Our Auxiliares are hard at work beginning their syllabi for the Cambridge exams! The Cambridge website has some games and online resources to supplement the exam materials. Check them out here; we’ve embedded them straight to the blog!
http://monkeypuzzles.kokogames.com/CambridgeUni.swf?v=15
http://monkeypuzzles.kokogames.com/mpwt.swf
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Now that we’ve wrapped up Halloween, it’s time for some general songs for Fall, oops, I mean autumn. At the end of the month we’ll think about US Thanksgiving, but until then enjoy!
This is the routine that we use in all of our English classes. We add new songs as the year goes on, but we always start with these. Enjoy!
Good Morning!
Hello!
How’s the weather today?
What day is it?
What season is it?
Who’s here today?
What’s your name? My name is…. Are you a boy or a girl?
Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes
One Little Finger
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
Shapes (for 5 year-olds)
Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed
Big and Small
The Wheels on the Bus
Shake Break (great for transitions and to end)
One of our teachers wanted to share this series of videos about the benefits of songs for Young Learners in the English classroom. We use them particularly in our Infantil (preschool) and first grade (Primero de Primaria) classrooms. Enjoy!
Welcome to the first English Corner of 2014! We are currently using the English Corner to advertise our annual Love Letter and Love Poem Contest! While we have usually had it just in the Spanish department, we are also having an English-language competition! Want to enter? Here are the details:
Here’s how you must submit your entry to the contest!
Entries must be on:
THREE DIVISIONS:
DEADLINE: MONDAY 10 FEBRUARY
Our Auxiliar also added a piece of American culture by drawing copies of the Sweetheart candies, a typical Valentine’s Day candy in the USA:
Tweet Me, Sweet Talk, Hug Me
Love Bug, Text Me, Be Mine
As you can tell by the captions, Necco, the company that makes them, uses a combination of classic sayings along with more modern ones like “tweet me” and “text me.”
While the prize for the contest is to be determined, maybe it will be a feature on the blog! Check back later this month and see the results! And please submit!
Until next time!
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
Students in Infantil draw their favorite (favourite) animals)
More animals in Infantil
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
More animals from 1st grade (year) Science!
Foods on the American Food Guide Pyramid!
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!
2nd grade (year) Science posters about animals
The Water Cycle from 2nd grade (year) Science)!
Facts about whales!
A healthy diet!
Animals and their characteristics
Animals and their characteristics
More animals and their characteristics
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!
Inglés Fundación Santamarca 