Breathe

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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. 

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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 

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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

Tongue Twisters

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Children at 4th year worked some tongue twisters in a lesson and they studied and learned them at home.  Next day, they said these tongue twisters in the classroom and here you are the result.  It's never easy to learn tongue twisters, especially in a foreign language.  But I think they did a great job! Click on the names to watch their videos and have fun!

Helena, Elisabeth, Carla, María, Yassir, Rayan, Soraya, Izan, Edgar, Sílvia, Mariona, Paco, Alex, Biel, Sara, Julio, Marina, Ainhoa, Brian, Orlando, Joel, Paula, Yasmin. 

Well done kids!

One moment around the world

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Children at 3rd year are learning how to tell the time. That's the reason why I am proposing this activity to help them watching a video and filling in an activity I gave them in the classroom.  Please, click on the picture below to access the web where you can enjoy this video.  Have fun!

P5 Alphabet

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Here you are our little P5 kids singing the ABCs along with India and Elmo by Sesame Street.  I promise you they just LOVE it! And I have a lot of fun with them all.  Fancy a look? Click on the picture below and enjoy it!

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!

The House that Jack Built, by Aliona

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Aliona delighted her classmates and teacher with this storytelling activity in an English lesson.  She had prepared this popular nursery rhyme at home with her mum, and she had even drawn the different stages of the story.  Once at school, she asked me for permission to carry out the activity and ... I couldn't say no! 

Routines at P3

Little kiddies at P3 keep on learning day by day.  Routines are a basic for them to remember vocabulary, so here you are a video where you can watch a sample of a warming-up activity.  Click on the picture and have fun with them, at least as much as they do! 

Ready'o? Let's go!

Pony Boy by P4

P4 students are here to delight you with their own version of Pony Boy, lullaby written by Bruce Springsteen.  This is one of the songs we sing at the end of every lesson to chill out before saying good bye.  And after a year and a half at Escola ARCE, it seems they have learnt it quite well.  Fancy watching the video and singalong? Let's go!

PS: Focus on the children and forget about the poor singing qualities of the teacher.

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.  

Hello, good morning!

"Hello, good morning! How are you today?" 

Here you are the first words students listen when I enter the classroom. And after some time practicing their answer, they have finally completed the process of learning it. That is to say, now they say "Hello, good morning! I'm fine, thanks!" 

Now it's time for you to watch them and let them practise at home ... are you ready? Let's go!

2013 Christmas carols at ARCE

Once more, Christmas is coming and we are working some Christmas carols in English at school.  Students are listening to these popular carols in the English lessons and believe it or not, they are learning them and having a lot of fun.  So, here you are these carols so you can listen and karaoke them at home all together.  Have fun and ... Merry Christmas!

Infantil       O Christmas Tree
1st year     White Christmas

2nd year    When Santa Got Stuck Up the Chimney

3rd year     Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

4th year     Rocking Around the Christmas Tree (English and Catalan)

5th year     Jingle Bells

6th year     Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

6th year     Six White Boomers (Complementària)

A Christmas Carol

Students at Cicle Superior went to Teatre Bartrina last Tuesday 10th December to watch A Christmas Carol, based in the novel with the same title by Charles Dickens.

This is one the most famous and popular works by this English writer, who is at the same time, one of the most important writers in the English language.  

Here you can see a few pictures of our students at the theatre and if you click on the title of the play above, you will be able to enjoy a short version of the same work in a video. 

Animals sounds

6th year students have worked in animals sounds today on their Fridays Workshop.  They have listened to Ylvis song The Fox (What Does the Fox Say?) and have learnt what sounds different animals do in English, but couldn't guess the sound of the fox ... can you?

Enjoy this funny video and have fun!

The Alphabet

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Hi everyone! Today I am bringing you a couple of activities to learn and practise THE ALPHABET.  I am sure that children at Cicle Inicial will enjoy the video and the game below.  Click on the pictures and have fun with ABC's!

Days of the week

What's the date today?
There you are one of the questions in an everyday lesson start.  3rd year pupils are learning and practising a lot these days on the Days of the Week.  So let's help them with a song to remember and learn them.  Let's sing along!

You can always remember these other entries at this same blog ...

... choose, learn and have fun!

The Alphabet

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2nd year pupils are learning the alphabet, and they are doing a great job.  Here you are a link to a website where your children will be able to listen and repeat the letters.  I am sure they will improve a lot with it, so I will not waste more time and let you practise with them.  A - B - C ... let's go!

ABC...

This is a post not only for the kiddies, but also for everybody at home. Spelling is quite important in the English language, so knowing the Alphabet is essential. There are many strategies and techniques to learn anything by core, and music is one of them.
Here you are a video of Sesame Street where Elmo gets some company to sing the ABCs. I wish you like it as much as I do! Turn up your speakers and sing along with Elmo. Just click on the image and ... A B C, A B C ...

Papa Please Get The Moon For Me

Today I would like to share with all of you a video based on the book by Eric Carle, Papa Please Get Me The Moon For Me. It is very emotive an easy to understand for everybody, regardless your level of English. Turn up the volume of your computer, listen carefully to the narrator, and let the music flow through your senses. Papas, please, get the moon for you children. Children, don't forget to say thank you.


Click on the image on the right to watch the video.