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Hello everybody,
Do you know the meaning of oversharing? It is providing more information than is absolutely necessary.
Social media is where a lot of overesharing happens. Wolud you do the same face-to-face?
Are you aware of your privacy controls? Think about the time you spend on social media. Does it hurt more than it helps?

Listen to this rap-

Oversharing - Digital citizenship



If you want to read the lyrics or plan some activities for your students, click here.

Oversharing "Think before you post"

Hello everybody,
María, Alejandro and Adrián tell us the most important news from last weekend.

Listen to them.

Hello, Let's revise some vocabulary related to food and do some activities.

1. Fruit vocabulary.

1. 1. Fruit crossword

1.2 Ballons

2. Memory game.

2.1. Fruit hangman.

3. Trolley dash

4. Fruit smoothie

Extension:

Healthy eating

Hello everybody,
Do you have a healthy diet? Look at this picture.
Our students are having some fruit for breakfast. Foods like oranges, bananas, pears, give us minerals, vitamins and antioxidants.

Fruit provides disease fighters. Think about the benefits of eating fruit and vegetables. Is it important? Why?

We are making a homemade milkshake. We need some milk, some sugar,
two bananas, 6 strawberries and a pinch of lemonade.


















Have you got a healthy menu?
Think about your breakfast, your lunch and your dinner.
How often do you have unhelathy food like pizza, burgers, pancakes, brownies?

Hello everyone,
Today is International Mother Language Day.

Nelson Mandela said: "The right of every citizen to his or her language, culture or religion must be guaranteed".

The campaign #TweetinyourMotherLanguage invites you to celebrate linguistic and cultural diversity around the world, especially indigenous, minority, heritage and endangered language.
It's very important to use your language on the internet.

Hello everyone,
Today is the New Year for Chinese community all over the world.

Look at this video about Chinese Lunar New Year. It's really funny.

What is your Chinese sign? And Your dad, mum, granddad, granny?

Click here to find it out.

Find the animal for these famous people:
Rafael Nadal          Nelson Mandela        Ronaldo        Messi      John Lennon

Freddy Mercury   Michael Jackson     Winston Churchil   Princess Diana

Extension:
Marilyn Monroe    Queen Elizabeth    George Orwell     Antonio Banderas




Trafalgar Square and China Town celebration.

Hello everyone,
Javier G, Year 5 student, has created this video about sports.
Congratulations Javier! Keep on working like that!

Do you practise any of these sports?
What is your favourite one?

Hello everyone,
Look at the picture below these lines.

Can you see the number 19991? It's a palindrome.

A palindrome is a word, phrase or number which reads the same backward or forward.

Read these sentences backward and forward:
"Rats live on no evil star"
"Do geese see God"?
"Was it a car or a cat I saw?"

Are they the same?

Do you know other examples?

Hello everyone, María, Alejandro and Adrián tell us the most important news from last weekend. Here you can read the pieces and news and do some activities to revise the irregular verbs.

Remember to revise the list of irregular verbs on your notebook.
Sentences and activities.

Hello,

Today is Pancake Day. It is also known as Shrove Tuesday. It is always celebrated the day before Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent. Pancake Day has got different names, it depends on where it is celebrated. The different names reflect the differences in customs in various places around the world. Do you know other names for Pancake Day?



Pancake Day in London


 

Hello everybody,
Alejandro and María tell us the most important pieces of news from last weekend.
If you want to read the sentences, click here.

Hello everybody,
Santi has created this fantastic poster for #SID2015. Congratulations Santi. That is a very good job.
Thank you very much for your message. It's really important to surf safe.

Santi D, 6º A.

Hello everybody,
Lucía and Ángela have created this about the song "Wonderful world" by Sam Cooke.

What do you know about Sam Cooke? Do you know other songs?

Hello everybody,
Safer Internet Day is celebrated today with the strapline of "Let's create a better internet together" and it is organised  to promote safer and more responsible use of online technology and mobile phones, especially among children and young people across the world.

Safer Internet Day 2015

Resources for parents and teachers (Spanish).

Hello everybody,
Bob Marley was born in Jamaica 6 February in 1945. He would be 70 years old. He was a Jamaican reggae singer-songwriter. He died 11 May in 1981 at the age of 36. He was really young, but his music and his message is still current. He is still the king of reggae.This is one of my favourite songs.
You can read some quotes by Bob Marley.

You can also follow the initiave #share1love and honor Bob Marley's vision of a better tomorrow.

 

And I also love this song.
"Stand up for your rights. Don't give up the fight".

Hello everyone,
This week we have been working on the song "Wonderful world" by Sam Cooke.
Students must think about the song: What type of music is it? When was it written? Is it a love song or a protest one? Why?
They must also get information about Sam Cooke, birth, death, nationality, nickname,...
Finally we have learnt some vocabulary, revise present tense, phonetics, rhyme and "do" to emphasise.
Students have created pictures inspired by the song and have performed it. They have created some Gospel musical groups.

Here you can listen to the song.

Hello everyone,
Alejandro and María tell us the most important pieces of news from last weekend.
Good job, again. Congratulations!

Hello everyone,
Here you can do some exercises to revise the present simple tense.

1. Test on simple present 1.

2. Multiple choice.

3. Affirmative sentences.

4. Don't doesn't.

5. Do and does.

You can watch this video if you need more information.

Hello everyone,

France are now the current World, European and Olympic champions. They are the first team in handball history to win five championship. Spain won two years ago when it was celebrated here but they couldn't beat France last Friday. France won the match with an amazing goalie, Thierry Omeyer, between the posts.

The Spanish player ,Gedeón Guardiola, was born in Petrer.
In fact, at the end of this short interview he shouts: "Viva Petrer".

The pavilion in the sports centre is called "Gedeón i Isaías Guardiola Vilaplana".
















Here you can watch a long interview.

More information:
Petrer al día.

Diario información

Hello everybody,
This is our school. Year 6 students have created these fantastic presentations to show their school to their penpals in Epsom, England. Congratulations.