THE TEACHING EXPRESS

Our last project in 5 was related to Medieval Times and Castles. We had a great time while decorating the classroom and discovering lots of legends.

As in every project we started by talking about the things we knew and the ones we wanted to know.

Our families made fantastic castles with the kiddos

and we add the books and information they brought about medieval times to the project table:

DRAWING CASTLES AND MEDIEVAL PEOPLE BEFORE THE PROJECT

Castles in Navarra and medieval leyends

During the project we discovered all the castles that are still in Navarre as well as some medieval towns such as Puente la Reina, Ujué, Olite, Marcilla….

Castillo de Javier:

Santa Maria de Ujué: a fortified church

Marcilla's Castle

Olite's Royal Palace

We talked about the most famous navarre castles and then we place them in a map to later on do our own:

THE LEGENDS:Navarre is a region full of legends and there is a collection of books that tells the most important ones.

We discovered why the navarre's coat of arms has chains all over it, how Teodosio De Goñi killed a dragon in Aralar, what happened in a very special banquette in Marcilla .....

As we were becoming experts in astronauts last week we shared our knowledge with 4th and 5th graders as well as with 4 year olds.

In class we did pair talking: the idea is to talk in pairs about as many things as we can about astronauts in 5 minutes to then share with the rest of the class

We also did some free writing on how astronauts travel and where they live.

We watched a fantastic video about space shuttles taking off that we played really loud it was like being there for real, we als olearned what happened to the boosters when they fell down.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnoNITE-CLc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gbtulv0mnlU

OUR ASTRONAUTS HALL OF FAME:

TIME FOR THE 5 YEAR OLDS CONFERENCES. I am so incredibly proud of my 5 and 6 year old ESL learners being able to explain things about astronauts and about how rockets and space shuttles work in English.

We taught the 4 year olds about astronauts and they showed us their inventions:

The las part of the project was writing about our favorite astronaut and checking what we have learned about astronauts as well as answering the questions we asked at the beginning of the project.