My favorite toy!

This week our youngest English learners brought their favorite toy to school. They did a real good job describing the colours or finding the right toy according to a description.

Meet:
Nicole (1° Ano) and her pink doll; 
Rafael (1° Ano) and his orange, red, green and white fish; 
Amanda (1° Ano) and her pink, green, blue, yellow doll; 
Martim (1° Ano) and his green, yellow, orange and black tractor; 
Sara (4° Ano) and the picture she drew of her doll Maria. Maria has got black hair and brown eyes. She is wearing a pink dress.

The kids workshop!

Ja, ich spreche deutsch! 

Filipa, Ana Sofia, Andreia, Rui
Tánea and Goncalo (missing in the picture: Nádia)

After one week of practising German the seven participants of the German Workshop for Kids can proudly say that. After long ours of hard work and fun they know the numbers and colours as well as some basic communication skills as introducing oneself, asking about age and origin, and talking about how they feel. In the following lessons everyone worked hard in order to create a portfolio. Parts of the portfolio were to write a profile in German. In order to translate the texts and write about themselves the students used different medias such as a dictionary and an online dictionary. Another task was to do a jigsaw of the German "Bundesländer" and transcribe their names and capitals into a map of the portfolio. Moreover, the kids translated and created their own timetable, translated and wrote postcards with the help of a German postcard, labeled a map of Vila do Corvo for German tourists and designed their cover pages.

Congratulations everyone on completing the course and putting in a lot of effort in your free time. Well done!

Thank you for your interest and participation.

For more pictures see: The kids workshop

German Workshop for Students!!!

Since our students are very busy during the school year, we have decided to offer a German Holiday Workshop for them.
It will take place in the second week of our Easterholidays and will be open to all 2° and 3° cycle students.
We will meet 90 minutes daily for one week and learn some basic German vocabulary as well as cultural and fun facts about that country "far far away".

Please register in the school secretary or directly with me.

Ordering food

In order to practice how to order and behave in a restaurant we took our seventh grade to the local bar today. After practicing in school all students ordered something to drink and a snack in English. Of course the conversation while enjoxing our snacks was English as well just as the English speaking service. 

Thank you so much Joao e Angela (BBC)

Valentine's Day- Dia das namoradas

Let me be your Valentine...

Valentine's day or rather "Dia das noamoradas", in Portuguese, is widely celebrated in Portugal. The stores in town had some special items on display and the local restaurants offered romantic Valentine's day dinners.

Today we celebrated Valentine's Day in school. The School was nicely decorated with hearts.

All of the older classes wrote Valentine's cards, which were delivered by our cute little cupids, the twins Rafael and Amanda from first grade. We also elected Mr. and Mrs. Valentine who were shown in a poster. 

Picture by Sara Sousa

Lapas

Today I got to meet "Lapas" (Napfschnecken). It is a type of sea snail living on rocks in the ocean. Here it is considered a delicacy. I already tried them after they were boiled and part of a delicious soup. 

But I just couldn't get myself to eat them alive... :-S

Because then they still move!!

Watch the video on facebook.

First BBQ of the Year

Grilled fish. Today we had grilled fish. The fish had just been caught just a day before. The BBQs here are an amazing invention. So in case you might need a BBQ and don't have one... make yourself a Corvenian version. You just need your old washing machines intestants and, one or two small grids, an old paint can or anything else to raise the washing machine...
The fish tasted delicious.

Sometimes a man with gas and a flame thrower can come in handy :)