CLICK HERE to listen to classes C & D (All Day School) singing HOT CROSS BUNS!
Did you like our Easter customs event?
How much did you learn about Easter in the UK?
Watch this video
and this presentation
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and then TAKE THIS QUIZ…
What’s your score?
…or look for the hidden Easter words!
Here’s how we spent our English class during All Day School today in preparation for our
BRITISH EASTER CUSTOM SCHOOL EVENT
next Friday:
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This is an amazing basketball player power point presentation made by George and Chris (class E’) during the English lesson at All Day School.
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Well done boys!
We’re looking forward to your next one!
Today the kids cooperated in preparing a power point presentation about Easter customs in the UK, based on the information they have gathered so far from the minibook, the internet and the video they watched last week.
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They also decided to make a poster and an invitation to invite their classmates and the teachers to the Easter customs event they’re organizing next Friday.
Today the pupils, that took part in the Pancake Day event at school, took a quiz to find out how much they have learned about this special day. Judging by the results, they have learned everything about it!
Let’s take a look at the quiz’s results:
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WELL DONE KIDS!
Our stage
Our Pancake Day theatrical play
Our pancake race
Tossing the pancakes!
Class C’ made some pancakes in class today! Yesterday, they learned how to sing the ‘Mix a pancake‘ rhyme.
CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO CLASS C’ SINGING ‘MIX A PANCAKE’
Today, they watched the famous British chef Jamie Oliver making pancakes with his daughters and learned the ingredients in English. Then, it was their turn to ‘Mix a pancake, stir a pancake…’ !
They all did really well, they learned the ingredients in English, understood and acted out the English instructions and they were all very helpful!
Anna (class ST’) came with a wonderful surprise today at school. During the last two weeks she and her classmates have been researching what is ‘Shrove Tuesday’ and how it’s celebrated in the UK. Having all the information at hand and a lot of inspiration apparently, she wrote a play about Shrove Tuesday on her own! Copies were made for the other pupils, so that they can contribute with their ideas and also think all about the scenery, casting and costumes. Something tells me that we’ll have a real play performance at school soon!
Congratulations, Anna!
Today class C’ made Christmas cards. Some of the pupils who attend All Day School told the rest of the class about how the British hang their cards on a string. So when the wishes were written, each pupil hung his/her card on a piece of string in the English room and wished Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Writing cards the British way then!
We made a really loooooooooooong traditional British Christmas decoration today, piece by piece, helping each other. That’s the Christmas spirit!
Today during All Day School the pupils got creative once again and made use of the video they watched last week! They came prepared with all the material: paper rolls, paper, small gifts and jokes. Then, they watched the video again and got down to making them while listening to Christmas songs!
The oldest pupils were in charge of making the crackers, wereas the youngest ones were in charge of writing the jokes and filling the crackers. They liked making them so much that they’re going to make some at home, too, as they said. Each kid will take a handmade cracker home, put it on the Christmas table and explain their families all about this British custom!However, they were so anxious about it, that C and G pulled one in class!
Today classes C’, D’ , E’ and ST’ discussed their notes they took during the last lesson,while watching how Mr Bean (and all British people for that matter) celebrates Christmas. They also saw and discussed photos of British Christmas. They loved the British customs and they decided which ones they would like to bring to life in class.
So, they wrote down that they want to:
decorate a Christmas tree
make crackers
make Christmas chains
learn English carols
Next week they’ll begin with their most favourite custom, making crackers, and making christmas chains! So, here’s the video the older pupils watched in order to be prepared for the next lesson:
In the crackers there’s usually a Christmas hat. This is a great video on how to make it!
We can’t wait to try out ours!
Today it was the day to try the pumpkin cake the kids made yesterday! And the most proper way to do this was to complement it with a nice, funny video. To get a glimpse of what the British do during Christmas, they watched the episode ‘Merry Christmas Mr. Bean’. They had a good laugh, but they also had to focus their attention as they searched for info to fill a table about Bristish Christmas. So, today we had both a taste of Halloween AND Christmas in class.
Well done kids! Your cake was delicious!
And if you would like to watch the episode and get into the Christmas spirit, then click on it! I’m sure many of you will decorate a Christmas tree this weekend!
Happy weekend everyone!
Today we waved Mr Jack goodbye and…turned him into a Halloween cake during All Day School. It would be a waste to throw him away anyway.
During the previous lesson class ST’ translated a Halloween pumpkin cake recipe that older pupils had published on our school’s old English magazine some years ago. Then, Anna and Konstantina organized which kid would bring which ingredient to school. The instructions were then written on paper strips in Greek and put in a box.
Baking day arrived (today)! Everything was brought in class according to the girls’ plan but the most basic ingredient brought was everyone’s excitement! Classes ST’ and E’ were the chefs. Each pupils from classes C’ and D’ would draw a piece of paper from the box and act out the instruction. It was the perfect cooperation between the younger and the older pupils!And although they forgot some ingredients they put the main ingredient for a perfect cake: love!
Now We can only wait until tomorrow were we’ll all share it in All Day School.
Today we had a wonderful day at All Day School! It was Jack ‘o Lantern day!
Classes E’ & ST’ talked to the younger ones (C’ & D’) about Halloween and its symbol, the pumpkin. Then they organized a competition: they asked them to design a face for a Jack ‘o Lantern on a piece of paper and voted for the best. The girls’ design was the winner and Anna and Konstantina (ST’) transferred the design on the pumpkin. Class ST’ had read about how to curve a pumpkin on an old issue of our magazine, so they knew exactly what to do! After that I cut the face features and all of the kids enjoyed taking out the seeds. When the pumpkin was turned into a Jack ‘o Lantern, we drew the curtains, turned off the lights and lit a candle inside. It was magic!
The kids decided to make a recipe out of the leftover pumpkin and a video on how to curve it! Looking forward to it!
All day school pupils are involved in a project about British customs. So, after studying about Halloween a bit, they decided to deck the English room with the symbols of Halloween.Hence since last Friday the class has been filled with ghosts, pumpkins, bats and skeletons!
BOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Classes E’ and ST’ discussed and decided about the kind of information they want to know about Halloween, wrote a list and started looking on the internet. I wonder…what did they find?
There was an unexpected visitor in All Day school today…a witch riding her broom! Yes, it’s true, because today it’s Halloween and witches walk around in the USA and the UK so one of them visited Greece! She gave pupils the creeps as they walked into the English room! Vasilia, Dimitris, Kostas and the rest of the kids screamed with fear when they saw her! However, she turned out to be a nice witch. She showed them photos of Halloween, they filled in a quiz afterwards and talked about the festival. Finally they made their own scary bat masks. Classes C’ and D’ are now ready to flyyyyyyyyy!
Happy Halloween everyone!
Incy Wincy is a determined little spider that doesn’t give up! He wants to go up the water spout despite the rain and he finally makes it! Classes C’ and D’ sang the song and made an Incy Wincy craft to hang in their bedroom!
Let’s sing!
