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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 ! 

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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.’