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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
ENGLISH READING CIRCLE FIRST SHORT STORY OF THE MONTH ANALYSIS: “Hills like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemmingway
This month we close the 2014-2015 Reading Club cycle with two short stories that deal with a shared set of themes: gender and language. The first story is Ernest Hemmingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants,” published in 1927 and included in the collection Men Without Women. At a mere three and a quarter pages long, this
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
POETRY READING CLUB- POEM OF THE MONTH ANALYSIS: “AMERICA” BY ALLEN GINSBERG
Visionary. Dreamer. Wanderer. Poet. The question is, who are we talking about, Walt Whitman or Allen Ginsberg? If we allow ourselves a little bit of poetic license to imagine a meeting between these two men, it’s not hard to picture the disciple sitting down at the feet of the spiritual teacher, or the younger brother
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
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
Las novedades destacadas de la biblioteca: “Her” dirigida por Spike Jonze
“En un futuro cercano, Theodore, un hombre solitario a punto de divorciarse que trabaja en una empresa como escritor de cartas para terceras personas, compra un día un nuevo sistema operativo basado en el modelo de Inteligencia Artificial, diseñado para satisfacer todas las necesidades del usuario. Para su sorpresa, se crea una relación romántica entre
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
