Thanksgiving 2017

Today is a very special day for our language assistants as Thanksgiving is celebrated in the USA. It is a very important day for American people and also for both learners and teachers of English. Giving thanks helps us to be grateful and appreciate the good things we have and we have had in our lives.

That is why this year we have asked our students to write in coloured pieces of paper what they are thankful for. The language assistants have designed a tree (two trees in fact) and stuck on its branches those pieces of paper as if they were the leaves of the tree. This tree represents 'The Giving Tree', a poem by the American poet Shel Silverstein.

Here you have some pictures:

Thanksgiving

This coming Thursday is Thanksgiving. We are celebrating it at school on Wednesday. Students are preparing quite a lot of activities: presentations in order to learn a bit more about the origins of Thanksgiving and how it is celebrated nowadays; some delicious recipes and a performance. All our classrooms will be decorated with colourful Thanksgiving symbols created by our students.

Here we'll post some of the photos we take.

As we promised, here you have some photos we've taken today. You've made a great effort and you've done wonderful things! Congratulations!!!

We have so many thing to be grateful!!!

Below you have a couple of videos. One is The Simpsons and the other one shows you, briefly, some important facts about the origins of Thanksgiving.