Guess How Much I Love You: A great children’s book for Valentine’s Day

Valentine’s Day is coming and Kate (one of our Language Assistants) wanted to share one of her favorite books from when she was a child.

This is a cartoon version of the text on YouTube and is great for right before bedtime.

Don’t forget to tell everyone you love “I love you to the moon and back!” this Valentine’s Day!

Christmas

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas! Our five year-olds are hard at work for their performance on December 18th where they’re going to perform a version of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. We’ve also put up a playlist from Super Simple Songs, one of our favorite groups around! Finally, we also have the song that the First Cycle of Primary will perform.

Get into the holiday spirit!

Getting ready for our Open House!

As you may already know, we are having an Open House on Tuesday 4 February at 17:30 (5:30 PM) at our school. We have been working hard in our Infantil and bilingual Primary School groups (1st and 2nd grades in the USA, 1st and 2nd years in the UK) on decorations in English for our beautiful holidays. Enjoy these photos!

Shapes in Infantil

Shapes in Infantil

Students in Infantil draw their favorite (favourite) animals)

Students in Infantil draw their favorite (favourite) animals)

More animals in Infantil

More animals in Infantil

Mouse Shapes from the 5 Years Classes that show one can use shapes to make all kinds of objects!

Mouse Shapes from the 5 Years Classes that show one can use shapes to make all kinds of objects!

Favorite animals from the 1st grade Science classes

Favorite animals from the 1st grade Science classes

More animals from 1st grade (year) Science!

More animals from 1st grade (year) Science!

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Foods on the American Food Guide Pyramid!

Foods on the American Food Guide Pyramid!

The Food Guide Pyramid in the USA- learning about food and American culture in 1st grade (year)!

The Food Guide Pyramid in the USA- learning about food and American culture in 1st grade (year)!

What do all of the colors mean? Look here to find out!

What do all of the colors mean? Look here to find out!

2nd grade (year) Science posters about animals

2nd grade (year) Science posters about animals

The Water Cycle from 2nd grade (year) Science)!

The Water Cycle from 2nd grade (year) Science)!

Facts about whales!

Facts about whales!

A healthy diet!

A healthy diet!

Animals and their characteristics

Animals and their characteristics

Animals and their characteristics

Animals and their characteristics

More animals and their characteristics

More animals and their characteristics

Welcome to Our Blog!

Hello all,

The English Department at Colegio Fundación Santamarca in Madrid, Spain welcomes you to our English blog! This will be our showcase for all of our English-language programs from Infantil up until Secondary (ESO). We will have a combination of posts from students and teachers, written and visual.

My name is Katherine “Kate” Estabrook, the current Auxiliar de Conversación (Language Assistant) here at Fundación Santamarca. I hope to make a more formal introduction in a later post, but I am originally from New York City (the best and most important place in the USA) and I have jumped at the chance at helping to make the English blog a reality.

I encourage you all to subscribe to our blog via email to stay up-to-date on our new content, and leave comments and suggestions.

Happy reading!