Cumbres is a private bilingual school located in Envigado, Colombia that was founded in 1994 by the religious congregation "Los Legionarios De Cristo". The blog described in the document is intended for a third grade class of 20 students ages 8-9 who take 16 English lessons per week. The blog aims to have students communicate in English by describing a volcano eruption and will include resources like a PowerPoint on active volcanoes, a word search activity, a video on volcano eruptions, and a role play activity where students pretend to be scientists explaining how volcanoes erupt.
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Criteria For My Blog
1. CRITERIA FOR MY
BLOG
Johana Baena Tangarife
Fundaci¨®n Universitaria Luis Amig¨®
2. INSTITUTION DESCRIPTION
? Cumbres is a bilingual and private school. It is located in the town of
Envigado (Cra. 27 B No. 27 Dsur - 86 Int. 102). In the early 90's the religious
congregation ¡°Los Legionarios De Cristo¡±, founded in 1941 in Mexico, came
to Medellin with the purpose of founding an educational institution.
Therefore, in 1994 the congregation founded the school
¡°Corporaci¨®nColegioCumbres¡±.
3. POPULATION ADDRESSED
? The blog is addressed for
third grade students, ages
between eight and nine
years old. There are
twenty students in the
classroom.
4. ENVIRONMENT AND
DEVELOPMENT
? Students are advanced learners.
Schoolchildren take sixteen English
lessons per week. The blog is a
pedagogic strategy to use the target
language for a communicative
propose.
5. TOPICS TO BE ADDRESSED
? Students are able to use the
target language in a
communicative way,
describing a volcano
eruption.
6. RESOURCES
The blog includes:
? Power point presentation: ¡°The most active volcanoes¡±
? Search word: ¡°Get to know the twenty most famous volcanoes in the
whole world¡±
? Video ¡°How to make a volcano eruption?¡±
? Role play: ¡°Being a scientific, How does a volcano erupt?¡±