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.

FF

Roanoke Island: Our stop motion

That's the end of our Social Science Unit about the Colonization of North America. We worked very hard to prepare the stop motion and we learnt a lot.

We hope you enjoy it!


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The Giant's Causeway and the Legend of Finn McCool

The giant´s causeway from infantaelenautebo

The Northern Ireland Guide

NG kids 

In the classroom we are studing the Giant’s Causeway, we know that there were two giants:
Finn Mccool from Ireland and Fingal from Scotland.
The legend says that Fingal made the Giant’s Causeway throwing rocks to return to Scotland.
But the scientists say that there was a volcano and it erupts.


FF and DF (6th)

  

Epals

This term the sixth graders are starting an ePals project within a safe, protected on line environment: ePals Global Community. 

ePals Global Community is a world's network of K-12 classrooms, enabling students and teachers to safely connect and collaborate with classrooms in more than 200 countries and territories.

Each student is going to have two epals. I want them to use English as a communicative language and learn about different English-speaking countries and their cultures.

These are the profiles of the two schools I chose:

one in Australia

 and the other in the USA.

Today students started answering the first mails they got from their epals in Kentucky and introducing themselves to the Australian ones. They were really excited!

Good luck with your epals and enjoy this new experience!

Cathedral's project: Our presentations

The 6th graders prepared in small groups some presentations about Girona's cathedral. It was not easy to write about Art in English but they worked very hard.

Power point cathedral English from verdenglish

Power point cathedral from verdenglish

English cathedral GN from verdenglish

Cathedral amc from verdenglish

Cathedral 3 from verdenglish

The cathedral SRF from verdenglish

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