Workshop for Teachers: Motivation, the Nature of the Beast

Workshop for Teachers

Motivation: The Nature of the Beast

“We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.”

Peter Ferdinand Drucker (1909 –  2005)

How important is motivation for you in your life and in your work? Is your motivation how you would like it to be? How important is it for your students? What is our role as educators in empowering and maintaining their motivation?

Date: 13th February

Time: 11:30 to 13:00

Place: to be confirmed

How to sing in: Please send an email to HR (janina@albanyschool.com) before Monday 9th February

Limited places assigned in order of registration

Guess How Much I Love You

"I love you to the moon and back"

Guess How Much I Love You is a British children’s book written by Sam McBratney, illustrated by Anita Jeram and published in 1994.

More than 28 million copies have been sold worldwide and it has been translated into 53 languages.

Guess How Much I Love You has been published in several different formats, suitable for children from 1.5 to 8.

It has been adapted as a television cartoon in the US.

This is the story of two Nutbrown Hares, Big Nutbrown Hare and Little Nutbrown Hare. The two are never stated to be father and son in the original storybooks, though are reffered to as such in the narration for the animated television series. Little Nutbrown Hare asks Big Nutbrown Hare the titular question, “Guess how much I love you?", and the book continues as the two use larger and larger measures to quantify how much they love each other in answer to the question. The story is simple, but effectively shows the love the two share for each other.

This book helps young children express their feelings, share their care, and develop their own selfesteem. It also works with guessing structures, comparatives and sequence of actions.

You can find the book in our store: http://www.albanybookstore.com/tienda/

Enjoy!

Alexandra

New Year's Resolutions

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream..." C.S. Lewis

Imagine with all your mind,

Believe with all your heart,

Achieve with all your might.

A new year has just began, a new school term to start, and new things to learn. As a first activity in class we've shared our own resolutions for 2015.

Fun Xmas Photo Booth Props

Q: What do you call Santa's helpers?
A: Subordinate clauses


Here are some fun moments we have shared in class with our hand-made Christmas props:


Q: What do you call an elf who sings?

A: a wrapper! 

Christmas Carols

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Algunas imágenes de los niños de Aeropuerto cantando sus coros de Navidad.

Xmas crafts

"Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love!"

 Christmas is just round the corner. Our students are preparing their carols and we are all engaged in recordings and getting into the spirit. Here are some easy crafts to be used in class. Children will feel proud to take part in these crafts and afterwards take them home and share them with their families.

1. Jar lids

All you need is to reuse some jar lids and some colorful paper to glue inside and outside. Then, nice messages can be written inside. 

Advent Calendar

" Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time" -Laura Ingalls Wilder

First day of December has already arrived and we have prepared an Advent Calendar to share with everyone.

An Advent Calendar is a special calendar used to count or celebrate the days in anticipation of Christmas. It originated in the 19th Centurty from the protestant area of Germany. Protestant Christian families drew a chalk line for every day in December until Christmas Eve. But not long after, commercial entrepreneurs started replacing the ephemeral chalk lines with printed calendars. The first known Advent Calendar dates back to 1851. Nowadays it is usally a thin rectangular card with 24 doors. Each door is numbered 1 to 24 and behind each door there is a Christmas scene, a poem, a small gift or treat like a chocolate item.