fIVE YEAR OLD STORY AND SONG

This is the story we've been reading with the five year olds this week about the days of the week and a very silly song about knickers.  You won't find this on youtube.

Big Thinkers: Sasha Barab

And the winners are...............................

Hello everyone.  First and foremost congratulations to everyone that participated in the pyramid competition.  I can't tell you how impressed the whole school is with your work.
The winners are in the photos above and they were chosen by Julia and I  bearing in mind lots of different factors.
Creativity, motivation, effort, time spent , originality and how the first pyramids made served to motivate many other students to participate.  So well done EVERYONE!!!!!!!!!!!

ego4u.com Year 5

http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/tests

ego4u

This is the link for the grammar tests

Great websites for studying

http://www.what2learn.com

 

This site is great for maths.  ( I definately have to spend some time here)

 

http://sciencereviewgames.com/srg/

 

This is great for science for now and in the coming years

 

 

http://www.powerupthegame.org/

This one is excellent for learning about ecology

Memorize,com Year five

Year Five and anyone who has to study for an exam.

This is a great website called memorize.com and it's to help you prepare an exam or memorize something.

You go to students study then create and you have different options to study including table wizrd, diagram wizard or image wizard .

 Remember what kind of learner you are from the first days of class to find the option that will help you more.

You can use this for science, cono or even maths.

Study Efficiently

I spend so much time
memorizing and don't have
time to understand.

I memorize 10 facts in
about 3 minutes. So there's
ample time for concepts.

I'm bored and 
have trouble following 
in class.

I spend a few minutes 
getting the terms down and 
following becomes easy.

My friends and I 
want to help each 
other study.

I share pages I create 
with friends, and they 
share theirs with me.

It takes a long 
time for me to create 
study material.

Wizards help me 
create interactive pages 
in no time at all.

No Textbooks in the future

GREAT EDUCATION BLOG

Look at the article on why textbooks are bad.  I've known this for years and kept far away from them.  Only on desperate days when I run out of ideas do I pick them up.

They are heavy, expensive and  do not provide the tools this generation will need to survive.

But then why do most teachers and many parents love them??????

 

 

Oh My God,  I can forget about that job in Macmillan for next year!!!!!!!!

Gabriel FAURE': Pavane, Op. 50 Music for a wet Saturday afternoon

Christmas Is Coming

This is a very old English song or nursery rhyme sang at christmas it talks about a beggar asking for money.  The" god bless you" is thought to be a bit sarcastic
My grandmothers surname was Halfpenny so I like this song

Christmas songs for the five year olds

Must be santa

This is one of the christms songs we are going to sing this christmas in the five year old class.

there was a little baby

This is the other song that we'll be singing.
The poem is a nursery rhyme from

 Christmas is coming

This is a christmas rhyme that the four and five year olds will be learning

Must Be Santa

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This is one of the songs the five year olds will be singing this christmas.

More dopamine less homework

Thanks Silvia This is great

A wonderful informative article on neuroscience in Education .

Bring on the dopamine...............................................

Display Video

Pyramids display

The wedding cake

Can you see Fiona and Shrek on the cake??  

This was me and my husband on the wedding cake.

The lady in the photo is the cook at the restaurant.

The pyramid exhibition

Perfect Pyramids

I have put your amazing pyramids on display in the entrance to the school .  Marixili was most impressed when she saw them and sends her congratulations to the arquitects.
I have put a mummies curse near the lego pyramids so hopefully no one will touch them.

MADRES Y PADRES DE CINCO AÑOS.

HOLA TODOS/AS

NECESITO UN CD VIEJO PARA CADA ALUMNO/A PARA PEGAR UNA PIÑA.

ES PARA HACER UN ÁRBOL DE NAVIDAD.

SI NAVIDAD ESTA A LA VUELTA DE LA ESQUINA.( BELIEVE IT OR NOT)

TENGO LAS PIÑAS PERO SI ENCUENTRAS UNO ESPECIALMENTE BONITO,  TAMBIÉN LO PUEDEN TRAER.

UN SALUDO

JENNIFER

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WORK TODAY

THE BEST EXAM OF THE DAY

STUDENTS DOING THE DREADED EXAM AT 9 am ON A MONDAY MORNING.  HOW CRUEL CAN A TEACHER BE??????????????????????.............................................

Homework for the 12-16 Nov

Year five you are going to do this web quest at home during the week and bring me the answers for Friday
follow the steps.
1.  Click on the link (activities to do at home 12-16th Nov
2.  Click on magic lessons mummies
3.  Complete the quiz ( bring results to school.  you can print the certificate)
     Individually or in a group I don't really mind.

Activity to do at home from the 12-16th of November

I'm doing my best

Food for thought

The Spanish education system  is once again in the news for the appalling results at the end of secondary education. A huge amount of kids drop out without a single qualification.

 

This stinks!

 We are failing miserably to reach the students and the

 "Fracaso escolar" grows by the day.

                                         BUT OF COURSE

It's not only the kids that are failing . 

 It's everything from the system, the family, the society and of course we the teachers who also share part of the blame without a doubt.

• Kids from the age of three spend most of their day out the house often even more time than their parents. 

• Eating, breakfast, lunch and often tea at school.

• Stressed overworked mums and dads trying to help with homework well into the evening. doesn't help the situation especially if they don't speak English and their kid's in a bi-lingual school.

• Not enough sleep.  Not enough play

• Too much unsupervised internet, tuenti, facebook video games.

• Teachers out of date as far as new technology goes and unable to motivate or reach out to students.
• Teachers finding for the first time in history, student know a lot more than they do about new technology and feeling very insecure about it.
• An incredibly high level of frustration among students and increasing difficulty to concentrate.  They are so  used to having information at the flick of a switch and they live in a fast moving world of  sounds and images.

How the heck , can we keep  their attention and motivate them with a blackboard and a piece of chalk.? (Yes in Spain we still use them)

We need to provide them with the tools they will need when they get out in the big bad world

• Great communication skiills

• A foreign language (Usually English)  that keeps me in a job!!!!!!!!

• Motivation

• The ability to move in the ever changing interactive world with all the new technolgy at their disposal

• But most of all we want them to be happy, well balanced adults.

I swear to God I'm doing my best

LEARNING TO LEARN