Teacher Training mode ON!

Hello!

Today we're here to show you a different thing...
Have you ever asked yourself: What do the teachers do when they're at school, but no children are there?
I love when the students ask me (once a week or more! ;D): Do you live at the school? Do you sleep in here? Where's the kitchen?!
It's so so funny!
But we weren't writing you because of this, it's because we wanted to show you what we, teachers, are up to when we're at the school... We're doing a training course on how to create films and short films in the English Classroom!!
And what it's best is that most of the teachers are not English teachers, they're not even English users... But together, we're crating awesome lessons and activities for our students!
Neverminding if you're a Pre-Primary teacher, or if you're teaching Music or PE, when we work as a team, THE CAL·LIPOTEAM creates MAGICAL things!

Thank you so so much.

And... as we were saying, THE CAL·LIPOTEAM together makes MAGICAL things... We're going to show you the Halloween session of our Teacher Training Course. 

Lights... Camera... Action!

Lots of Love!

Little Hazelnut... the first English book with our 3-year olds!

Hi there!
We're back here to show you the first picture book used with the littlest students in the school, the 3-year olds in the Rabbits' class!!
It's a beautiful book that talks about winter, and it has an awesome moral: that no matter what, good times will come... It just needs time.
It's the story about a little hazelnut that was covered with a blanket of snow during a cold cold Winter, but in the end, Spring always come back with its most fantastic presents... The flowers, the trees and the beautiful nut trees.
As always, if you feel like it, please, comment!! 🙋

Sharing love words with everyone! :)

Hi there!
This week, we were celebrating a nice day... The LOVE day. There are loads of types of love, and the most important one is the one that starts with friendship.
All of our students (and all of us, indeed) have a favourite person but, at the same time, they all share those feelings with their classmates.
What we decided was to use a Mail Box found at a Tiger store to share our love words with our classmates.
First, we created a kind of "secret santa", where everyones' names were on a box and we took one of the papers out, and that was our "secret valentine". Then, we had to think of something nice to give to that person. We tried (really, really, really hard) to create a Heart-shaped message, as the following one:

But, after spending 40 minutes trying, we decided to move on and use a rectangle to write our message.

And in the end... the day we gave them in... Well, look at their faces, they say everything!

They all were surprised of how well their classmates knew them (favourite colour, what they liked doing...). 

It's been an amazing experience, and we hope that they will never forget their feelings and how easy is to make people happy with almost none effort.

Happy Valentine's Day! :)

Musicals' project, here we go!

Hiya!
We're back in business with our fifth grade students.. They were asked at the beginning of the School Year what they'd like to use as a conductor thread for the Arts & Crafts's subject... And they decided the topic: MUSICALS!
First, we have spent a whole term deciding what kind of musical? If we should create one, or use one already done, and in the end, last Wednesday, they all agreed to use the musical called GREASE!
I couldn't believe it.
Is it possible that they choose one of the teachers favourites 🎬?
It is... and I PROMISE PROMISE PROMISE that I haven't said a thing about that.
So... here you have a couple of pictures of the whiteboard we used when deciding it and be ready for that... This Wednesday are the AUDITIONS!!! 👏👏👏
Have fun, and be ready...!!

What a performance!

Hi there!
We're back with some pictures from Carnival!! =)
We brought a game from Elena's stay in England called: What a performance!
It's a funny and entertaining game that we can use with the students from Year 1 to the ones in Year 6... and they all have fun!!!
For the littlest ones, I read the cards for them, and the oldest ones can read them by themselves. They have to sing, act, mime, do different things, and it's amazing how they learn from every little game we do in class.
So... here are some of the pictures!
Enjoy and have a great Carnival!!!!