Happy New Year 2013

Just to wish my students in CEIP La Encina a Happy New Year!

Volcanoes

Here is a photo of the volcano we used in class to do an experiment. It's made of flour, water and salt and has a plastic bottle incorporated so that you can add liquids. We put some coloured water in the bottle, then added a few drops of washing up liquid and two tablespoons of bicarbonate of soda. Finally we added some vinegar. It really started to fizz and then erupted just like a real volcano! Why don't you try making one?

The Hound of the Baskervilles

This is a video of the story we're reading in my 5th year classes. In the holidays if you get bored you can watch it so that you understand the plot before we come back to school in January.

Present Perfect Tense

Here is a presentation for my 5th year students who had an exam on Monday about the Present Perfect tense. If you think you need more practice, or didn't understand everything, then watch this presentation.

Present Perfect Tense

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Volcanoes

Earth's Layers

Ecosystems

What is an Ecosystem? Watch this video to learn more...

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Photosynthesis Trees

Look at this forest of Photosynthesis Trees my 5th years made! They are made with A4 card and the children drew pictures of the process of photosynthesis and wrote definitions on them. It's a fun way of helping them revise for their Science exam. Hope you like them!

Here you have a template to make the tree which you might want to enlarge for A4 size. You need two and you slot them together after decorating them with drawings and text to explain photosynthesis. You cut one from the top of the centre line downwards to the lower big dot in the centre of the tree, and then the other from the bottom of the centre line upwards to the higher big dot.

Foldables for Science

My 5th years classes did some foldables for the topic 'Living Things' in Science. Here are some photos of the best ones!

Watch this video to find out more about eclipses. You can go to www.kidsastronomy.com to learn more about the Universe.

Photosynthesis song

Past Continuous and Past Simple

Watch this video to understand more about the past continuous and past simple:

past simple

Seeds

Healthy Eating Song

time lapse cress

Cells

Here is a video showing different types of cells for my 5th year classes in 'CEIP La Encina'. Hope you like it and that it helps you to understand the different forms and shapes they can be!

The Class

This is a present for my 4th year class


The Class by madridteacher on Storybird

Means of Communication

Commercial Activities

Communication Systems

Labour

Here is a quiz for my 4th year students before they do the exam on Friday.

A Special Story

The other day Alba's Mum came to class to tell a special story. The children in 4A loved it and I've put some photos here so that you can see how amazing it was!

Gingerbread Man Minibooks

Here are some of the pages from one of the mini books we made about The Gingerbread Man story. All the 4th year children made one and I've selected the best to show you. Now they can read the story to their families!

There Was an Old Woman Who Swallowed a Fly...

Here is the mural we did with the third years about the rhyme 'There was an old woman who swallowed a fly. Hope you like it and that you can remember all the rhyme because it's really long and it's easy to forget what comes next!

The Gingerbread Man

In the third and fourth year we read the traditional story about the Gingerbread Man. With the fourth years we designed this mural and a big-book so that students from other years can read the story if they haven't already. We also made mini-books where we copied the story inside so that we can read it to our families at home. I made some gingerbread men so that the children could try the spicy ginger flavour. Finally, we acted out a play with masks which the children really enjoyed!

Spain: Culture and History

Provinces Crossword

Municipalities

Soil

Provinces and Autonomous Communities in Spain

The Statute of Autonomy

Here is an exercise for my 4th year classes to do over Easter. Its about our next topic in Science which is 'The Organisation of a Community'.

Provinces and Municipalities in Spain

The Peace Tree

Here is a photograph of the Peace Tree we made in 4A to celebrate School Peace Day (30th January). It's full of different worldwide religious symbols which the children decorated. We also did one in 4B which the children enjoyed making. Hope you like it!

Pulleys

Here is a video for my fourth year classes who are learning about Simple Machines at the moment. This one is about pulleys and helps us to understand how we use these every day without even realising. Hope you like it and that it helps you to understand this topic! Good luck with the exam!

Ecosystems Project Work

Here are the beautiful projects my 4th years did about Ecosystems. 

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SIMPLE MACHINES I

This video is all about levers and pulleys and I've put it here for my 4th year Science students. Hope you enjoy it!

Simple Machines, part 1/2

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SIMPLE MACHINES

Simple Machines, part 2/2

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This one is all about Inclined Planes. Hope you like it!

Listen to this song about solids, liquids and gases....

Matter

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Matter

Matter: Physical Properties and Change

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Bonfire Night

Here is our Bonfire Night mural. In Bilingual Schools in the Community of Madrid, everyone always celebrates Halloween, but having grown up in London, I remember celebrating Bonfire Night which is celebrated on the 5th November. I have some great memories of the freezing cold nights with bonfires, fireworks like catherine wheels, roman candles and sparklers, as well as the delicious sausages and jacket potatoes roasted on the bonfire. There are several posts on this blog about Bonfire Night and Guy Fawkes so if you are interested you can read more!

Christmas

Here is our Christmas Mural.  It's based on the song about the 12 days of Christmas and we did it so that my class would be able to understand what they were singing about and for them to remember the order correctly. It really helped!

The Selfish Giant

This is a wall mural my 3rd year class did about the story of the Selfish Giant. We put the story on the green cards to the right of the mural. The children coloured in the mural using crayons and the additional birds and flowers were printed off separately for them to colour and stick on. They really enjoyed doing it!

Living Things

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