Ya estamos con los preparativos de la nueva edición de nuestro campamento urbano en Madrid para niños y jóvenes. ¡Summer in the City 2015 ya está aquí! Los chicos llevan todo el curso con las clases de inglés. Y ahora es el momento de dejar los libros de texto y los deberes y divertirse en
In April, the Young Learners 1 group did a lot of activities centered on reviewing and adding vocabulary related to categories that they had previously studied, and practicing grammar concepts started in the previous trimester. In the pictures you can see the students playing a game in which they had to fish for letters, then
I’m from Madrid…. April is poetry month in the United States and the Young Learners 2 class celebrated this by reading and learning about poetry. At the end of the month, they created visual poems about their hometowns. This activity started with a review of the five senses and how they can build our experiences
In April, one of the fun things the students in YL4 did was create posters to welcome visiting high school students from Glastonbury High School in the U.S. Having learned in class about giving advice in the form of “If I were you”, they applied this to a real life situation. First, everyone brainstormed on the
El jueves 7 de mayo y el lunes 11 de mayo ofrecemos la 3ª y 4ª charlas de nuestro ciclo Aprender para Enseñar, Encuentros para Padres y Profesores. La charla del 7 de mayo lo darán un equipo de madre e hijo de familia bilingüe ¡y docente! Dr Veronica Steffen, de la Universidad Camilo
El sábado 11 de abril de 11:30 a 12:30 estará con nosotros de nuevo Linda Gerena, profesora de City University of New York. Dr. Gerena forma a futuros profesores bilingües y en su próxima charla nos hablará de la importancia del pensamiento crítico en los niños. Nos enseñará maneras de fomentar el pensamiento crítico variando el
This winter Young Learners 3 spent a lot of time working on their pronunciation and expression in English. They practiced reading Dr. Seuss books with expression in honor of Dr. Seuss’s birthday. Each student chose a story and practiced reading 1 to 2 minutes of text aloud to the rest of the class. Later the
For a recent discussion and writing assignment, YL6 considered the following question: What will be the biggest challenge for large cities in the future and what can we do to help? Students came up with many ideas and then shared their thoughts in writing. Some of the things they mentioned were noise, pollution, traffic, and