Young Learners
Empieza Summer in the City 2015: Campamento Urbano en Inglés
Ya ha terminado el colegio y ¡empieza Summer in the City! Nuestro campamento urbano en inglés viene cargado de muchas actividades para practicar inglés y divertirse a la vez. Los profesores nativos, todos procedentes de EE.UU. o Canadá, llevarán a los chicos a conocer la cultura norteamericana a través de talleres de manualidades, música, baile,
Clase de inglés Young Learners 1: Occupations
During the last class of May, Young Learners 1 continued to do vocabulary practice using flashcards. In the photos you can see the students matching words for occupations to their images as they play musical chairs. Since the weather was so nice, they got to play (and learn!) in the Institute’s garden! En la última
Clase de inglés Young Learners 5: Cities of the World
In May the Young Learners 5 class worked on a city guide project. After studying a variety of infographics and promotional videos for tourism in North American cities, students researched a city of their choice (with the help of the International Institute’s new tablets!). Each group designed an infographic-style poster to present their findings, which
Earth Day en Young Learners 2
Coming on the heels of Earth Day, during May the YL2 class’s theme was Our Earth and they did many fun activities! Kicking things off after Earth Day, they worked in teams on a word mine of Earth Day. They tried creating as many words as they could by using only the letters found in
Kids Culture Club with Daniel
These past months in Kids Club have been a blast! Loads of interesting activities and stuff to do made every week a busy one! In April the kids started off making their very own Gingerbread Men and Women. After reading a couple of different stories with various points of view about his life, they decided that
Saturday Young Learners 3
The Saturday Young Learners 3 group has been working through Brainpop on adverbs for some time now. They have been working hard; their teacher promised them if they continued to concentrate and work efficiently, they could go down to the American Space Madrid for an activity with the ASM’s library e-tablets. Using a free app, they colored
Kids Culture Club
April 13, 2015 To kick off the class Michaela´s Kids´ Club group discussed what the perfect class is like and made rules accordingly. In the spirit of poetry month the group read a funny poem by Linda A. Anderson entitled “When Noses Bloom”. The Kids continued by creating their own poems about odd body parts
Bilingual Family Forum with Anna Steele
The first Bilingual Family Forum this past Saturday, May 23rd was a big success. Several parents from bilingual families came together over coffee and snacks to chat, share experiences and ask questions about bringing up bilingual children. Anna Steele talked about her own experience as a mother in a large bilingual family, and shared lots of
Poetry Month in Young Learners 3
Young Learners 3 experimented with writing some poems in their English classes in April. They looked at some examples and then wrote their own poems following the model. For the first poem, the students brainstormed ideas about things they can and can’t do. They used picture dictionaries to help them with more varied ideas.
Notes from 2015 talks for parents and teachers: Aprender para Enseñar
This year we have had three excellent talks by some wonderful professionals from the world of international and bilingual education. Dr. Linda Gerena from City University of New York followed up her talk about Building Vocabulary through Children’s Literature last December with an engaging session about using questioning to develop critical thinking with students at
