Spring Week 2025

🎉 Hello, everyone!

This year, our school was thrilled to take part in the Spring Week 2025 immersive language program organized by the Xunta de Galicia. For five unforgettable days, we lived and learned in English—right in the heart of Os Peares, Ourense.

• 175 students from 10 Galician schools joined in the fun.

• Out of those, 25 lucky students from CEIP ADR Castelao were selected.

• Together, we enjoyed activities, games, excursions, and plenty of opportunities to chat and practice English in real life.

It was an amazing experience that showed us just how motivating and effective learning can be outside the classroom. We all left with new friends, fresh confidence in our language skills, and memories we’ll cherish.

We’re already looking forward to next year—when we hope to bring our 6th-grade students along for another week of discovery and language immersion!

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📷 Here are some moments that capture the highlights of our week in Os Peares:

BLOX FRUITS AND SAINT PATRICK´S DAY.

 

SAINT PATRICK´S BLOX FRUIT

We also have to mention the fact that Nicolas Cedeira from 6th grade B also did a blox fruit character themed for Saint Patrick´s Day! It is really an awesome work. Keep it up with this.  

Boys and girls Blox fruits collection are increasing!

SAINT PATRICK´S DAY AT SCHOOL

Good Luck!

We have been working on this emblematic festivity from Ireland with our language assistant about its origen, features and celebration. 

Sixth grade students worked in small groups, and they had to prepare some wreaths to decorate the school corridors with the symbols of Saint Patrick's festivity. The results were really impressive.

Then, they also had to illustrate a typical shamrock leaf with a sentence that summarizes the idea of why they felt lucky. This work was done by students of 5th and 6th grade.

We can also appreciate some projects such as drawings and hair bands from other groups.

POP ART PROJECTS

Better late than never

We are working in Pop Art style and here there is a sample of the projects created by our students. They have done a really nice job!

Past simple

Exercises

Hi kids,

Here are some exercises to improve the past simple of irregular verbs.

https://www.ejerciciosinglesonline.com/exercises-and-theory/grammar-exercises-and-theory/ejercicio-interactivo-verbos-irregulares/?utm_source=chatgpt.com#google_vignette

 Great Job!

"What a great idea our dear Nico from 6th grade B had! He created these beautiful small colored boxes to brighten our Arts and Crafts classroom."

 Past Simple - Irregular verbs

 Past Simple

Past Simple – Verb to Be

Verb Conjugation

Affirmative	Negative	Interrogative	Traducción
I was	I was not / I wasn’t	Was I...?	Yo era / Yo estaba
You were	You were not / You weren’t	Were you...?	Tú eras / Tú estabas
He/She/It was	He/She/It was not / wasn’t	Was he/she/it...?	Él/Ella era / Él/Ella estaba
We were	We were not / We weren’t	Were we...?	Nosotros éramos / estábamos
You were	You were not / You weren’t	Were you...?	Vosotros erais / estabais
They were	They were not / They weren’t	Were they...?	Ellos eran / estaban

Past Simple – Regular Verbs

How to make Affirmative Sentences

Los verbos regulares forman el pasado añadiendo -ed al final del verbo base.

• Examples:

• play → played

• visit → visited

• like → liked

Spelling Rules:

1. Si el verbo termina en e, solo añadimos -d.

• Example: like → liked

2. Si el verbo termina en una consonante + y, cambiamos la y por i y añadimos -ed.

• Example: study → studied

3. Para la mayoría de los verbos, solo añadimos -ed.

• Example: listen → listened

How to make Negative and Interrogative Sentences

1. Negative Sentences:
   Usamos el auxiliar did not (didn’t) seguido del verbo base (sin -ed).

• Example:

• Affirmative: She played soccer.

• Negative: She did not play soccer.

2. Interrogative Sentences:
   Usamos el auxiliar did al principio de la oración, seguido del sujeto y el verbo base (sin -ed).

• Example:

• Affirmative: She played soccer.

• Interrogative: Did she play soccer?

SONG: PRESENT SIMPLE VS PRESENT CONTINUOUS.

 We decided to create a song with Artificial Intelligence to study the present simple and the present continuous tense and the result was quite interesting. To do it, we used Suno and Chatgpt. Let´s sing and enjoy this time!

Present Simple vs Present Continuous Song

lyrics by Suno and Chatgpt

Coro

🎵 Presente simple es fácil de usar,

hábitos y hechos te va a enseñar.

Pero si algo pasa ahora mismo,

¡el continuo será tu amigo! 🎵

Estrofa 1: Presente Simple

🎵 En el simple usamos el verbo normal,

añade una "S" si es singular.

I, you, we, they, solo el verbo está,

pero con he, she, it, la "S" va. 🎵

🎵 "Do" y "Does" usamos para preguntar,

y en negativo, "don’t" o "doesn’t" van.

"She likes ice cream" o "He plays guitar",

hábitos diarios, ¡esto es genial! 🎵

Coro

🎵 Presente simple es fácil de usar,

hábitos y hechos te va a enseñar.

Pero si algo pasa ahora mismo,

¡el continuo será tu amigo! 🎵

Estrofa 2: Presente Continuo

🎵 El continuo es para el ahora mismo,

usa "am", "is", "are" y un verbo en "ing".

"I am dancing", "He is reading",

acciones del momento, ¡están sucediendo! 🎵

🎵 En preguntas, cambia el orden así:

"Are you singing?" o "Is she here?"

En negativo, es muy fácil de hacer:

"I’m not sleeping", "They aren’t there". 🎵

Coro

🎵 Presente simple es fácil de usar,

hábitos y hechos te va a enseñar.

Pero si algo pasa ahora mismo,

¡el continuo será tu amigo! 🎵

SELF-PORTRAITS

Hi everybody!

Guess who? The students drew their self-portraits. Can you realize who they are?