Diving into plants

Hi there, another school year to participate in European projects! This time, the one I am talking about is inside the eTwinning network and it works around plants.

That means that we will learn a lot by doing and by making our school greener!. Children will plant basil, mint and parsley seeds and they will learn about how they grow.

So, we needed to introduce some vocabulary about the topic and this clear and easy ppt. Hope you find it useful for your lessons.

Chocolate covered anything day!

If you are a chocolate lover, today is your day (my day ;D) !  If you could cover anything in chocolate, what would it be? There are so many foods that are improved by covering them in chocolate, I do not have time to list them all but here you have two delicatessen I tried at home: orange peels and cashews.  So go ahead, and try new chocolate covered dreams. By the way, here you have other important days in December to celebrate or to share in your lessons. 

Besides that, if you want to link the day with Roald Dalh famous book, here you have a digital short presentation about the characters. 

Roald Dalh And Chocolate Factory

Furthermore, here you have an easy presentation about chocolate

Where does chocolate come from?

Stories for children

Hi there,

kids world's fun is an excellent web for everyone, not only for students but also for parents and teachers. I am searching an amazing story to tell my students and I have just met that portal. I want to share it with all of you because, among other important resources, you will find free ebooks for primary students.

Nutrition activity

Digest Quest is a free, interactive, online game that guides 5th graders through the function and components of the digestive system. Students love the game's sound effects and cool graphics, which come together to create a fun and engaging learning experience. Click on the picture below and you will find a wonderful quiz game about the Digestive System. You will learn about it through 7 different levels. Enjoy it!

National Geographic

This interactive magazine for young learners engages students like never before. 

Everyone will find amazing photos and excellent audios.

Click on the picture and then on "read scout"

and remember...
Students who read in English,
increase speaking, reading, fluency, vocabulary, confidence and much more!

Food vocabulary

When we introduce the topic Food and Meals we usually sing some traditional songs. This topic very often seems boring to many of you, but when we start speaking about it, children are interested because everybody wants to say what they like.
Here you have some activities to practise some food vocabulary.

The display below hides an excellent English activity!

Click on it and you will find a game. 
Drag each food into the correct group it fits the best. 

This is an excellent video to have fun .
Children will learn easily the structure that the children sing in it.

The human skeleton

Hi you all!

Here you have a clear ppt presentation. We will use it to expand our knowledge in the next science lesson next week.

Human skeleton from Inès Rosado

Reduce, reuse, recycle

It's time to learn the three R's of the environment: reduce, reuse, recycle. Talk and practice at home: don't buy things you don't need or items that come in wasteful packaging or that cannot be recycled. 
Reuse and recycle whatever you can, as this song says!

 

How does the heart work?

As 4th graders know, our heart is a hard-working muscle

and is one of the most important organs in the human body.
So let's pay attention to this video and you will learn new facts about the body's engine.

Science and Halloween

Here you have an easy sandwich to make for this special day!

JACK-O'-LANTERN TOAST
You need:

• sliced white bread
• slices of cheese
• a toaster

Take two slices of bread and a slice of cheese for them to make a sandwich. Previosly cut out eyes and a mouth in one of the slices. Toast the sandwiches and eat them while still warm. Delicious!

The Water Cycle

4th graders have to study the Water Cycle for next week. So here you have a resource that will remember you the most important facts in the Water Cycle. Click on the picture and you will start exploring all the facts you learnt in the English lessons.

Why do some leaves change their color in Autumn?

Every Autumn in all the forests of the world, there is a miraculous change in the color of the leaves. They turn from green into brilliant shades of yellow, orange, red, and gold. Sometimes you can see several shades on the same leaf. But why are these color changes happening, and what is going on in the plant?
Read this explanation and you will understand!
Plants make their own food. They take water from the ground through their roots. They take a gas called carbon dioxide from the air. They turn water and carbon dioxide into food using sunlight and something called chlorophyll. This one is green. It gives leaves their green color.

Winter days are short and dry. Many plants stop making food in Autumn. Then, the chlorophyll goes away. Then we can see different colours as orange, yellow, red, gold and also brown. When they are brown, it comes from wastes left in the leaves.
Watch the video!

Colors in Autumn

Click on the picture and choose the correct answer. When you finish, click on "next" and enjoy with the rest of the activities.  

Have fun!

Plants use sunlight to turn water and carbon dioxide into oxygen and glucose. 
Oxygen is a gas in the air that we need to breathe.

Earth Day Celebration

We'll celebrate the Earth Day tomorrow !
Each year, Earth Day — April 22 — marks the anniversary of what many consider the birth of the modern environmental movement in 1970.
What does it mean? It means that people around the world are becoming more and more conscious of the urgent need to reduce pollution and save the environment every day.
Earth Day is not just a celebration, it is a call for action! 
But...what can we do? Last School year children concluded that there are lots of things we can do at the school and also at home. 

Here you have some of the main ideas they said:

• To take shorter showers.
• To turn off the tap while you are brushing your teeth.
• To turn the lights off when you are not using a room.
• To walk or cycle more.
• To take public transport.
• To reduce plastic.
• To reuse more.

Tomorrow we will talk about this celebration and we'll decide some more actions.
By the way, I want to share with you this green memory game. I hope you like it!

Why do leaves change color in Autumn?

Every Autumn in all the forests of the world, there is a miraculous change in the color of the leaves. They turn from green into brilliant shades of yellow, orange, red, and gold. Sometimes you can see several shades on the same leaf. But why are these color changes happening, and what is going on in the plant?
Read this explanation and you will understand!
Plants make their own food. They take water from the ground through their roots. They take a gas called carbon dioxide from the air. They turn water and carbon dioxide into food using sunlight and something called chlorophyll. This one is green. It gives leaves their green color.

Winter days are short and dry. Many plants stop making food in Autumn. Then, the chlorophyll goes away. Then we can see different colours as orange, yellow, red, gold and also brown. When they are brown, it comes from wastes left in the leaves.
Watch the video!

We have the power!

If you want to write your promise, here you have the template

and...if you want to check the sea animals' vocabulary, this video is useful for repeating and studying them.

Air pressure on water

Hi you all!

Last week was the Water's Week in our school and we had different workshops working on that topic.

CM graders learnt that the air around us has weight, and it presses against everything it touches. That pressure is called atmospheric pressure, or air pressure. 

We started with  old and empty bottles, hammering a hole in a side of each bottle. Then we put a drinking straw through each hole.

Children discovered, when they filled them with water, and put the lids on, the water stoppped pouring through the straw, because air wasn't getting into the bottles, and couldn't pushing down the water. Otherwise, when they unscrewed the caps, the water was pouring ! It was fun and they enjoyed a lot. They talked about they had made a fountain with a tap.

STEPS
If you're a kid who is trying to do this experiment, get an adult to help you make a hole in the bottle. I don't want to hurt yourself! You have to make the hole on a side of the bottle, close to the bottom.
Put a drinking straw through the hole you have just made it. Fill the bottle with water all the way to the half bottle. Screw on the cap. What's happen? Hey, there's no leak!
Slowly unscrew the cap and watch what happens. Are you ready for the water to come rushing out?

 

EXTRA INFORMATION: Atmospheric pressure is commonly measured with a barometer. In a barometer, a column of mercury in a glass tube rises or falls as the weight of the atmosphere changes. Meteorologists describe the atmospheric pressure by how high the mercury rises.

School Project's week

Hi you all!

All the students in our school are working 
on the same topic along this week: WATER!

CM students are doing different workshops about that topic. So, I present you the one that we are studying about the air pressure on water. First of all, it's very important for us, to understand what pressure means. 

Here you have this clear power point 
to understand its meaning.

Pressure for ELF from seniros

SICK SCIENCE!

World Science Day takes place TODAY. Although we haven't done any special activity for it, I invite you to do at home this easy experiment with your family! I hope you enjoy it!

Besides that, if you want to read wonderful science comics click on the coloured words.

OUR BODY

Hi children! If you are in 4th grade you will want to play with this interactive game to practice what you are learning. Enjoy it!
Besides that, here you have an interesting lesson about the muscular system!