Back to class!!

Back into the Academic course, this year we´ll show more of the projects we´ll make with  2º of Primary of Octavus School in Zaragoza.

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Nespresso brazalets/ Pulseras Nespresso

Online magazines/ Revistas online

Education magazines and newspapers online, click on the image:
http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/magazines/magazines-education.htm

All kinds of magazines here:
http://www.youkioske.com

Pancake race/ Carrera de tortitas

It´s Pancake Day!

Ingredients:

2 cups flour
2 cups milk
2 eggs (beaten)
1/3 cup butter (melted)
2 tablespoons sugar (optional)
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
Instructions:

In a large bowl combine the flour, milk, beaten eggs, melted butter, sugar, baking powder and salt until just blended.

Preheat a lightly greased griddle or frying pan. Pour about 1/4 cup of batter into pan for each pancake. Cook until pancakes begin to bubble. Flip once and cook for 1 to 2 minutes longer.

Serve with maple syrup, jam or fruit.

We can beat the sun as long we keep on moving

Collages

St. Patrick´s Day school decoration/ Decoración para el día de San Patricio

No, we´re not talking about him.

We are talking about St.Patrick, "a religious holiday celebrated internationally on 17 March. It is named after Saint Patrick (c. AD 387–461), the most commonly recognised of the patron saints of Ireland. He is said to have used the shamrock, a three-leaved plant, to explain the Holy Trinity to the pagan Irish, and the wearing and display of shamrocks and shamrock-inspired designs have become a ubiquitous feature of the day.^[7][8] In the 1798 rebellion, in hopes of making a political statement, Irish soldiers wore full green uniforms on 17 March in hopes of catching public attention.^[5] The phrase "the wearing of the green", meaning to wear a shamrock on one's clothing, derives from a song of the same name.

London, since 2002, has had an annual Saint Patrick's Day parade which takes place on weekends around the 17th, usually in Trafalgar Square. In 2008 the water in the Trafalgar Square fountains was dyed green."



Guinness storehouse

The traditional symbol is a Leprechaun, shamrocks, a goldpot and a rainbow as previously mentioned in a post.
This is how we decorated 1º B´s wall.



Van Gogh for kids/ Van Gogh para niños

We are going to talk about Vincent Van Gogh in Art.

We´ll start by telling something about his life and go on with some of his most famous paintings as
"Starry night, 1889"

This painting is a view from Van Gogh´s hospital  bedroom window in the French countryside.

"the café terrace on the place Du Forum, Arles, 1888"

"the room, 1888"

"vase with twelve sunflowers, 1889"



Biography for 1º:

He was born in Holland.
He was a painter.
He loved to draw.
He lost an ear.

He become very famous and now you can see all kind of objects with his paintings printed on them:


We´ll finish by showing this video of the song "Vincent" by Don Mclean

As a following activity for the next lesson, we are going to center in the painting "the room"

The children are going to coloure it, or with crayongs, or doing a COLLAGE using the colours of the real painting to search in magazines for pieces of paper of that same colour.

After presenting the items of "my bedroom" in English, we´ll ask them to tell us, what picture will they draw about their bedrooms, using a style similar to Van Gogh´s.

You can also have the students draw what they see on the classroom

We can also create a collage with magazines and the painting of the "sunflowers"

I will show the results soon...

Did I tell you I love desserts?

 

1/4 cup unsweetened Dutch-process cocoa powder

1 teaspoon good-quality instant espresso powder

3 tablespoons boiling water

1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, softened

1/4 cup granulated sugar

1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

1/2 teaspoon coarse salt

1 large egg

2 cups all-purpose flour

1 large egg yolk

Sanding sugar, for sprinkling

Stir cocoa and espresso powders into the boiling water in a small bowl until dissolved; set aside. Meanwhile, put butter and granulated sugar in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment; mix on medium speed until creamy. Mix in vanilla and salt. Reduce speed to medium-low. Mix in egg, then cocoa mixture. Gradually add flour, and mix until a smooth dough forms. Turn out onto a piece of plastic; pat into a square. Wrap dough, and refrigerate until cold, about 30 minutes.

Divide dough into 24 equal pieces. Roll into balls. Shape balls into 12-inch-long ropes. Twist each rope into a pretzel shape. Space 1 inch apart on baking sheets lined with parchment paper.

Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Whisk egg yolk with 1 teaspoon water in a small bowl. Brush cookies with egg wash; sprinkle with sanding sugar. Bake cookies, rotating sheets halfway through, until dry, about 35 minutes. Let cool on sheets on wire racks. Cookies can be stored in airtight containers at room temperature up to 1 week.

Read more at Marthastewart.com: Chocolate Pretzels - Martha Stewart Recipes

Crayola frames

Nespresso 4

St. Patrick´s Day

Even though St. Patrick´s Day is a religious festivity that takes play the 17th of March, we can teach it in a more interesting way in the Art lesson.

During the lesson of Literacy we´ve done a COMIC about the LEPRECHAUN, a small and unfriendly elf who makes shoes and who wears green clothes and hat. We wears as well a lot of shamrocks in his body.

The leprechaun hides gold in a goldpot and maybe you can see him in the rainbow trying to hide the goldpot from everyone one day.

With this story (which can be adapted according to the student´s level and vocabulary), they have to do a comic and colour it.

On the lesson of Art, we´ll create a leprechaun out of card and a template I will upload.

Father´s Day

Next Saturday is "Father´s Day". In Art we will create a tie, the English symbol for this festivity, and children will design their own tie with coloured pencils. On the tie, they will have to write one poem from the ones attached.