Painting with lego

Nice attention to detail in this new stop-motion short by Jon Rolph

Brilliant and very creative.

Absolutely outstanding!

The movie shows you how a person tries to reproduce Piet Mondrian's eventually style. But let me say that Mondrian was a Dutch painter who was born in 1872. At one time, Mondrian painted realistic landscapes, but as he painted more and more, his style began to change.  Eventually, Mondrian's style consisted of geometric shapes and primary colors. After all, every shape can be created from the basic geometric shapes and every color can be created from the primaries - red, yellow and blue.

World Cancer Day

The world Cancer Day is marked on February 4th to raise awareness of cancer. Somehow, this illness is around us and it's important to encourage its prevention.

Cancer happens when cells that are not normal, grow and spread very fast.

Kids with cancer may have to stay home — not because their cancer can spread to other people (it can't), but because it can be dangerous if other people's germs spread to them.

To protect themselves, kids with cancer often have to stay home until their immune system gets strong again.

By the way, if you've ever wondered how your immune system works,
 this movie is for you!

It's snowing!

Hi everybody! Frozen snow is falling in our city today and weather forecast says that it's going to be really cold.Today it is just too good to see all of us staring at the sky! 
Here you have two pictures from our playground! I wish it could be whiter than in the photos!
By the way, here you have an easy and appropriate poem for today!

Snow is falling
Short flowers disappear
Snow is falling
The cold is here

Snow is falling
It's time to play
Snow is falling
Let's make snowmen today :)

Creative School Project

What does Creativity mean to us?

This was an important question for children and teachers from the very beginnin of this school year.

As you know, we worked on it very hard.
Here you have what we think Creativity is for us.
NOTE: If you roll your mouse on the guitar you will see the words in a different colour so that you can read them better.

It's freezing cold

 Is it going to snow? 
Click on the picture below. Then choose a temperature and click on it to see what happens ;D

A rhyme for 3rd graders

Hi everyone!

3rd graders have to study a new poem for next Monday: "30 days". 

This rhyme goes back to the 15th century! 

Someone who learns that poem can also learn what a leap year is. 

A leap year happens every four years and has 366 days and it has an extra day in it.

The extra day is added at the end of the shortest month, February!

Last leap year was 2012, so the next will be in 2016.

The alphabet with pipe cleaners

We have used pipe cleaners to form letters today.

We had a lot of fun with them, and for kids working on learning the English alphabet, it's a great tactile way to work on letters.

Story time

1st graders have worked on this funny story. 
Congratulations to Carme Selga and their students. They have done a good job.

 Their English is excellent!

Hokey cokey

This is a funny song that 1st graders sing and dance this week.
It's a song that involves people standing and dancing in a circle. As each part of the body is sung about, the dancers have to put that part of the body 'into' the circle and 'out' again. When you 'do the Hokey Cokey' you can do it any way you wish but it might help to hold your hands together in front of you and rock your arms from left to right then 'knees bend, arms stretch' is as it says.This is a great song for practising language for parts of the body and having fun.

Story time

A naughty monkey

This is a very funny video which shows a brave monkey.When the monkey sees two young tigers encroach into its territory, he decides to take things into his hands to drive them away. While the tigers are playing with each other, the monkey hangs from the tree above and stuns them by slapping them. Before the tiger cubs could react, the monkey has also started swinging from branch to branch in the trees.

A little later, while the tigers sit and rest, the monkey again pulls the ear of one of them and starts a barrage of slaps and pushes. The monkey is doing all this while hanging from the tree and coming down frequently to the lowest branch to continue his harassment on these tigers.

The monkey also pulls the tail of one of them. The tigers are increasingly frustrated and try to go after the monkey. The super speed of the monkey enables it to jump from branch to branch and always eludes the tigers.

Finally the tigers give up the fight and admit defeat by going away from the territory of the monkey!

We will talk about this video next week

Art at school

I always think that you are amazing artists! Whenever I look at your productions I remind my own childhood and my art and craft lessons. They weren't the same.
By the way, I have taken some pictures of your paintings and here you have this short movie about Paul Klee and Kandinsky!
Enjoy it and congratulations to all of you!!!