After learning about “grounding” we learned that around the Earth there is a magnetic field and we wondered about magnetism. What do we know about magnets? After a brief brainstorming and some reading, we saw the connection between the poles in a magnet and the Earth poles, we remembered how magnets work (two different poles […]
EXPERIMENTING WITH MAGNETISM Llegeix més »
The 23rd of April is a very important day in Catalonia because of St. George celebration. But, did you know that it is celebrated worldwide as the International Book Day? It all started in 1995 when the UNESCO decided to dedicate a day a year to promote reading, a lifelong skill key in learning that
INTERNATIONAL BOOK DAY Llegeix més »
Last week was the first after the experiment of living without screens during seven days. It was a time to analyse the pros and cons of such an activity and we shared all our discoveries. It was very difficult for some, but the general opinion was that it had a lot of advantages and everybody
TEXTS ABOUT THE SCREEN-FREE WEEK Llegeix més »
As you know, we are trying to find an Irish school that wishes to start a pen-pal project with us so we can learn about their customs while practicing English. We realized that we needed the head teacher permission and we had to adapt the language in our letters. After learning the conventions of a
AVALUATING FORMAL LETTERS Llegeix més »
Yesterday we had a great opportunity to practise English while having a good time by watching a play: Sleeping Beauty (or not). “Mitjans” and “Grans” had been preparing the theatre for weeks and they knew the story very well: it was a new version of the traditional fairy tale in which the princess, Aurora, changed
LET’S GO TO THE THEATRE! Llegeix més »
As everybody discovered in the “Festa Major” speech, Matildas are organizing a cultural exchange with Irish students. We have compiled a lot of schools’ adresses and now it is time to see if we can get a school that wants to start an exchanging letters project with us. We think it is a great opportunity
WRITING FORMAL LETTERS Llegeix més »
Investigating about Roald Dahl’ ‘s bibliography, we discovered that “Love from Boy”, one of his books, was a compilation of letters he wrote. We realized that we had NEVER received or written one single letter! To put a solution to that, we analyzed the stucture of a letter and each one of us wrote to
Once children are confident using the language orally, they must start reading in order to fully master English. Learning to read in English, though, is quite different. Since the children can already read in Catalan and Spanish, they can activate different strategies to be able to get the meaning of different messages. One of these
Reading in English Llegeix més »