People from History

6th year students have been learning the Past Simple during the last month, and to put this grammar issue into practice, the have worked in a project about people👫 who were important in the history of humanity.  They read📖

about some historical characters in the classroom and took them as models to carry out this individual activity at home🏡.  The English lessons became History lessons, so we all learnt more about who invented television📺, who explored the South Pole🌎, who climbed the Everest 🌄for the first time or how Marco Polo travelled🐴 to China.  All in all, a nice trip into the past, and back.

Breathe

Hi there!👋

Here you are an interesting video📹 about how children describe their emotions and feelings😃😒😖😡, and how they manage to control them.  It is very descriptive, and it can help us think on how we deal with our emotions and feelings, too.  And how we manage to control them, as well. 

click→BREATHE←click

St Valentine's Day

Hi there!

St Valentine's Day is around the corner and you can feel it as love💖 is in the air, or wind🌀, as it happens in our hometown.  Adults celebrate this date, and children keep on asking❓ about it.  So, do you know the story? Here you are a brief explanation children👱👱👱👱👱 at Cicle Superior are going to work in, to learn the origin of this traditional festivity💝.  

Love XXX

Teacher

Jingle Bells by 5th year

5th year students would like to wish Merry Christmas🎄 with a popular carol.  They learned and performed Jingle Bells🔔 and here you are the result.  You can see a couple of videos📹, the "making of" and the "official" one.  Merry Christmas everyone!🎅

👉Jingle Bells (making of)

👉Jingle Bells (official)

Merry Christmas 

and 

Happy New Year

2017 

Christmas Carols 2016

Children at Primary Education are singing English Christmas Carols 🎄these days at school, as Christmas holidays🎅 are around the corner.  Here you can find these carols for them to practise at home🏠.  Sing along and have fun!🎉

1st Year   Oh Christmas Tree

2nd Year  When Santa Got Stuck Up the Chimney

3rd Year  Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

4th Year  Santa Claus Is Coming To Town

5th Year  Jingle Bells

6th Year  Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

Recipes

Hi there!

Children at 5th year would like to invite you to a delicious menu at ARCE's restaurant.  They recently worked on food and recipes and today they have finished "My recipes" project.  It hangs up on a wall in the school's dining room for all the customers to have a look at.  Enjoy your meal!

Shopping list

Hello everybody!👋

5th year students are learning about food, recipes, healthy habits🍎 and junk food🍟.  I'm sure that most of them help their parents with the shopping list at supermarkets🏢.  Well done!👏  If not, they can practice with the next game, as well as they learn or remember some of the vocabulary studied in the lessons. 

The aim of the game is to put all the elements from the shopping list📝in the supermarket trolley.  Players have 60 seconds⏰ to do it, so hurry up! Read the instructions by clicking in the "How to play" notebook📕 next to the till💻at the desk.  Have fun and shop💶!

Ready-o? Let's go!

Spooky Cookie Lesson

Once more, a Spooky Cookie lesson has been done ... and eaten! This time, both 5th and 6th year students created spooky biscuits and horror cakes, as well as they had a great time working in groups sharing ingredients and ideas.  You can enjoy some of their creations by clicking on the picture.  Happy Halloween!

Escola ARCE Pedala

Hi there!

Once more, ARCE Pedala week was here and both children and teachers had a great time , surrounded by bikes, literally!

In the English lessons, children had the opportunity to experience cycling clothes and complements, real material provided by an enthusiastic teacher who is a bike addict.  I hope you enjoy the pictures as much as I did when taking them.  Bike safe!

Educació Infantil

Cicle Inicial

Cicle Mitjà

 

Cicle Superior

Animal Project

6th year students have carried out a project about animals.  They have searched for information about an animal they had previously chosen.  Then, they have written a description and to finish with, they have exposed their project.  And that last part is what we are showing you all in this post.  

Please, feel free to click on the names to enjoy our animal experts videos. Grrrrr!!!!

Borja, Santi, Júlia, Iker, Abril, Deborah, Ángel, Eric, Aina, Rubén, Paula, Alba, Dorian, Sandra, Roger, Elsa, Naiara, Maria, Laura, Andrea, Lucía, Juan, Laia.

P.S.: Most of the boys and girls in this group have been my students for the last 9 years. Others, have joined ARCE school along Primary Education.  In a few days, they are going to put an end to all these years together and they are going to start ESO.  It's been a pleasure having you all, teaching you English and guiding you on these first years at school.  Thanks to all of you.  All the best!

Shark in the Park

One of our 6th grade students offered her classmates a great storytelling time.  I have to say storytelling is not an easy activity to carry out.  To act out the story at the same time it is read or explained, so that the listeners enjoy and understand what it is all about, is a difficult task.  

I invite you to watch the video clicking on the picture that goes along with this text and enjoy as much as we did in the classroom with this hilarious and funny story called "Shark in the park" by Nick Sharratt.  

Spooky Cookie Lesson

6th year students took a SPOOKY COOKIE LESSON last Thursday to celebrate Halloween.  They brought biscuits, cookies, chocolate creams, jams, toppings, and anything they liked.  The aim of the lesson was to make their own Halloween desserts with products we all have in the kitchen at home.  We all had fun creating spiders with Oreo biscuits and Mikado chocolate sticks, or decorating Maria biscuits so that they ended up being spiders ... here you are some examples.

HAAALLOOOOWEEEEEEEEEN!!!!

hEllO EvErybOdy!

hAllOwEEn Is hErE. 

yOU knOw It Is thE nIght Of thE spIrIts sO yOU'd bEttEr bE cArEfUl.  

ghOsts, mOnstErs, vAmpIrEs, spIdErs, bAts, wItchEs, skElEtOns And OthEr hOrrOr crEAtUrEs ArE ArOUnd.

stAy At hOmE.

dOn't gO OUt Of yOUr hOUsEs.

swItch On yOUr cOmpUtErs And...

plAy!!!!!

Keep calm and ... ride safe!

Here you are a couple of videos of riding bikes.  The first one is made by a professional and you are not recommended to try his tricks.

The second video is about the rights and the duties of cyclists.  It is a video based in the USA traffic rules, but for sure we can apply many of them here in our country.  

I hope you enjoy the videos and ride your bikes as much as you can, always safe and right.  Have fun!

Parts of the bicycle

G'day bikers!

Last year, I propose an activity an online game called "Parts of the bicycle" which you can still visit on this blog by clicking on the link above.  

Today I want to show you a couple of videos where you can learn the parts of a bicycle.  They are easy to follow, as you can read or listen to the vocabulary.

Have a quick view to them  and ... go to ride your bikes!

BMX video games

Hi there!

I know you liked last year's bicycle video games.  So, here you are a couple of games about bikes and tricks.  Read the instructions to learn how to play the games, and have a lot of fun doing impossible tricks and crazy stunts.  Are you ready? Pedal power!

PARENTS : HELP YOUR CHILDREN WHEN PLAYING ONLINE VIDEO GAMES.  

PARES: AJUDEU ELS VOSTRES FILLS A JUGAR A JOCS PER INTERNET.

Time for reading ... Stories

Reading is a great activity.  It helps us learning a lot of things, it lets us discover , it takes us to wonderful worlds.  Click on the picture next to this text to find a bunch of stories that children (and parents!) can read or listen to.  Read out loud!!!

Art Attack!

Hello!

I have no doubts you all know the TV programme Art Attack. It has been on for ages.  Now, you have the chance to work out the art attacks in English.  Do you dare? Go for it and have fun!

Have a look at this videos website ...

    Hi there! Look what I have found! There is a video website called Kideos (Videos for Kids) where you can watch a lot of videos in English from your favourite cartoon films and series. 

  Parents, there is also a Parental Control label at the top right corner of the website that can help you out to rule the time and the age of the children who are the videos adressed to.

    I am quite sure everybody at home is going to love it and have great times together.  One, two, three, go!

Grammar Games

When working with grammar, some children get bored and lose motivation and therefore, attention.  In order to fight boredom, here you are a whole bunch of grammar games to practise, work and have a great time.  Please, help yourselves through the pages at this brilliant site and play grammar!