UNESCO declared April 23rd International Book Day in the memory of William Shakespeare's death. Following Scholastic's idea, we dropped everything for thirty minutes so as to enjoy the fun of reading together. However,the reading time did not finish that day since students really enjoyed the experience. We went on working with the books during the whole week and in this blog, we would like to share how we celebrated that day and the outcomes of this project.

Prep 1 B and The Very Busy Spider

Prep 1 B and The Very Busy Spider

The little ones are learning the names of some animals so as they don't know how to read or write in English, I told them a story: "The very Busy Spider". Then they had to tell me the names of the animals in the story when I showed them flashcareds with pictures of them. Afterwards, they chose some of the animals and drew them.

Kids 1 also read and drew:

Santiago, Nicolás, Mariana, Micaela, Julieta, Nicolás, Federico, Tomas, Alejo and Mariano were read the story Town Mouse and Country Mouse. Afterwards,they worked with vocabulary related to the story and also drew their favourite part in the open air.

Reading with the little ones: Prep 1 and 2 B

The kids in Prep 1 and 2 B were read a story and then they drew their favourite characters:

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Kids 3 B:

These are the pictures we drew after reading books on Book Day


Alan read and drew Comotion in the Ocean
Sol read and drew Town Mouse and Country Mouse
Karina read and drew Chubby Puppies:It's Puppy Time
Ulises read and drew The Very Busy Spider
Aixa read and drew The Big Red Sled
Ezequiel read and drew Comotion in the Ocean

I read Madagascar

In Africa, four animals live there: Melman , the giraffe ; Alex, the lion ; Marty , the zebra and Gloria , the hippo . After some days , these animals escape from the zoo and go to the wild . The animals get lost in the wild and Alex is angry with Marty . After some time Marty built a statue to signal a rescue boat . Melman sets it on fire and it burns to the ground . Alex and Marty become friends again .

by Nadia Bandura

I read The Beauty and The Beast

The story is in a castle.
Beaty`s father leaves the castle and the Beast comes out. The Beaty and the Beast are friends, but they love each other in secret.
The Beast asks the Beauty to marry him. She kisses his ugly face and he becomes a prince, a handosome prince.
Finally, they live happily forever...

by Aylén Escamilla

My story:
Title: Arthur’s underwear

People: He is Binky Barnes. He is a student. He practises softball in the afternoon.
Time: He has classes in the morning. Mr. Ratburn is his teacher.
Problems: The student heard a loud RRRIPPPP!!!! He goes to the office to sew his jeans.
Solution: Ms. Tingley sews his trousers. Binky Barnes is happy

by Miriam Borgognoni

Another story...
TITLE: FOOTPRINTS IN THE FOREST

People: The people are Daniela, her brother Sam, her friend Mario and her parents.
Time: She likes looking at the valley from the top of the mountain in the morning and at midday too.
Place: She usually goes to the mountains.
Problems: This spring it rained hard for three days, and she couldn´t go out.
Her parents were always angry with her because she was always in trouble.
Solutions: When Daniela´s parents are angry, she goes to the mountain.
Why?: She goes here to look at the river and at the village from the top of the mountain.

By Gustavo Gentile

Are you ready to listen?:

Some of our students decided not only to write story summaries but also to record them for web surfers to listen to them. You can hear students describing well-known stories such as Oliver Twist, The Lamb to the Slaughter as well as other stories for kids at :


There you will also meet some of the speakers and you can leave a comment for them on their work.

Reading and Summarizing

The students in Teens 2 A read typical fairy tales and wrote summaries of them after completing some graphic organizers with the essential information in the stories. They also drew the parts they enjoyed most.

Teens 1: Their first encounter with extensive reading

Our Teens 1 students, Rocío, Mailén, Evelyn, Julián, Matías and Vanesa were invited to choose books to read so as to get the gist of them. With the inforamtion they got from the books they read, they wrote sentences related to characters, setting and plot. When their task was over, they drew the part of the story they liked best.

Kids 3 A ran a reading marathon

Students in Kids 3 had to read as many books for their level as they could in thirty minutes. They had to write the name of them in a sheet of paper and once that period of time had elapsed, they had to choose the book they had liked best so as to fill in a graphic organizer with information from the book they had read.

Agustín read:
The Picnic
I'm a Caterpillar
Where Are You?
Hedgehog Is Hungry
The Big Red Sled
Where's Woolly?
Looking for Dragons
A Colour of his Own
Fall Leaves Fall
The Cow That Went OINK
Aladdin and The Lamp
More Spaghetti,I Say
Goldilocks and The Three Hares

Nico read:
The Missing Beach Ball
Hedge Is Hungry
Where's Woolly?
Looking for Dragons
Fun in Teletubbyland
I'm a Caterpillar

Alan read:
The Big Red Sled
The Picnic
Hedgehod
One, Two,Three Count with Me
Looking for Dragons
Where's Woolly?
More Spaghetti I Say
I'm a Caterpillar
A Colour of his Own
Fall Leaves Fall
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Goldilocks and the Three Hares

Ludmila read:
Fall Leaves Fall
So Many Boots
Where Are You?
The Cow That Went OINK
Cookie Land
A Colour of His Own
One, Two, Three Count with Me
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
I'm a Caterpillar

Rocío read:It's Puppy Time
A Friend Little White Rabbit
Looking for Dragons
Where's Woolly?
Hedgehog is Hungry
I'm a Caterpillar
So many boots!
Fall Leaves Fall!!!
Cookie Land
The Very Busy Spider

German read:
A Colour of His Own
Where Are You?
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Fall Leaves Fall
The Missing Beach Ball
Hedgehog Is Hungry
So Many Boots
Looking for Dragons!
More Spaghetti I Say
Cookie Land
I'm a Caterpillar
The Cow That Went OINK
The Big Red Sled

Our competition ended in a draw between Agustín and Germán

Kids 2 read, learnt and drew

The students in kids 2 chose books to read at the institute garden. Once they read them, they had to select some words they found intersting in the books they had chosen, they had to write them down and draw them.