HAPPY HALLOWEEN

This Saturday, October 31, is Halloween. As you already know it´s a very special celebration for many people in some English-speaking countries. Yesterday Judith, our Language Assistant, told us how Americans celebrate it and we learnt a lot.

I would also like to thank you for decorating our classroom. You did a great job!. Here are some pictures of the Halloween decorations you made.

HAVE A GREAT HALLOWEEN CELEBRATION!

SPRING FORWARD, FALL BACK

This Saturday night we must set our clocks one hour back, from 3 am to 2 am. Here in Spain, Daylight Saving Time, which began on the last Sunday of March, ends today, the last Sunday of October, but in The United States and Canada it always begins on the second Sunday of March and ends on the first Sunday of November.

Don't forget to change the time on your clocks back one hour before you go to bed tonight!

NEW LANGUAGE ASSISTANT

We have a new Language Assistant. Her name is Judith and she came from Connecticut, USA. We are very excited and we´d like to thank her for sharing her language and culture with us. We are sure our English will improve a lot with her help.

Thank you, Judith, for coming to teach us. We wish you a wonderful year in Spain!.

ACTIVITY: What do you know about Judith?. Click here.

ANCIENT GREECE

I have found many interesting websites about Ancient Greece. You can visit them and revise what you are studying in your History class. You can also learn many more interesting things about this period, and you can play some games, too.

Have fun and don´t forget to bookmark your favourite site!.

The Bristish Museum

Adventures in Ancient Greece

BBC / Ancient Greeks

Ancient History. Pppst

Channel 4 Learning

Ancient Greece

WORLD TEACHERS´DAY

October 5 is World Teachers´Day.

Click here to read more.

EUROPEAN DAY OF LANGUAGES

On 26 September 2009, the European Day of Languages will be held in Europe to celebrate linguistic diversity and promote
language learning.

Let's celebrate linguistic diversity!

Click here to read more about this day.

SCHOOL YEAR 2009-2010

Welcome back to school!.

I hope you had a great summer vacation.

HAVE A GREAT SUMMER!

School starts September 16

GOOD BYE, CONNOR

Connor, our Language Assistant, finished working at our School on May 31. It´s been a pleasure to have worked with him. I would like to thank him for his dedication.

Connor, enjoy your time in Spain before you go back to the United States.

We´ll miss you a lot!. Good luck!

The students wrote some goodbye messages

POLL #8: WHAT´S YOUR FAVOURITE TYPE OF BOOK / FILM?

Results:

New question (Poll # 9): Have you got a pet?.

SELF-PORTRAITS

Here are some of the self-portraits you drew in your Art class.

Bárbara Lorenzo

Carmen Valverde

Cynthia Clemente

María Ángeles García

María Chocano

Paula Molina

Sara Pérez

TO OUR NEW FRIENDS IN BLY, OREGON

A group of students from Bly, Oregon,wrote to us a few days ago. They would like to be our friends. In their letters they told us about themselves, their school and their town. We are very exited about having some friends in the United States, so we wrote them back yesterday morning. This is our letter:

Dear new friends,

Thank you for your letters. We liked them a lot!. We would like to know you better and continue writing letters back and forth.

We are a group of 12-13 year old students in 1º ESO (this is the 7th grade in the USA). There are 31 students in our group, 19 girls and 12 boys. The name of our school is “IES Francisco de Quevedo”. IES means “High School” so you know. There are 600 students and around 60 teachers. We are in a special class called “The European Section” , which means that we study 3 subjects in English: Physical Education, Art and Geography & History.

Our school is in Villanueva de los Infantes, which is a small rural town in the province of Ciudad Real, in the middle of Spain. There are 5,000 people in this town. Not everybody lives in the same town. Some of us come from nearby towns by bus. This year we have an American teacher, Connor. He helped us with this letter.

We can´t wait to hear from you!.

Talk to you soon!

Your Spanish friends.

P.S. - Alfonso, our English teacher, took these pictures while we were writing this letter:

ACTIVITY: What do you know about Oregon?. Take this quiz and find it out?.