La Semana Cultural

This week at the school where I teach has been so exciting! Every year there is one week where the students get to learn about something "special" instead of "normal" school lessons. This year the theme was "Cinema".

So all week the students and teachers have been preparing (actually the teachers have been making things for a good 3 weeks now). Friday was the last day, and we finally got to show off everything that we've been working on.

The kids started the week learning about different kinds of films: black and white, animation, silent, you get the picture.

Next, we began filming the kids in their daily lives and compiled all of the footage into 3 videos (one for each age group) to show on the final day.

The kid's parents were invited to come to school Monday and they made "money" and popcorn bags. The money was made out of plastilina - it's like playdough but 10x better.

Tuesday we watched some Disney movies and learned some songs (note: the words are not the same in English and Spanish lol)

Thursday we had "Olympics Day" - all the kids got to compete in games like relay races, basket ball shooting, musical chairs, and Pasa-me-si (it's a Spanish game kinda like London Bridge).

Finally Friday everything came together!

The halls were all decorated, movie posters covered the windows, and we saw a shadow puppet show (My favorite little girl told me that shadows are "Our friends that follow us when were outside, but they don't like the rain so when it's rainy they stay home" - my heart melted!!). When the kids came back from lunch we set up a "movie theater" in the classrooms and all of the kids lined up outside of the building. When they entered they each had to "pay" for their tickets (that they had made earlier in the week), then they could go to the popcorn stand and "buy" a popcorn, then they came into the "theater" and we showed the video of all the kids that we had filmed over the last few weeks.


It was so great! I was totally impressed with everything the kids and school did and I had a great time! It was the perfect end to a not-so perfect week in my own school life.