Peace Day - Childrens work

Keep it Clean, Keep it Green!

In the school we ran a campaign about awareness of keeping the school tidy, how to look after the grounds and where our rubbish should go... we learnt a choice phrase from New Zealand

"Keep it Clean, Keep it Green" 

We discussed with the children what this saying means, in essence, if you look after nature and your environment it´ll stay natural and green (as it should be!)

The children all made posters and did an amazing job - they are decorated around the school halls. 

Have a look at just some of them:

 

PEACE DAY 30 Jan 2013

Hello!
Well we are all back into it and ready to speak English for 2013!
On the 30 Jan was Peace Day and we spoke about peace in the classroom, what it means and words associated with Peace.
We wrote Peace accrostic poems, here are some from the wonderful students:

Peace is in all the world

Everyone respects each other

And there is no war

Countries are friends

Earth is kind, be kind to the earth

Peace

Everyone has hope

And friends

Caring and loving

Everyone is free

Peace is beautiful

Education is important

And so is love

Countries don´t have war

Everyone is free

Peace means no violence

Everyone is the same

And ther is no evil

Countries don´t have war

Everybody is free

A New Zealand Christmas tale

In the last weeks of school we read a New Zealand Christmas tale - which is an adaptation to the Christmas song "A Partridge in a Pear Tree" 

Have a read below and enjoy!

 

 

 

A Merry Christmas and Oragami Hearts

As a last activity with the kids we made oragami hearts, for christmas decorations or to give as a gift, we had a lot of fun... MERRY CHRISTMAS everyone!

Short week!

This week is a short week and in the classes we have talked about ....

Finding differences in the pictures... can you spot them?



 

We started talking about....

CHRISTMAS!

 

And we listened to a great christmas carol, Rudolf the Red Nose Reindeer.

Listen to the different versions below and tell me what is your favourite one!

 

 

 

Have a nice weekend and Merry Christmas!

 

The Seasons

This week we talked about the seasons.

First we did a puzzle about the seasons

Winter is in December, January and Februrary

Spring is in March, April and May

Summer is in June, July and August

and Autumn is in September, October, November

I asked the children what their favourite season is and why.

Then we looked at the distance between New Zealand and Spain, and we compared the seasons in New Zealand to Spain, it is VERY far away and all the seasons are the OPPOSITE!

Look at the map:

In New Zealand it is Summer in December, January and February 

In New Zealand it is Autumn in March, April and May 

In New Zealand it is Winter in June, July and August 

In New Zealand it is Spring in September, October, November 

 So as you can see it is all the opposite! 

We had a listen to a great song about the seasons, we talked about the "Fall" which is the same as Autumn.

In America they say "Fall" because what falls in Autumn? The leaves from the trees!

Here is the song:

On 25 December it is CHRISTMAS, and here in Spain it is WINTER.

But in New Zealand it is SUMMER!

So on Christmas day, we go to the beach and are outside in the sun.

Santa gets hot when he comes to New Zealand so sometimes he goes to the beach:

And sometimes Santa goes surfing!!!