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Boxing Day. Saint Stephen's Day. Christmas Holiday.

 Hello everyone,

Boxing Day is celebrated in Britain, Canada, Australia and other Commonwealth countries every year on December 26th. This tradition stated in the United Kingdom in the 19th century under Queen Victoria  and it's a Bank Holiday which became official in 1871.

Catholics know the day as St. Stephen's Day.














Picture Wikimedia Commons

There is a variety of explanations related to the holiday's origins. Some say it's the song "Good King Wenceslas". According to the song, the 10th century Duke looked out on his land on St. Stephen's Day on December 26th and saw a poor peasant. He ordered food, wine and fuel to be taken to the peasant and called for all the Christians men to bless the poor in the same way.




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Holiday dessert: Almond cake.

 Hello everyone,

Do you like eating a small piece of cake after having lunch? I love it.

I bought this cake with Christmas decorations made in local  pastry shop in my village. Everything is home-baked and it's delicious. It's an almond cake. I love the decorations and and the wonderful good taste it leaves after eating a small piece. Merry Christmas.











Recipe for 10 servings.

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Christmas cards for our pen pals.

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These are some of the Christmas cards we have sent to our pen pals in order to wishing them "Merry Christmas and Happy New Year". It's been a difficult term for them and for us and we want to show our appreciation for the things they do for us.








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Thank you teacher. Christmas cards.

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Children have done these beautiful Christmas cards to say a big thank you to their teacher for keeping them safe, working hard, supporting and inspiring them before, during and after COVID19 pandemic.

They have written wonderful messages to their teacher showing their appreciation for her dedication.








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TIK TOK videos. Are kids ready for using TikTok?

 Hello everyone,

TikTok is one of the most popular social media apps on the planet.

In fact, it's one of the Generatioion Z's favourite tools of expression.

But...

























Read these articles to know more about this tool.

English: 

TikTok: everything you need to know about the video production app

Do you post videos of your children dancing on social media?

Spanish:

TikTok y los menores: inseguro por naturaleza.

Catálogo de peligros en TikTok para menores.

La psicología detrás de la redes sociales.

La gestión de los conflictos en redes sociales

Italia veta el uso de TikTok Tok

Aviso urgente de la Policía: "Los pedófilos buscan menores de edad en TikTok"

Análisis de la plataforma TikTok

TikTok


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The Twelve Days of Christmas. Carol.

 Hello everyone,

Children love singing Christmas carols. Do you know "The twelve days of Christmas"?

It's easy to learn. Listen and watch.





However, they love dancing. That's why we have chosen this "Zumba" version.
Are you good at doing aerobics? Then warm up and dance. Let's have a zumba session.


Can you do that?

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Social engineering

 Hello everyone,

Do you know what "Social engineering is"? Children are worried about "Hackers", however, they don't know that cybercriminals non-techical methods to trick their victims into sharing personal information.

Let's watch this video called "¿Qué es la ingenieria social?".



INCIBE informs us about different educational games graded by age.

TRIVIAL DE LA CIBERSEGURIDAD (para toda la familia a partir de los 14 años).

CRITÖPOLIS. EL JUEGO DE GESTIÓN Y CIBERSEGURIDAD (para toda la familia a partir de 14).

DATOS BLINDADOS  (para toda la familia a partir de 14).


DE MAYOR QUIERO SER INFLUENCER (a partir de los 12 años).





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Grandad lifts weights to carry his granddaughter. Doc Morris ad.

 Hello everybody,

Children have sent Christmas cards for their grandparents to wish them Merry Christmas becuase grandparents do love their grandchildren. They are very caring and affective.

Students love this video. This ad has been described as the best this year.

This grandad lives alone and he misses his family.


When does it happen?

Who is his motivation?

What does he do?


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Vila de Sant Joan Symphonic Orchestra

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Do you like classical music? Do you know famous any famous composers?

Yesterday the Vila de Sant Joan Symphonic Orchestra played a wonderful concert "INTEGRAL W. A. MOZART III with the collaboration of the brilliant violinist Vicente Antón.

Do you play any instruments? Some of our students play the violin that's why they will love watching this incredible concert. You can listen "Water music" by Handel, Overture  The abduction from the Seraglio by Mozart and other.







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Federico García Lorca and Rafael Alberti: Spanish poets.

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We are studying Spanish poets Federico García Lorca and Rafael Alberti. We want to find some poems written by them which have been sung. One of the most famous songs is "Take this waltz" by the Canadian singer  Leonard Cohen. He has got a daughter, do you know her name?





Marea, a Spanish rock band, recorded "Ciudad de los gitanos".



Luis Eduardo Aute sings "Paloma desesperada" by Rafael Alberti.



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Odd Socks Day. Anti-Bullying Week 2020.

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Look at this poster. It's wonderful.











Picture: Spanish4kiddos

What about this picture?

Positive adjectives

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Year 3 Odd Socks. Anti-Bullying Week 2020

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Year 3 are wearing odd socks today for supporting "Anti-Bullying Week 2020" .

Year 3 A




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Year 4 Odd socks. Anti-Bullying Week 2020.

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Some Year 4 A children are daring to be different today. They have got their odd socks on for supporting Anti-Bullying Week 2020.

Teachers have got such important roles as educators to raise awareness of diversity and to promote the importance of tolerance.

We are all so different and unique and we are all united against bullying.

Remember it's also very important to be kind online and add value.

Year 4 A












Year 4 B









Year 4 C








Pantalllas amigas offers us 10 steps to be tolerant on the internet.

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Odd Socks Day 20ted0 Anti_Bullying Week 2020

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We are celebrating Anti-Bullying week from Monday 16th November - Friday 20th November.

The theme is "United Against Bullying" and we are going to wear Odd Socks on Thursday and Friday.

Then it's important to put your socks on these two days.

We are going to learn the wonderful song "The kids are united" by Andy and the Odd Socks.

Long version




Short version

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Halloween masks

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Our students have made their own Halloween masks and have sung Halloween songs and learnt some chants.

Year 1 A







Year 1 C



Year 2 B



They wish you Happy Halloween.


























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Halloween drawings and Halloween game.

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Do you like drawing?

Iker M. M. has drawn this wonderful picture.

Hello everyone,

Play this Google's DOODLE  halloween game

There is a small black cat called MOMO defending her school and classmates against a group of ghosts taking over the classroom and kitchen.

Do you know this character? It's a famous Batman character.

Iker M. M. loves drawing and he has done it for Halloween.

Thanks Iker, it's fantastic. We are all scared!
















Do you want to konw more about Halloween?
Here are 23 of the best Halloween costumes

History of Halloween

All about the pumpkin

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Happy Halloween 2020.

 Hello,

 Halloween is celebrated on October 31 each year and it's Saturday. The tradition started with the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain. People would light bonfires and wear costumes to keep away ghosts.

Then we must say: "HAPPY HALLOWEEN!" 

What are you going to be? What is your favourite costume?








Picture Creative Commons license: FLICKR

You can dress up at home this year because Halloween parties are not allowed due to COVID-19 pandemic also known as coronavirus pandemic. 

Here you have got some easy and FUNNY IDEAS FOR HALLOWEEN:

Decorate your bedroom and your house.

Choose a spooky costume and dress up at home. 

Play hide and seek or hide a candy around the house and play "Hot or cold".

Sing and dance Halloween songs.

Select a scary movie. 

Read a terrifying book or write a creepy story. 

Cook frightening food.

I hope all of you have a really good time.




REMEMBER:
Make sure all the toys and products you use are safe.

Prevention is very important.






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Alphabet and "Sushi" games.

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Let's practise the alphabet againg and then have fun playing the "Sushi spell game" to spell as many words as possible in two minutes.



Let's play the game "Sushi game" and tell your teacher how many words you can get and the points.
Are you good at this?

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Sing the alphabet backwards.

 Hello everyone,

There is a new challenge for you. Can you sing the alphabet bakwards?

Practise and you will get it.


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Autumn landscapes.

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Gabriel and Blanca have drawn these wonderful  pictures. What can you see?





Tress in Autumn have no leaves.




















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Alphabet. How is each letter pronounced?

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Look at the alphabet and answer





How many letters are there from A to Z?

How many red letters are there?

How many blue letters are there?

And how many green letters are there?

Click here to know how to pronounce the letters of the English alphabet and the sound each one makes.

Sing the Alphabet song.


Look at this presentation and sing along!







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Pen pals: Introduction sheet 2020-21

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Year 3 students are working on their introduction sheet for their English penpals from Stamford Green Primary School in Epsom, England.





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Numbers: Units and tens.

 Hello everyone,

Let's learn a little more about numbers.

A ten is composed of 10 units. Look at this poster:




Let's revise numbers from 1-20:

 



Look at these numbers and calculate:

Examples: 

NUMBER            TENS            UNITS

23                            2                  3

35                            3                  5

45

58

62

89

Are you good at Maths? Then you can calculate this easy additions and subtractions.

Play Kahoot: Numbers 1-100.

GAME: Do your Maths.


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Days of the week song and nursery rhyme.

 Hello everyone,

Let's revise the days of the week.









Sing along and practise the choreography.

Can you get this easy choreography? It's easy.

What is your favourite day of the week? What day were you born on?

Type your date of birth and find it out.


Now let's learn this easy nursery rhyme:

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Video conferencing programme and Zoombombing incidents.

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Are you thinking about using a video conferencing programme? Then you must take into account student sensitive data before choosing the programme. It's also very important to be transparent with parents and students. Is an online technology safe for use in the classroom? Follow these steps:

Does the programme collect Personally Identifiable Information PII?

Has the service provider have a privacy policy publicly posted?

Does it require installation?

Does it comply RGPD?

Does it allow students to work 

Here you can watch this video which can help you choose the right video-conferencing tool?


Have you heard about Zoombombing incidents? Follow some tips to prevent them.

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Digital Skills and G Suite applications. DigCompEdu.

Hello everyone,

Digital skills are very important for getting a job. Do you know DigCompEdu?
Teachers must develop their digital competence to face the new and rapidly changing demands.

These 10 tips for classroom are also very helpful.

This stunning interactive infographic created by Balbino Fernández shows us G-Suite applications such as Gmail, Drive, Docs, Slides, Sheets,  Maps, Calendar, Tasks, Classroom, Keep, Blogger, YouTube... which I have been using with my students for ten years to help them acquire and develop their digital competence. When we started we hung this globe from the ceiling and a cloud with a message: "Welcome to the cloud, welcome to the new world". 










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USA: Golden Gate Bridge.

Hello everyone,

Look at this red long bridge.
What is its name?
Where it is? 
Which cities does it connect?
How long is it?
How many lanes are there for cars? And for cyclists?
How many vehicles cross the bridge very day?
Who designed it?
What's the name of the bay?
What's the name of the ocean?





Picture: Publicdomain
Resources: KidsKiddle

Now listen to the famous song "San Francisco (Be sure to wear flowers in your hair)".

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Congratulations Liverpool. Football.

Hello everyone,

Today we want to congratulate Liverpool because they got the Premier League trophy after waiting 30years. They are champions of England, Europe and the world now.
There will be a parade and a mass celebration in that city when Coivid-19 restrictions allow.
Do you know Jordan Henderson? 





















 






Picture: Wikimedia

Anything is possible. Never stop believing.

Premier League Champions 2019/20 🏆❤️ pic.twitter.com/YdtIG7xc6I

— Jordan Henderson (@JHenderson) July 22, 2020

 




Here you can watch Liverpool fans celebrating the title in spite of restrictions.

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It's fun to play an instrument. Virtual concert.

Hello everyone,

How are you? I hope well in spite of the difficult circumstances we are living now.
Look at these students, do you know them? They can play different instruments.
They played some songs for their classmates during the lockdown and they got a big virtual round of applause. We all feel proud of you because you are brilliant musicians.




Sergio Can play the piano, Irene can play the violin and Erika can play the flute.
What about you? What can you play? What is your favourite instrument?

If you don't play any instrument, why don't you have a go in your school or village?
Is it difficult to think of the rhythm of the piece, the notes and the sound at the same time?

What type of music do you like playing?
This is Sant Joan where I live. Last Saturday students from the Music School performed.
If you like Queen or Abba you can go to 1:06 minute.

Which QUEEN songs/tracks can you recognise?
Which ABBA songs can you identify? 
I love this ABBA track called "The winner takes it all".

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Tongue Twisters

Hello everyone,

Are you good at tongue twisters? 
Read these tongue twisters out as fast as you can:























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International Rock Day

Hello everyone, 

Do you like Geology? And Petrology? 
International Rock Day is on July 13. It's not about Rock and Roll music; it's about the stone variety. 
Rocks are made of minerals: calcite, quartz, feldspar, biotite...
How many types of rocks can you name? 
Look at this picture:


Picture: Wikimedia


Do you think rocks are important for humans?  They are very important and they have been used for different purposes over the years. 
Have you ever painted on a rock? Look at these art projects. 

1) Macro-schematic Art can be found in some place in Alicante province and the famous painting "El Orante" can be seen in "The Sanctuary of Pla de Petarcos", which is Cultural Interest and Heritage of Humanity element, located in Castell de Castells.  





2) Painting on rocks which have got different shapes can be funny.




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International Reggae Day II. Bob Marley.

Hello everyone, 

A lot of people sang "Redemption song" by Bob Marley after George Floyd's death in  USA.
Listen to the song:
 

How many irregular verbs can you find in the past tense?
What do you think about "Old pirates, yes, they rob I, sold I to the merchants ships".
Who were the old pirates? Why did they sell him? Investigate about this fact and debate it.

Now listen to Marley's son, Stephen Marley" singing this song.

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International Reggae Day. Bob Marley "One love".

Hello everyone, International Reggae Day is celebrated July 1 every year. Reggae music is very popular all over the world. One of the most famous reggae singer is Bob Marley.


What do you know about him? Where did he live? When did he die? Do know any of his songs?


























This is one of the most famous songs by Bob Marley. It's called "One love".



A lot of people sang this song called "One love" in Benicàssim, Spain in 2011. 
Here you can listen to Rita Marley and Ziggie Marley, Marley's wife and one of his sons, 



Which mood does Bob Marley use for this song, indicative, subjunctive or imperative?
Think about imperative functions in English and your language. Is it similar or different?
Extension:



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Vegetable and fruit song.

Hello everyone, How are you? I hope you are all keeping well. It's importatnt to eat a lot of fruits and vegetables in summer. 


Let's learn some vocabulary related to vegetables. Listen to this song. 

And fruit? Do you normally eat fruit? It's important to eat fruit every single day.




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Continents: How many are there?

Hello everyone,

Let's think about continents. How many continents are there? 
Five, six, seven. Which answer is correct? Look at this map.






How many continents can you count? Which one is yours?
Listen to this song.

Which continent is the biggest? And the smallest? And the hottest?

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Let's share our musical likes. The Beatles.

Hello everyone,

Year 4 B student, Aitana C and her penpal Elvie have got the same musical taste. 
They both like The Beatles. 
Look at this card Elvie wrote to Aitana for celebrating European Day of Languages 2020.


















This is Elvie's favorite song by The Beatles called "Penny Lane". It's very famous.



And what about this song? Do you know it?




This is what Aitana sent to her penpal Elvie.

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Man in the mirror by Michael Jackson.

Hello everyone,

Michael Jackson released the song "Man in the mirror" in 1987.
A lot of protests are a show of strength and demostrators have sung that song.
Let's watch this video with subtitles in English and Spanish.



This is the chorus of the song "Man in the mirror". Let's practise it. It's easy.
















Let's do this activity. Fill the gap "Man in the mirror".



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Black lives matter. Stop racism. Martin Luther King II.

Hello everyone,

Here you can get more information about Martin Luther King.





















A lot of people are protesting in USA after George Floyd's death and police brutality, they are demanding justice.
Michael Jackson released this song called "Man in the mirror" in 1987 and some people have become it the anthem of the protests.
Can you find Martin Luther King?

 


This is the official video. 

 
Here you can see people singing and dancing this song "Man in the mirror" peacefully in Washington.
This is one of the message people are sharing: "If you wanna make the world a better place, take a look at yourself and make the change" 👊🏿👊🏾👊🏽👊🏼.
Do you know another song about black equality?



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Black lives matter. StopRacism. Martin Luther King I.

Hello everyone,

Do you think we still have black inequality?
Do you know people who have defended equality? What have they done?
I am very sad due to the events of USA and we must continue dealing with this issue everywhere.
























Here we can see a picture of some of my students talking about Martin Luther King.
What do you know about him? Listen to Marta, Leyre and Cristina.

















They learnt how to create a concept map using Popplet and recorded this video:



This is something I wrote about Racism in sports after Samuel Eto'o decided to leave the football course due to racist insults in 2004.


Our pen pals, ALEX OTTO ADAM HUGO NATHAN, also wrote us about their role models:






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Oxford Cultural Bytes: Level 2. Sports and Food.

Hello everyone,

Do you know Oxford Cultural Bytes? It's a series of short fun videos for learning English.
Do you know the most sports in Bristish culture?


What about food?

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Happy International Musuem Day, May 18.

Hello everyone,

How are you? I hope fine.
Every 18th May the global museum community celebrates  International Museum Day.
Today is International Museum Day and the theme is: "Museums for equality: diversity and inclusion".























Every year our students visit MARQ museum in Alicante and after that we walk up Alicante castle, called Santa Barbara.

This presentation shows you one of our visits.


You can learn a lot visiting museums. 
Look at this video and check if you have visited one of them.


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