Once children are confident using the language orally, they must start reading in order to fully master English. Learning to read in English, though, is quite different. Since the children can already read in Catalan and Spanish, they can activate different strategies to be able to get the meaning of different messages. One of these […]
Reading in English Llegeix més »
Tintins watched a video and discovered the food webs, an image that represents the different relationships between the animals in an ecosystem. They discovered the concepts of producers, primary consumers and secondary consumers while analysing the different ecosystems. What happens when the food web is disturbed? What happens when an animals disappears? Tintins had different
THE FOOD WEB AND THE FOUR PEST CAMPAIGN Llegeix més »
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
WHERE ARE MULBERRY TREES? Llegeix més »
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
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
AROUND THE SCHOOL IN ENGLISH Llegeix més »
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
WE HAVE PET CATERPILLARS! Llegeix més »
Matildes discovered that the 1st of April is a very special day in the USA and Britain: it’s April Fool’s day! It is a day to have fun and make jokes. Everybody makes jokes, even companies and newspapers. Matildes read real joke articles (adapted but real) and, in groups, tried to discover the ONLY one
APRIL FOOL’S DAY Llegeix més »
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
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
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
READING IN ENGLISH Llegeix més »