PUMPKIN COMPETITION – HOW TO CARVE A JACK-O-LANTERN

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We celebrated our annual pumpkin competition. Students voted for the most original pumpkin, the scariest pumpkin, the most beautiful pumpkin, the biggest pumpkin, the smallest pumpkin or even the ugliest pumpkin. The winners were given medals.
Kids carved amazing jack-o-lanterns and made a tutorial with the steps you should follow to make a jack-o-lantern.
Good job!!!
Below you can see the tutorials and the pumpkin competition video:

PUMPKIN_COMPETITION_VIDEO_2019

“OUR BEST WITCHES” VISITING THE SCHOOL FOR HALLOWEEN

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On 29th November “our best witches” came to celebrate Halloween with our students. They brought happiness, a bit of fear and a lot of fun. Besides, they gave the students mandarins and skeletons as gifts. We also played the apple bobbing game, the apple on string game and the little ones sang and danced the song “Knock, Knock, treat or trick”.
We had an amazing time!
Thank you so much to all the parents who made it possible to celebrate this festivity!
OUR BEST WITCHES

GROW YOUR OWN JACK-O-LANTERN! HOW TO GROW PUMPKINS WITH KIDS

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This year one of our students decided to plant and grow her own pumpkin for our school annual pumpkin competition.
In this picture you can see the process she followed:

If you want to have a pumpkin for next 31st October, just follow these steps:
1. Find out when to plant pumpkins in your region.
2. Choose a planting spot and prepare the soil.
3. Choose pumpkin seeds or a plant.
4. Plant your seeds in “hills” or plant the pumpkin plant.
5. Cover the planted seeds or pumpkin plant with compost.
6. Water the pumpkin plant.
7. Fertilize the pumpkin plant.
8. Control weeds and pests.
9. Check to see if the pumpkin is ready.
10. Harvest the pumpkin.
11. Cut the pumpkins’ stems.
12. Carve a jack-o-lantern.
For further information click here:
https://www.wikihow.com/Grow-a-Pumpkin

WHAT TO DO WITH LEFTOVER HALLOWEEN PUMPKINS

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Pumpkins are great for making scary lanterns at Halloween! But did you know that you can also make delicious snacks from pumpkins? At class we watched a video to find out about leftover Halloween pumpkins and our students realized that after carving the pumpkins they didn’t need to waste the inside (pulp and seeds). There’s no point in throwing away pumpkins when we can reuse them. One of my students made “cabell d’àngel” “pumpkin jam”  and some of them keep the pumpkin seeds to eat them when they are dry.

So, if you throw food away, it’ll just be a waste of money.

WHAT TO DO WITH LEFTOVER HALLOWEEN PUMPKINS VIDEO

THE FOUR ELEMENTS OF THE EARTH PROJECT

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It is believed that human activity is the main cause of Global Warming. Human actions have led to increasing quantities of greenhouse gases, as well as deforestation across parts of the globe. These actions are destroying our planet and with this project we would like to help students to know the causes and effects of environmental changes that we all have to face.

THE FOUR ELEMENTS OF THE EARTH (AIR, FIRE, LAND and WATER) are the basic essential parts of our planet.

This project is a CLIL project that integrates a part of the Catalan curriculum for Natural and Social Studies. It focuses on environmental issues. The fact that it is developed in English means that students have more time and exposure to the target language. They also develop their communicative and cognitive skills through activities which are designed for individual, pair and group work. The 4th C of CLIL, Citizenship, is strongly promoted as students learn about how to take care of the Earth through individual actions.

There are four different blocs of content. Block 1 starts with the topic of landscapes and how they are changed by natural and human actions. It continues in block 2, with a focus on the Earth’s resources and the demands made on them by humans. The third bloc aims to develop children’s awareness of the impact of human activity on Earth, including pollution and climate change. The last block encourages them to help our planet by taking personal actions at home as well as at school.

Click here to download the activities:

http://www.xtec.cat/monografics/cirel/pla_le/nile/olga_tarrats/

GLOBAL WEEK FOR FUTURE

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The September 2019 climate strikes, also known as the Global Week for Future, are a series of international strikes and protests to demand action be taken to address climate change. The strikes’ key dates include 20 September, which is three days before the United Nations Climate Summit, and 27 September, together with the full week from 20 to 27 September proposed for a worldwide general climate strike called the Earth Strike.
The protests are taking place across 4500 locations in 150 countries.
The event is a part of the school strike for climate movement, inspired by Swedish climate activist GRETA THUNBERG.

DEEP INTO THE FOREST

admin14/06/19  

When we stand in a forest and look upwards, admiring the trees soaring above our heads, a common question often pops up. How long have these trees been here?

The thing about trees is that they are all different; some live fewer than a century, while others can live for more than thousands of years.

These age-old guardians have fascinated people around the world since time immemorial, but for students,  there is a great deal of curiosity about accurately calculating the age and the height of trees. So how did we do it?

We went straight to the forest, chose a tree and we measured the height of the tree by only using a pencil and a tape measure. Subsequently, we calculated the age of the tree by using a mathematical operation.

In the diagrams and photographs below and on the following page, you can see how we worked this out.

heigh/age/tree
*** Now you have the instructions and have seen how to do it, don’t you feel like  doing the activity too!!!

BEAUTY & THE BEAST PLAY AND THE MUSEUM OF RURAL LIFE

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On the 15th February, our students from Middle Cycle and Upper level went to L’Espluga de Francolí to see the “BEAUTY AND THE BEAST” play and to visit the Museum of the Rural Life.
The play was a modern adaptation of Beauty and the Beast. It took place between Hollywood and London. Our Beauty wants to be an aviation pilot. The Beast had been a bully at school and as a punishment a fairy cursed him. During their time together, Beauty discovers the inner beauty of the Beast. He teaches her to love reading and opens her doors to a world full of adventures.
Our students really enjoyed doing these two amazing activities and taking an active part in both.

Here you have a collection of photographs:
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