viernes, 27 de enero de 2017

Weekly links, 6th grade - "Olympic Games", "Human Reproduction" and "Modern Spain: the 19th century" 3

Good afternoon! 

As you know, this week, we started with a wonderful school trip to the shopping center "El Corte Inglés" in Arroyomolinos, where you even could learn some basics about marketing. They were very honest explaining how the customers were intentionally guided by them in their shopping processes. I remembered all of that from my years in viaplus.com, which at the time was the first virtual shopping center in Spain.

Regarding the rest of the week, apart from the contents that I´m going to remind you in the next paragraphs, we have spent a little time doing some artistic works about the next celebration on Monday, 30th of January: "The School Day of Non-violence and Peace". So, I'm going to start with this. For the time being, we have only decorated one of the boards in the corridor, but we will try to do the other one on Monday. Although it hasn't a good quality, you can see here the picture:


"Día escolar de la no-violencia y la paz" 6A

And next, you can read our selected quotes much better, by Mahatma Gandhi, Mother Teresa and John Lennon (we have used the first two):


Mahatma Gandhi


Mother Teresa


John Lennon

I have also selected these two videos"; one about Gandhi's life (with an Indian accent) and another one with the song "Pipes of Peace" by Paul McCartney. It is not a casuality that some of the most wonderful and famous songs about Peace are from members of The Beatles. Yes, they are my favourite :-)





And now, we go with the contents...

English

We have finished the unit this week, and remember that we will do the test of unit 4: "Olympic Sports" next Wednesday, 1st of February. I had selected these interesting and exemplary videos about Paralympics, although we haven't had enough time to watch them in class. In the second half of the first video, Spain plays with Great Britain in the Paralympics of Rio 2016 (we win :-) The second one is a short summary, and the last one is simply incredible!!







Natural Science

We have seen the male reproductive system and we have started to talk about fertilisation. We have also continued working with worksheets, and we don't have extra videos.

Social Science

In Social Science, we have finished to talk about the end of the Spanish Empire in the 19th century, and we have started to analyze the changes that were produced in economy and society. Although this video reflects a more modern Industrial Revolution, in the XX century, we have watched it as a funny example of the psicologycal changes that people probably suffered, too, in the 19th century, when they went from the countryside to the cities, to work in the factories. One masterpiece by Charles Chaplin...




See you next Monday!

viernes, 20 de enero de 2017

Weekly links, 6th grade - "Olympic Games", "Human Reproduction" and "Modern Spain: the 19th century" 2

Good afternoon everyone!

This week I'm very sad after correcting the recovery tests about Europe, especially in group B, in which none of the students who did it has passed the test. Obviously, taking into account that I asked you to study before Christmas, and that I waited until last Friday for doing the test, the only possible explanation is that you haven`t taken this test seriously and you haven`t studied. It's a pity! because I can do the effort to prepare an extra test for you; it's my job and my responsability, but what I can't do is study for you... 

And most of you have done exactly the same, this is: "nothing" with the activities of the second unit of the book "Reading and writing". Thanks to that, this weekend is going to be a little more relax for me, but I would have prefered to have much more writing exercises to correct, because you need to improve a lot on this matter and this is the only way in which I can help you.

Well, coming back to this week, these are the links that we have used in the different subjects (as always, we haven't seen all of them, but you can do it now):

English:

We continue with Unit 4: "Olympic Sports". Next you have a video about Usain Bolt and two more about one of the X Games seen in class, and the young star Mitchie Brusco:






Natural Science:

In Natural Science, we have finished the lesson about the reproductive cells, and we have also studied the female reproductive system. We haven't used links, because we are reinforcing the unit with different worksheets that we are doing in class.

Social Science:

This week, we have studied the Spanish War of Independence and the Carlist Wars, and we have also started to talk about the end of Spanish Empire after the 1898 disater and the Spanish-American War.

Here, you have three pictures of the painting "3rd of May 1808" by Goya, one with a very good resolution, another one with explanations in Spanish, and the last one, my own version, that I did 35 years ago, when I was 19 :-)

"3rd of May 1808" by Goya

"3rd of May 1808" by Goya - Notas en español

"Homenaje a Goya - Martín Vicente Lozano

Have a good weekend!

viernes, 13 de enero de 2017

Weekly links, 6th grade - "Olympic Games", "Human Reproduction" and "Modern Spain: the 19th century"

Good afternoon and welcome again to the blog!

Next you can see some of the links we have used in this first week after Christmas, in the different subjects:

English:

In this case, we have continued working with Unit 4: "Olympic Sports" and, although we haven't had enough time to watch it in the class, I had this funny video prepared:


Natural Science:

In Natural Science, we have started Unit 3, about human reproduction and we have began to talk about the reproductive cells.

Apart from the text and pictures in the book, we have also used these two images (remember that you can enlarge the pictures clicking on them):

Types of human cells


Gestation period in mammals

Social Science:

In this matter, we have also started Unit 3, in this case about the Spanish 19th century. We have began talking about two important events that took place in that period, related between them and with a great influence in Spanish history; These are: "The French Revolution" and "Napoleon".

Apart from the contents on the book we have watched several interesting videos to illustrate these facts. First, two videos from the musical film: "Les Miserables" with the crucial moments in which people rise again the power:




Then, you can see one video about the causes that provoked the French Revolution, and two more about Napoleon's life:




Finally, I remind you that next week we are going to start to do some geometric drawings, so that, if you don't have them, you will need to buy a set of "Escuadra" y "Cartabón" (you will find them easily with the names in Spanish :-) and a ruler of about 30 cm long. 

Enjoy them again, and have a good weekend!