{"id":3218,"date":"2021-02-19T10:45:39","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T09:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alqueria.es\/blogs\/alqueriaenglish38\/?p=3218"},"modified":"2021-02-19T10:45:39","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T09:45:39","slug":"celebrating-the-mediterranean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alqueria.es\/blogs\/alqueriaenglish38\/2021\/02\/19\/celebrating-the-mediterranean\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating the Mediterranean"},"content":{"rendered":"

Culture Week!!!\u00a0 The glorious mid-term celebration each year at Alquer\u00eda that allows the language department a unique opportunity to stop concentrating on language learning and to dig deeper into other topics using our target languages.<\/p>\n

As you all know now, our theme this year was the Mediterranean region, and specifically learning about the geography of the area.\u00a0 We covered the same general content in each grade but increased the amount and complexity of the knowledge in each year group.<\/p>\n

We began discussing what we know about the sea, linking back to last year\u2019s culture week in which we learned about water!\u00a0 We recapped how much water is on the earth, discussed the major differences between ocean and seas, and finally we drilled down on the unique features of the Mediterranean.\u00a0 We put special emphasis on being able to name, recognize and pronounce (in English) the continents the sea touches, and the countries on each continent.\u00a0 We discussed the island nations, the \u201cdoors\u201d to the sea and differentiated between the natural connections (like the Straits of Gibraltar and the Bosporus) as compared to the manmade Suez Canal.<\/p>\n

To help consolidate this learning that began prior to Culture Week, this week brought the surprise of messages in bottles that had travelled across the Mediterranean to our classes.<\/p>\n

While each class had different guesses to what the bottles might contain (treasure maps? Love letters?) actually each bottle had a different challenge related to the geography and trivia about the region for the teams to answer.\u00a0 The challenge was made more interesting due to the hourglass (sandglass)! They kids collaborated on each challenge and solved them with great enthusiasm as you can see in the photos below.<\/p>\n