The Jungle Experience

"Say it and I will forget it, teach me and I will remember it, but involve me and I will learn it" (Chinese proverb). 1st Year Primary students have put, one more time, in practice this proverb to learn the five senses of the human body.

This kind of learning is usually tough, but 1st Year Primary students have been able to discover all these five senses by their interaction with them, being able to learn them at the same time they were playing and having a lot of fun. 

For this, they went to The Jungle Experience and, working in teams, they experimented the five senses: sight, taste, touch, hearing and smell. In each sense corner they were able to hear an instrument; smell different things (for example cinnamon or tangerines); taste sweet or salty food; touch mysterious things that were in boxes trying to discover what they were, and to see things on different distances. 

Each team started in one of the five corners and once they heard the bell, they moved to the next one. And this is not all! After all this experimentation, each student had the opportunity to share with their partners their experience lived during the lesson and what they learned.

Through this activity, not only did they have a lot of fun, they were really able to learn and understand each of the senses through experience.

Jesica Simó López-Maroto

English Department

My Experience at Boca Prep

I started my mornings with two sessions of soccer practice, my favorite sport, and I found it very different from the game in Spain. In the US, soccer is very physical, while here we are more technical in general. Finally, on Sundays we went on trips, to the zoo, to Orlando (my best trip ever)...

I just came back from staying at Boca Prep International School (Florida) for six weeks, and there were many things I liked about the experience. First of all, people were really friendly, from my host family and their friends to classmates, teachers and administrators. School lunches were very tasty, with plenty to choose from, and the activities we did at school were like in movies, where you had to present and everybody came to see you. I also loved riding on the yellow buses.

It has been an unbelievable experience that left me wanting to go back!

Vicent Diego

1st Year Secondary

 Mi experiencia en Boca Ratón, por Vicent Diego

Acabo de volver de pasar seis semanas en el colegio de Boca Prep (Florida), y han habido muchas cosas que me han gustado de la experiencia. Primero, que todo el mundo fue muy amable, empezando por mi familia anfitriona, sus amigos hasta mis compañeros de clase, profesores y personal de administración. Me gustó mucho la comida del colegio (había mucha variedad) y las actividades que hacíamos en el colegio eran como en las películas: teníamos que presentar los trabajos y todo el mundo venía a vernos. También me encantó ir en los famosos autobuses amarillos.

Empezaba la mañana con dos sesiones de fútbol, mi deporte favorito, y me pareció muy diferente al fútbol que jugamos en España. En EEUU el fútbol es muy físico, mientras que aquí somos más técnicos, en general. Finalmente, los domingos íbamos de excursión, al zoo, a Orlando, el mejor viaje de mi vida...

¡Ha sido una experiencia increíble que me ha dado muchas ganas de repetir!

Vicent Diego

Alumno de 1º ESO