ANIMAL PARTS

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

ANIMAL GAMES

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

HOW DO ANIMALS MOVE?

Turtles swim in the sea.

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: CLICK HERE

Write a sentence about one of the animals you see in the pictures.  For example: Birds fly high in the sky.

OUR BODY: EXCRETORY SYSTEM

Year 4 students are going to learn about our Excretory system using the new technologies.  They will learn about it using a web quest. 

STUDENTS, you need to click here and read all the steps you need to follow.  We hope you learn a lot about your body!

HAVE FUN!!!!

CLICK HERE

OUR BODY: Our Digestive system (Year 4)

Dear students from year 4,

I hope you like this video about the digestive system.  We may see it in class, but you can learn a lot if you watch it at home.

WATCH VIDEO 1

WATCH VIDEO 2 (with Indian accent)

Do you want to play some games?

Here you can play some games to practice vocabulary related to FOOD:

GAME 1: Supermarket game

GAME 2: Choose a recipe and help "abuela" find the food she needs to cook

OUR BODY

Year 3 students are learning about our skeleton.  If you want to learn more you can watch this video  and write something you have learnt.

WATCH THE VIDEO

 

DO YOU WANT TO SING THE SKELETON SONG?

Click on the link below and you will listen to this funny song:

The SKELETON SONG

The SCARY SKELETON SONG

OLYMPIC GAMES

Dear students,

How are you?  How is your Summer going?  I hope you are all fine. 

The Olympic games started a week ago, and I have found these funny games.  Maybe you want to play them.

GAME 1

GAME 2

And you can answer these questions here in the blog:

QUESTIONS:

1. Have you ever seen the Olympic or Paralympic games?

2. Have the Olympic Games ever been held in our country?

3. How many Olympic sports and Paralympic sports can you name?

4. Which Olympic sports would you like to do?

HAPPY SUMMER!!!

Dear friends,

I hope you are having a great time.  What are you doing?  Are you having fun?  Are you going to "colonias" or "campus"?  Are you doing your homework?  Are you in the beach?  Or have you gone with your parents on holidays?

If you want, you can write here and explain us what you are doing
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PLANTS: What are sequoias?

If you want to learn more about these trees, please, read this information.

What is the largest giant sequoia?

The General Sherman tree in Sequoia National Park in California is 52,500+ cubic feet in volume. That makes it the largest tree on earth.

What is the tallest giant sequoia?

A tree in the Redwood Mountain Grove, Kings Canyon National Park is reported to be 93 metres tall!!!!!  Also a tree of the same height is reported in the South Calaveras Grove in Big Trees State Park.

What is the largest diameter trunk of a giant sequoia?

The General Grant tree of Kings Canyon National Park is commonly believed to have the largest diameter trunk of 12 metres. .

What is the oldest giant sequoia?

It is impossible to determine on a living tree. One sequoia that fell down was around 3200 years old when it died.

How big does a giant sequoia get?

The largest sequoia is the General Sherman Tree. The General Sherman is 83 metres tall, has a circumference of 31 metres, and a diameter of 9 metres. 

If you want to learn more, you can visit the Sequoia National Park in the United States, that is the place where lots of sequoias live:   SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK

      

COMENIUS: FROM ENGLAND

Dear boys and girls,

I have missed you a lot this week!  We have been working very hard and showing the teachers from Bulgaria, Romania, Italy, Turkey and the United Kingdom the work all the students in San José de Calasanz has done this year.  We are going to show you some very nice things other children have done in their schools.  We have visited our partner school in Barnburgh.  Here you can see some pictures.

SEE YOU ON MONDAY!!!
Love,
Mónica.

ROBIN HOOD VIDEOS and DIGITAL POSTERS

These are the year 3  A videos of the play "Robin Hood".  All students in years 3 and 4 read the story and prepared a play that they represented for our younger students.  Maybe you can show your families.  If you want to have a look at the posters year 4 did using the computers, click HERE: POSTERS

YEAR 3 A: Robin Hood's play.  PART 1:

YEAR 3 A: Robin Hood's play. PART 2

YEAR 3 and 4 PHOTOS AND STORY

What do you think about these videos?  

Do you think the children in the United Kingdom, Italy, Bulgaria, Romania, Turkey and Italy will like them???  

Solar System posters

Today, some students have done these posters about the solar system using the computers.  Have a look and write what you think about them.  (Some of them are not finished because they didn't have time.)

STORY TIME

Hello everyone,

Do you want to watch some videos?  You can watch and listen to these stories.  After you watch them, tell me if you like them, what's your favourite part...

STORY ONE: Wishing Upon a Star


STORY TWO: The Sun and the Wind

SNAILS in the Class!

When we were studying the animals in class, Year 3 A decided to have some snails in the class.  We have seen how they eat, how they move...  and we have also seen how they lay eggs!!! Now we have lots of little baby snails.  And another snail has laid more eggs!  They hatch very fast and they start sliding very slowly.  Have a look at these pictures!

EARTH, the blue planet

Dear students,
Year 3 is studying our planet Earth. Year 4 will study the Universe in the next unit. These are some videos you can watch at home to learn more about space, our Solar System, the Earth and the other planets.

To learn why do we have DAY and NIGHT, click:  Earth's rotation

To watch an interesting video for children about our SOLAR SYSTEM:  Solar System

To review about the different layers of the Earth and the experimente we did in class with the egg: LAYERS in the Earth

To learn about WHY we have different SEASONS (Spring/Summer/Autumn/Winter)  SEASONS

After watching these videos, please, write some things you have learned and we will read them in class.

Thank YOU!!!

Hangman GAMES

Dear students,

Do you want to have fun?  Here you have a link to a new webpage.  It is to play HANGMAN!!!

There are different games you can choose to practice different words (animals, house, days of the week, body...)  I hope you like them. You only need to choose a topic and play agains the computer!

Go to: HANGMAN GAMES

GET WELL SOON, SARA!

Dear students,

Today I'm sick at home with stomachache and with the stomach bug. I was not feeling very good this morning that is why I had to go to the doctor.

Sara's mother has sent me a message telling me that she had her appendix removed yesterday. Poor Sara! She may be in pain! She is in Lleida in the hospital and she will be there for some days. I thought that maybe you want to write her a "Get Well Soon" message here in the blog.

So, please, why don't you leave Sara a message? Maybe she will read them from hospital!

Take care childen!

Mónica.

MANEL talking about Easter eggs

Manel explained us that a friend from Lituania show him how to decorate Easter eggs.  Do you want to hear him?  Maybe another day you want to explain another interesting thing and we can all hear you.  What do you think about it???

ENGLISH DAY

Dear students,

We are all on holidays now.  I hope you enjoy these days.  Last day of school was AMAZING!  Did you have fun?

Year 4 students did an excellent job presenting the opening ceremony and the closing ceremony.  And everybody at school did very well studying about other countries.  In the morning we did medals and exchanged them, we did some flags and played games.In the afternoon we all sang songs and danced the Sports Dance. It was really fun!

I have a question for you:  CAN YOU SAY WHAT YOU ENJOYED THE MOST?  WHAT WAS YOUR FAVOURITE PART OF THE DAY?

And as a present, here you have a very beautiful picture of whe we wrote on the floor.  Isn't that GREAT?

AND THE WINNER IS: SCARY STORIES!!!

 

Boys and girls,

In the last poll, you voted you like Scary stories... Are you ready for these stories?

STORY 1

To read a scary story about two boys and a worm, click: ATTACK OF THE CENTIPEDE

Then you can play some games about the story:Game 1    Game 2

STORY 2

To read a scary story about a dog and a dragon, click: DRAGON DANGER

To play some games about this story:  Dragon Danger Game 1     Dragon Danger Game 2

STORY 3

To read the story of a boy and some trolls, click: KIPPER AND THE TROLLS

To play some games about the story: Game 1     Game 2

STORY 4

To read a story about a naughty boy who plays some tricks to his mum and dad and at the end there was a........ under his bed!!!!!click:  THE HAIRY-SCARY MONSTER

To play some games about this story: Game 1    Game 2

AND REMEMBER:

If you read this stories, then you can write a comment and tell us which was your favourite story and why.  Tell us if you like the games, what was your favourite part in a story... 

NEWS FROM ENGLAND: DAYA and SARA

Two weeks ago Daya came to our class.  She was a teacher at our school some years ago when year 3 students were in P-5.  We learned lots of things about her because year 3 asked her lots of questions.  She was very happy to see that you all talk very good English!  She is living in England now, in a city called Bristol.  Here you can see her in Bristol.

Sara, went to London last week.  Remember that London is the capital of the United Kingdom.  The Olympic Games are going to be held in London this Summer!  Here you can see some pictures that Sara has sent us.  She  is there with her mother, Grandma, aunt Katy, uncle Paul and her little cousins Adam and Isabella.  She had a great time there!                     

SAINT PATRICK'S DAY

Dear students,

Today is Saint Patrick's Day.  It is the saint patron of Ireland, but it is a day celebrated all around the world.
If you want to do some activities, you can click here: Saint Patrick worksheet
If you want to help the leprechaun find the rainbow, click here: Shamrock game
Answer these questions about Saint Patrick day: Game with questions

       

ROBIN HOOD

Year 3 and year 4 students have watched the movie Robin Hood and now we are going to read the story and prepare a play. We are going to paint different sets for the scenes.  We will create our own costumes, too!!!

This story comes from the United Kingdom.  Our Comenius friends from the UK did an excellent job at their school, and we are going to read and learn about it.

This is a fragment of the movie.  You can watch it and remember who are the main characters in this story.  In every class students will play the story.

And you can also listen to these songs:
Song 1:  Robin Hood and Little John song
Song 2: The Phony King of England
Song 3: The Adventures of Robin Hood

To see real pictures of Sherwood Forest where Robin Hood and the outlaws lived: Sherwood Forest

Comenius work on Robin Hood by our European friends: Robin Hood, United Kingdom

DO YOU LIKE SONGS?

Dear children,

Have you seen that if you scroll down and look at your right in the blog, there is a place where you can listen to some songs and watch some videos?  If you want more songs and you know titles of songs, you can write me a comment and I will do a list with more songs.  Do you want to hear Disney songs?  Science songs? Just let me know.

You can learn with some of this songs, watch and listen to this song!

HAVE FUN!

IMPORTANT MESSAGE:  In the blog you can only hear some songs... There are problems and some songs CAN NOT be seen.  If you want to listen and see all the videos, you need to click under the songs screen where it says GET TRACKS.  Then you will go to another web page where you can hear the list of songs I have prepared for you. 

SPAIN

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

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!!!

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

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

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

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!!!!

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

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

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

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

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

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!!!