Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2016

During this term, our students of the first year of E.S.O. have been studying materials and their properties. Wood and paper are good examples of usual materials, so they have made some Christmas trees using recycled magazines. This year has been the third time we do this activity and I have chosen one example of each group (as you can see in the pictures below):

Alexander López - 1ºB

Alejandro Nogueira, Adrián Román - I1B

Have you ever had a favourite hero or heroine? How would yo imagine him/her? This is the one we've chosen from I3P

We'd like to share with all of you a very difficult essay that I4D have done for literature class. It's an essay on Robinson Crusoe's diction.

Have you ever heard of the myth of Theseus and the Minotaur? 

If you want to know more about one of the most fascinating myths of the Greek Mythology, click on this link. Jorge Serradilla and Vanesa Ortiz (I1F) have created this awesome Powerpoint presentation.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5V0ghHbZjsXanYtckZOU3pXeHc/view?usp=sharing

Audio (download it): https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BzDeHbIz319wS2xxNzhxTWVzZlU

Merry Christmas (Laila)

Feliz Navidad! Merry Christmas!  

Christmas has always been one of my favorite holidays because it is a great  opportunity to spend time with friends and family, eat lots of food, open presents and decorate the Christmas tree.  Growing up, we had many Christmas traditions, like baking gingerbread cookies, putting our stockings out for Santa Claus and reading a Christmas poem.  This is one of my favorite Christmas poems from my childhood:

By Philip Brooks

Everywhere, everywhere, Christmas tonight!
Christmas in lands of the fir-tree and pine,
Christmas in lands of the palm-tree and vine,
Christmas where snow peaks stand solemn and white,
Christmas where cornfields stand sunny and bright.
Everywhere, everywhere, Christmas tonight!

Christmas where children are hopeful and gay,
Christmas where old men are patient and gray,
Christmas where peace, like a dove in his flight,
Broods o're brave men in the thick of the fight;
Everywhere, everywhere, Christmas tonight!
For the Christ-child who comes is the Master of all;
No palace too great, no cottage too small. 

Thanksgiving in the United States

When I asked the students what important U.S. holiday was approaching, the only response they could think of was “Black Friday.” I was a little surprised at the time until I realized images and videos of "Black Friday" would be more plentiful than those of Thanksgiving.

They learned about dense material such as the way that we currently portray the “First Thanksgiving” with Pilgrims and Native Americans, and the way that it actually occurred. Typically it is shown that both groups are enjoying the company of the others, when actually they were just trying to be tolerant to prevent conflict. Paintings done by U.S. American artists at the time present an idea that the Pilgrims were the ones assisting the Native Americans, instead of a symbiotic relationship.

I also discussed lighter subjects such as Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and the traditional NFL games on played on the 4th Thursday of every November. They easily recognized the parade balloons of Spiderman and Mickey Mouse. Also the students should now know the difference between a rugby ball and an American football, after showing them the Charlie Brown balloon carrying the latter.

Of course the food is one of the most important parts of Thanksgiving, and it seemed that not many were surprised when I showed the amount that U.S. Americans eat on this holiday. Many of the foods can be found here in Spain, but there are also some that are unique to the United States as well.

Below is a short video of the history of how Thanksgiving came to be.

Articles written by 1st Year students about P.E. and exercise at school.

MATERIALS' PROJECTS

Our first year's students have been studying materials and its properties in the technology class. Some of them have made such a good work. Click on the link below and you will see one of the best slides about this topic!!!

                       * LAURA AND JORGE'S MATERIALS' PROJECT

(We suggest that you use the "Present" button on the top right hand corner in order to watch it properly)