Welcome to our Spanish Club Gallery. Here you will find some of the
experiences we had during the years as our kids learned Spanish through the many
activities we offered
1. Please
have a look at the images of our Spanish sessions carried out by Dottoressa Giovanna Montalti.
Session: La Fiesta, May 2019
Our Fiesta is the way the we celebrate our “See You Soon”, where the use of traditional activities and customs (for example, the cake and the piñata) represents our engagement with and enjoyment of our “See You Soon”.In this session pupils will practice what they have learnt during the whole year in our Spanish Club, and they will enjoy the entertainment with our tradition of the piñata, which is hilarious and a lot of fun!
Session: Halloween/VÃspera
de Todos los Santos/DÃa de los Muertos, Oct. 2019
This Celebration is a Celtic
tradition that is also found in hispano-american cultures. The literal
translation is: VÃspera de Todos los Santos. This diffusion of the tradition
began with the immigration of the Irish people to the USA, and it later spread to
other areas where it integrated with the local traditional cultural practices
in many countries. In fact, Mexico celebrates it as part of its traditional
feast of respect for their ancestors - this celebration is called: DÃa de los muertos.
This celebration has also become
very popular in Spain and is even celebrated in schools. It is very interesting
to note that one thing which is common to all Spanish-speaking countries is
their willingness to celebrate and enjoy a festival, so anything is a good
excuse to do that!
Our purpose in this session
was to practice familiar vocabularies in order to recall them better in the
context of this international cultural celebration. Our students became very
interested and engaged with this kind of learning without losing the
interactive and fun approach that we take to each lesson.
Session:
Recycling Activities/ Actividades de Reciclaje, 2019
“La tierra no es
una herencia de nuestros padres sino un préstamo de nuestros hijos” (Proverbio
Iberoamericano). Our children are actively participating in our
recycling-inventive session. It is hugely captivating and rewarding to observe
how they react with genuine sadness and disappointment when they hear that
teenagers and adults (including their parents) are destroying our planet,
killing the fish and contaminating the lakes, rivers and oceans. In this
session they show us: what they are able to do to reverse this process;
how they can be creative with “useless items” if they are given the
opportunity; how they can relish and enjoy things that people discard or
through away; how we can decrease and manage our household waste; how much
money we can save by engaging with these activities. In fact, one of our pupils
was engaged in designing a colossal figure made from these “useless times”
found in his home. It not only kept him occupied and busy for a long time but
he also had a lot of fun in the process.
Session: ᵢFeliz Cumpleaňos! (Nov. 2018)
This session is divided in two cultural activities:
· The
Happy Birthday: Kids here were exposed
to the Spanish happy birthday song, the Venezuelan traditional dance “los
tambores” together with playing with a Venezuelan instrument, “el tambor”. In
Spanish there are many ways that you can sing Happy Birthday. On this occasion,
the children heard the Venezuelan version of happy birthday called “feliz
cumpleaňos tambores urbanos”. In addition, they also learnt the short way to
sing the Happy Birthday song.
Bingo with Words: From Junior Infants to Sixth
Class, the kids played bingo with words to help them built up their vocabulary,
associate the words with the pictures, learn the correct pronunciation and
more. Furthermore, the older children also started to read in Spanish.
2. Please have a look at the pictures of our Spanish Workshops/Talleres en español with our Special Guest:
Taller: Actividades Navideñas/ A
Christmas workshop, 2019
Carried out by Mireia Lopez from Discovery Playtime. During this
activity our pupils engaged with songs, music, played games and were involved
in Christmas craft activities. As always, it was all through Spanish!
Taller: Mi
Fiesta de Cumpleaños, Nov. 2019
By Mireia Lopez from Discovery Playtime. You can find more information about Mireia on: www.discoveryplaytime.ie
With this workshop we
learned to celebrate a birthday in a real context (we celebrated Giovanna’s
birthday). The aim of this Spanish workshop was to expose our pupils to
practicing the Happy Birthday song, and making a birthday card using recycled
items. We intentionally delivered two versions of the Happy Birthday songs: one
from Spain and one from Venezuela (just a short part of the song). In this way
our kids learned different accents and vocabularies (from Spain and from Latin
American), as well as to be open-minded by discovering different traditions and
integrating and welcoming those from different cultures
.
Taller:
Arte y Ciencia/Art and Science, 2018
By Mireia Lopez from Discovery Playtime. You can find more information about Mireia on: www.discoveryplaytime.ie
Taller: Los Carnavales/The Carnivals, Feb. 2019
By Mireia Lopez from Discovery Playtime. You can find more information about Mireia on: www.discoveryplaytime.ie
This cultural activity aims to learn about the traditional period of fun and to enable kids to use their own imagination in designing and creating their own costume while building vocabulary up.
This cultural activity aims to learn about the traditional period of fun and to enable kids to use their own imagination in designing and creating their own costume while building vocabulary up.
