Teatro de Navidad

Mañana lunes a las 12:30 los alumnos de 5ºA y 5ºB  realizarán dos obras de teatro en la Sala de Usos Múltiples del colegio. Están invitadas todas las familias a asistir. ¡Nos vemos allí!   

Homework for the holidays

You will not have any worksheets to do during the holidays, but you should study the first 15 verbs on the verb list I gave you a few weeks ago.  I will post them here on the blog soon.

I will also post some links to games you can play to practice English during the break.

Population Pyramids

We use population pyramids to represent the population of a country. They can tell us if most of the people are old, young, or in the middle.

Here is the population pyramid for Spain in 2014
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We can see that there aren't very many young people,  We can also see other information. Who has a longer life expectancy, men or women?

The pyramid is wider in the middle. This means that the population gre rapidly in the past, but is now decreasing.

Here is the pyramid for United Kingdom in 2014. How is it different from Spain's?




Germany 2014:



Here is the population pyramid for Madagascar, home of our sister school in the project NAMANA:



Is this population growing or decreasing?  What about the life expectancy of the people?

Population pyramids can tell us a lot!

It's electrifying!

In Natural Science, the next unit we will study will be MODULE 3: TECHNOLOGY: OBJECTS AND MACHINES.  More specifically, Unit 6: Electricity and Inventions.  So, after the break you need to bring this book to class for Natural Science.



Si tenéis oportunidad, intentad activar el código en la parte de atrás del libro correspondiente a ese módulo, siguiendo las instrucciones que da Teacher Isabel en su blog en esta enlace.

Si lo hacéis, por favor poned una nota en la agenda para decirme si ha funcionado o no, y en caso de que no funcione, qué mensaje os ha salido.

¡Gracias!

Snowflakes under a microscope!

Check out these images of snowflakes under a microscope!

Fun Christmas games

Would you like to make a virtual snowman?



How about a virtual paper snowflake?





Or a real one?

Natural Science test on Friday

For your Natural Science test on Friday, you must be able to answer the following questions. The information is in the book-- use the green questions at the top of each page to help you organize your thoughts.  Make sure you understand the Activities we have gone over from the book.

Give definitions of important terms like "heat", "temperature" and "light."

Explain:

How does thermal energy travel?  (3 ways!)  Give examples!

How does thermal energy affect objects?  (4 ways!)  Give examples!

Explain and give examples of: thermal conductor, thermal insulator.

How do objects react to light? (3 ways!)

How does light travel?

What is reflection? Refraction?  White light?

How are rainbows formed?

How does color affect the transformation of light into heat?

What happens to molecules when an object absorbs light energy?


Good luck to everyone!

A Trip To London!

On Friday, December 18th, the entire school will be magically transported to London!  (Well, not really, but almost!)

Throughout the day we will be participating in games and activities about London, with The Improving Company. This day there will be no classes, only fun!



All aboard!!!!

Parts of speech

In English we are learning about some different parts of speech:

Noun:

A noun is the name of a person, an animal, a thing, or a place. 

Ex. bridge, city, tiger, engineer

Adjective:

An adjective gives information about a noun. 

Ex. short, happy, enormous

Verb:

A verb tells you what happens in a sentence. 

Ex. ran, was eating, plays

Adverb:

An adverb gives information about a verb. It answers the question “When,” “Where,” or “How.”

Ex. quickly, carefully, badly

Light as a form of energy

Watch this video about refraction of light:




Or this one:



And now to sum up, watch this presentation about light:

Time to sing!

Here are the Christmas carols we are going to sing!

Class 5ºA:




and 5ºB:

News flash!

There has been a change of plans!  We will now have our Natural Science exam on Friday, December 11th.

Se ha cambiado la fecha del examen de Natural Science a viernes, 11 de diciembre.