Weekly summary, 6th grade - "The European Union" 5, "The effects of electricity" and "Objects and Machines"

Good afternoon!

After the two previous weeks in which we have done the external exams, we have completed a little calmer week. This is the summary:

English

In English, we started the week talking about the Artic and the Antartic, with a listening exercise and this interesting video explaining why polar bears don't eat penguins :-)

The same day, we did a reading exercise about Scott of the Antartic. As well as we did when we talked about the dog Laika in the unit "This is Houston", in this case, we have listened to a wonderful song by Mecano: "Héroes de la Antártida" (obviously in Spanish). Curiously, the two songs appeared in the same LP, "Descanso dominical" (one of my most precious treasures :-) You have here the video:

The next day, we talked about glaciers, and I reminded you when, in Social Science,  we had talked about the Sanabria lake, in Zamora, as the biggest glacier lake in the Iberian Peninsula. You can see again this video:

Finally, after working with reviews of TV shows and films, and doing one practise exercise, we have done the test of this unit.

Natural Science

In Natural Science, in group B, we have completed unit five ("Electricity and magnetism") and, before doing the test of tthe unit, we have watched these videos about maglevs (we weren't been able to see the first one):

MAGNETIC ACCELERATOR - SMOT experiment for kids

Physics of Maglev Trains (EMS & EDS)

World's Simplest Electric Train - 1

World's Simplest Electric Train - 2

On the other hand, in group A, we have continued with the introduction of unit six ("Objects and machines") and we have seen how a 3D printer works in this short video:

Social Science

In Social Science, we have completed unit six, seeing what the EU's future goals are and working with some activities of the revision lesson. Next week, we will work with some worksheets about this unit.

Art & Crafts

This week, we have finished the work with Van Gogh's chair and, as always, there is a great difference between your final pictures, not because the more or less precision of your works, but because the effort that you have put or not in this activity. In the next days, I'll put here some of your "masterpieces", but by the moment, you can see the original again:

To conclude, today, I want to share with you the last audition of the subject "supplementary piano" by my daughter, Carmen, in her third singing course. As I have already told you, she graduated in Piano last year. I hope you enjoy:

Have a good weekend!