The ESL Times: October 2013

28 October 2013

Halloween VoiceMail

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22 October 2013

MY SUMMER HOLIDAYS BY YEAR 2B

MY SUMMER HOLIDAYS

BY YEAR 2B

Colegio San Gregorio.

At the beginning of the school years we wanted to start with our Portfolio we decided to tell everybody what we did along OUR SUMMER HOLIDAYS.

We drawn a picture about the thing we have liked the most of the holidays. Later, we learnt the past tense of the verb go. We wanted to put into words where we were and who were with us. So we write a sentence in our pictures using the past.

These have been our final products:

My summer holidays on PhotoPeach

We hope you liked it and if you want let’s do it with your students.

Javier Ramos Sancha

@javiramossancha

http://sgaguilarjramos.blogspot.com

17 October 2013

EUROPEAN DAY OF LANGUAGES AT CPR LOS CASTAÑOS

Hi, everybody.

CPR "Los Castaños" have celebrated the European Day of Languages through an Etwimming Project.

This project consists on an exchanges of "Greeting Cards" between the countries which are partners of it. These were written in the mother tongue and English.

Schools from most of European countries have taken part in it. We have received in Pitres cards from England, France, Portugal, Sweden, Island, Ukraine, Slovenia, Poland, Italy, Greece, Denmark, Ireland, etc.

After that, we have been working on looking for information about these countries and each pupil has done a small presentation to their partners of this country.

Of course, we have also sent our "Greeting Cards" to schools.

You could find the post in our classroom blog.

Greetings.

Alberto Molina Cervilla

8 October 2013

Who is to Blame for the USA Government Shutdown?

This week's Do Now focuses on the government shutdown… And this is the question, Who is to blame for the government shutdown?

At Do Now, they are featuring a great video from PBS NewsHour with lots of excellent classroom resources from NewsHour Extra, the Lowdown, and the New York Times. These resources can help students better understand the complexity of our government.

You can find this week's Do Now here:http://blogs.kqed.org/education/2013/10/04/who-is-to-blame-for-the-government-shutdown/

To respond to the Do Now, you can tweet your response. Be sure to begin your tweet with @KQEDedspace and end it with #DoNowShutdown

4 October 2013

EUROPEAN DAY OF LANGUAGES AT SAN GREGORIO SCHOOL

Year 5 students and their teacher have created an e-Twinning project to work on it along this school year. It is titled: "Celebrating Together" (You will find more information following the link)

In this project we are working together three european schools:

Our main aim with this project is to work on the calendar of International days. So each month we will have a special celebration of one chosen day. (European Day of Languages, International Day of the Enviroment, Day of Europe....).

The first activity was the celebration of THE EUROPEAN DAY OF LANGUAGES on the 26th September 2013. Here you can see the activity we did at San Gregorio School and which the teacher published in the own blogs:

This has been the final product of the activity at San Gregorio School.

Year 5A

Year 5B

This is the final product of the celebration which took place at Holy Trinity School in Inglaterra:

And this is the final product of the celebration which took place at Polish school:

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OF YOU.
IT'S A MARVELLOUS JOB!!

LET'S VISIT OUR WEBSITE FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE e-Twinning PROJECT.
"Celebrating together"

Julián Sanz Mamolar (@julisanzmamolar/Mi primer año en RedXXI)

Javier Ramos Sancha (@javiramossancha/ SGAguilar Javier Ramos)