Room 207

My name is Leticia. I am 10 years old. I was born in April 1998.  I’ve been at ASM for three years and I truly enjoy living here in Spain. ASM is an incredible school. You would really like it here if you lived in Spain because ASM has many things and activities to do, for example, soccer, ballet, leadership club, and much more.

In my family we have five people: my mom, my dad, my brother, and lastly, my little sister. Both my mom and my dad are forty; my brother is thirteen, and my little sister is only four.

At ASM we have many after school activities that we can enjoy. For example, there are leadership, sevillanas (a Spanish dance), dance sampler, soccer, brass ensemble, woodwind ensemble, and many other things. The activities I do here at ASM are soccer and leadership. Lastly, I do after school private lessons for clarinet.

Here in ASM, I have many friends. One of my friends has one hand but that doesn’t matter because she’s really nice. Her little hand is called Donald. She is also a very good singer. I also have another friend. He is very smart and wants to be a business man when he grows up. He has brown hair. I also have another friend who is a girl. She is a very good skier and is also a good friend. I also have other friends. One is very athletic and intelligent. He is blond and is very tall. Another one of my friends is really nice. He is blond and isn’t very tall, but is very fast. I have three teachers. All my teachers are very nice. One is from Washington State. Another is from New Jersey, and the last one is from Virginia.

Now you see what life is like, I hope you enjoyed my blog.  I really can’t wait to read about other people and getting to know how it is where you live. Respond to my blog as soon as possible.               

I, Victoria, go to an amazing and academic school called the American School of Madrid, or ASM.  This is my fourth year here, and you know what?  I love each year just the same!  I have three lovely teachers. I also have an amazing Spanish teacher. 

            I am ten years old and was born on August 11^th, 1998 in Munich, Germany.  I was born with one arm and a half arm.  Don’t be scared. I’m not a mutated alien or anything.  I am just different.  I can mostly do everything a “normal” person does. Sometimes I just have trouble carrying stuff or managing things.

Anyway, I love singing, drawing, reading, writing, and I love doing homework.  It’s super fun!  Some people think I’m weird for liking it.  I have two brothers, one mom, one dad, two cats, and one dog.  Don’t worry. The cats and dog don’t fight. The dog is small and is afraid of the cats!

I’ve lived in China, Japan, Spain, Germany, and Georgia. I found it really interesting to learn most of the languages.  I have also seen a lot of special places, like the Great Wall of China, and the Alhambra in Granada, Spain.  I am a traveler so I still want to travel most of the world and see all the interesting places.  I would also love to learn a lot more languages.  Finally, I would love to learn about the different cultures in the world.

            In fifth grade, we do lots of things.  We never have the same schedule for each day.  Every day is different.  I have these subjects: literacy, science, math, Spanish, orchestra, P.E., recess, computer class, independent writing, social studies, and art.  Our after school activities are… well, there are a lot, but I go to these: brass ensemble, dance sampler, leadership, paddle (like tennis, but easier and the paddles are lighter), fencing, piano lessons, trumpet lessons, and singing lessons.  I don’t really have a favorite class, but I really enjoy math.  What I like best about ASM is that the people are really nice and they never make fun of you! 

            I am very excited to do a blog because I want to show my thoughts to other people and share with the world what I like and prefer.  I am also very excited to do a blog and see other blogs because I could learn about people I don’t know as well, and maybe I could make some new friends.
 

Hi! My name is Blanca and I am 10 years old. I go to the American School of Madrid. This is my second year here at ASM. Before, I went to another school called Runnymede College. Last year when I was new to this school, I was surprised with how big it was. My other school was much smaller. Now I have many new friends. For this reason I like ASM. I think that I will stay at ASM until I finish High School (I wish).

 My favorite subject is science because everyday we learn new things and it’s interesting. My favorite activity is recess because we can play with our friends and talk. Also, I like leadership because we help other people such as helping little children to learn more and helping with Operation Smile. Operation Smile helps other people by giving them a smile by operating on them. Most of them were born without a smile.

 In my family, the members are my mom, my dog, my dad, and my caretaker and my best friends (BFF). I lived in Milano, Italy and now I live in Madrid, Spain. I like both because I have many friends in both places.

 I think doing a blog will be fun because people can know me better. Also I think it will be fun because we could make new friends with other people.

Story Reflection – For the people we read about, life in the new country or city was supposed to be better—this was why they moved. However, it was often much more difficult than they expected. What made the move worth it? What caused people to have regrets about migrating or immigrating?

Restrictions – Many countries are making stricter and stricter laws about which people and how many people can immigrate into their country. Should immigration be restricted, or is it a good thing for a country? What are advantages and disadvantages of having immigrants in a country?

Family and Friends Left Behind – In “Coming Over” and “The Great Migration”, the people who moved often had to leave behind close family members and friends. How do you think the people who were left behind felt? How would you feel if you were left behind?

A New Home Many people nowadays have immigrated or migrated to a new place, and can relate to the people we have read about in class. Have you or someone you know moved to a new city or country? Share your experiences. Were there cultural differences between you and most of the people in your new home? What challenges did you face when you arrived?

Prejudice – Many immigrants or migrants experience prejudice in their new cities. They are treated differently, insulted, or ignored because of their differences, such as accent, skin color, or clothing. What would you do if you saw someone being made fun of or insulted because they were different? What if the person doing the insulting was one of your friends?

Hi, I am Miguel and I love sports. Wait, let’s leave that for the end, now I am going to tell you about my school, ASM (American School of Madrid). I have been 7 and a half years in ASM and it is a great school because you can do whatever you want to do (except jumping classes, not studying and not doing homework) but if you do all of these three things you will have a great time on ASM.

Also you can do lots of friends and there are lots of playgrounds and nature features in ASM. At the end of school there is a thing called after school activates. There is soccer, basketball, baseball, volleyball and more teams. If you are in one of the teams you play against other schools in soccer games. It is awesome and so cool because you train two days in a weekend! GO LANCERS GO!

Ok, know I will tell you something about ME. The first thing goes first, I looooooove sports and the sport that I loooooooooove is soccer. I think it is the best sport in the world! You can do lots of tricks and score lots of goals. But I also like all the sports. At school do you guess what my favorite subject is? I bet you can after all I have told you about me. You got it! It is P.E. well that and also recess but better P.E. Now let’s talk about something else.

I lived in Madrid all my life and it is an amazing place. I love animals and my favorite one is the arctic wolf. It is active (like me) and loves playing with things. I also love dogs. Oh, talking about dogs I have a dog that is called Tula, and she is amazing. If you tell her to sit she sits if you tell her to go to her bed she goes to her bed and the funniest thing if you make like if you shot her with your fingers she drops to the floor as fast as she can. But she is smart because if you don’t give her a treat she wont do all of these things.

I am in 5^th grade and if you come to my school right know we will be in 6^th grade together. We have lots of classes counting all the cool ones like P.E., math, instrumental, literacy, social studies, art, science, etc. Well those are the classes I remember because we have so much that at the end of the day it looks like your head is going to pop out!

Miguel’s first podcast- Journal entry of an archaeologist

Hi, fellow fifth graders my name is Johnny and I am a ten year old ASM student. This is my first year hear at ASM but it is turning out to be a great one. I love to play soccer so I joined ASMs soccer team and we rock. The school has so many after school activities that it is almost impossible to choose. You can meet many new friends here and it an awesome view of the city if you look out my class room window. We always do fun projects, especially in science. Once we did a mold experiment and it was awesome. Because we are in Spain we have to learn Spanish. It is ok but you do a lot of home work.

Now let me tell you some stuff about me. I am ten and I am the fifth oldest in the family, just to let you know there are seven kids in my family. We don’t get to see each other often because four live in Kansas. I was born in Nebraska. Go Corn Huskers!! That’s a nick name for people in Nebraska. We lived in Virginia before we came to Spain. I am a military child so we moved a lot. An interesting fact about me is that I moved five times in the first four years of my life.

Right now I live outside Madrid. Our House is a very big and we have our own pool. We have a huge hill in our back yard that we like to climb. When we are board we have Wii and a TV of course. My mom is thinking of planting a garden during the Summer. One of my best friends is an adult. His name is Mr. Blanco. He likes to play the Wii to.

Spain is very weird when it comes to weather. It always rains and then gets snowy or sunny. It all happens in an instant. Well I have told you enough about me so maybe you could tell me All About You.

Johnny\’s first podcast- Journal entry of an archaeologist