Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas to everyone!

WORKSHOP "LET'S PLAY WITH US"

Our workshop about board games "Let's Play with Us" has finished for this term!!!
                                                                                                                                                           

SCHOOL 4 SCHOOL

This year a team of teachers is going to participate again in an exchanging programme among three schools from Valladolid.

How exciting!!!!   

     

GUSTAV KLIMT IN EL VILLAR

Gustav Klimt was a painter born in Austria in 1862.
He did not like traditional art but he loved European modern art, especially Art Nouveau.
One of his most famous paintings is "THE KISS".

Let's have a look at our Klimt artists in "El Villar School"...    









by sixth graders

A CANADIAN HALLOWEEN!!!!!!

A CANADIAN HALLOWEEN!!!!!!

Lidia has already sent us another wonderful post for our school about her Halloween experience. Let´s read her news :

Howdy y'all!

Last time I wrote to tell about a singular celebration here in America, Thanksgiving. 

Now my update is about something you guys celebrate in Spain as well. 

Yep. Halloween here is so much fun. People take it very seriously. 

Most of the houses are decorated with carved pumpkins, spider-webs and spooky stuff in general. Some people take more time than others haha.

Even the people that stay home dress up like a whole lot of different things which includes not just scary things but superheroes, food (yes, dressing up your dog as a wiener-dog is a fact) and in general just characters from movies and books.

And they give really good treats!

Apart from my fun trick-or-treating night with the internationals we had different activities.

On Halloween almost everybody wore a costume to school (even the teachers) and it was a really good mood. 

There was a costume contest, a free meal for everyone and a candy-throw from the balcony by courtesy of the leadership team (which is the one that always organizes all this kind of public activities at school). 

The previous week there was a Halloween Dance at the High school (for the first year) that was so much fun and a Spook Trail two days before that.

Late in the afternoon the school was all decorated on the inside like a haunted house and the people organizing it were dressed up really scary ready to give us all afraid for 2 dollars!

I had enough of creepy time as well in the Zombie Manor, a profesional haunted Hause atraction in the City of Moncton. I went there with my host-mum and my friends and we had a hard time going through all the different rooms but it was quite worthy!

And our caring and loving coordinator of the international students organized a trip to the Corn Maze in a town nearby called Salisbury. 

It was so much fun, people kept suddenly jumping out from in between the corn and they would even try to chase you with a chainsaw (fake one obviously hehe) 

We didn't take any day off from school during Halloween but that's okay because I had a lot of fun. 

I'll try to send you some photos you can post on the blog but you can just show them in class if not. 

Next update will be about Remembrance day which is coming up soon and the great event at high school: the spring musical.

I hope you all had a great Halloween! 

AT SCHOOL

In Year 2 we're learning about school. We revised the classroom objects. We learnt the actions you can do at school and now we´re studying the SCHOOL ROOMS.

LEARNING TOYS!

Learning known and new toys for 1st grade!!!

WHAT A FUNNY DAY!!

INTERACTING  THEATER COMPANY

We had fun and we learned a lot thanks to the theater company Interacting!!!

Toys

1st) grade are learning some vocabulary Toys.
Do you Know everything?

Halloween Song

Let´s sing "Knock, knock Trick or Treat?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jxcWlq3CBg

HALLOWEEN RECIPES

Hi everyone!


As there is little time for the most terrifying party of the year: Halloween,
in the following link you can find some fun and easy recipes
to do these days with the smallest of the house.

We hope you enjoy preparing them.

HALOWEEN CONTEST: DARE TO CREATE

We invite everybody to participate 

in our great Halloween Craft Contest 2018.

SOME MORE NEWS FROM LIDIA!!

Lidia has already sent another interesting mail narrating how her days are going in Canada.

I was atonished with the day they celebrateThanksgiving, it´s in OCTOBER!!!!!!

Diffferent from the States....

Anyway let´s now more about this canandian

celebration.

CLASSROOM IN NATURE

Last week year 5 students had the chance of participating in a full inmersion programme in Espinosa de los Monteros. The programme consists of environmental lessons in the English language. Something new we learnt has to do with the 8’Rs’, we could observe how everybody 24 hours a day and 7days a week showed respect to the environment and cared for its protection.

A GREAT FORMER STUDENT!!

A GREAT FORMER STUDENT!!
In our school we are sometimes visited for former students who miss partners, teachers...definitely looking back on  old, good memories. Lidia is one of these students who always have a hello to El Villar teachers  once in a while.
Last time she was in, we were surprised with this wonderful piece of new: "I got an Amancio Ortega grant and I will be travelling to Canada soon".

 Do you want to know more abour her? Click on read more:

OUR SENSES!

Humans have five basic senses: touch, sight, hearing, smell and taste. The sensing organs associated with each sense send information to the brain to help us understand and perceive the world around us.

STARTING SCHOOL!

This is fun! We are big children now and we are in our Physical Education class!

BRAIN GAMES

It's known the power of our brain but...have you ever challenged it?

WELCOME TO SCHOOL!

Next Monday a new school year starts and your English teachers are waiting for you.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!

CHILDREN'S ANIMAL MANDALAS

Animal mandalas range from simple designs featuring cute little puppies and kittens that appeal to children, to detailed works of art ripe with spiritual symbolism. As an artistic tool for children, animal mandalas can supplement learning and provide an outlet for creative expression. 

OUR SIXTH BIKE WEEK!

OUR SIXTH BIKE WEEK!

How time passes ... It seems like yesterday and we're already on the sixth "Bike Week"!

ULTIMATE FRISBEE

ULTIMATE FRISBEE

Summer is coming! So it´s time to practice a new sport: Ultimate. 

But, what is Ultimate?

BIKE WEEK 2018

Bike Week is a yearly international event that originated in Europe. It is typically a seven-day event that advocates bicycling for transportation. The event has been steadily gaining popularity in the European Union cities over the past decade.

REDUCE, REUSE, RECYCLE IN SCHOOL: e-TWINNING PROJECT

The fourth, fifth and sixth graders have been working hard these last two terms to continue with our eTwinning European Project: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle in School.

The 4th graders made posters showing us how to take care of the environment. They are awesome!!!

The 5th graders interviewed some teachers about what, when, how and who recycles in our school. They did a great job!!!

The 6th graders were interviewed by our conversation helper, Bill. They enjoyed it and had fun!!!  

Have a look!

SEE YOU SOON BILL!!

Will he be back at school next course? We don´t know it for sure but we hope he can continue carrying on different projects and jobs.

VISUAL THINKING

During this school year, the 4th graders are making their own mind maps, comics... and using visual thinking strategies for summarising, studying and remembering.
They are having fun while learning and improving their marks, specially in Sciences areas.
Here you are some examples:
(CLICK on the image to enlarge)