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This month, our school celebrated Valentine´s Day and teacher Jessica´s

mother visited from the United States. Her mother brought a typical sweet

from America called Reese´s and the students were able to try it. In

America candy is a very common gift on Valentine´s day as well as cards,

poems, and flowers. Additionally, the students were able to practice their

English and ask simple questions to Jessica´s mom during her visit. They

were curious about her life in American and what her occupation is. It was

very exciting to have a new visitor at Gloria Fuertes!

C.E.I.P. “Gloria Fuertes” de Jaén (Jaén)

PROYECTO BILINGÜE AÑO 8- Curso 2018/2019

Coordinadora: Amparo Herrador Quero

Auxiliar: Jessica Cox and Deanna Rommel





Reflection of the Week Explanation:

The reflection of the week relates to Valentine´s day and love. The quote

is written by Dr. Seuss, a very famous American author. Dr. Seuss is the

author of many well-known Children´s books. The quote focuses on the

idea that most people go to sleep to live in a fantasy world that they wish

they had. But, in contrast, most people know when they are in love when

they do not wish to live in that fantasy world in their dreams

anymore…because for once, their real life is better than this fantasy

world.





Preparation for Valentine´s Day

In preparation for Valentine´s Day the auxiliars, Deanna and Jessica, made

a presentation for Valentine´s Day that focused on common Valentine´s

Day words, the history of Valentine´s Day, and then finished off with a

step-by-step diagram to teach the students how to make an origami heart.

After finishing the origami heart, the students were able to create their

own English poem to write on the heart and they could give this Valentine

to one of their family members or friends. The students loved decorating

their own Valentine´s cards and even made more to give to other friends.

After they finished with their origami hearts, they finished a worksheet

which had a word scramble with their Valentine´s day words and then a

mandala which had ¨I LOVE YOU¨ on it.





Valentine´s Day

In the photos, you can see teachers Deanna and Jessica with the students

after they prepared their origami hearts to give to their friends for

Valentine´s Day. Most of them wrote their own original poems on the

hearts too! As a special surprise, Jessica´s mother brought some American

candy to give to the students as a Valentine´s day present. The candy was

called Reese´s and it has peanut butter and chocolate inside- It´s Jessica´s

favorite candy!



Coordindora: Amparo Herrador Quero


Valentine´s Day

On Valentine´s Day the students worked on Valentine´s Day worksheets

and colored Valentine´s Day mandalas. The worksheet reinforced

previously learned Valentine´s day vocabulary words while introducing

some new terms for the students. The mandalas have been a huge hit

among the children in the last couple of months, so the Valentine´s Day

themed mandala was a lot of fun for the students to decorate. After this,

the students listened and performed their own rendition of the Beatle´s

song ¨All Together Now¨. By the end of our lessons, the students had

completed and participated in many Valentine´s Day activities.





eTwinning Letters

The students worked on letters to send to their pen pal at ´´Wick Primary

School´´ in Bristol U.K. for Valentine´s Day. In the letter, the students

wrote about Valentine´s Day traditions in Spain and then asked their

English friends about how they celebrate Valentine´s Day.





Systems of the Body Project

In natural science class, the 6th grade students worked on completing

diagrams of the different systems of the body. Each of the groups in the

class were assigned a different body system and they had to label all of

the parts of that system in English. The systems were constructed using

paper and play-doh which gave them more texture. The students used

many different learning styles to complete this activity- tactile, spatial,

social, and





More 6th Grade Body Systems Project

More pictures of the 6th grade classes working on constructing their

models of the different systems of the body. As you can see, all the

students were engaged in making the models and it was a wonderful

opportunity for them to use their skills of working together while

practicing their English!





Incorporating Technology into Our Classrooms!

The week after Valentine´s Day brought about some new changes at

Gloria Fuertes. Deanna and Jessica have been working hard with the

classroom teachers to help incorporate more technology and interactive,

English games into the classrooms so that the children have more learning

opportunities. Some of the ways we have been doing this has been

through the use of some applications like Kahoot!, Quizlet, and Plickers.

Games like Kahoot present materials in a timed-multiple choice game

which allows students to use tablets to choose one of the answers. It´s

been a new opportunity for the teachers and students to learn new things

in the English classrooms and we are very excited to continue to find new

ways





Incorporating Technology continued…

In the 6th grade classrooms, the students worked on games in Kahoot that

focused on Environmental vocabulary (since that is currently what they

are learning in English class). They worked together in groups to decide on

which multiple choice answer was the best and then selected it. At the

end, we would go over the answers as a class and figure out why one

answer was correct and the others weren’t. In the 5th grade classrooms,

the students worked together on the simple tenses of verbs and to

be/have got exercises with kahoot. Like always, when we came across an

incorrect answer, we would talk about the mistake as a class and make

sure all of the students understand the grammar concept correctly before

moving onto the next question.





Incorporating Technology continued…

Students in the 4th grade classroom learned to play the application

Plickers. Plickers is similar to Kahoot and Quizlet because the application is

able to test student knowledge by asking multiple choice and true/false

questions. Each student is given a sheet of paper with their specific plicker

on the paper. When a question appears on the board, the students hold

up their paper with their answer. The application can scan, using a mobile

phone, the plickers and determine who has the correct answer. Below are

pictures of students in the 4th grade classroom holding up their plicker. A

student teacher is scanning the plickers for the application to check their

answers.





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