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

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

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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Cathedral's project: Girona

Girona is a beautiful city on the North East of Catalunya, Spain. It’s near the mountains, the beach and Barcelona too.

The population of Girona is about 97.000 people.

The weather in Girona is good, hot in summer and cold in winter.

The main language is Catalan but people can speak Spanish too.

In Girona there aren’t many houses, there are lots of flats. There are some famous modernist houses made by Masó, an architect from the city.

There are four rivers in Girona: Ter, Onyar, Güell and Galligants. There are lots of beautiful bridges to cross them: Pont de Pedra, Pont de Ferro (made by Eiffel) ...
 

Girona has got a big natural park named La Devesa, full of enormous Platanus x acerifolia. A lot of people go there to do sport.

The typical food is bread with tomato and a typical dessert from Girona is ‘xuixo’.

Girona has got a football team, Girona FC, and a stadium. There are famous football players.

In Girona there are many museums: the Art Museum, the Cinema Museum... There are also restaurants and lots of shops.

If you come to Girona, you have to visit Barri Vell, the Old Town. It is the most famous area in the city. It has got narrow streets and beautiful squares. 

It is full of bridges, pubs and shops. There is a very big and beautiful Cathedral. Sant Fèlix is another church you can visit.

There’s a tradition in Girona which says that if you kiss the bum of the lioness, a famous statue in Barri Vell, you will return to the city. Barri Vell still conserves part of the Wall that surrounded it before.

In May there’s a flower exposition very interesting to visit.

  5th graders

EARTH MOVEMENTS

We are studying the Earth movements.
To do this we had an Earth balloon and torches in small groups. We had to discover things and answer some questions:
- Which is the movement that produces day and night?
-If now in Girona it's 10 o'clock in the morning, what's the time in other countries?
-What would happen if the Earth didn't move?

It is quite difficult but fun to discover things and not just read the information.

 We also had some help watching videos.

Another day we had a Tellerium, which is a reproduction of the Sun and the Earth movements. It was helpful to understand the seasons.