Twine stories

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

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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

Sol Solidari

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Three weeks ago a man called Deli from Sol Solidari came to our class to explain us how they help people in Africa to cook their food using solar technologies.

He showed us a solar stove and we could heat water under the sun in our playground.  We found out  that it's possible to cook without electricity.

When we went to the class he showed us a power point and we could see photos of the projects Sol Solidari has in Africa. We think that solar stoves are very useful even in developed countries because we can save electricity and money.

We liked his talk very much. Thank you for coming to our school.

We were on TV!

On Thursday 14th of November, TV3 came to our school. They wanted to record us because we study Science and Art in English.

They recorded us while we were giving a presentation to the other students in our school. We explained them how to save energy. It was part of our Energy Saving Campaign.

Doing a presentation with the television recording us wasn't easy beacuse we were very nervous, but the cameraman was very friendly with us!

The video appeared on TV3 the same day at midday. It was an amazing experience!

 

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Energy saving campaign (II)

This term, the 6th graders are studying Energy. We are doing different activities in class: worksheets, on line games, videos, models of solar toys,  ...
Now we are making posters with different tips that we think are important to save energy at school and at home.
We are preparing some presentations to explain to the other classes what they should do to save electricity. We are going to explain it in Catalan to the little ones, in English and in Catalan to the 1st and 2nd graders, and to the other ones in English.

We think that saving energy is important because we save money. It's also important to be aware of the energy we spend because we need it, and the energy we waste.

6th graders

"La Castanyada"

Two weeks ago, on the 25th of October, we celebrated "La Castanyada" which is a popular festival in Catalonia.
Our class, the 6th graders, dressed up as chesnut sellers, and we handed out chesnuts in newspaper cones. The chesnuts were delicious!

The youngest students sang a song called "El bolet" (the mushroom, in Catalan). Each grade made a circle in the playground and then everybody ate chesnuts. Even our families!

We had a great time and we want to repeat this festival next year!

6th graders

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Energy saving campaign (I)

On Thursday 17th a mechanical engineer called Fèlix Mora came to our school. He explained us how to save energy at school and at home. He gave us some tips:

* It's better to have a shower than a bath because we are saving water and electricity at the same time.
* We have to put the dishwasher and the washing machine when they are full.
* We have to clean the light bulbs because they make more light with the same energy.
* We should use natural light, heat and cooling.
* We have to switch off the projectors when we don't need them.
* We should switch off the lights if we are not going to be in the classroom for more than half an hour.
* When we have to buy new light bulbs we should look at the scale energy label and the light they produce (lumen)

It was an interesting and usefuk talk. He was a good communicator because he's also a secondary school teacher.

Units of measurement

If we travel to the United Kingdom or the USA we should be careful with the road signs. They use a different system of measurement called The Imperial System.

1 mile /maɪl/ = 1.609344 kilometres /kɪˈlɒmɪtə/

When they talk about how tall they are, they also use different units as the ones we use.

1 foot /fʊt/ ( pl feet /fiːt/) = 0.3048 metres /ˈmiːtə/

1 inch /ɪntʃ/ = 2.54 centimetres /ˈsɛntɪˌmiːtə/ 

The Catalan National Day in the international mass media

 

You can practice your English reading about the Catalan National Day and watching the BBC's videos.

BBC : Catalans' human chain stretches across north-east Spain

The Guardian: Catalans join hands in huge human chain for independence from Spain

The Telegraph: 400,000 person human chain stretching 250 miles for Catalan independence

The New York Times: Linking Hands, Catalans Press Case for secession

Welcome to the new school year!