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Global Scholars- Observation Collaboration

This year the school has decided to participate in an International Project: Global Scholars.

"Global Scholars is an innovative online global awareness education initiative that connects 10 to 13 year old students in global cities around the world. Internet-based educational activities develop students’ global citizenship while enhancing critical 21st century skills including subject content mastery, English language communication, and technology proficiency. This blended learning program provides access to an interactive, multimedia online classroom and original curriculum materials, enabling students to learn and communicate about important issues with their international peers. Teachers gain year-round professional development and a connection to a worldwide network of educators."

In our team (called Observation Collaboration) we've got partners all around the word: London, Madrid, Warsaw, New York, Jakarta, Taipei, Accra, Chicago, Boston, Jalandhar, Kutaisi and Philadelphia.

These are the names of two of the schools that are part of our collaboration:

ZSP nr 7, Warsaw, Poland
Santa Laurensia Jakarta, Indonesia

World Geography Resource List

Visit the links on this page to view supplemental on line resources to help you in your geography knowledge acquisition.

"CIA World Factbook" Central Intelligence Agency, 2015
Use this website to research facts about the international countries in your collaboration.

"World Geography Games", World Geography Games, 2015

This website offers many entertaining and stimulating map games to improve your geographical knowledge.

Birds in Girona

In Science, this term, we are learning about animals. Today we've listened to a talk about birds in Girona and we've learnt lots of things:

• the names of the birds in english: blue tit, cuckoo...
• what do they eat.
• where do they build their nests.
• colours and characteristics to recognise them.
• where can we find them in Girona or nearby.
• which birds fly to other cities or places to find food.
• some curiosities:

               -the cuckoo doesn't build a nest. It puts the eggs on another nest and throws away the other eggs, so the owners of the nest feed the baby cuckoo.
                -the black swift sleeps while flying because only half of the brain sleeps.

It's been very interesting! Thank you Ponç for coming!

5th graders

Learning about the Sun

On Wednesday we did a workshop in the Parc Tecnològic i Científic of the UdG.

We learnt lots of things:

-Galileo Galilei was the first man to use a telescope to look at the sky. He discovered Saturn and that the Sun has got sunspots. When he was old, he was blind because he had looked at the Sun without protection.
-The sunflares and the magnetic fields create the Aurora Borealis.
-Using the computers and looking at the sunspots in some videos, we learnt that the Sun needs aproximately 24 days to rotate.
-In the Planetarium, we learnt that at night we can see some planets in the sky, such as Venus and Saturn. We also saw the constellations and leant about their importance.

5th graders

Solar System miniature by 5th graders

5th graders have filmed a representation of the size and distances of the planets in the Solar System.

Robin Hood, clink!!

On the 19th of February, Stella, an actress, came to our gym to perform "The Story of Robin Hood and Maid Marion".

The story was about a man called Robin Hood. He was a strong, brave archer. He was famous for stealing money from the rich and giving it to the poor. He lived in the Sherwood Forest.

There was another man called Sheriff of Nottingham, He was rich and evil. Robin Hood and the Sheriff both were in love with Maid Marion. The Sheriff hated Robin Hood.

Our favourite parts were:

* when Robin Hood said: 

- Robin Hood, clink!!! (and showed us his bright teeth!)

* the archery competition

* when Stella asked for volunteers

The theatre play was amazing and there was only one actress! The story was great because Stella is an excellent actress. She is very funny and she sings very well.

We think it is very difficult that one person performs all the different characters in a story.

The Sheriff of Nottingham asked Natàlia (one teacher) to have a coffee with him but she answered "NEVER!".

6th graders

Robin Hood

On the 18th February we attended to a Robin Hood performance by Blue Mango theatre company.
This is what 5th graders say about it:
-We liked the Sheriff of Nottingham
-Our favourite part was the sward fight.
-The theatre of Robin Hood and Maid Marion is very funny and we liked all the characters.
-The actress was very good.
-We liked the song and the Sheriff of Nottingham character.
-Our favourite part was when the Sheriff of Nottingham was on scene.
-It is very funny to sing the songs in the theatre.
-The funniest part was the archery competition.
-It was a simple theatre but very funny.
-We liked everything.
-It was very funny when Robin Hood danced with Maid Marion.
-The actress asked for volunteers.

Wonderful toucans.

This first term in Art, the boys and girls from 5^th and 6^th grade, have painted toucans in the jungle, in Henri Rousseau’s style.

In this project we have learnt lots of things about Henri Rousseau and how he painted and lived. Each one created his/her painting, following a rubric.

First we draw the toucan. Then we painted the toucan with crayons.

We draw leaves and painted with a different variety of watercolor greens. We also painted the sky with watercolors. We outlined everything and finally we shaded the leaves.

The project is very funny. It is easy and the results are very beautiful. We like the project because there many different colors.

5th grade class

Light and colour

Have you heard abou Bill Nye the Science Guy?

He is an Americam science educator, television host, actor, writes, scientist and former mechanical engineer, best known as the host of the Fisney/PBS children's science show Bill Nye the Science Guy (1993–98).

We've watched his video about light and colour. It's great!

Twine stories

In our school magazine we promised you'd find the stories 6th graders created with Twine.

We are sorry but due to technical problems we can't publish them. We'll go on trying to find a solution...
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Learning about Astronomy.

Today we have gone to the UdG's Parc Tecnològic to learn about Astronomy.
We've been in a Planetarium and we have looked at stars, contellations, galaxies, the planets, meteorites...It's been very good.
We've looked at the Sun spots through a telescope but today there were very small spots.
We've used computers to calculate the time the Sun needs to rotate. To do this we've observed the spots in some pictures taken day after day with a satellite.
We think it's been an interesting activity, some parts even funny, but it's been difficult to understand everything.

Arnau C, Matías, Sergi & Adrià.

A visit from Australia

Today, a girl from Australia has visited the class of 5th graders. Her name is Cleo and she is 18 years old. We asked her questions about her personal life and about Australia. She explained us things about the Australian traditions, the sports, the animals, the food etc. She also explained that in Australia it is a different time and a different season. Finally we recommended her some places to visit, for example the cathedral, “la Devesa” and “el cul de la lleona”. We liked the visit a lot because we learned new things about Australia.

Thank you for coming Cleo!

 5th graders

February 11th Safer Internet Day

Cyberbullying is a problem that everyone who uses the internet needs to be aware of. February 11th is Safer Internet Day in the UK. This video was created for schoolchildren in the UK to watch to warn them about the dangers of cyberbullying.



British Council LearningEnglish Teens Activities
Character Interviews

A big surprise!

Yesterday we received  a parcel from our epals in Dexter (Michigan, USA). It was a very good surprise.
Inside the parcel there were Christmas cards, one for each one of us. They were so beautiful!

To our epals:

Thank you for your Christmas cards and your little presents! We were very happy!

6th graders

BBC interview with president Artur Mas

Happy Christmas!

Our "pessebre"

This Christmas the boys and the girls from the 5th and 6th grade made a "pessebre".
We made it with plasticine. We made some groups and each group had to represent an scene of the "pessebre" in a shoe box. For example: the manger was a shoe box, the devils were in another shoe box, the shephards in another one...
It was so funny making the "pessebre"!

Mar

International Project

Last year our 6th graders started exchanging emails in English with some students in US schools. We met them in ePals Global Community.

This year we decided to go one step further and start sharing some projects. Our first project is a wiki about Christmas Traditions. We wrote about our Catalan and Spanish traditions and ourepals from Bellevue, Kentucky, USA wrote about theirs.

Thank you for being our parterns. It's been a great experience!

Xmasnadal wiki

In our class, 6th grade, we created a wiki which explains some of our Christmas traditions. We want all the people around the world learn about them.

-In Catalan Xmas songs, we uploaded some of our traditional Catalan Christmas songs like: “A Betlem me’n vull anar”, “M’agrada el Nadal” & “Ara ja és Nadal”.

-In Catalan traditions we explained “El Tió”,  “El pessebre”, “El pessebre vivent”, “El caganer” & “El poema de Nadal”

-In Spanish traditions we wrote about: "Christmas holidays", "Torrons”, "New year's Eve"  “Els tres reis", "Tortell de reis", &“El dia dels innocents”.

-In Other traditions we put: “Invisible friend” & “Advent calendar”.

Júlia