STAMPS WORKSHOP

Hi people!
Last thursday we were working on a nice project related with "stamps". In this workshop we´ve been drawing, painting and carving in a rubber block. Finally, adding ink you can create your own stamp-design! It was an old technique that we could recover nowadays with a lot of interest.
Try to practice it, you just need a rubber block, ink an a bit of imagination!

Kahoot

You can play Kahoot quiz about Finland - Play

Visit Finnish Ambassadors (19th – 23rd March 2019)

Oh, my…!! I don’t know how to start… We’ve enjoyed such a wonderful week. So many things to tell you that I don’t…

Well, I’ll start from the beginning.

The arrival: Monday 10.30 pm, we’re all waiting, expecting the arrival of the bus bringing our friends here. Every sound, every car…and Yes‼ finally they’re here. Minutes full of nerves and expectation. Even though we’ve texted with our friends, this will be the first time we meet and we hope everything goes smooth. And so did it.

The next days are filled with activities so we all can enjoy and take the most of the few days our friends are going to be here:

On Tuesday we took them around the school premises to show them where we study, we also went to see the amazing scientific experiments that the 4^th graders had prepared (so astonishing) and finally we could enjoy the award ceremony for the short films shot by 4^th graders. Such a complete day and that was just the morning. There was a great surprise: we were taken to practice paddle surf; it was soooooo fun‼

On Wednesday we got to know our town a bit better: guided tour in Jardín de la isla, learning the myths behind the fountains, and then visit to Palacio Real. We remained all speechless, such beauties there inside. During the afternoon we had to work a bit planning the future of our club: if we don’t do it, who is going to do it for us? Do you want to know what we decided? Then you have to keep updated here, in our blog!

Thursday was the moment to visit Madrid. We, the Spanish kids, already knew the city a bit, but it was the first time for our Finnish friends and, gosh! How they enjoyed it! Lots of walking downtown and lots of beautiful things to see.

Friday came so quickly and it was turn to visit one of the most beautiful cities in Spain: Toledo. We took a tour with two super-nice guides from Cuéntame Toledo . Did you know that Toledo is called “the city of the three cultures”? We didn’t, but know we do: Jews, Muslims and Christians lived there together: could we do it again in the future? Back in Aranjuez we enjoyed great moments sharing a snack with all the members of the clubs and our families: it was a super-special moment. We also recorded some footage to prepare something. What? Stay tuned to know!

And as fast as you’ve read these lines, Saturday came and so the moment to say good bye. Good bye? No! Just “see you soon”. In some months it will be us visiting our friends and knowing a bit more about their country. In the meantime, lots of activities await for us.

 

A/V workshop:

Hi people! In our last meeting we learnt a bit about audio/video techniques and we had a lot of fun playing with a chroma key. As it was so fun, we didn't want to miss the chance to soy "Hi" to all of you.

In a few days we'll upload longer videos from our ambassadors.

During our A/V workshop we recorded longer footage from all of us. We've edited a selection so you can get to know our ambassadors a bit better.

Greetings from third graders

Third graders (9 years old pupils) made a couple of animations to our friends in Spain. We had so much fun making them.

  

                                           

                                           

Language awareness

Erasmus club students wrote greetings in different languages and placed them around our school.

Parents at school

Erasmus club pupils' parents visited school yesterday. They were informed about our upcoming visit to Aranjuez. They were all excited!

Skype meeting

Hi people:

Last Thursday we missed our break, but it was for a good reason, we got to meet our Finnish friends personally by making a video-call.

We could make them some questions an learn a bit about their life and their school.

They also asked us things they wanted to know, such as how it feels to come to school in uniform or the timetable in our school.

It was really funny to spend some time with them and we're looking forward to meeting them again and, of course, to receive their visit in March.

Listen! Listen to me!

Hello!! Today we’ve had another club meeting. It’s so good to see that most of the students who started are still interested in joining us!

Today we’ve made a very important activity because it will help to decide the lucky members who will host our Finnish friends next month: yes! It’s just a bit more than a month and they will be here!

This has been a listening activity. We’ve heard a couple of tracks and answered to some questions. It sounds boring but we’ve enjoyed it. When we finished we made another game consisting in translating common Spanish expressions into English. The hour flied!

We’re already looking forward to our next meeting. The teachers told us that we will have to record ourselves as if it was a casting. How fun it will be‼

See you in a couple of weeks!

Tell me a story

Today we’ve held our 4^th meeting. This time we’ve decided to focus on our speaking and listening skills playing a funny activity: it consist on inventing a story all together.

We’ve split up in four groups of eight people (yes, we were 32 participants. Super massive, as usual) and we had to continue a story starting with “It was a sunny day and I decided to go for a walk…”. The first person of the group had to go on from that sentence and after a while, one of the teachers said: “Next” and the following person had to continue the story.

It’s been very entertaining and we have invented really funny stories. The best part is that we have practiced our speaking and listening skills playing.

We’re looking forward to our next meeting. What will we do? I think it’ll be time for some technological activities.

Let´s play a kahoot!

What a great come back after holydays! Classes seemed a bit too long today after so many days out but at least we had a good thing coming at the end of the day: our club meeting! Today we changed our usual class to go to the computer room. We’ve learned what a Kahhot is. It’s a very funny way of playing together. It consists in a quiz with four answers for each question. We could see the questions and the answer in the projector and give our responses from our computers (or tablets or phones…). It sounds a bit complicated but it’s really fun. After playing a short quiz about Finland we prepared some questions for our Finnish friends. You can play it here. We hope our colleagues from Finland will enjoy this game and learn a bit more about our culture and traditions. We’re looking forward to having the next meeting on 22nd January. What will we do that day? I still don’t know, but I’m sure that it’ll be real fun, as it always is!

To play the game you have to follow the link, press playàClassic. Then you will see a pin code that you have to insert in https://kahoot.it from your phone or tablet, follow the questions in your computer and mark the answers in your portable device.

  KAHOOT

 

A little Christmas present

You were expecting the presents, weren´t you? As we promissed, here you are a little christmas present! Hope you enjoy it!. MErry Christmas to you all!. See you next year!

Merry Christmas from Rastaala!