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NATURAL SCIENCE: The food chain

 

 

This are some of the food chains that we created at school. Hope you like them and they inspire you to create your own.

                 

           

 

JUST4FUN: Animal sounds

Hey, did you know that animals make different sounds in English than in Spanish? Don't believe me? Check this video out!

ENGLISH: Thanksgiving Turkeys

During Thanksgiving, children got to hear the story behind the Thanksgiving celebrations and we created our own Thanksgiving turkey.

 YOU CAN READ HERE A THANKSGIVING STORY:

Long ago, in the early 1600s, a group of people in England wanted to pray and worship God in their own way. The King controlled the Church of England, and everyone was ordered to go to the same type of church. Anyone who dared to disobey would be sent to jail.


The group of people who wanted to free the Church of England from the King's rule, making it "pure" were known as the Puritans. To escape the rule of the King and his church, around 100 men, women and children left their homeland, with their dream of religious freedom. They sailed on a ship, the Mayflower—on a pilgrimage to the New World.

These brave travelers—the Pilgrims—landed in Plymouth after their long six-week journey. It was December 11, 1620. The cold winter had set in. The land was strange to them, and nothing seemed familiar.

The winter was long, cold, and very hard for the Pilgrims. Luckily, Native Americans helped by supplying them with seeds and food, teaching them about their new home, and giving them the skills needed to survive in a strange, new land.

The first year in their new home was hard for the Pilgrims. Many died. With seeds and plants received from the Native Americans, the Pilgrims planted crops. The fall harvest was a good one. To celebrate their good fortune, the Pilgrims had a feast of thanksgiving.

Many foods were cooked for the feast - wild turkey, duck, and venison were probably served, along with fish, pumpkins, squash, corn, sweet potatoes, and cranberries. Captain Miles Standish, the leader of the Pilgrims invited all of the Native Americans who had helped them so much during their first year. Everyone had a good day of thanksgiving. The feast lasted for three days!

This harvest feast in 1621 is often called the "First Thanksgiving." Over the years, the day we now celebrate as Thanksgiving became an important tradition in the United States—a day of giving thanks for all that we have. In 1941 President Franklin Roosevelt made Thanksgiving a national holiday. There you have it: The Thanksgiving story for kids!

A version of this story originally appeared on iVillage.

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NATURAL SCIENCE: The potato plant experiment

While studying plant reproduction, we dedicated 1 sesion a week to start and do the follow up to the growth of a potato plant.

I can not express how much fun we had doing such a simple experiment. We saw what happened to two potatoes, one dipped in water and the other one planted in soil.

 Our final product, the potato plant, is grown nice and tall.

Now it is the readers turn to say... will we be able to have some french fries out of our potato plant at the end of this school year?

Write your comments below and let us know what you think!

First of all we wrote our hipothesis on what we thought will happen to the two potatoes, in soil and in water.

We did weekly observations of our plants.

We wrote what changes did our potatoes had week after week.

Finally, we published our findings in the classroom. It was so much fun!

New class 2015/16

This school year came with a surprise. I had to switch buildings and move to the main one. So new class decoration was necesary, here you can see a couple of pics to that new setting.

 I am not adding any more pictures as the group setting is similar to the one in the model classroom. You can see the model class at "my classroom" bottom under the main blog picture. Have a look and let me know what you think in the comments below.
Click here to see the model classroom