Summer in the City gets off to a Rocking Start
On July 30th the Institute began the Summer in the City English Camp. The theme of the first week was Rock Stars, and the students worked on different activities related to the theme. They made guitar posters, watched rock-star themed movies and learned a few dances like the Bunny Hop and The Chicken Dance. On Friday to wrap up the week they made videos to the song “Happy” by Pharell at Madrid Río and Jardines de Sabatini.
The Blue Group wrote a summary of the week:
OUR EXPERIENCE AT OUR FIRST WEEK AT DAY CAMP
Hello we want to talk about our experience of this first week at the day camp.
We arrived here on Monday and we went to the Paraninfo for an introduction speech, and later we met our new classmates of the blue class (14-17 years old), we also met our great teacher Jocelyne and we played some interesting games.
Next day we hosted some American students from different parts of USA at the Paraninfo, we asked them some questions about their lives, and we learned a lot of things about American culture, and the differences between the USA and our country. Then we divided in six groups and we did some great activities at the school garden with them. After the activities we had a picnic of typical Spanish food, like “tortilla de patata or empanada”. It was a great time to meet different people and made some new friends from another culture.
On Wednesday we joined the green group to receive a speech about going to an American High school, then we played some games and practiced dancing for the Friday music video, when we finished practicing we watched a musical film.
On Tuesday the students in Green and Blue received a visit from students from an American high school. They played icebreaker exercises and the Spanish students taught the American students about Spanish foods. The American kids taught the Spanish kids a few new games.
Here is what some of the students had to say about the visit:
On Tuesday we met American students and at first we played a game that let us know their culture. It is a little bit different than our culture (Their food, their hobbies, their school…). After we went to the garden and we learned things about each other and played some games. It was funny. After they tried some different Spanish food like Spanish omelette, cheese, empanada…
It was a good experience because we met American people and that is good because it’s fine to meet people and learn something about their culture like their food, their hobbies and what they are studying.
This week’s theme is ROUND AND ROUND. The teachers have another fun week of activities planned for this week and the rest of the month.