Like a bird

Hi you all!

 let's listen to this song about birds!

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)

Fonix 2015

Fonix is an English Competition for Schools and it is designed to promote the use of English among school students through a fun and educational competition in an informal educational setting. Its objective is to select a finalist from each of the first two stages: local, territorial and the winners at the final stage.

The exercises that students will do next February 28th, will consist of writing tasks, each based on different skills, reading and writing mainly. There will also be an oral section in the final stage of the competition.

Joanot Alisanda School participates every year designating one student from 5th grade and another one from 6th grade. So, the English Department at our School has selected Oriol Garcia from 5thB group and Max Porcar from 6thA group. Congratulations for them! 

If you want to find out more information about that competition, click on the pic above or below.

Giuseppe Arcimboldo

Giuseppe Arcimboldo was a famous artist. He used images of fruits and vegetables to create art. In the pic below you have an example of his art.

Along last week, 4th graders created artwork based on Arcimboldo's example.

Look at this presentation:

 Now, you're the artist!
Can you design another person with different fruit and vegetables?

Valentine's story for Today

I love the simplicity of this picture,  just a bird with a rose petal.
Click on it and you will find a lovely St. Valentine's story!

How to grow a mandala

4th grade children are designing some mandalas. 
Here you have an example about how to create them. 
This simple and easy method of mandala drawing is also a powerful form of meditation, relaxation and creative expression.

Give it a try!It only takes some minutes to learn!

Competition

Hi you all!

I'm very excited because I've decided to participate in a competition about blogs in education.

If you click on the pic below you will find out some information about it. 

Espiral Edublogs gives an important value to this special tool, our web.

That competition rewards the best ones.  

So, let's participate in the competition and wish we could win a spinning top!

Love your Library!

Hi you all!

February is Love your Library Month!

Children all over the world will be participating in fun activities. Why not celebrate too by doing something special at Joanot Alisanda School.

In few days, you will know what we are planning. 

Meanwhile, here you have 10 very unusual libraries. 

Would you like to have some of them in our town?

Activities out of school

Dear families, primary children will go to Casal Pere IV on February 18th. 

Children from 1st to 3rd grade will see:

In this popular story children will check some basic vocabulary as colours, animals in a farm and some values.

From 4th to 6th grade will participate in Dracula's story

We will learn new and terrifying vocabulary:

creepy, scary, mysterious, gloomy, frightening, inhospitable, dark, obscure

Meanwhile you can listen to some of these new words in this Sesame Street chapter.

Birds everywhere

Hi you all!

2nd graders are working on birds.

They learnt some vocabulary around this topic and they discovered some words as beak, feather, wings, talon, nest, egg, bird and chick.

Here you have an wonderful video by The Cornell lab of Ornithology
Although it's a little bit difficult to understand for very young children, it's worthy to watch it. Enjoy the images and the pics. Below the video, you will find more explanations about this amazing project!

The Birds-of-Paradise Project reveals the  beauty of 39 of the most exquisitely specialized animals on earth. After 8 years and 18 expeditions to New Guinea, Australia, and nearby islands, Cornell Lab scientist Ed Scholes and National Geographic photojournalist Tim Laman succeeded in capturing images of all 39 species in the bird-of-paradise family for the first time ever. 

"I like the weather" chant

Don't worry, here we are to warm you up! 

Fruit and vegetables

Students from 4th grade are working on Archimboldo's paintings. 

So, we have decided to check basic vocabulary in English.