Identity activity in an art lesson

 4th grade students have been working on their family trees over the past month. After that, they designed new self-portraits in which they traced their roots through their parents.
Nowadays it's easy to take photos from children if you have their parents' permission, so we used a black and white photo for the activity below and we cut into halves. Then, we identified half of it with our mother and half of the same picture with our father.
Note if you visit this page from abroad: the tradition in Catalonia orders that when a baby borns, he/she is called after their parents and receives two surnames.
Have a look.

Tracing our roots from Inés Rosado on Vimeo.

European Project

Hi you all!
After finishing our Identity through names' project,

We have just run another Identity Project with Czech Republic. 

4th graders will know more information not only from their mates but also from children in different countries in Europe. So, they will learn ho to respect and admire different cultures. They will find out that differences are here to enrich our lives, to be appreciated and not to divide us.

All of our publications around the new European Project will be uploaded to a new blog. 
Here you have:

Words that describe me

Hi you all!
4th graders were working on adjectives. We searched the meaning of some qualities
using the question "What does.....mean?" and everyone chose the ones that described themselves.   

As we wanted to show them in our Parents' Day and we wanted to talk about them, we decided to make framers writing down our qualities on them.
Here you have the pics we took:

 
After that we could practise the next structures: 

• I am....(the child who spoke was the one in the framer) 
• You are... (the child who spoke was in front of the one who was in the framer) 
• He/she is... (if we talked about a 3rd person)

The most common names at school

Hi you all!

3rd graders have been working on names, identity through names. If you remember, they wrote some acrostic poems and they described themselves through their names.

Nowadays, we wanted to know what are the most common names at school and we decided to search them with a survey.
First of all, children decided the most common names for boys and for girls and after that they went to each classroom asking about how many .....
Here you have some pictures of different moments during the English lessons.

and...these are the results. 

BOYS' NAMES

MARC   m   French, Catalan, Welsh
French, Catalan and Welsh form of MARK

SERGI   m   Catalan
Catalan form of SERGIUS

ARNAU   m   Catalan
Catalan form of ARNOLD

GIRLS' NAMES

ARIADNA   f   Spanish, Catalan, Russian, Polish
Spanish, Catalan, Russian and Polish form of ARIADNE

JÚLIA   f   Portuguese, Catalan, Hungarian, Slovak
Portuguese, Catalan, Hungarian and Slovak form of JULIA

MARIONA   f   Catalan
Catalan diminutive of MARIA

Acrostic poems by 3rdB group

How are you? As you can see, we work hard. 
Today you have the poems that 3rdB group wrote some weeks ago.

Sorry for the delay :) 

Acrostic poems by Year 3 from Inès Rosado

Speaking about ourselves

Hi you all!
3rd graders are working very hard in the Identity project! 
They are expanding the basic vocabulary in order to write acrostic poems with their names. 
In fact, in few days they will publish them! 

Meanwhile, here you have their oral descritions about some of them! 

Congratulations! 

Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want  (Margaret Mead)

Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Gordon B. Hinckley
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Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want.
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Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Gordon B. Hinckley
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Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Gordon B. Hinckley
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Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Gordon B. Hinckley
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Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want.
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Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Gordon B. Hinckley
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Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Gordon B. Hinckley
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Names everywhere

3rd graders are working hard about what's in their hearts before diping into their names.
Here you have their productions in the art and craft lessons.
 
But, what are their names?
Here you have them:

 Group A

  

Group B

  

Group C

Do you know why your parents chose your name? 
Find it out!