Category Archives: Intrepids

June 19

Graduation Ceremony 2013

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Another year, another graduation. Yesterday another group of my students finished school. Every year I try to stay cool at their departure and, every year, I end up sad to see them go. This time it was the turn of my Intrepid Team, the group I started teaching two years ago. The graduation began with […]

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June 04

Advertising 2013

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Coinciding with the topic of unit 7 of our English book, I have put my students in the skin of a publicist. Like in previous years (2011, 2012) I wanted they experienced the process of editing images and audio with focus on creativity, cooperation, and openness. And one year more I think I’ve exceeded the […]

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February 24

The landscape of Spain with plasticine

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My sixth graders have made ​​a map of Spain out of plasticine, with the main elements of the landscape that we have studied in class. It took a couple of days to work through all of the details but finally yesterday we did the final touches on the models. Then they made an oral presentation […]

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February 20

The Toothpicks Star Trick

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I never thought a bunch of toothpicks and a drop of water could make our day! But Yesterday Millan amazed us with this cool experiment. I don’t want to spoil the surprise, watch the video and see if you can guess his secret… Thanks Millan! So say we all!!

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December 11

Beam me up, Scotty

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Take a look at the incredible light bulb we made today in Science class with my sixth graders: All we needed to light up our day was: Eight D-sized batteries Mechanical pencil refills Two sets of small alligator clips A clear glass Electrical tape Toilet paper tube And this is how we did it: We […]

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November 16

Mr. Jones

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Who is Mr. Jones? Mr. Jones is a night security guard at an art museum. Sometimes when he walks down the corridors strange things happen around him. And he has a very important role in our upcoming stop-motion movie! This week my Sixth Graders have given him the final touches and now he is ready […]

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October 18

The chicken wing connection

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Coinciding with the current Science unit, the body, on Tuesday we dissected chicken wings to discover bones, muscles, joints, tendons and ligaments in a fun way. It also gave us the opportunity to enjoy chicken wings from a new perspective although some of my toughest sixth-graders had preferred to not know them from this new […]

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October 13

The Fortune Cookie

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I wanted to continue practicing the present perfect so two days ago we went down to the computer lab and made use of Zimmer Twins, a great website that offers free creation of animated movies. I asked my sixth graders to make a short clip in which Edgar, Eva and 13 (the three main characters) had to […]

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October 08

Superheroes & Villains

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Coinciding with the topic of our first unit of English, Amazing Heroes, in 6th grade English class we have taken advantage of the possibilities of Colonial Nuggets Wiki as a perfect way to practice the present perfect. First I asked them to draw a superhero with the powers they preferred. Then I scanned them and […]

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June 21

Outdoors Adventure

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For the end of school year field trip, we went to a ropes course to play around in the trees. We had so much fun. And we could not get enough! 😀 I took this clip as I rode the zip-line. It was great! Enjoy So say we all!!

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April 17

Visiting Museo de los Orígenes

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Coinciding with the start of our first unit of History, today we visited the Museum of the Origins (Plaza de San Andrés, 2). Its permanent exhibition shows the history of Madrid from prehistoric times to the seventeenth century, through the numerous archaeological remains found in the city. The guides were awesome and made it so fun! […]

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Merry Christmas!

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Thursday was the last day of class and the whole school turned out for the end of term celebration. All the classes took part in the show singing Christmas songs in English and Spanish. My fifth graders sang a special version of The Ramones‘ Merry Christmas (I don’t want to fight tonight). I played the […]

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Dagobah

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Captain’s Log, Stardate 2011.307 Dabogah is a new feed agregator designed to collect post from my fifth-graders (Intrepid Team). This year, due to age policies on Google I have been forced to move our classroom blogging activities to a new “universe”. Bye bye Blogger… 😦 Kidblog is a safe blogging platform for students and it […]

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Halloween 2011

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Captain’s Log, Stardate 2011.301 Yesterday, we celebrated Halloween at San Cristobal. It was super fun! Many students (and teachers) dressed up and looked great in costumes. It definitively allowed us to do something different. We also had time to make two movies, which I think were very funny. What do you think? Zombie School: The […]

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