Young Learners
Healthy “Hawaiian” Snacks
On Monday, the Yellow group prepared the healthy snack for the week. They made Hawaiian fruit pizzas with bananas, kiwi, nectarine and pineapple. Yum!
Odyssey of the Mind
Monday‘s Odyssey of the Mind contest challenged all of the groups. They made Hawaiian costumes out of some very unusual items.
Week 3 Summer in the City: Inventors’ Workshop
During week 3: Inventors’ Workshop, the students made lots of different structures and learned about inventions. For the Odyssey of the Mind competition, students had a challenge of making a free-standing structure with spaghetti and a marshmallow! Here is a picture of the winning structure: They visited the Cosmocaixa exhibit Ideas que Cambian Vidas. The exhibit shows inventions
Blue and Green groups participate in second language and culture exchange with American students
The Blue and Green groups had another visit from some high school students from the US who were visiting Madrid. Apart from the visit, they also did lots of other activities related to the Round and Round theme. Here is what the students had to say about their second week at camp: This week
Friends Around the World
The students in the Orange group read a play called ‘Friends Around the World,’ in which one of the characters loves to make toys with clay. They then made their own toy animal figures with clay. Can you find the snail, turtle, pig and penguin?
Week 2: Summer in the City “Round and Round”
For the second week of the Summer in the City Camp, the theme was Round and Round. Classes worked on all kinds of activities about “round” things. Some groups looked at sports and soccer (the week of the World Cup final). Yellow made their own soccer balls (“Buckyballs”) out of posterboard. Orange, Red and Yellow groups worked
Summer in the City gets off to a Rocking Start
On July 30th the Institute began the Summer in the City English Camp. The theme of the first week was Rock Stars, and the students worked on different activities related to the theme. They made guitar posters, watched rock-star themed movies and learned a few dances like the Bunny Hop and The Chicken Dance. On
Please Join Us for a Workshop on Increasing Vocabulary and Literacy Skills!
July 9, 2014 2.30pm – 3.30pm, Room 101 International Institute C/ Miguel Angel, 8 Word Study Success for ESL Learners Through Vocabulary Building and Sorting Please join us for Ellen Comis’ second English language workshop, entitled “Word Study.” This exciting, non-traditional approach is currently gaining ground in the U.S. as an effective method
Please Join our Free BrainPOP Workshop for Educators
July 3rd, 2.30pm, Rm 101 American Space Madrid International Institute, C/Miguel Angel, 8 RSVP To discuss the use of online resources to teach English to children who speak Spanish and other languages, Ms. Comis will focus on BrainPOP, an award-winning online educational resource that utilizes animated curriculum content for teaching subjects such as English as
Kids’ Club finishes off a great year
Kids’ Club finished the term with a performance for their parents. Patti’s class sang three songs and performed a play of The Very Busy Spider. Alicia’s group sang three songs from the film version of Charlotte’s Web. The class read the book throughout the term, and finished off with these happy (and fast) songs. It
