Walking In A Winter Wonderland

 

Pictures courtesy of Peter Mc Kee Castlewellan

 

Sleigh bells ring, are you listening?
In the lane snow is glistening
A beautiful sight, we're happy tonight
Walking in a winter wonder land

Gone away is the bluebird
Here to stay is a new bird
He sings a love song as we go along
Walking in a winter wonderland

In the meadow we can build a snowman
Then pretend he is Parson Brown
He'll say are you married? We'll say no man
But you can do the job when you're in town

Later on we'll conspire
As we dream by the fire
To face unafraid the plans that we've made
Walking in a winter wonderland

Later on we'll conspire
As we dream by the fire
To face unafraid the plans that we've made
Walking in a winter wonderland

In the meadow we can build a snowman
Then pretend that he is a circus clown
We'll have lots of fun with Mr. Snowman
Until the other kiddies knock him down

When it snows ain't it thrilling?
Though your nose gets a chilling
We'll frolic and play the Eskimo way
Walking in the winter wonderland
Walking in the winter wonderland

And here's a link: http://www.youtube.com/attribution_link?u=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Dr3fBKxrShFo%26feature%3Dshare&a=ulKAlVt6Kav0NB69iTCzOA

Radio links

¡FELICES FIESTAS!

Here are links to radio programmes in  Ireland, Britain and Northern Ireland.
Listen live.
Cheers!

http://www.rte.ie/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00xr7wp

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radioulster

HO! HO! HO!

Happy christmas !!!

Happy wednesday !

At 5.45 we have a lovely story called the Christmas robin and then we will make cut outs and put them on the wall to play a game of Christmas corners as we listen to the cd of songs.

It's going to be great fun!

See you at the U.P. Room1.1 Sanse Metro Baunatal

 

Traditional International Christmas Pub Quiz

 

Come along and test your general knowledge at our pub quiz on Wednesday!

Open to all and free.

Bring a pen.

Una foto de las estrellas

Alex read us the beautiful story 'How To Catch a Star' on Wednesday afternoon
and afterwards the children made this poster of the sky at night with her help and the help of their Mummies and Daddies. We put it up on the wall.

Happy Wednesdays Have you ever thought of catching a star?

¿Alguna vez has pensado en atrapar  una estrella? Creo que nos van a contar cómo se hace.

See you on Wednesday 17:45 - 18:15 to hear this story and sing 'Twinkle twinkle little star how I wonder what you are.'
Here is a link for you to BE PREPARED!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4OMzOqUBj0

Then we will do some artwork .

AFRICA PUEDE CONDUCIR UNA REVOLUCION INDUSTRIAL

Is Africa an untapped market?
Could it be the solution to the economic crisis and immigration?
Would you like to talk about this?
Come and see us next Wednesday at 18.30 Room 1.1. La U.P.
http://edition.cnn.com/2013/11/20/opinion/africas-natural-resources-industrial-revolution/index.html?hpt=hp_mid
This is link to the interesting topic of conversation proposed by Luis for our next get-together..

First on the list

Hello there!

If you did as you were told and googled asedow, it has brought you all the way to  San Sebastian de los Reyes, Madrid, Spain.
Welcome back!

However, this is only virtual reality. If you are physically here, then you can join us on Tuesday19:15 at the reading  and commentary of a story by Roald Dahl in the Biblioteca Central, Av Baunatal.
Or you could come to our traditional international pub quiz which is on Wednesday 18th this month, just before the Christmas break.

See you!

What an artist!

Have a look at our lovely puppet of Pinnochio. Audrey made it for yesterday's story time.
 Además la nariz crece cuando dice mentiras y al pobre le salía orejas de burro también.

Pinoke

             ASEDOW INVITES
Hi Everyone!
ON WEDNESDAY we have the story of Pinnochio.

Then you will colour in this picture and maybe see a video clip
That's Wednesday 4^th December at 17.45h in la Sala 1.1
La Universidad Popular San Sebastián de los Reyes.
See you!

Conversation

To continue with the interesting discussion on space travel last week we have  this link to share with you.

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2013/11/25/who-owns-outer-space/?WT_mc_id=SA_CAT_BS_20131129
Don't forget, that's Wednesday the 4th at 18h 30 in la U.P. Sanse.

Topic

Space Tourism  18.45

ASEDOW INVITES YOU AND YOUR CHILDREN TO

HAPPY WEDNESDAY

….. and this is the song we will sing.

What farm animal can you make with plasticine?

A hen? A cow? A pig?
27^th November at 17.45 in Sala 1.1 La U.P. Sanse

The Common Room

ASEDOW finally has a space where we can get together to organise our many and diverse activities for children and for adults.
It is in La Universidad Popular San Sebastián de los Reyes.
Sala 1.1.
We have it all day Wednesdays and Fridays.
Plus we have books and dvds to share with members.

 The Common Room 

A place for English speakers and English learners.

JOIN US!

Día Universal del Niño/ Children's day

 

         

 

'The best way to make children good is to make them happy.'
                                                         Oscar Wilde
                 
                                  Happy Wednesday ! 

Topic

Another interesting topic from Luis to discuss tomorrow after the children's activity in the Common Room.
http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20130801-too-grimm-for-children

Happy Wednesday

¡¡¡UN PERRITO QUE SE LLAMA SPOT!!!!!

Y sus amigos

For Wednesday we have some new friends for you to meet.

                                                                               

Here they are!

Wednesday the 20th Nov

The Common Room

La Universidad Popular- Sala 1.1 San Sebastián de los Reyes at 5.45 p.m.

Bring your Mum / Dad/Uncle/Aunt

to hear a story,  watch a dvd and make this little Spot!
 

 

 

 

Our Autumn Walk has been cancelled due to adverse weather conditions

Raincheck.

Sorry, we hoped for sunshine. Let's hope we have better luck next time.

Meeting point Sunday morning 12 a.m. 17th November at la U.P. Sanse  and metro Baunatal at 12:10h. The two hour walk will be through the Dehesa so that you can enjoy the wonderful autumn colours. Walk and talk.
Send us an mail to asedow@gmail.com if you are coming. It's free and it's fun.

Autumn days with ASEDOW

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gS15ACUhTww

Hello,
We love autumn in ASEDOW and Audrey sent us this music to put you in the mood.
Listen to 'A walk through the black forest' as you read about what's coming up.

On  Tuesday the 12th November at 19:15h ASEDOW and La Biblioteca Central  de San Sebastian de los Reyes invite you to come to our reading group in El Salón de Actos.
We will be reading together another story by Roald Dahl.

For Happy Wednesday

On the 13th November at 17.45 in The Common Room La U.P. Sanse, the story for the small children will be this one, the one in the picture. In Spanish it's 'Vamos en busca de un león.´ In English we are looking for a bear.
First we'll see  the book  then we'll act it out.
The artwork will be a picture that you will draw by numbers.

Followed by the ADULT conversation group at 18:30.

LAST BUT NOT LEAST
Our Autumn Walk
Meeting point Sunday morning 12 a.m. 17th November at la U.P. Sanse  and the walk will be through the Dehesa so that you can enjoy the wonderful autumn colours. Walk and talk. Send us an mail to asedow@gmail.com if you are coming. It's free.

                                                                   Join us, it's fun!

Happy Friday

Julie was busy singing the song so she didn't see the look of enchantment on the faces of the children as well as the rest of us because her specially beautiful voice had them mesmerized.
Safe home, Julie and thank you very much for coming.

Then Rubén had us all singing the song together.

Audrey showed us how to make a magic leaf but if you didn't come ,

you will never know!!

WE GO BACK TO HAPPY WEDNESDAYS NEXT WEEK!

http://www.rte.ie/radio/utils/radioplayer/rteradioweb.html#!rii=9%3A%2D2%3A0%3A%3A
Listen live to the radio from Ireland.
You will find they talk about the same things as in Spain.

OSCAR WILDE

Oscar Fingall O Flahertie Wills Wilde.

His family was from Roscommon, Ireland.
He was born in Dublin on October 16^th 1854.

His father, Sir William Robert Wills Wilde received a knighthood from Queen Victoria for his work in medicine and for his remarkable work on the census of Ireland and its treasures.

His mother Jane Francesca Elgee, Lady Wilde, was an Irish nationalist even though her family background was Protestant and conservative.
She wrote under the pseudonym of Speranza about the folklore of Ireland. People in the streets of Dublin cheered when she passed in her carriage because of her courageous defense of all things Irish.

'She was welcomed by dreamers and workers.'

So Oscar Wilde's parents were very remarkable and extremely talented too.

He was born in Dublin and with his brother William, went to Portora Royal School in Enniskillen in Northern Ireland.

He read Latin and Greek at Trinity College Dublin and at Oxford University England with great success.
He was an Irish Protestant from a highly respected family.
From his mother he learned the social impact of the written word.
In 1879 after her husband died she went to live in London with her two sons.
As a master craftsman of the English language, the enchantment of Oscar Wilde and his work hold their appeal still today.

In our shared readings last year he introduced us to the magical world of his children's stories, to the homes of the élite and to the darkness of prison life.

We enjoyed reading his work firstly because of the beauty of the language but also because he is very clever, very witty, very fresh, very provocative, very funny, very relevant and irreverent.

Also it is worth mentioning his love of beauty, beautiful manners, beautiful objects, beautiful surroundings, physical beauty and natural beauty.

To quote from Lady Windermere's Fan:

'So devoted to sunsets! Shows such refinement of feeling does it not? After all there is nothing like nature, is there?'

His plays became very successful and his fame spread across the Atlantic and he spent a year touring America and giving conferences.

He married Constance Lloyd and they soon had two sons, Cyril 1885 and Vyvyan in 1886.
His is a universal name that bridges many different worlds

He went from fame to infamy and suffered the humiliation of imprisonment for his homosexuality in 1895. Two years of hard labour in Reading Gaol. The worst punishment that he was to suffer was never to be allowed to see his children again. His best work is widely considered to be The Ballad of Reading Gaol. Society turned its back on him but his wife was kinder. His mother asked to see him before she died but permission was denied.

He had poor health when he left prison and died in Paris on 30^th November 1900 at the age of 46.

By naming the association after Oscar Wilde we raise our hats to this gentle giant.

How many of us who have read his Art would have liked to  have been the stranger who did just that, the one man among the crowd of people who raised his hat, as Wilde was being escorted to court from the prison cell handcuffed between two policemen, his head bowed?

From De Profundis

‘I store it in the treasure house of my heart. I keep it there as a secret debt that I can never possibly repay. That lovely little silent act of love.’

Looking back

February 2010 El Indio Mocaqua Alcobendas

Actors Jonathan Mellor and Julie Davies came to El Indio Mocaqua, the artist Nacho Paswal's  wonderful kaleidescope of a bar, to read a selection of poetry by American author T.S.Eliot as a first initiative of ASEDOW to share something beautiful It was brilliant but there were very few people there to enjoy the performance despite all our efforts. Fede, from Argentina who was running  the bar at the time told us,

'In Argentina culture and leisure time go hand in hand.'

On his return from Brazil to Dublin via Madrid on Friday, the Minister of Education from Ireland Ruairi Quinn attended the launching of two books on Spanish Irish relations in the past.
The Battle of Kinsale and  The Irish Presence at the Cortes de Cadiz.

Mr Quinn  shared a story about Jean Monnet one of the architects of the E.U. the greatest peace project of our time. When he was asked if there was anything he would change about the European Union on looking back, M. Monnet replied. 'I think I would begin with culture.'

What a deep well that is.

Music, Language, Literature, Art, Films, Songs, Dances to share and respect ...the water of life.


Three years later sadly El Indio Mocaqua is closed. However,  Fede is running a bar in London and ASEDOW is in a position to repay a debt of kindness to Julie and Jonathan.

Spooky Wednesday

SPOOKY WEDNESDAY

STORY: The Doctor and the Haunted House

SONG: The Monster Mash

Game: Pass the Parcel

Where? La. U.P. Sala 1.1

What time? 17:45

ASEDOW invites you and your children to SPOOKY WEDNESDAY

                                       18:30h

NOSTALGIA del HOGAR

The adult conversation topic will be homesickness following this link:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/general/sixminute/2013/09/130919_6min_homesickness.shtml 

SPIDERS GALORE!!!

Wednesday is a good day to make spiders. So we did!

First the children heard the story.

Then they heard about Incy Wincy Spider.

Then we made these.

So  Hallowe'en, here we come!

How ASEDOW celebrated Oscar Wilde's birthday

A gentle giant like Oscar Wilde would have been charmed to see the lovely children who came to listen to Audrey read the classic tale of The Three Little Pigs.
After singing and jumping to the music of Five little Monkeys the children happily chatted and drew pictures to decorate the wall.
We all had a delicious chocolate to celebrate this important day.

Mar and Luis are proof of the pudding that you learn a language by speaking it.

Well done everyone for making it a special day!

 NEXT WEDNESDAY MORE SINGING AND DANCING!

Happy Wednesdays

                      THREE LITTLE PIGS

                                     and

                   FIVE LITTLE MONKEYS

Can you imagine?

Well, first we will hear the story of the three little pigs read by Audrey.
Then we will sing a song about five little monkeys!

Join us at The Common Room on Wednesday at 5:45h

The conversation group for adults have an interesting discussion  at 6:30h.

La Universidad Popular  Wednesdays

Here we come

ASEDOW is offering people who are looking for employment in commerce, catering , tourism etc. the opportunity to review their c.v.in English as well as the opportunity to brush up on their English for interviews  and future employment.
See poster below.

Another activity that the  ASEDOW team is offering is the chance to get together and enjoy using your English, oiling the machinery if is rusty. You learn a language by speaking it but where can you practise?
Find out by reading the poster below.

Both these activities are free of charge but to join them you need to be a member. To find out how to become a member you can read a link on the side or contact us at asedow@gmail.com.
The annual fee to join ASEDOW  is 15€. Do it now!

Someone like you

BIBLIOTECA CENTRAL   19:15/30h Tuesday 7th
Av Baunatal, San Sebastián de los Reyes
Hi,
Just a reminder that we will be at the library on Tuesday, not to sing Adele's song but to read and comment on  a short story from  a collection by Roald Dahl by that name 'Someone like you' Penguin edition. The  association has enough copies to share but maybe you want to have your own copy.
See you then.

Let's begin.

We are very happy to offer some fab reasons to get together  thanks to the  great ideas of our members and the space we have in the Universidad Popular.

Where better to begin than at the beginning? Cristina will run this activity for small children.
Have a look at our poster.

Something to celebrate!!!

These pictures were taken by Audrey during la traca final de las fiestas de Sanse.
The fiestas are over but still, we have some good news.
We thought we'd use this firework display to celebrate that ASEDOW finally has a
space where we can get together to organise our many and diverse activities!
                                      
We have it all day Wednesdays.

The first thing we will do is bring the books and dvds we have to share.

 The Common Room 

A place for English speakers and English learners to get together and organize fun activities 

JOIN US!



Happy holidays!

Hopefully by September we will be able to confirm that we have a space for two new activities.
 
English for the Marketplace:
To use your English in the workplace, fill in your CV and find work.

Playtime:
Drama for children

And the winners are....

In the Junior Category

Alejandro Briongos Martinez from CEIP Principe Felipe
for
My Friend Bird

In the Senior Category

Blanca Marabini San Martín from I.E.S. San Fernando
for
The Genie's Home

Congratulations!!!

For the jury the stories were fascinating and it was a difficult choice.
Here are moments of the prize giving event. Some of the participants read their stories to the audience. The beautiful souvenir booklets were prepared by José.

Blanca's winning story and her English are amazingly good.

Iván from CEIP  Antonio Machado  broke the ice and read his story about the witch Maruja and everyone admired his pictures as well as his good reading.

Ivan from I.E.S. Joan Miró , created a  chilling atmosphere for his tale and picked up the diplomas for friends from his school who also participated.

Eunice from I.E.S. Joan Miró read 'An Ordinary Night' a very good plot indeed.

Finally Beatriz from I.E.S. San Juan Buatista read 'Don't Give Up' a wonderful story giving hope to people in a hopeless situation.

Sofía didn't come to read 'The Mysterious Tree.' but her teacher from CEIP Antonio Machado picked up her diploma. I highly recommend it. We loved the pictures too.

Other stories were read by members of the jury

The jury especially enjoyed  The Super Vegetables by Irene from CEIP Principe de Asturias, The Sea Prince by Violeta Pascual CEIP Principe Felipe,, One Summer Day. by Barbara, CEIP Antonio Machado, Come On Sweetie by Carmen and  The Selection  by Claudia from I.E.S. Joan Miró.
Irene and Ana were there but didn't read their stories. Maybe next year.

After the event the children had the opportunity to mingle with Ann Marie, Attaché for Cultural affairs from the Irish Embassy in Madrid and Patricia, Attaché for European Affairs during Ireland's Presidency for the E.U. and Audrey who stepped in for Jane Anne the third jury member. The event was also attended by Mar, la Concejala de  Cultura de San Sebastián de los Reyes
We greatly appreciate your kind words and support.

That is the end of the  2013 ASEDOW  Story Competition.

THE RESULTS!!!

Los resultados del tercer Concurso Literario Juvenil e Infantil  están ya en los sobres y serán anunciados el lunes a las 19h en el Salón de Actos de la Biblioteca Central  de San Sebastian de Los Reyes.  Plaza Andrés Caballero.

Esperamos contar con la presencia de todos los participantes, sus familiars y amigos y los amigos de ASEDOW.

Entregaremos la libreta de los cuentos a todos los  concursantes. Ya veréis qué bonita es.

Es nuestra manera de reconocer vuestra participación en esta aventura de la escritura - además en ingles.
Oscar Wilde would be delighted with you!

Last reading

LEMON CAKE

• 175 g caster sugar (I use normal sugar, the other one is difficult to find here in Spain)
• 110 g margarine
• 175 g self raising flour
• 2 eggs
• Rind the lemon
• 4 tablespoons milk

Dates To Mark On Your Calendar

Please come along and share these events that we have organized for you to use your English
IN A SOCIAL CONTEXT

Today 18th June 


 A Shared Reading of The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde    Chapter 8

Biblioteca Central 19.15h.




 24th June to 27th June

 Biblioteca Central 10h -14h y 17h -21h
                                                                                                                                           
International Paperback Book Exchange


 24th June  19h 

Entrega de Premios para el Concurso de Jovenes Escritores           

El Salon de Actos de la Biblioteca Central de San Sebastian de Los Reyes             

Last Day to enter the story competition

You can send your entries until 24h.
Good luck!
See poster below for details.

 

More Wildeflowers

Las flores silvestres de San Sebastián de los Reyes y un recuerdo para todos los jovenes.

Podéis enviar vuestros cuentos escritos en inglés a asedow@gmail.com hasta el 3 de junio.

¡Suerte!