How to make a sheep!

Step 1: Draw something that resembles a sheep onto paper.

Step 2: Cut out the paper sheep, glue onto cardboard and cut out to make a template.

Step 3: Draw how many body parts you need using the templates for each sheep. For example, one head, 2 sets of legs and a body for each sheep.

Step 4: Cut out all the parts and give each student the cut outs they need.

Step 5: You will need 2 eyes for each sheep, a black pen for each student, cotton wool, glue and a stick.

Step 6: Glue the eyes onto the head and draw a black nose and mouth :=)

Step 7: Colour the legs in black and glue cotton wool over all the body parts.

Step 8: Make a hole in the top of the head and the top of the other body parts with a pencil. Then place the stick through the holes starting with the head, legs, body and legs.

You should have something that resembles a sheep! Baa!

Step 9: Relax and sing baa baa black sheep!

xoxoxox

Sing Song! Baa baa black sheep...

Another Manic Monday

Thank you to all my wonderful friends for the lovely birthday surprises and presents!

It was a great weekend filled with fabulous people, food and gin and tonics! I can't wait for the next one (gin and tonic that is)!

Today some of us finished our sheep, they looked so cute and some of them a little scary!

We also had lots of fun bowling! 1, 2, 3 GO!!!!!!

Check back tomorrow morning for how to make crazy sheep! :)

Happy Monday!

Hello all! It's Monday again, and we are all ready for another week of fun! Aren't we? January is almost over, so how are all of the resolutions holding up? Still going strong, I hope ......


Have a great day


xoxoxo

Happy Birthday Katherine Teacher!!!

It's Friday! wooohooooo!!!! The Jordan English girls & friends had a little lunch outing today to celebrate, or that should be pre celebrate Katherine's birthday!!! We hope that she enjoyed and that she likes all her pressies! Her birthday is actually on Sunday, but any excuse to celebrate with a nice lunch! It's also Friday, so a lovely way to finish off the week, delicious food and excellent company!


So, what are the plans for the weekend? Are we all going into hibernation with his cold weather? NO WAY! Too much to do, and besides we are on the countdown to our next big event ..... Valentine's Day! Get ready people, lots of red, pink, white and of course PURPLE decorations to look forward to, as well as some yummy treats!!!!


Have a great weekend, and look forward to seeing you all in top form on Monday!


HUGS


P.S. Bon Voyage to two of our First Certificate students who are leaving this weekend to spend three months abroad! Conchi is off to Vienna and Alberto is heading for Belfast! ENJOY! Keep in touch with us here at base, we`ll miss you both. See you in May! xxoxoxoxox

Wonderful, don't you just love catch 22 situations? Yes, that is a rhetorical question! Today (and by today I mean yesterday), I needed energy for classes of wild animals so I had a small coffee from the machine, and now here I am exhausted but still unable to sleep and it's already tomorrow (Thursday). The worst part is it doesn't even taste like real coffee! 

What's more, the big animals were all hibernating from the rain, I mean what's that about? It seems in all the Spanish speaking countries I've visited, if it's raining there is an unwritten law that class is automatically cancelled.

On the other hand, we are one step closer to making our 3D sheep and I learned that Galicia has the highest suicide rate in Spain (obviously this is due to vile weather). What wonderful information our students are full of! Of course, this was shortly followed by the fact that we should celebrate everyday, and be happy for any glimpse of sunshine that might appear in our grey Galician skies.

P.S. If you can't wait for the glimpse of sunshine in Galicia, Tenerife is only 2 and a half hours away and they have sunshine all year round!

P.P.S. Also consider purchase of electric blanket (as I am right now), this may actually be cheaper than Tenerife and will

a. hopefully stop us getting frostbite whilst sleeping

and

b. stop me singing frosty the snowman in my head.

Reminds me of home!!!

Lots of little bars ..... sounds like Ireland really!  Hope you all have a great day today and I don't think the rain will prevent us enjoying overselves!!!!

So last night we were talking about our hometowns. Granted, most of the answers were Lugo, but even in the little villages the common denominator was "there are lots of bars!" Really? Out of all the things you could say about a place this seems to be the most important. No wonder why Spain has such a party reputation!

So here we go on this grey Tuesday - fiesta, siesta and sangria! What more could you want?!

Monday again! We are off to a busy start here with Cambridge exam practice and the wild animals later. I'll let you know if I am referring to the subject or the students!

This week we should be starting our 3D animals and posters, so keep posted for the results and a how to.

I also had another great idea last night that I might put into practice as well - homemade piggy banks!

If anyone else has ideas for animal projects or in general please feel free to share them.

Enjoy your Monday!

xxxx

Yes, yesterday was fun learning about wild animals, as well as teaching them! I can think of a few in particular I would like to hunt down!

Take a look at my crazy cat for learning body vocabulary! I'm not the best drawer in the world, which the kids (and adults) frequently remind me of, but this time I think it actually resembles the intended animal.

Here's to another wild day!

xxxx

The end of another day at Jordan English! Thanks to all our wonderful teachers & students for a great day of hard work, fun and games! And you wanna know the best thing? We get to do it tomorrow all over again!!! Good night! xoxoxoxox

Good Morning!

Hello everyone!

Despite the vile weather in Lugo this week (and probably the next few months) we are off to a good start.
Our theme with the little ones this month is animals and seems to be proving a good one so far. Our most recent addition to the animal kingdom is a 'marifly' (now also my favourite word in Spanglish), I couldn't help but laugh at that one. If you can't guess the real word should be 'butterfly'!

Well it's time to get the party started! Lots of fun and games planned here today! Oh and let's not forget singing and dancing to 'Old Macdonald had a farm', which is now on permanent replay in my head, and yes, I am also singing myself to sleep with it as well.

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year everyone! New year new start! I hope you all rested well over the Christmas hols because now it's time to get the ball rolling again!

This month (and year) we have lots of fun things planned for the little rugrats and of course for our wonderful adults too :=)  so stay tuned for our updates and please feel free to post comments etc. on our new blog!