Today we were doing our BEST in reading comprehensión and creation activities.
We were using a fantastic ressource about the World Cup.
It is a fantastic way of learning with focusing in their interests
History.
Every few years, in a different country around the world, there's a big sports competition. It's like the Olympics but only for one sport. The most popular sport in the world! What do you know about the history of the FIFA World Cup?.
World cup 2026 ( listening)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/videos/cq51d9d97wno
Fun Facts World Cup 2026. (Reading)
Fact 1. Expanded Tournament, More Excitement
With 48 teams and 104 matches, this World Cup will be the largest edition yet, offering more chances for upsets and underdog stories!
Fact 2. A Spectacle at the Final
For the very first time in World Cup history, the final will feature a halftime show, rather like to the Super Bowl. Coldplay is rumoured to be helping select the performers. Something to look forward to!
Fact 3. A Tri-Nation Hosting First
This is the first time three countries have shared hosting duties. While the United States and Mexico have hosted before, Canada will be hosting the men's World Cup for the first time ever.
Fun activities to do at home.
To develop pir creativity we are going to do a Big banner to encourage Spain.
Elements to use:
1. The golden cup.
Here some Exemples of It:
We’re kicking off the summer holidays and we’re really looking forward to it. We’ll be relaxing in the heart of the Dehesa Charra, spending time with friends from the village, family and wonderful neighbours.
We live in a village that’s buzzing with life in the summer; the council organises loads of activities. It’s impossible to get bored here!
Both need to practice at home, and my kids have luck...me and my husband are teachers...so learning at home, for them, It is quite easy!!!.
Here some of the tasks they have done:
In the summer it’s time to rest, but when we enjoy something, we love to keep learning… so we’ll carry on with #OneHourEnglishAtHome… but now we’ll be doing it every day.
As we do every weekend, we spend an hour each day working on communication and expression in English.
Last week we weren’t able to work at home because Álvar was on a language immersion trip and we were at a wedding in the Basque Country.
We are very lucky to have such excellent professionals involved in every aspect of our children’s overall education. Firstly, Álvar and Martín’s teacher, Cris, who has generously given them the opportunity to attend a language immersion centre in Ávila; secondly, Ivana, the teacher at the INFIL school where we’ve taken A&M since they were very young; and I must also mention Irene, the nanny of one of Álvar’s best friends.
Irene is a real gem for the village of Doñinos. She’s a lovely lady who gives extra tuition and English lessons in the village and runs fantastic workshops so that the children of Doñinos can enjoy unique creative and immersive experiences.
Following the workshop Irene has proposed for the end of this school year, and the other one to do of the next...Today, we have reviewed the Topic 6 of Year 5th in english at home; and we have worked in a playful, creative way using real-life contexts to express what we are going to find in Gotham Adventure in septembre '26...
By the way..we are going to be part of the 19th june party "TARDEO"...It Will be also nice experiences, of couse!!!
With this in mind, I suggested to Álvar that he make a paper flyer about the adventure Irene will be leading in September.
Objectives:
Conclusions:
Álvar has returned today from his first language immersion trip.
He arrived happy and with a rucksack full of new knowledge.
We can never thank Cris, Ana and Sonsoles enough for their hard work and generosity. Three teachers who have given up their weekend free time to make this language experience accessible to the Year 5 pupils at Doñinos.
They are exemplary, dedicated teachers with a high level of professionalism. Because let’s not kid ourselves, this responsibility outside school hours is unpaid.
The centre where they went for the immersion programme is in Gredos, Ávila.
They took part in some really cool activities, well designed to encourage communication, teamwork and fun.
Álvar has told us that he won several prizes and that he communicated effectively at all times... so we’re continuing to focus on consistent, ongoing work at home in everything...
We usually travel abroad at least twice a year and these experiences are very important for our kids to understand how importan is english nowadays.
Here are some worksheets from the Gredos Centre
This weekend Álvar was alone with us. Martín was in a spring camp near here.
We have had too much time to do things we like: go to our villages, go hiking and enjoy with traditions...
We are very grateful to Álvar’s English teacher, Cris Novoa, who has taken on the challenge of leading our children on the Year 5 class’s first immersion trip.
It is a real gift that, at this age, a teacher would choose to give up her free time so that our children can begin to function in English independently, within an English-speaking environment that encourages them to make an effort with the language.
Thank you, thank you, thank you...
Just like every weekend, whether there are exams or not, we practice English at home; we speak and read in English...
And there’s nothing better than using the numerous activities Álvar has planned for this week to practice vocabulary and grammatical structures.
Today we practiced ‘Going to’ using the programme of activities sent to us from the Gredos immersion trip...
As we do every weekend, we practice English at home.
This week has been very tough, so we’ve used all the time we would normally have spent on the subjects Álvar and Martín had exams in to practice speaking, reading and grammar a little.
Specifically, the main topic has been the European Union and the evolution of species within this society.
Drawing on our travel experiences, we’ve also started practicing ‘Going to’ with plans for the immediate future (this summer) and plans that are a bit further off but very much on our minds.
We use “going to” to describe our plans for this summer.
1) Going to our villages, having a village is the BEST for kids...and spending time with friends and cousins is the BEST plan for summer.
Aldehuela, on of our villages IS a very dynamic town, with too many kids and with nice places to enjoy together ( swiming pool, fields, nice paths, excelentes views...).
2) Doing water sports at Santi Petri. We’ll be going back to CadizFornia.
3) Upcoming trips: Munich, Denmark, Athens
And finally, we like the music, so we enjoy listening excellent messages like this:
Today, we train vocabulary and communication skills. My kids are very good in english and for them, It is not enough to memorize words to get better...
Obviously, memorizing is important...but when kids know the words...they need a contexto to use them and to lear comprehensive. So, how They nowadays know the words, I consider they can go further...
I want not only my kids know the meening of the words but also explain the meening using gramar and trainning oral skills..
Sometimes the vowel changes (come → came), sometimes the pronunciation changes (read → read), and sometimes the whole word changes (eat → ate). Sometimes there seems to be a pattern (throw → threw, know → knew), but there are always exceptions (snow → snowed).
Learning irregular verbs might seem like a bit of a "brain workout," but they are actually the VIPs of the English language. Most of the words we use to describe our daily lives—like what we ate for breakfast, what we saw at the park, or where we went over the weekend—don't follow the "add -ed" rule.
If you only use the regular rules, you might end up saying things like "I eated" or "I goed," which sounds a bit like a tiny toddler talking! By mastering these special verbs, you’ll be able to tell your stories clearly and sound much more natural and confident when speaking with friends.
