Thursday, 2nd April 2020

¡Buenos días, familias!

Hoy es oficialmente el último día del segundo trimestre escolar. En primer lugar, quiero agradeceros a todos vuestra colaboración, interés y dedicación para poder seguir con las clases desde casa. Soy consciente por todos los trabajos que me han llegado de que todos los niños y niñas han estado trabajando duro.

En segundo lugar, os quiero pedir disculpas por los problemas técnicos que haya podido haber sobre todo con el correo electrónico y por si no he sido capaz de ver la realidad que tenéis en vuestras casas a la hora de proponer el trabajo.

Parece que tras la vuelta de las vacaciones (14 de abril) seguiremos un tiempo funcionando a distancia. Por este motivo, desde el colegio hemos habilitado una plataforma virtual para centralizar todo el trabajo de los alumnos. Se llama TEAMS y pertenece al entorno de Microsoft. Por supuesto, es gratuita. Os ha debido llegar una circular a ROBLE  de parte de Damián explicando todo. 

Podríamos decir que las clases vuelven a través de TEAMS a la vuelta de las vacaciones. Esta plataforma da la opción de hacer videoconferencias y comenzaré a utilizarla. Por lo que ya no seguiré utilizando el blog. 

Para poder acceder, tenéis que hacerlo desde un correo de educa.madrid. Ana os hará llegar un documento con el usuario y clave de vuestro/a hijo/a para que habilitéis la cuenta de educa.madrid.

Allí encontraréis un correo de invitación para daros de alta en TEAMS. 

Os pido que dediquéis un momento con vuestros hijos para conocer la plataforma y facilitar así el funcionamiento cuando vuelvan las clases. 

Con el fin de que estos días que comienzan sean realmente de vacaciones para los niños, no vamos a poner nada de deberes. Simplemente, les propondré a continuación una actividad para fomentar el buen tiempo en familia en casa que, por supuesto, es voluntaria. 

Muchísimas gracias por vuestra colaboración una vez más.

Un abrazo

Ángel

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Good morning, everybody!

How are you today? Do you know that today is the last day of the second term? This means that today you start the Easter holidays!!!

During the holidays, you don´t have any homework. This time is for you to relax, rest and spend time with your family. 

Today, I want to suggest an activity to foster good and funny moments with your family. Let´s start!

WISHING JAR

1. Find a big empty jar in the kitchen. 

2. Decorate it as you want. Here you have some examples. 

3. Cut small papers where your family and you will write your wishes for these days and put them next to the jar.

4. Explain how the Wishing Jar works to your family. 

How does it work?

• Everyone in the family can put pieces of paper inside suggesting an activity that you can do all together at home. (You can write as many activities as you want)
• Mark in a calendar the next day and time when you will open the Whishing Jar.
• At that moment, all the members of the family gather in the living room, open the Wishing Jar and take one of the papers. The activity shown in the paper will be the activity you enjoy together!

Enjoy your holidays and take care! :)

Wednesday, 1st April 2020

Good morning, everybody!

How are you today?

Diego chose Wolf in Sheep´s clothing.

ENGLISH

1. Read 2 books in Travelers.

2. Answers to Activities 1 and 2 on page 66. 

    1 page 66
      1. is called
      2. made of
      3. There is
      4. has got
      5. also
      6. can
      7. sweets

    2 page 66
       1. Jake thinks we will have a tiny nanocomputer implanted into our brain.
       2. Not really. Holly thinks that we will be able to use virtual reality and feel             that we fly.
       3. Richards thinks that people will live on the moon.
       4. Lauren thinks that people will be able to teletransport from one place to             another. 

3. Finish your writing "predictions about the future" and send it to angel.lahoz@educa.madrid.org

4. Como sabéis, mañana, 2 de abril, es el Día Mundial de Concienciación sobre el Trastorno del Espectro Autista.

Este año para poder celebrarlo desde casa han propuesto que cada uno hagamos un molinillo de viento (en la medida de la posible, que sea azul), y lo colguemos en las ventanas en conmemoración de ese día. ¿Qué os parece? ¿Queréis uniros a la iniciativa?

Tutorial -> https://youtu.be/88r4B9V8nXk 

Cuando lo tengáis, podéis mandar una foto a aulasolcm@gmail.com

Have anice day!

Tuesday, 31st March 2020

Good morning, everybody!

I hope you are all ok. Let´s enjoy this rainy day at home!


ENGLISH

First of all, the activities I told you yesterday were from page 66 (writing). I wrote page 61. I´m sorry if you were confused because of this. 

So, for today...

1. Activities 1 and 2 from page 66.

2. Send me an e-mail with your predictions about the future. You must include:
             - Affirmative (will) and negative (won´t) predictions.
         - Predictions about: travel, weather, food, technology, people, holidays,                homes, school, pets, friends and family. 

E-MAIL: angel.lahoz@educa.madrid.org

3. Read a book in Travelers. 


SCIENCE

1. Today is the last day to send your Science Project. I´m looking forward to seeing all of them. 

Have a beautiful day!

Monday, 30th March 2020

Good morning! 

How are you? I hope you had a great weekend at home and you are ready for the last week of the second term. This Thursday is the last day before the Easter holidays.

Diego will choose a song for this week. Which one do you want? 

Let´s start!

ENGLISH

1. Answers to the activity 2 on page 65.

The main characters	The setting	The reporters´ problem	The solution	The ending
David Molly Isabel	A street	They saw a monster.	The monster is actually an actor who is making a science fiction film.	The reporters interview the actor and the director of the film.

2. Do on your notebook the activities 1 and 2 from page 66.

SCIENCE

1. Today is the last day to finish or correct the activity you chose. 

Have a very nice day!

Friday, 27th March 2020

Good morning!!

How are you today? Let´s start!

ENGLISH

1. Answers to the questions to the activity 3 on page 64.

     1. Because the monster is actually an actor wearning a costume.
     2. No. I think they are film makers.
     3. She is annoyed because she had to cut the recording of the film. 
     4. Free answer.

2. Read the text on page 65 and complete activity 2 on your notebook. You can read aloud to practice intonation and pronunciation. If you don´t understand a word, use a dictionary.


SCIENCE

1. Work for a while in the activity you have chosen to explore the Prehistory.  The list of possible activities is in the post of Tuesday 24th. 

Have a nice weekend! Take a rest! Enjoy this time with your family! And... "see" you on Monday!

Thursday, 26th March 2020

Good morning, everybody!

ENGLISH

1. Read the story on page 64 and complete the activity 3 on page 64 on your notebook. If you don´t understand some words in the story, use a dictionary. 

SCIENCE

As you know, you have to continue working on the activity you chose. 

I have already received two beautiful and creative games about Prehistory.

Have you all already decided what to do?

Wednesday, 25th March 2020

Good morning, everybody!

How are you? I wish you are all great! let´s start with some music!

ENGLISH

Today, you need Travelers to do all the activities.

1. Read a book in Travelers. 

2. In Travelers. Go to the Home page. In the section "ASSIGNMENTS", you will find two activities. 

SCIENCE

1. Today, you just have to go on with the activity you chose yesterday. That activity is like a mini-project. You will need many days to finish it. Here, you can find the list of possible activities: LIST OF POSSIBLE ACTIVITIES

If you finished a whole activity yesterday, send it to my e-mail.

And, you can start with a new one if you want!

2. It´d be great if you write a comment saying which activity you chose and if you´d recommend it to your classmates. 

HAVE A VERY NICE DAY!

Tuesday, 24th March 2020

¡Buenos días, familias!

Hoy os voy a plantear una nueva dinámica para seguir trabajando la Prehistoria. El objetivo de esta nueva dinámica es que cada familia decidáis qué actividad o actividades va a ir haciendo vuestro/a hijo/a según vuestra disponibilidad, recursos digitales, situación familiar e intereses.

La idea es que cada día vuestro/a hijo/a le dedique unos 45 minutos a la actividad que hayáis elegido y que cuando esté acabada me hagáis llegar el resultado final al correo electrónico. También me podéis ir haciendo todas las consultas que necesitéis, por supuesto. angel.lahoz@educa.madrid.org

La fecha de entrega para que yo les pueda dar feedback sería el martes 31 de marzo. Si alguien se retrasa, no pasa nada. Vamos a ser comprensivos.

Si en algún caso os viene bien la siguiente propuesta de actividades para que los niños estén entretenidos en casa y queréis que hagan más de una, también es posible. ¡Claro que sí!

Recordad que el objetivo es que cada niño/a siga trabajando el tema y conseguir que no supongan los deberes un estrés añadido a estos días. ¡A ver si conseguimos este equilibrio!

Gracias a todos por vuestra colaboración.

Espero que estéis todos bien y vuestros familiares también. 

Un abrazo fuerte.

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SCIENCE

TASK: Choose one of the following activities and do it carefully. 

I WILL VALUE: 

• That you use all the things you have learnt about Prehistory.
• Creativity. 
• Effort.

TIME: Spend 45 minutes every day doing that activity. You can rest during the weekend.

DEADLINE: Around the 31st March 2020

LIST OF POSSIBLE ACTIVITIES:

1. Write a diary as if you were a child living in Ptrehistory. Add drawings.
2. Make a model of a prehistory scene using materials you´ve got at home.
3. Record a puppet show about Prehistory. Write the script, make the puppets, practice and...record it!
4. Watch one of the following movies: Early Man (2018) or The Croods (2013). Take a piece of paper and a pencil and make two lists:
1. Things that appear in the film that are from Prehistory.
2. Things that appear in the film that aren´t from Prehistory. 
5. Learn by heart the song Living in the Stone Age and record a video of yourself singing the song. You can play hand-made prehistory instruments and dress up like a caveman.
6. Invent and create a simple game about Prehistory: memory, dominoe, ...
7. Make a board game with questions about Prehistory. Write the instructions, create the cards and board!
8. Write your own encyclopedia about Prehistory. Use information from your Social Science book and notebook. Make it beautiful!

ENGLISH

1. Read a book in Travelers. 

Have a nice day!

Monday, 23rd March 2020

Good morning, everybody! Let´s start this week!

This week Hugo V. has to choose the song. Which song do you choose, Hugo V.?

ENGLISH

I can see you are working a lot. For this reason, today you only have to read 2 books in Travelers. That´s all! 

Have fun!

SCIENCE

On Friday, you had a quiz about the animals. Today, you have a quiz about Prehistory. 

Remember, you have 15 minutes from the moment you open it. Good luck!

PREHISTORY QUIZ

Have a nice day!

Friday, 20th March 2020

Good morning!

Let´s wake up with a little bit of music! Can you sing it?

ENGLISH

1. Read a book in Travelers.

2. Answers to Activity 1 on page 62. Let´s check if you are a Science genius!

     1 - b

     2 - c

     3 - a

     4 - c

     5 - c

     6 - a

3. Answers to Activity 2 on page 62.

     1 - tired

     2 - confused

     3 - late

     4 - play games

     5 - happy

     6 - snake

     7 - home

     8 - lonely

4. Play this board game with someone in your family. You can print the board or you can play seeing the board on the computer´s screen.

You need a dice and counters. If you are playing on the computer´s screen, you can stick a piece of a post-it for each counter. 

Players take it in turns to roll the dice and move their counter along the board.

When a player lands on a square, the player to his/her right asks him/her "What do you do if...?"

The first player tries to answer the question appropriately. If the player forms the sentence correctly, he/she stays on the square.

If not, the player must come back to the previous square.

This is the game board. Enjoy it!

If you can´t play with anyone in your family. You can also play alone. Then, you roll the dice and you write down on your notebook the answer to each question. :) 

SCIENCE

It´s QUIZ time! 

Today, you are going to play a quiz about vertebrates and invertebrates.

TASK 1: Read your classmates´ presentation in the SAVE THE ANIMALS NGO website to learn all about them.

SAVE THE ANIMALS NGO

TASK 2: Play this quiz when you are sure that you know all about vertebrates and invertebrates. 

INSTRUCTIONS: 

1. You have 15 minutes to complete it.
2. Write your name. (THIS IS IMPORTANT)
3. When you finish, you have to click SUBMIT. (THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT. IF NOT, I WON´T RECEIVE YOUR ANSWERS)

ANIMALS QUIZ

Have a nice weekend! 

Thursday, 19th March 2020

Good morning, everybody!

Remember that today is Father´s Day. Don´t forget to prepare a nice card or beautiful present to thank your father all the things he does for you. :)

Let´s start!

ENGLSIH

1. Read a book in Travelers.

2. Answers to activity 2 on page 61.

       1 - c
       2 - a
       3 - b
       4 - d
       5 - f
       6 - e

3. Activities 1 and 2 on page 62 on your notebook.  They are listening activities, but you can do them as reading ones. 

SCIENCE

Tomorrow, you will have a QUIZ about Prehistory. Today, you have to review everything we have learnt about it. 

TASK: Copy this chart on your notebook and complete it with the missing information.

	PALEOLITHIC	NEOLITHIC	METAL AGES
When did it start?		It started when humans learnt to domesticate animals.
When did it finish?			It finished when humans invented the writing.
Where did they live?		They became sedentary. They started to build houses and villages near rivers.
What did they eat?			They ate animals and vegetables from their farms.
What tools did they use?		They made hoes to turn the soil. They made sickles to cut the wheat. They made hand mills to mill the wheat.
What did they invent or discover?	They discovered the fire and how to control it.

When you´ve got it ready, take a photo and send it to angel.lahoz@educa.madrid.org


Enjoy Father´s Day!

Wednesday, 18th March 2020

¡Buenos días a todos!

Este mensaje es para todos: familias y niños. En primer lugar, muchas gracias por el gran esfuerzo que estáis haciendo  y todo el trabajo que, a pesar de las circunstancias, estáis sacando adelante.

Con este mensaje quiero animaros a seguir y también trasmitiros unas palabras de calma. Sabemos que la situación en vuestras casas tampoco es fácil. 

Mi objetivo estos días es seguir avanzando con la programación (como nos están pidiendo) buscando el equilibrio entre que los niños no estén completamente ociosos y que el trabajo del colegio no se convierta en un agobio para la familia. Os diré que a veces calcular este equilibrio me resulta muy difícil.

Por todo esto, os animo a estar tranquilos con las tareas del colegio y usar el sentido común.

Algunos me habéis escrito comentándome que no os dejaba en ciertos momentos escribir comentarios en el blog. Lo he revisado todo y debería funcionar. No obstante, hay momentos en que las redes están sobrecargadas estos días. Si no os deja escribir un comentario, cualquier solución estará bien: que lo escriban en el cuaderno como un ejercicio más (no podré corregirlo hasta que nos volvamos a ver), que lo escriba en una hoja en sucio y pruebe en otro momento, ...

Si algún enlace no funciona y decidís hacer la actividad en el cuaderno también estará bien.

Finalmente, soy consciente de que no tenéis un ordenador a disposición de cada hijo. Por esto, organizad el trabajo de cada día como mejor os venga, seré totalmente flexible con las fechas de entrega. Lo mismo con la plataforma Travelers. Les vengo mandando leer un libro cada día. Si os viene mejor que lean dos libros cada dos días o cualquier otra organización, está perfecto. 

Mil gracias de nuevo a todos por vuestra colaboración. 

Por favor, si queréis comentarme cómo lo estáis viviendo, agradecería vuestros correos a angel.lahoz@educa.madrid.org

Un saludo 

Ángel 

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Good morning, everybody!

Happy Wednesday to all of you! 

I hope you are all ok and you are enjoying these lessons and activities.

Let´s start!

ENGLISH

1. Marcos chose for this week Grace Kelly by Mika. Great song! Thank you, Marcos!

2. Read a book in Travelers. 

3. Answers to the reading about The Solar System:

          - What type of planets are Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars?
          - They are rocky planets.

          - Which planets have moons?
          - All the planets except Mercury and Venus.

          - Which planets don´t have rings?
          - Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars don´t have rings.

          - Which planets are visible to the naked eye?
          - All the planets except Uranus and Neptune can be seen with the naked               eye. 

4. Activity 2 on page 61. On your notebook. It is a listening activity, but you can also doing just reading. 

5. Let´s share your ideas to stay healthy and happy during these days that we have to stay at home. Write a comment, completing these sentences:

     - When I feel tired, ...
     - If I´m hungry at home, ...
     - If I feel scared, ...
     - When my parents are working, ...
     - If I get angry with someone in my family, ...
     - When I feel like going outside, ...
     - When my family is preparing the meal, ...
     - When I get up in the morning, ... 

SCIENCE

We´ve already learnt about the three periods of Prehistory: Paleolithic, Neolithic and the Metal Ages.

First of all, let´s check the answers to the questions you had to investigate yesterday. You don´t need to have the same words. Just check if you have got the same information. 

• Where did they live in the Metal Ages?
• They lived in tribes. Most of them lived in bigger villages or towns surrounded by walls for protection.

• Which metals did they use in the Metal Ages?
• Copper was the first metal used to make tools and weapons. Then, people discovered that they could make their metal tools stronger by mixing copper with tin. This new metal is called bronze. Finally, people learned how to make tools and weapons using iron. This metal is much stronger and is more naturally abundant. 

• Which tools and weapons did they make with metals?
• They made stronger hoes, sickles and plows to dig up the ground and plant the crops. They made pots to cook. They also made swords.

• Which was a great invention from the Metal Ages?
• A great invention from the Metal Ages was the wheel. 

I´ve been receiving many comic strips about the Paleolithic and I love all of them. They are really fun and creative. I´ve got a similar task for today. 

TASK: Create a comic strip about the Neolithic or the Metal Ages. 

You have to:
- tell a short story with the comic strip. 
- include at least 4 pictures.
- show only things that were in the chosen period. 

Instructions:
1. Choose the period you want to work on: Neolithic or the Metal Ages.2. Make a list with the things from that period that you want to include in your comic.
3. Invent the story you want to tell.
4. Divide this story in different scenes or pictures.
5. Draw a draft of your comic strip.
6. Take a separate piece of paper. 
7. With a ruler, divide the paper in as many parts as you need.
8. Draw the pictures for each scene.
9. Draw speech bubbles showing what the characters say.
10. Colour the pictures.
11. Take a photo of your comic and send it to angel.lahoz@educa.madrid.org

Note: This activity will count for your final mark!

Deadline: Thursday, 19th March 2020

Have a nice day! Any questions... angel.lahoz@educa.madrid.org

Tuesday, 17th March 2020

Good morning, everybody!

How are you today? I guess you are missing your classmates and teachers. For this reason, your teachers have created a video to encourage you to stay at home. I´m sure we will see each other very soon. 

VIDEO FROM YOUR TEACHERS

These are the activities for today!

ENGLISH

1. Read a book in Travelers. 

2. Check the answers of the activity 2 on page 59.

          a - 6

          b - 5

          c - 1

          d - 7

          e - 4

          f - 3

          g - 2

3. Read the text about Our Solar System on page 60 and answer to the questions in this link: https://forms.gle/mzY92H1V4p2v1dkY6

SCIENCE

1. To start, enjoy this amazing poem by Michael Rosen called "I was born in the Stone Age". Try to understand it. You can listen to it as many times as you need.

2. Learn or remember the Stone Age Song.

3. Today, we are studying the last period of Prehistory. It´s called the Metal Ages. 

On your notebook, write today´s date and THE METAL AGES as a title. 

Then, copy these questions and answer them.

          - Where did they live in the Metal Ages?
          - Which metals did they use in the Metal Ages?
          - Which tools and weapons did they make with metals?
          - Which was a great invention from the Metal Ages?

To find the answers, you can:

- Read your Social Science book.

- Watch these videos.

- Read this book about The Iron Age, the last period of the Metal Ages. 

Please, ask me any questions to angel.lahoz@educa.madrid.org!

Have a nice day!