MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR !

Dear friends,

This first term at L'Oreig has been fun - tastic !

We have been playing a lot of games, playing a lot of music, singing along and dancing all around :-) 

Also we had the time to have  great super assistants (P4 and P5) every week. 

Please find below special Christmas wishes from Cérvols: 

Kindly see below Christmas carols played by preschoolers:

P3 - HELLO REINDEER

P4 - OH CRHISTMAS TREE

P5 - SANTA HIGH IN THE SKY

PICTIONARY

Dear friends,

These days we have been practising our drawing and vocabulary skills through a simple but really interesting game: Pictionary. One kid draws the word that the teacher whispers to his/her ear, the rest of students raise their hand when they know that word in English. We are playing this game with Esquirols and Cérvols.


In this Pictionary day, we practised the vocabulary related to musical instruments in English.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

Dear friends,

Kindly note that Halloween is here and Frankie the GHOST has arrived once more to wish HAPPY HALLOWEEN and sing the song with us. 

This year the chosen song is Scary Go away scary by Super simple Songs. We strongly recommend you their songs due to the fact that are easy to be learnt, graphics are great and quite often involve body movement too.

Formigues meet our friends

During the first month of this School year our youngest pupils get the chance to know our friends. Frankie, Dizzy, Spot, Tex and Aaron. We also like to dance to songs all together.

WE FOUND FRANKIE'S GUITAR !

Dear All,

Please be informed that after some days of search we have finally found Frankie's guitar.

Some days ago Frankie announced that he was sad due to the loss of his guitar. Then we advised all kids to look for his guitar and inform any teacher in case the guitar was seen.

On Friday 09th October during Cérvols forest walk, the guitar was spotted next to a tree. Cérvols were really happy and Frankie too. Frankie was so excited that he performed a concert with his guitar for Esquirols and Formigues too.

WE LIKE TO ROCK !

Dear friends,

As you may know we love music.

With Cérvols we have divided the class in 2 groups, one is called THE ROLLING STONES  and the other the BEATLES, same groups as last year. 

Esquirols are divided in QUEENS and THE RAMONES and Formigues will have to wait to Rock and Roll until they become ESQUIROLS. This year our youngest pupils are divided in Dragons and Jackies in order to practice the song Puff the Magic Dragon.

Each group is identified with an iconic song to be sang every time we get together. The Beatles group sings Yellow Submarine and Rolling stones sings I can't get no satisfaction. 

We truly believe in the power of music to teach English. With this simple exercise to pretend that we are the Rock band we are trying to copy, we develop abilities such as effort, attention, team work, practice and improve, English pronunciation, instruments vocabulary guitar, drums, bass, microphone... and for sure in front of all of these abilities comes FUN, we really have a good time :-)

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Please find photo above of the Beatles proudly playing Yellow Submarine. 

From right to left: MICROPHONE: made of plasticine, BASS: green stick but sounds like a real bass through the kids lips :-) , GUITAR:  badminton racket it also sounds like a guitar , DRUMS: Blue foam box with two drum sticks  

So far so good :-)

Dear friends,

We already have spent  two weeks since school started and we are very happy about the kids happiness and progress. 

Formigues have met  Frankie the frog Dizzy the duck, Spot the ladybird and Tex the turtle. Kindly note that Formigues are learning their song and their colours, how do they talk and how do they move. These characters have been a little bit shy and sad at the beginning, so they have needed a big cheer and a big applause from our  little pupils in order to start singing the song as they usually do:  really happy :-) 

Esquirols and Cérvols have also reunited with the animal characters and it's been great to see how happy and excited they have shown themselves to be together again.

This year we have introduced new routines and duties for Esquirols and Cérvols...

We proudly introduce to you the SUPERASSISTANT !!

Once a week,  by a quick random game and song, we select our Super Assistant. That boy or girl proudly wears the SuperAssistant badge and will be in charge of helping  and assisting  the teacher and also about checking out the weather, day of the week and season of the year.

As mentioned in previous post we would like to share with you the rule song that we sing along every morning, we hope you like it:

WELCOME TO 2015-2016

Hello !

We are happy to be back. A big welcome to our new friends from P3. 

In this blog you will find our activities and songs for this new school year. Soon we will post our new rule song for Esquirols and Formigues. 

Have fun and all the best, 

Shopping with Formigues

After watching a video where Frankie, Dizzy, Spot and Tex go shopping in a clothes shop, with Formigues we have been practising this new vocabulary:  T-shirt, hat, sandals,  by setting up a little shop and playing the role of customers.

BINGO !

With Formigues, Esquirols and Cérvols we are having some fun playing BINGO. Pupils have to place their chips in the right place as teacher is calling out vocabulary previously worked at classroom.

Since we are playing in couples we are promoting team work, one pupil holds the BINGO card and point to the correct image, in order to advise  his team mate where to place the chips, once we finish the game, pupils have to speak out the vocabulary in their BINGO cards to to check if it's correct. Then we change roles for the next BINGO round.

I'm hungry

With Esquirols and Formigues we are working on the topic hungry/thirsty.

Thanks to the book material we have prepared our own sandwiches with Esquirols, bread, cheese, salad, chicken...

VIDEO "CÉRVOLS GO SHOPPING"

Dear all,

Please find below video of Cérvols go shopping

Let's go shopping with Cérvols!

Following the story of our English Book, we have decided to go a little bit further and build our own shops.

Each table is a different shop (Baker's, butcher, fruit shop, toy shop and clothes shop) Pupils have decided the name of the shop, and also have designed the signs.

We have been practicing the expressions : Can I have... and How much is it. Soon we will post a video where you will see how our clients and shop assistants hold this specific conversation.

FRANKIE IS BACK !

Cérvols received a sad message this week. Frankie was supposed to pay a visit to Cérvols on Monday, but instead of him we found a pen drive with a video recorded message. Frankie couldn't come due to a strange accident.

He was relaxing on his terrace when suddenly a piano fall from the sky right on top of Frankie !

In the video Frankie informed us that he was going to come on Friday 27th Feb, that's why Cérvols decided to receive him with nice drawings saying "Hello Frankie"

Vocabulary Game

In order to review vocabulary we have created a video where we mix the words that we are practising on daily basis with some of the songs that we dance quite often.

You will get impressed about the kids capacity to learn and identify new vocabulary. Have a go and let your kid say the words as they appear in the video.

The hardest thing for them to learn is the last dance of the video.

Conversation skills

In order to practise and increase children conversation skills we are promoting some routines where kids need to interact with other kids in English.

With our main characters as paper puppets we have used a small theatre and kids have taken the roles of Frankie, Dizzy, Spot and Tex. They have been practising some expressions as "What's your name? Do you want to come swimming..."

Also note that we have designed a new video to practise and review vocabulary. In order to have fun while learning we have introduced some of kids favourite songs in this video. Soon we will upload this video , so kids can have a practise whenever they want.