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Winter Wonderland in Maternelle Winter brings a wide array of learning opportunities to explore in the maternelle classroom and with it, lots of activities. Learning about the changes of the seasons, how arctic animals stay warm in the winter, making “snowflakes”, having snowball fights and dressing up warmly to build snowmen and go ice skating.…
A l’école primaire d’Amsterdam la mise en place d’activités en anglais permet d’appréhender l’apprentissage de manière ludique. En voici quelques exemples en version originale … Christmas baking Cycle 1 and cycle2 had lots of fun baking traditional English Christmas treats. The PS made cream cheese cookies, the CP and CE1 made gingerbread and the CE2 made…
CM2 English (Amsterdam) – Semester 1 News In period 1, the CM2 class studied Culture and Sensibility and focused on Gender Equality. The class did a small study to find out who did what chores at home. They observed the chores in their home in a one-week period to find out if the chores were…
CM1 English (Amsterdam) – Semester 1 News In period 1, the CM1 English class studied Culture and Sensibility and focused on Gender Equality in toys. They looked at the local toy catalog and created a poster about gender myths around toys for girls and toys for boys. They were very impressed that even in 2022,…
SIA Amsterdam – News Semester 1 In this semester the SIA classes studied US Geography and History. To read and hear more about our classes, click on the first edition of the Amsterdam SIA Newsletter (below) Newsletter Semester 1
American sports To conclude our first year of the International Section in Amsterdam, our class focused on American Sports. We learned about the all-American baseball past time, as well as Basketball and Double-Dutch. Alongside sports and the sports culture, we practiced sportsmanship, fair play, and the importance of cheering on our teams whether they win…
Student’s Choice! This was the theme for the CM2 class projects in English period 5. The See ‘Em Too newsletter and web-radio contain topics selected by the CM2 class. It was their choice to decide what to write or talk about. You can read about: J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter, foxes, video games, and of course…
In this last period in English, the CM1 newsletter and web-radio topics were the classes’ choice. They decided on the topics they wanted to write or talk about: pop music, the environment, women’s rights, geography, football, and pandas. Quite a large selection of interests! Check out our last issue of What’s Up in CM1? What’s…
Clothes Swap 2022 As part of our cross curricular project of recycling and clothing, the children of Lycée van Gogh decided to organize a clothes swap to give a “second life” to clothes that were either outgrown or unworn. The children had great fun picking our “new” outfits for themselves whilst learning about sustainability and…
It was an eventful period 4 for the CM1 class! In DNL we studied materials, sorting and recycling with a big Clothes Swap to exchange our unused clothes. In English we learned about free time activities, food, and cities of the world. You can click on the link below to read about these and more…
