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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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)