All the stages had a special meaning for me Linda Sue Park, Project Mulberry We learned a lot about moths and butterflies and we learned about their life cycle. We knew the name of the different stages and their characteristics and, although we did have some caterpillars and observed their transformations into chrysalis, we unfortunately […]
AMAZING SILKWORMS Llegeix més »
“The earth laughs in flowers” Ralph Waldo Emerson After discovering the importance of flowers and the relationship between flowers and insects, we became quite curious about flowers! They are very beautiful but we do not know many of their names in our language…. imagine in English! To discover some of the names, we were faced
FLOWERS AND THEIR FUNNY NAMES Llegeix més »
“Effective speaking routine in language classrooms help scaffold learners’ talk, making oral language development more accessible and less intimidating” Andrew Wilkinson Greetings are one of the first things you learn to say in a foreign language. When you travel to another country and already know how to say “hello!”, “good morning”, or “good afternoon”, you
SAYING HELLO, NOT A SIMPLE ROUTINE! Llegeix més »
“Don’t worry about the bits you can’t understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around you, like music.” Roald Dahl Last week we had a lot of fun while practising English by going to Can Papasseit to watch a theatre play: Little Red Rocks. Because watching a theatre play in English can be
LET’S GO TO THE THEATRE! Llegeix més »
These days we have been playing while learning a bit about computational thinking. Computers? We did not touch any computer but we solved problems just like computers do: analyzing the problem, breaking it in small parts and sequencing instructions. To be more precise, we focused on sequencing by giving instructions. First, we pretended to be
MOVING LIKE ROBOTS Llegeix més »
Now that we know a lot about invertebrates, it was time to be creative… We invented invertebrates! Each Alicia decided if we wanted to create an insect, myriapod, arachnid or crustacean and we made it with plasticine. It was very fun! Do you like our art pieces? But the activity did not finish here because
OUR INVERTEBRATES Llegeix més »
“The moth prefers the moon and detests the sun, while the butterfly loves the sun and hides from the moon. Every living creature responds to light.” Suzy Kassem While we wait for our chrysalis to open and see the butterfly, we want to learn a little bit more about them. Just the other day we
BUTTERFLY OR MOTH? Llegeix més »