As a Z.E.R. we have been working on a “Food project” as we have said  before. That means that each teacher and subject has been working on different templates to make with the children in order to learn different food items. In English we have done a “Vegetable Wheel” with the oldest children and a “Fruit Memory” with the youngest.

We like the colours of Autumn! Autumn brings leaves, yellows, reds, oranges and browns. Time to get inside and start eating Autumn fruits as mushrooms, chestnuts, sweet potatoes, pumpkins, pomegranates, grapes, oranges, mandarins, apples…

This year to study the fruits of Autumn we made a Mushroom Calligram where we wrote all the Autumn Fruits and things related to Autumn we know. We also sang “Autumn Leaves” song from Eric Clapton, and others.

When we first arrived at school after a long summer we felt it would be a good idea to start singing a rhythmic song to start the engine. We sang “The Mighty Jungle” song, a classical song adapted in many movies (The Lion King, for example). The children loved it as we coloured, cut wool, glued it on the lion’s mane.

Spring is finally here! To celebrate it we talked about flowers, bunnies. Eggs, snails, ladybirds, butterflies, goose, asparragus, the sun, the clouds, the rain, the rainbow, the wind…and of course about the Easter bunny and the Easter eggs!

We made a class display were we coloured, cut, glued, and labeled it.

To end with Easter we will have an Easter Hunt with the Easter Bunny comming all the way from The United Kingdom to see us and bring us delicious Easter Eggs!

EASTER BUNNY SONG:
FIVE LITTLE BUNNIES

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During Thanksgiving we learnt about the American culture. We learnt about how the Native Americans received the Europeans when they discovered the continent. The indians received them with the best of their foods: corn, pumpkin, potatoes, sweet potatoes, turkey….

Nowadays in North America they celebrate Thanksgiving as a day to give thanks to the land for all we have. Families get together and eat corn bread, corn on the cob, pumpkin cake or pie, sweet potatoes, and turkey.

We celebrated Louisa’s Birthday around the Z.E.R. It was a great day and we could tell thanks to Louisa for all her efforts in the class and in the schools. HAPPY BIRTHDAY LOUISA!!! 🙂