SECOND CYCLE CORNER

SPAIN

2012-02-29T16:48:00.001+01:00

Year 4 students are learning about Spain. You can watch this interesting video about our history, culture and geography. We can learn a lot about our country.
We are studying that Spain is divided into different Autonomous Communities. Each Autonomous community has different provinces, although there are autonomous communities have only one province.

To read and learn about GEOGRAPHY, click HERE
To watch a video about our geography, history and traditions, click HERE

YEAR 4 STUDENTS.... Could you write here some of the things we are learning in class?

REPTILES

2012-02-28T20:59:00.001+01:00

We are studying reptiles with year 3. There are different kinds of reptiles:

SNAKES
LIZARDS
TURTLES
CROCODILES

If you want to play a GAME, click REPTILE'S GAME

If you want to learn about REPTILES, watch this video: REPTILES

Do you want to watch a video about CROCODILES

Do you want to know more about the KOMODO DRAGON??? Look how they hatch from eggs: KOMODO DRAGONS

PANCAKE DAY: LISTEN TO OUR SONG!!!

2012-02-24T22:29:00.002+01:00

Last Tuesday was PANCAKE DAY. Sara brought us some books and we read them in class. We learned that British cook and eat lots of pancakes on that day.

Last year we cooked pancakes in school and we still remember the song we practiced during last year's English Day. We also did some pancake races like the one in the pictures.

We recorded "The Pancake Song" for you, do you want to hear it? Just PRESS PLAY.

Have fun!

MAMMALS

2012-02-15T21:28:00.002+01:00

We are studying different kinds of animals. We have started with MAMMALS. To see some MAMMALS and learn about them, click here: What are MAMMALS?

Today we read about the PANGOLIN, but this is a very weird animal. If you want to see a short video about this animal, click here:

PANGOLIN

The BEAVER is a very intelligent animal. It is a mammal, too. They have special teeth and are herbivores. Do you want to learn more about the BEAVER? Click here: BEAVERS

The LION is the king, and it is a carnivore and one of the most dangerous predators!!! Do you want to learn more about LIONS

You can play this GAME to practice the names of some mammals. Click here: MAMMALS Game

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY

2012-02-13T23:19:00.002+01:00

Today is February 14th. It is Saint Valentine's day.

Let's celebrate LOVE and FRIENDSHIP today.

I'm sure you have lots of friends and you want to keep them. Tell them they are your friends and tell them something nice, like; "You are my best friend", "I like your shirt!", "You have a beautiful smile!"...

Have a look at these pictures, Do you like them? Which one do you like the most?

Have fun today!

HERBIVORES, CARNIVORES, OMNIVORES

2012-02-11T00:04:00.000+01:00

This week we have studied that we can classify animals depending on what they EAT.

Do you remember what a herbivore eats? And carnivores, what do they eat? And omnivores???

What are humans?

To read about herbivores, click here: HERBIVORES
To read about carnivores, click here: CARNIVORES
To read about omnivores, click here: OMNIVORES

1st GAME: If you want you can play some games this weekend. You will see some animals and you need to click to say if that animal is a herbivore, carnivore or omnivore. What animals eat GAME

2nd GAME: Move those animals where they belong. You need to READ first what they eat and then decide if they are hervibores, carnivores or omnivores. Feed the animals

3rd GAME: Try to match the carnivores. Match Carnivores

4th GAME: Try to match the herbivores: Match herbivores

5th GAME: Try to match the omnivores: Match the omnivores

ENJOY THESE GAMES AND HAVE FUN!!!!!!!!!!!!

And the winner is... EXPERIMENTS!!!!

2012-02-07T21:03:00.000+01:00

Most of you voted in the poll that you wanted to see experiments to do. This is an easy experiment that you can do with your mothers and fathers at home. Later, you can explain here how it went; if it was easy to do, difficult, if you like it...

Always ASK your PARENTS to help you. NEVER do experiments by yourselves.

Click here and you will see in your screen all the things you need and how to do it:

EXPERIMENT

And please, VOTE in the next POLL. What will I ask???

THE GRUFFALO'S CHILD STORY

2012-02-03T20:37:00.003+01:00

Dear boys and girls,

If you want, you can go to youtube and listen to The Gruffalo's Child story:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibctn5G-_dg&feature=related

Do you remember we read The Gruffalo last year? You can go to the official web site and see pictures, listen to songs, play GAMES... and much more!!!!
http://www.gruffalo.com/
You can also listen to Julia Donaldson singing The Gruffalo's Child song with her husband.

Do you like this story?
How is the Gruffalo? Can you describe him?
And, can you describe the young gruffalo girl?

Have FUN!!!

ADJECTIVE GAMES

2012-02-03T20:07:00.002+01:00

Hello boys and girls,

Do you want to play some games this weekend? You can read about what we are learning in class (adjectives) and play some games.

You can also have a look at this photo of our town. You can write SENTENCES using the adjectives we have studied to talk about FRAGA. You can write comments here.

GAMES:

This game is better for year 4, but Year 3 can also read and play this game: ADJECTIVES Y4

This is a text to read and complete some descriptions: Read and complete with adjectives

This is a very FUNNY game for Year 3 and Year 4. The spider that has an adjective will eat the fly: Adjective adventure
This is also FUN to do. Press PLAY in the game, listen to the characters and complete the sentences with an adjective: GAME Listen and complete
Another game: Pick the adjectives
This one is not difficult BUT you need to read everything. They will ask you which adjective tells you the number / colour / shape... Read carefully and complete this game

ENJOY your weekend!!!

ANIMALS: BODY PARTS

2012-01-31T14:33:00.002+01:00

Today we have learned new vocabulary to name the parts of animal bodies. If you want to know more animals and practice these parts, click and read:

Animals with ANTLERS Click HERE
Animals with CLAWS Click HERE
Animals with FINS Click HERE
Animals with FUR Click HERE
Animals with GILLS Click HERE
Animals with HOOVES Click HERE

Animals with HORNS Click HERE

Animals with PAWS Click HERE
Animals with SCALES Click HERE
Animals with a SHELL Click HERE
Animals with SPOTS Click HERE
Animals with STRIPES Click HERE
Animals with TENTACLES Click HERE
Animals with TUSKS Click HERE
Animals with WINGS Click HERE
Animals with FEATHERS Click HERE
Animals with a TAIL Click HERE

PEACE DAY

2012-01-30T14:47:00.001+01:00

Dear boys and girls,

It's PEACE day today. You have all read a story in class in Spanish, The War of the Bells by Giani Rodari. We brought this story from our first Comenius exchange in Turkey. The Italian students in Campobello di Licata, Sicily read this story and prepared a video for us.

We have all learned a nice song that you can find in our school's website. However, some of you wanted to hear the PEACE song we learned last year. So here you have the video:

Remember, everyday should be PEACE day. You need to be good with your friends, teachers and families.

A story from TURKEY

2012-01-29T21:46:00.001+01:00

Hello children,

A very famous man in Turkey is HODJA. He is a wise old man and there are lots of stories about him. You can learn a lot with his stories. We brought one story when we went to Gebze, Turkey in October in the first Comenius meeting.

Here you have a nice story with this character. Maybe some of you will read one of his stories in Catalán. you will see soon with Lorena.

To have a look at the story, you can click and read it here, this is in the web site Daya told us about. It is a very famous web site English children use a lot: HODJA and the Mixed-Up Feet

The story is first written in English and then in Turkish, so don't worry if you don't understand all the lines!!! Have FUN!!!

ANIMAL GAMES

2012-01-27T19:58:00.002+01:00

I told you I was going to post some nice animal games for you. You can play these games and listen to these videos during the weekend. Have FUN!!!

To learn about animals that live in the OCEAN: Ocean Movie

To play the OCEAN game: Ocean Animals GAME

To learn about animals that live in the JUNGLE: Jungle Animals

To play the JUNGLE game: Jungle animals GAME

To learn about animals that live in the FOREST: Forest animals

To play the FOREST game: Forest Animals Game

To learn about animals living in the FARM: Farm animals video
To play the FARM game: Farm Animals GAME

EUROPE

2012-01-26T21:11:00.000+01:00

Do you want to learn more about Europe? Year 4 students are studying about the World and about our continent. They are learning where the countries are. They also know some capitals. If you want to practice you can go to these pages and you will see some maps that talk in English.

Do you want to PLAY some GAMES??? You can practice on maps and then play some games with your computer:

To hear the names of the countries, click here: COUNTRIES

To play a game about the countries, click here: Countries GAME

To learn about their capital cities, click here: CAPITALS

To play a game to recognise the capitals, click here: Capitals GAME

HOW DO ANIMALS MOVE?

2012-01-25T16:59:00.001+01:00

Here you can have a look at this web page and you will learn lots of new words to talk about HOW animals move.

Have fun and click here: Animal Movements

YEAR 3 A- Our friends from the United States

2012-01-24T14:19:00.000+01:00

Year 3 students have new friends in the United States. We have linked our classes and we are exchanging letters.

Our new penpals are from a city called Lebanon, in the state of Pennsylvania. We have learned that the United States are in the continent called America. They are living in North America. We live in another continent called Europe. There is a big ocean in the middle between our continents. It is the Atlantic Ocean.

If you want to see pictures and learn from their town: Lebanon city

With Google maps you will be able to go and see their streets. Click on this link: Walking in Lebanon, PA, USA

If you want to see what their school looks like, please, go to: Union Canal Elementary School

Europe and Comenius

2012-01-24T00:30:00.000+01:00

Year 3 and Year 4 students are learning about Europe.

Can you answer these questions?

1. Which countries are participating with us in our COMENIUS project?

2. Which is the capital of the UK?

3. Which countries are neighbours?

4. Can you name some famous people from those countries?

5. Can you say something interesting about those countries?
6. Do they have Kings and Queens in Italy, Bulgaria, Romania, the UK and Turkey?
7. Do you know about their flags?
8. Do you know any word in the language it is spoken in that country?

If you want to learn more about the European Union, you can go to this web site and read a book. You can also order it FOR FREE and they will send you the book home:

- To READ on-line, click on: Read on-line or download
- To PLAY an on-line GAME: Play European games

- To GET the book for FREE, go to: To get a FREE European book

CIRCULATORY SYSTEM - YEAR 4

2012-01-10T23:17:00.001+01:00

Year 4 students are learning about the heart and the circulatory system in Science. You can have a look at this nice video to review all the important things we are studying.