Little Red By Lucia

LITTLE RED BY LUCIA

THIS AMAZING VIDEO WAS CREATED BY LUCIA AND HER FAMILY .WELL DONE EVERYONE WE LOVE IT!!!!

Safe Kids in Internet

Try this quiz just to make sure you are safe when you are surfing in internet.  I'm worried  even when you are connected to this blog that you might see things that are not good for you.
Safe Kids

Clothes vocabulary for summer work KET

Hi everyone try this test of your vocabulary related to clothes

clothes

Elizeth Cardoso - Prece ao Vento (1957)

A lovely song to get ready for the summer.  Today it's 35º here in Madrid so drink lots of water and keep in the shade

Ket practise for the summer

KET AND PET PRACTISE
Here is another great website to work on during the summer

Full Ket reading and writing

So this is the first full exam that I'm posting for summer work.  Take it easy but during the 12 weeks you're not at school try to work  a little each day.

Ket writing

Horrible publicity Educachef Prize

YUK,   how do  I get rid of all these horrible ads that keep appearing on my lovely blog?

Well congratulations to the winners of the educachef competition and to all the participants too.. Thankyou so much for all your hard work.

Well the term is nearly over and I'm happy to say that everyone did a good job of the KET test so this is great news for next year.
 I will be posting lots of links for listening and reading that you can have a look at during the summer.

Only one little kitten left so if anyone is interested let me know.  He's a boy.

We're in the finals of educachef

Have you seen the link ???  We're in the finals.

We're in the finals

The educachef woman Mar told me you hve recieved more than a thousand visits so you have a good chance of winning one of the three prizes.

So let's see what happens this week........................................

Biography On family member year five.

Year five don't forget you've got two weeks to investigate a family member and prepare their biography.  When I get back from holidays we'll be starting immediately so get some really juicy gossip lined up.

By the way at the end of the year we'll be doing a typical KET exam so you can see the level yopu need for next year so have a look at the examples on Internet.

The Gruffalo

The Gruffalo story

This is the story we're working on in the five year olds.

The kids absolutely love it.

 

He's got terrible tusks and terrible claws and terrible teeth in his terrible jaws he's the Gruffalo.

He's got knobbly knees and turned out toes and a poisonous wart at the end of his nose he's the Gruffalo.

His eyes are orange, his tongue is black, he's got poisonous prickles all over his back .  He's the GRUFFALO!

Educachef

 

Hola a todos!

 

Si has participado en el concurso Jóvenes Estrellas de Cocina o si tienes un herman@, amig@ o compañer@ de clase que ha participado, puedes ayudar a los jueces a tomar su decisión entrando en Facebook, mirando los videos y clicando en me gusta de los mejores. Los videos finalistas estarán en el Facebook de Educachef https://www.facebook.com/pages/Club-Educachef/326320430781624?fref=ts a partir del día 21 de mayo y tendréis solo unos días para votar al mejor equipo de cocineros.

 

Los aspirantes al título de Jóvenes Estrellas de la Cocina 2013 esperan vuestro apoyo. A ver cuántos “me gusta” son capaces de acumular..

 

 

 

Monday Morning 29th April Madrid

This was Monday at 8 am in The Sierra of Madrid as you can see very far from my idea of sunny Spain.

Homework for the May holiday

Hi year five as promised here is the link for the comparitive adjectives.
Comparitive adjectives

Have a great time

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NEWS REPORT VIDEOS

Paula and Co
This is Paula's group doing their newsreport.
Philip's team
This is Philip's team
Luna's Group
LUCIA´S GROUP
VIOLET'S GROUP
17 Isabel's Group
Maria's group

News reports

Great posters to explain the different parts of a news article.

This week we've talked about Hugo Chavez's funeral and the new pope. 

 Quite  a mixture!!!!!Now all you have to do is explain it to me in an oral presentation.

Don't forget I want to see the showman/woman in you.  Don't let your group down and make sure you do your bit.

This was our superchef cookery class today and those mini veggie pizzas were really delicious.

Who is going to prepare the video for the superchef competition?????????

WE know our tricky words too!!

15.56 Today in 5 year olds B

 

 

 

 

                                                                           14.35 in 5year old A

These bright sparks have             

learnt the key words too.

So this Friday I'll send the next twelve.

Continuous timetable

This week in our school the great debate has started,  

Do we want a different timetable in our school?

What is best for our students?

All over Europe the timetables differ greatly.

In the U:K timetable is from 9 to 3.30 in primary but we have an hour to eat from 1200-1300 and a short break in the morning. Secondary schools have longer timetable.( I always think it's funny here in Spain that the youngest children have the longest day)
In France the longest day in Europe from 8.30-1630
In Italy usually 0800-1330 but six days a week
in Portugal the same as England.
Greece 08.30 to 12.30 or sometimes 1600
We could take into account the countries like Sweden, Norway and Finland but it is true they are really conditioned by the weather and quite different from Latin countries.  (I know The U:K Isn't Latin, but it's a system I've worked in)

So what is the best?

I can only tell you about what I experience in my classroom every day.

After the kids come in from the playground at 2.30 pm usually they have been out running about for at least an hour and a half.  They are either boiling hot and very sweaty or freezing to death.  In Madrid there is no happy medium.  They are often upset because of conflicts in the playground which then have to be resolved.  They are often exhausted and over tired and it's really difficult to get them to relax, settle down  and back into a studying mode again. 

The afternoon sessions are 45 minutes each one and quite often you set out to do the same lesson you did in the morning with a different group and find that the response just isn't the same.  The children are not as motivated and  the lesson just does not go as well.

Yes it's true there are monitors in the playground but frankly,  I think forty minutes free play is more than long enough.

  It's like when you have kids around to your home to play.

The first hour is fine the kids are happy and play well but after a certain amount of time they begin to get a bit boisterous and out of control.

 You start looking at your watch and wishing that their mum or dad would arrive soon to pick them up.  That's what afternoons at school feel like.

It's also true that Spanish kids do get lots of homework which is a big headache for most parents.  Wouldn't  it be great if the day was organized so that when they got home the homework was already done and you could spend time playing with them or doing other activities?

School really isn't a dumping ground to get the kids out of your hair for as long as possible.

Many parents feel worried by the change and think that kids will be getting out of school at 2.30.  This is a big problem if they work.  But if they were assured that the school would still take care of the kids until four and send them home with the homework already done than maybe it wouldn't be so bad.

You know the Madrid Community Education Authority was not interested in this timetable a few years ago and made it really difficult for schools to obtain. 

 Now all of a sudden they seem to have changed their ideas.I wonder why???

Well the debate was over before it began  last week because the "Consejo escolar" decided  Not  to allow the parents to vote.

It seems that some people like to make decisions for the rest of us.