martes, 18 de diciembre de 2012

Incy wincy Spider

Children in P4 have a new friend... a SPIDER! Her name is Incy Wincy. We know a song about her and we have seen videos of her. We have also created a spider with our hands! then we have hole punched and finally we have sticked eyes on her! (You'll find a link to the song at Infantil: Our links.)

jueves, 8 de noviembre de 2012

Are you scared??? The 5th Year kids went around the school singing the Halloween song. We all got very scared!! ... but we enjoyed the experience!!
Storytelling Fiona's dad came to our class and told us a story about a witch and her broom. We all participated and enjoyed it very much!! He's a fantastic storyteller!!

martes, 22 de mayo de 2012

A theatre week ,or let's be actors and actresses!!!

Hello !!!!
The girls and boys from 6B did some theatre plays in el "Casal de Valldoreix" in front of  a big audience  of kids from different schools in Sant Cugat .
We really  enjoyed it very much and it was a very  good reason to speak in English !!!

martes, 24 de abril de 2012

MAKING MUFFINS Hello, what a sweet day we had! The 5th year did a hundred American muffins! We ate some of them but the other half were for the 4th level to decorate. We really enjoyed both things!

jueves, 12 de abril de 2012

Aprendre dels més Menuts

El darrer dilluns dia 26 de març alguns alumnes de 1r, 2n, 4t i 5è van rebre una visita inesperada a les seves classes. Per mitjà del Departament d’Anglès, dos alumnes del Màster de Formació de Professorat de Secundària de la UAB, la Clara i el Nacho, vam gaudir d’un profitós matí al Collserola. I, de la mateixa manera que els alumnes que van trobar-nos a les seves aules, de ben segur us preguntareu… Qui sou vosaltres?

Nosaltres som dos estudiants que estem realitzant les nostres pràctiques com a futurs docents a l’institut Joaquima Pla i Farreras, a la vora de l’escola. Des del màster se’ns va encoratjar a visitar alguna escola de Primària per tal que en coneguéssim l’ambient i la manera de fer d’aquells menuts que més tard acabaran la seva escolarització obligatòria a les aules dels instituts de Secundària. La proximitat del “Plafa” i la bona relació existent entre aquest i l’escola Collserola van facilitar el procés de programar una visita.

El nostre matí va començar, com el dels alumnes, a la porta d’accés del centre poc abans de les 9 del matí. Un cop a dins, la Teresa i la MªDolors se’ns van presentar i ens varen conduir cap a les aules. Allà, la novetat era la nostra presència. Grans i petits ens preguntaven qui érem mentre les mestres ens presentaven davant els alumnes.

Al llarg de tot el matí, vam tenir l’oportunitat de participar en les classes d’Anglès ajudant les mestres titulars i la Natalie (l’auxiliar de conversa nordamericana del centre) a les aules. Conèixer nois i noies amb característiques ben diferents dels adolescents de l’institut va ser, en aquest sentit, quelcom molt enriquidor per a nosaltres. Pot dir-se sense por d’equivocar-se que la innocència i bondat dels més menuts, units a les seves ganes d’aprendre, van constituir un revulsiu en aquest període final de la nostra formació com a futurs docents.

Pel que fa a l’aspecte purament educatiu, les classes d’anglès del Collserola ens van sorprendre molt positivament. En aquest sentit, els pares dels alumnes del centre poden estar segurs que els seus fills estan seguint els passos necessaris per aconseguir un bon nivell en llengua estrangera. Un enfocament pedagògic constructivista –on els alumnes no estudien la llengua, sinó que aprenen a utilitzar-la, juntament amb la immersió en llengua anglesa a les classes, faciliten aquest procés.

Marxem del Collserola molt satisfets, ja que la nostra fugaç visita en ha servit per comprendre que la feina ben feta –en aquest cas, ensenyar l’anglès als alumnes– és una tasca acumulativa que es realitza durant les diverses etapes educatives. En aquest sentit, agraïm a alumnes i mestres l’esforç d’acollir-nos i compartir amb nosaltres un matí tan especial. Com a punt final, una darrera reflexió: tant de bo nosaltres haguéssim tingut la sort de poder aprendre anglès com ho fan els menuts del Collserola!

jueves, 22 de marzo de 2012

Seeds project

Some more photos...

Healthy Food Project

We have started an exciting new English project with the 4th year called ¨Healthy Foods Project¨. A few classes ago, we began learning vocabulary for healthy foods such as carrots, strawberries, chicken, and water. After studying the vocabulary, we then decided to take a more practical approach to learning not only the healthy foods vocabulary, but also some useful phrases for buying and selling food. We created a ¨street¨ that had a variety of stores such as the vegetable shop, the fruit stand, and the grocery store. Then, the students colored signs and wrote down prices for the products that they would be buying and selling.

Ultimatley, the project has been a success! The students have really enjoyed going to different stores with their pretend shopping lists we have given them. They are also using fake money as they go around to each store and buying the products that they need.

The next step is to create our own healthy menu!

jueves, 15 de marzo de 2012

Seeds Project

Hello! We are excited to share our exciting seeds project with you! Since January, the 6th year students have been working with Teresa and Natalie (our language assistant) to study and compare seeds from America and Catalunya.

Natalie, who is from the United States, has brought a sample of seeds from her grandparent´s farm in the state of South Carolina, where they have been farming the land for over two centuries. This is a unique opportunity for the students, because they are learning about seeds and plants from a different region of the world. Some of the seeds that they are studying are the Henderson Lima beans, the Siberian Kale, and the Wakefield Cabbage.

In order to compare the American and Catalan seeds, we have been studying how the seeds grow in a pinecone ecosystem. Initially, we observed how the pinecones reacted to water. We saw that as the pinecones remained in water for a long period of time, the pinecones closed. However, if the pinecone are out in the open air, they stay open. Upon realizing this, we decided to put the seeds in the dry pinecones and observe and investigate what would happen.

martes, 6 de marzo de 2012

Treasure Island

Hello everyone! Today the girls and boys from 4th to 6th year have watched an exciting theater play about pirates called ¨Treasure Island.¨

We have been working on the play in our English Class the past week. We have learned quite a lot about ship vocabulary so that we could follow this play very well. Furthermore, we listened and sang all of the songs from the play beforehand. The song that we liked the best was ¨Come on Let´s Get Ready.¨

And here are the photos!