The Toys Party

This is the story we are working on this week in Year 1.  We are going to have a toys party just like in the story so everyone has to bring a toy to school this week.

Year 1 wanted a party.   

WE WANT A PARTY!!!!!!!!!

Nobody wanted to come.                                     

They got their toys.

They made a cake.

Chloe put in cornflakes.

Ruben put in jam. 

Tristan put in sugar.

    

Jaime put in baked beans. 

Ruben put in tomato.

Daniela put in milk.

YUK!  Disgusting.

Some Information about Rome.

Facts!

The old city of Rome stood where Rome

(the capital of Italy) is today.

Can you see where Rome is on the map?

Of all the people in Ancient Rome, nearly half of them were slaves.

In Ancient Rome, only boys went to school. Girls stayed at home.

The Ancient City of Rome began as a small village in 753 BC 

The City of Rome

 The City of Rome was started in 753 BC. 

 Some people say that they City started as some small wooden houses.

 Other people say that a man called Romulus killed his twin brother Remus and built a city called ‘Rome’.

 At first, Rome was ruled by a King.

Later, it was ruled by 100 very powerful families. 

Rome became one of the strongest cities in the World.

Emperor of Rome

Julius Caesar took charge of Rome in 49 BC. 

He was murdered in 44 BC.

  

The next people to rule Rome were Augustus Caesar

and Mark Anthony. 

These 2 men were friends at first, but then they had a big row.

  

The argument between Augustus Caesar and Mark Anthony:

Augustus told Mark to take over Egypt. When Mark got to Egypt, he did not take it over because he fell in love with the Queen of Egypt. Her name was Cleopatra. Augustus sent an army to fight Mark. Mark Anthony lost this battle and was killed. Cleopatra made a poisonous snake bit her so that she would die before she was caught by the Romans. 

Augustus then became the first Roman Emperor.

Click on this link to learn about Julius Caeser

All about Julius Caeser

Roman Quiz Year 6

I've made a quiz on Socrates for year 6.

 I want you to connect and have a go.

(I don't know if it will work if we're not all connected at the same time, let's see what happens)

You have to click on this link, 

Roman Quiz

http://m.socrative.com/student/#joinRoom

Put your name and then put 

the room number which is

619187

Good Luck

Here are some website links that might help you with your  Roman project!

BBC Romans

Wide-ranging resource - activities, and games. From the BBC.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/romans/

Every Coin Tells A Story

KS2 Roman game from Corinium Museum, packed with info on empire, traditions and Roman life. Note - relies on sound.

http://www.cotswold.gov.uk/media/flash/museum/coin/coin.html

Roman Centurion

Dress the soldier and find out about his equipment along the way. KS2. From Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery.

http://www.schoolsliaison.org.uk/kids/romancent.htm

Bath Bubbles

Fun, fast game based on a visit to the Roman Baths, KS2. Basic level of prior knowledge needed. From Roman Baths Museum.

http://www.romanbaths.co.uk/childrens_pages.aspx

First 10 high frequency words for year 1

18th September 2013

Hola Papas y mamas de 1º A/B

Help Please!!!!!!!!!!

Aquí tienen como pronunciar en inglés las primeras 10 palabras(Gracias Charo) que tienen que leer y escribir vuestros hijos/as.

You are gonna be so sick of these videos by the end of the year.SORRRRRRRY

What I need to bring to school 6ºA/B 19th September

18th September Year 6 

Just to remind all of you to bring the definition of 4 Roman related words tomorrow for your glossary and also anything that you have at home related to the Roman Topic.  Books, encycopedias, magazines, souvenirs, postcards photos of family visiting Rome...........

Also we are going to make lavender bags in Art so we need to bring small pieces of material(Cotton)and ribbons to tie the bags.

By the way I just corrected your Dream Holiday essays and they were amazing!!!!! Well done everyone

This weekend 20th-22nd September

Dont forget to find the definitions for the next four Roman words and to copy the Romulus and Remus text into a word doc (or copy out by hand if you don't have  a printer.)

The New School Year

      The New Beginning   2013-14                                                                    

I love this time of year the planning, the organization of the course, the setting of objectives and deciding what's important and what needs to be done.  The kids are ready for a new start, we're all refreshed after a long summer holiday.
Even the teachers are smiling at each other.  We haven't started irritating each other just yet.

The meetings actually seem to be productive and there's a feeling of energy a buzz around the school.
Long may it last!The parents meeting today seemed to go well and parents were looking reasonably happy and asked sensible questions.
 I always get butterflies in my stomach before these meeting even after so many years.  It's a bit like being on the stage.  You can see that you are being judged,  it's completely understandable but makes you feel nervous.
I finally managed to recover my  index so visitors to the blog can actually find the posts for their class.  It only took me about 5 days.

So this year I plan to lead my students(108 of them) to learning and hopefully motivate them along the way.  The official formative assessment is slowly dying but it still has some followers among us.  Unfortunately these followers tend to be in the echelon of the Education department in our local authority.  So there will have to be some formative testing done but the bulk of the evaluation carried out in my class will be from The higher order thinking skills with a lot of emphasis on  (self evaluation and peer evaluation), measurable, specific objectives that children understand.
This ancient chinese proverb got it right.

 Chinese proverb : Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself.

I also want to use Excel to show, compare and contrast results and move away from my scruffy old notebook.

So good luck to everyone and hopefully this is going to be a great academic year.

Stuffing Your Cerebral Cortex

      Stuffing your cerebral cortex

                               susanmidlarsky.com/why-learning-should-be-fun

This blog is really interesting it's quite similar to mine in that Susan and teachers like her

 can see that we're not preparing children for the world that we live in and that each day the
 joy is being taken out of the classroom.

 We're still churning out factory or production line workers or god forbid burocrats 

and civil servants.  Why are we still evaluating kids on there memory capacity,

 and lower order thinking skills?  

The big fat educrats sit on there thrones dictating  what should be 

happening in the classroom when they just don't have a clue.




As far as I know Finland which has incredible results in education and a huge budget 

for spending is one of the few countries that invites classroom teachers at all levels 

of education to contribute to changing education policies and laws.

Why on earth don't they just get a few of us out of the classroom and ask us .

what needs to be done?.

Parents in Spain are totally obsessed with the grades but I guess that's not just here.

 To be a good parent you have to sit down for hours and help your kid to stuff a

 bunch of useless facts into their heads.  When all that knowledge is at the flick of a switch.

  I'm not saying that we shouldn't provide a good base but after that why aren't we

 workingexclusively on creativity and exploiting what each child does best?? 

 The rivers and mountains of Spain and every capital city in Europe they can find in 

Google if they ever have an urgent need to know them,  but helping each individual to

 develop personally and reach their personal goals is what I signed up for 28 years ago.  

 Not passing the KET, PET, TRINITY;  or SATs or whatever other official exam they come

 up with next.