"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!

Solar cookers

Last term the 6th graders were working on Energy: energy sources, types of energy and saving energy tips.
After watching next video we had an idea...


How about building our solar cookers? And that's what we did. Our students got really engaged in the project and they made their cookers with their families.


In a really sunny day we went to the playground to find out if their cookers worked or not.
And yes, they did!  Congratulations for your effort! It was worth it!

And we were in the local newspapers!

Astronomy

On the 10th April we went to the University of Girona to listen to a talk about astronomy, the Sun, Galileo Galilei and his discoveries about the Solar System.

We listened to an astronomer, we saw some videos about the eruptions of the Sun and we made a short movie to discover how many days the sun needs to rotates. We also saw some sunspots using a Solarscope.

Then we went to a little inflatable Planetarium to see the planets of the Solar System, their moons and some constelations and galaxies.

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