Young Learners
Summer in the City
Los profesores el programa de Young Learners ya están preparando un mes de julio lleno de diversión para los chicos y chicas de 6 a 16 años. Los temas semanales van a ser: Semana del 30 de junio al 04 de julio: Rock Stars: La primera semana se llenará de música: de los rockeros, desde los clásicos
Celebrating Families with a Sweet Gesture
International Day of Families was on May 15th. To celebrate their loved ones, the Young Learners 3 Saturday group made cupcakes using felt and paper. With tons of creativity each member added his or her own twist to the beautiful pastries. Some had many eyes, others had hearts or sprinkles. While these cupcakes are not
Have You Ever Tried Sushi?
Today the YL 3 Saturday group practiced the present perfect tense with questions like, “have you ever tried sushi before?” They also learned why raw fish is much softer than other raw meats such as chicken or beef. In the ocean fish swim and feel the effects of gravity less than land animals because of
Reporting from the YL 3 Headquarters
Carrying on from last week’s “Happy Children’s Books” theme, the YL 3 weekday class made their own bookmarks: They then began a new project, creating a class newspaper. Each week the YL 3 members will visit the language laboratory where they can conduct online research on their topics of choice: Politics, Science, Food, Entertainment, etc. YL
Insects and Spiders
The youngest Kids’ Club group is working on a unit about Insects and Spiders. They listened to the book The Very Busy Spider, by Eric Carle, and learned this song: Shoo Fly, Don’t Bother Me! Story: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NJj3fsSPSw Song: Miss Nina’s music videos are great for learning English, and for just having fun! This week the group learned another traditional
What’s Your Story?
“Happy Children’s Books” week is celebrated in May in many countries. Both the weekday and weekend YL 3 class members worked on book projects, choosing either to interview a classmate and write a mini-biography or pen his/her own autobiography. All the students handcrafted their books, using interesting methods of binding which ranged from sewing with thread to
Young Learners 1 Gets Ready for Easter
Young Learners 1 had a great Saturday class before Easter week. They had a great time joining Young Learners 2 to paint Easter eggs, make chicken cupcakes and do an Easter egg hunt. They found all of the eggs in the end! Great job!
Young Learners 4: How to Train Your Dragon
The Tuesday-Thursday group of Young Learners 4 has been doing advanced vocabulary study through a segment of one of the books from the series ‘How to Train Your Dragon’. There is also a series of movies which is loosely based on the book, and the third is coming out in June (it would be a
Kids’ Club Practice Phonics of Short Vowels
Here are links to the songs the kids used last trimester to practice phonics of the short vowels. It would be a fantastic idea to review the songs and sing along with them to practice, not only for pronunciation but for the vocabulary. The Short “A” Song The Short “E” Song The
