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!!!

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

EUROPE

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?

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

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

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

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.