Mobile Library & George Buchnnercls’s library /Story time in the community

Starting August, Mobile Library from BCN and American Corner in partnership with Georg Buchnnercls'  library in Sandino City , has an afternoon full of stories with 20 children and 3 teachers who live in the community , all of this activity was  part of Reading habit promotion of BCN & American Corner  . AC Nic performed 3 stories (Duck for president, the little cockroach Martina and 3 Wishes)

We didn't only include stories but games too as “The Human knot “ (this game helped to the children for improving work team between them with the object for resolving problems through collaboration strategies).

Activity Significance: Children read in groups of 5 people different kind of stories, and some of them were available to talk about characters, the situation in the stories and more.

Makerspace -Mobil Library making handcrafts - Georg Buchneercls’s Library

July 29^th, 2015

For this activity we wanted to make some creative things with teachers of different schools and children from community in Sandino City.

During our handicraft workshop, we created a small basket for candies, sweet or chocolates. The materials we used were: a Plastic bottle of 2 or 3 liters, fommi and glue. 

 This kind of workshop tries to open teachers’ mind for doing something different when they have to celebrate a holiday in the classroom

Furthermore teachers through handcraft teach to their students how to recycle, reuse and conserve the environment.

Acces graduation 2015 in Jalapa July 28th, 2015

Acces graduation 2015 in Jalapa

 July 28th, 2015

American Corner accompanied Acces Program graduation 2015, in total 25 students reached their goal “Learning English” with the Micro-scholarship student given by U.S Embassy and CCNN. All these students were accompanied by 250 people in total where they celebrated their achievements .

American Corner Coordinator talked to University’s authorities about American Corner program and they could establish a friend relationship and collaboration with them.

Donation in Jalapa 

July 28th, 2015

During American Corner visit as part of the Marketing and outreach campaign , American Corner Coordinator Mrs. Nubia Manzanares gave a box of books as donation to the Martin Lutero’s University in Jalapa . This donation was received by the Main’s Library Mr. Marcos Olivares

All those materials will be very useful for increasing the numbers of visitors in this library who will be able to investigate more about English.

It was a way to promote the English learning, supporting for libraries in others communities and creating partnership between new collaborators.

 Ice cream day Celebration 

July 25th , 2015

In commemoration of National Ice cream’s day , a group of 15 children who study at CCNN and accompanied of 4 teachers , we remembered celebrate Ice cream day. This important day is celebrated every July 18^th in United States. We wanted commemorated sharing with children and celebrate like one of them.

Students and teachers celebrated a delicious day together as part of the American culture. 

Mobile Library visited Community Library / Funny Activity / July

Mobile Library visited Kinder - Public Library / July

Workshop / English Teachers / 260 Participants / July

Bulletin Board - Independence Day Celebration / July

10th Anniversary - American Corner / July 12

Thomas Hamms - Press Officer - American Embassy

Añadir leyenda

Video about American Corner

First Place - Reading Marathon

 Interview

Certificate

Visit of Mercantil de Ocidente Chinandega School to Incer Barquero´s Library and American Corner Nicaragua.

In this occasion we had the pleasure to welcome 260 students and 15 teachers from Chinandega Department. The tour counted with all the participation of all Library´s employees. The welcome was done by The President of Central Bank of Nicaragua and Staff.

Activity Significance:  Students toured the different rooms’ library and the American Corner talked them about general information such as:  our mission, and our free services and some important results we´ve had during all this ten years.

Number of Foreign Participants: 300

American Corner Marketing campaign

Part of the Marketing campaign. In this occasion American Corner has the pleasure to visit Fundación Nitca located road to Sabana Grande, Managua. We had a meeting with Mrs. Jenny Brenes the Fundación Nitca Director. Its mission is facing the problem of poverty through education, nutrition, hygiene and health care. The program is based on community development and the empowerment of the families through training and work opportunities. They attend approach more than 100 children in different projects, works with volunteers and scholarships student teenagers who study elementary school and high school.

Activity Significance: The main idea in this meeting was to share American Corner Mission, sponsoring Information about United States of America, especially about U.S Embassy programs, our

activities as American Corner Nicaragua, the importance to promote education, English learning and reading habit.

MakerSpace - Magic Mirror At Binational Center (CCNN)

On June 1^st -30, the Library from the Binational Center and American Corner introduced a new concept for children and young people.  Makerspace transforming education as school, libraries, incorporated hands-on learning activities that teach STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) .

Activity Significance: Incorporated  learning activities science, technology, engineering and math.

Number of Foreign Participants: 15

Study Opportinities at the American Corner

The American Corner Nicaragua hosted an Informative Session.  The guest speaker was the EducationUSA adviser. American Corner and EducationUSA will collaborate the last Thursday of every month by hosting informative sessions.  On this occasion the topic was Study Opportunities and the attendees learned about the 6 options of higher education studies that are available in the U.S.:

¨  Associate degrees

¨ Undergraduate Studies

¨ Graduate Studies

¨ English programs

¨  Short programs

¨  Online learning

Number of Foreign Participants:

31 students

5th Biblio-Rueda Stop / Iberoamerican bilingual pre-school

 On our 5th stop visiting to Iberoamerican bilingual pre-school 78 children from 1rst to 3rd level attended the Story time with  Jose Maria Campos, who  has a lot experience telling stories and will accompany  us in our tours with the Biblio-rueda from Binational

Center.

As part our program, in our agenda we included different funny stories such as:

The squirrel which was looking for a perfect hiding place for its

walnut

The elephant that scared other animals

The little bear without fears

The duck didn’t like mud

The deserted island

The dog was very thirsty

Llama, llama red pajama

Activity Significance: Talk about American Corner Mission,

sponsoring Information about United States of America and its

programs, American Corner Nicaragua’s activities, the importance to

promote the reading habit and a solid education.

MAKERSPACE Access Mom

The Call of wild By Jack London May 25th , 2015 at AC Nic.

Part of the role of IRC and AC Nic is to promote American culture in Nicaragua . AC Nic gave the space to discuss this great book of Jack London with collaboration of Nelson Espinoza (Alumni program) who lead this discussion as moderator. Four AC Nic members participated with different points of view about Jack London creation. In some details we agree that Jack London Characters are similar human beings, because they fight for freedom .

Webinar16 - Spoken grammar and its role in the English Language Classroom´´

Nine members of American Corner

Nicaragua participated for this webinar. In this occasion we touched a very useful topic ´´Spoken grammar and its role in the English Language Classroom´´, this big subject included different content to use it when we talk,  e.g: 

  

1. Ellipsis: We use it , when we omit some words in a sentence, but this

sentence doesn´t lose its meaning e.g: (Do you) wanna dance ?

2. Heads: This allows introducing the topic firstly and giving speakers and

listeners ´´thinking time´ ´in real time. The key word that determines the

nature of phrase (in contrast to any modifiers or determiners).

3. Fillers: An apparently meaningless word, phrase or sound that marks a pause or hesitation in speech. Word that give time to think.

4. Tail: In linguistic, a word or phrase at the end of a clause by which a

speaker or (less commonly) a writer clarifies, strengthens , extends or

emphasizes a topic that was previously introduced . Contrast with header, the tail can also reinforce and add emphasis to an already explicit referent.

5. Backchannels: words that someone else is saying.

6. Phrasal chunks : We use chunks to check and show

understanding between speaker and listener.

Playing by doing

 This activity was attended by a group of twelve children who take the 9^th level in Children Program at CCNN. They put in practice their knowledge and skills. . Twister game challenged them to be fast remembering colors and body parts.

May 2nd ,2015 at BNC

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