday, we also blew up some balloons and talked about their colours while dancing to the music. Every day, we’ve been talking about the weather and autumn. We simulated being some autumn elements (wind, leaves, squirrels, little frogs…)
One day, we went with Silvia for a walk to La Vega, and we learned how beautiful the autumn landscape can be!
The students will recognize this song:
Red Class
I was so happy to discover to what extent they already understand English! We’ve been learning some fruits and vegetables, playing withg the classroom toys («I want a tomato, please!») One day, we coloured some vegetables flashcards and they had to ask in English for the colour they wanted to use. Then, we made a presentation of their own «Fruit and vegetables flashcards» and they were so proud of them! They quickly said which fruit/vegetable it was and its colour («A brown potato«, etc.)
We also sang a lot and talked about the autumn and the weather (I am pretty sure that their favourite song this unit has been this one!):
Green Class
We’ve been mainly learning the parts of the body, also talking about the colours, the weather, and celebrating one of the pupils’ birthday!
They had real fun singing and dancing some body songs, but what they really loved is to play Simon Says while they learned some body parts and some actions related to them («Simon says ‘Touch your nose‘!, etc.)
This was their favourite song! (Our two bilingual pupils inherently invited the rest of the class to sing the «Here we go!» part, which was so enriching for everyone!):
I’ll be updating weekly from next week on, see you soon!
DEAR FAMILIES- PERDON POR SOLO PUBLICAR ESTA ENTRADA AHORA. PENSE QUE SE HABIA PUBLICADO JUSTO CUANDO ÁNGELA SU UNIÓ AL EQUIPO, PERO POR LO VISTO SE PUBLICÓ SÓLO EN LOS BLOGS DE INFANTIL. ASÍ QUE OS PIDO PERDÓN!
LINDLEY
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Dear families:
I am Ángela, the new English and French teacher in pre-school and early primary and I’m so glad to have the opportunity to teach your little ones!
As you may already know, this is my first year at Alquería, so I’m getting to know my little students and help them get used to their new teacher as soon as possible.
Thus (as you can imagine) last week has been a bit of a «restart» in language classroom, during which time we’ve been reviewing previous contents in English, especially the greetings song and introductions . I am quickly learning their names and a little bit of their amazing characters and personalities.
I’m eager to get to know them better as we move forward in October! I will post again soon and update you on what exactly we are working on in English and French class!
