The 23rd of April is a very important day in Catalonia because of St. George celebration. But, did you know that it is celebrated worldwide as the International Book Day? It all started in 1995 when the UNESCO decided to dedicate a day a year to promote reading, a lifelong skill key in learning that […]
INTERNATIONAL BOOK DAY Llegeix més »
We discovered that today it is a very special day in the United Kingdom and in the United States of America… today it’s April Fool’s day! On this day, it is common that everybody plays jokes or tricks to make fun and have a laugh, even companies and newspapers! It is quite fun to read
We have just finished writing the script and we are ready to start rehearsing! We don’t want to give any spoilers but, in the play, there is a part in English. Believe it or not, it was us who wrote it! At first, we were a bit scared because it was a complex text we
WRITING TOGETHER THE SCRIPT Llegeix més »
Last week was the first after the experiment of living without screens during seven days. It was a time to analyse the pros and cons of such an activity and we shared all our discoveries. It was very difficult for some, but the general opinion was that it had a lot of advantages and everybody
TEXTS ABOUT THE SCREEN-FREE WEEK Llegeix més »
Yesterday we had a great opportunity to practise English while having a good time by watching a play: Sleeping Beauty (or not). “Mitjans” and “Grans” had been preparing the theatre for weeks and they knew the story very well: it was a new version of the traditional fairy tale in which the princess, Aurora, changed
LET’S GO TO THE THEATRE! Llegeix més »
In “The little Prince” it is said that the planet where the Prince lives is so small that he saw the sunset forty-four times. Having this in mind, the Petits Prínceps tried to answer the question that was waiting for them to start the term… Is it possible to celebrate New Year’s twice? As you
WHAT TIME IS IT? Llegeix més »
In the class we are doing a timeline and we had a board game just about that! The name of the game is “Timeline” and it is a card game in which players have to make a timeline putting in the correct place an event card. Well, we know that now because first we had
TIMELINE: A FUN GAME Llegeix més »
Today some Petits Princeps were very happy because on Thursday it’s “Halloween”. It is very fun to wear costumes and go trick-or-treating but we do not know much about “Halloween”, though. We saw a video that was very eye-opening… We thought that the Americans invented Halloween recently just to have fun but we discovered that,
Halloween or “Castanyada”? Llegeix més »
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 »