The caterpillars need to eat mulberry leaves but… where are the mulberry trees?
Rovellons walked around Vilanova analysing the trees. We looked at the shape of the leaves, the color and the edges to recognise mulberry. Rovellons discovered that, in Joan Margall School there are a lot of Mulberry leaves. Then Jordi reminded us of the name of the high school: PLA DE LES MORERES. Of course, MORERES is MULBERRY in Spanish!
Last week Matildes had a surprise… They received a letter from a student in the High school! To be able to answer the letter, they learned the typical expressions to write a letter in English like “It was great to hear from you”, “all the best”, “how are things” or “XOXO”. With the list of expressions at hand and with the help of the dictionary and a checklist, all Matildes wrote their letters. It was quite an experience!
Following the work started in Martamatiques, Petits Prínceps learned how to give directions to move around the school. They learned the vocabulary and they started giving directions to their partners. It was fun! Can you do it?
YOU ARE IN PETITS PRINCEPS CLASSROOM. TURN LEFT AND GO STRAIGHT ON. GO DOWN THE STAIRS AND GO STRAIGHT ON. TURN LEFT ON THE SECOND DOOR. IT’S NEXT TO THE TEACHER’S MEETING ROOM. WHERE ARE YOU?
Rovellons had a surprise the other day… In the box there were 42 caterpillars! They were very happy and intrigued. Rovellons used magnifying lenses to observe the caterpillars and draw them. With the picture ready, they used the correct words from a list to write a text about caterpillars. The caterpillars are colour white (more greyish) and they eat mulberry leaves. Do you know what mulberry is? Ask Rovellons they know!
Petits Prínceps discovered that in USA and Great Britain the 1st of April is a very special day… it is April Fool’s day! It is a day about jokes and having fun. Everybody celebrates it! Newspapers usually invent articles on this day…
Reading joke articles, Petits Princeps discovered that sometimes it is difficult to say if an article is real or fake. We talked about the fake news that are on the internet everyday (not just in Arpil Fool’s) and discovered some techniques to discover fake news: check the author and the date, investigate the origin of the article (is it from a serious newspaper or organization?)…
It is very easy to create a fake article and they even created their own fake ones!
Tintins really liked the play in English and, specially, the catwalk part. They were so excited about it that they decided to organize their own catwalk in class. In order to do that, they learned how to talk about the clothes they are wearing doing different reading and speaking activites. Do you want to see the models in Tintins? Just click on the link!
Reading is a very good way to enjoy while learning a new language. Tanits are discovering it is very different to read in English but that they can understand it and have a good time! In the reading moments there are some English books available and they can read them alone or with the help of the English teacher who helps reading the story out loud.
The 29th of february, we watched the play “Robin, princess of the hoods” and now it was the turn to give the opinion about it. Students had to write a text! They thought it was difficult but, with some scaffolding, they discovered it is very easy to write in English. By the way, nearly all of the students said they really liked the show!
We are very excited because we are going to have a pet butterfly!
We are investigating pets and to learn about what it means to have a pet…
What pet can we have in the class? Rovellons thought that insects are small and can be in a cage. The question was… What insect? After talking about it we decided that the best insects were LADYBIRDS, STICK INSECTS, LEAF INSECTS and BUTTERFLIES. Then Rovellons voted (writing the name in English). After counting the votes we can say…
Rovellons will have pet butterflies!
