ICT activity - April & May

Let's see what you have learnt in units 7 & 8! Go to www.mac-english.com/mvc and do all the exercises.

Happy learning!

ICT Activity - April & May

Do you want to know more about ice sports? Do you want to know about the rules and the history of curling, bobsleigh or skeleton? Well, have a look at this post.

Curling is a sport in which players slide stones across a sheet of ice towards a target area.

Skeleton is a fast winter sliding sport in which an individual person rides a small sled down a frozen track while lying face down.

Bobsleigh is a winter sport in which teams of two or four make timed runs down narrow, twisting, banked iced tracks in a gravity-powered sled.

For more info go to www.worldcurling.org (curling)  www.fibt.com (bobsleigh & skeleton)

ICT activity - 5th primary

TOPIC: home and furniture

Exercise 1: furniture.
Exercise 2: rooms.
Exercise 3: clean and green.

TOPIC: sports

Exercise 4: sports mixer.
Exercise 5: football.
Exercise 6: Olympic and Paralympic sports 1.
Exercise 7: Olympic and Paralympic sports 2.
Exercise 8: sports.
Exercise 9: word hurdles.
Exercise 10: extreme sports quiz.

ICT activity - April

Marking its 50th anniversary, this month we visit the Universal Studios and CityWalk in Hollywood. 

Universal Studios is a movie studio and theme park in Los Angeles County, California. It's one of the oldest and most famous Hollywood movie studios still in use. its official marketing headline is "The Entertainment Capital of L.A.". It was initially created to offer tours of the real Universal Studios soundstages and sets. Universal CityWalk offers a collection of shops and restaurants. 

For further info go to: 

www.universalstudioshollywood.com

www.citywalkhollywood.com

Songs

6th primary: Happy by Pharrell Williams

And here you are the lyrics video with the funny minions.
1st ESO: Without You by David Guetta ft. Usher

Saint Patrick's Day

Reread last year's post for some info on this celebration and follow this link for some tasty St Patrick's Day recipes: www.tasteofhome.com

Show & Tell week

TOPICS: 

1st & 2nd ESO: sports
3rd ESO: technology and gadgets
4th ESO: geography

Spelling Bee contest

CONGRATS to Pablo, Diego & Andrés. You did a really good job!

Pablo Vilaboa - 5th primary

Diego González - 3rd ESO

Andrés Vila - 3rd ESO

3rd ESO finalists

5th primary finalists

OUR REPRESENTATIVES' PARTICIPATION: Diego González - 12:08 - part 4 Andrés Vila - 27:39 - part 4 / 1:02:44 - part 4 Pablo Vilaboa - 24:49 - part 2 / 42:32 - part 2

ICT activity - 5th primary

TOPIC: animals

EXERCISE 1: pets
EXERCISE 2: polar bears
EXERCISE 3: zoo animals
EXERCISE 4: amazing animals
EXERCISE 5: rainforest animals
EXERCISE 6: working with animals
EXERCISE 7: animal countdown
EXERCISE 8: animal maker
EXERCISE 9: make a dangerous animal (just for fun!)

ICT activity - March

This month we travel to Los Angeles to visit The GRAMMY Museum. It is an exciting and interactive celebration of the power of music. Four floors of cutting edge exhibits, interactive experiences and films provide a one-of-a-kind visitor experience - engaging, educational, celebratory and inspirational.

For further info visit: www.grammymuseum.org

9th Spelling Bee contest

This year's representatives are:

** 5th primary:
Pablo Vilaboa Vizcaíno

** 3rd ESO:
Diego González Fernández
Andrés Vila Rodríguez

All this info has been provided by School House Vigo (www.schoolhousevigo.com)

Word clouds - 5th primary

TOPIC: animals

Andrea Sánchez & Luz Pérez

Guillermo Álvarez & Raúl Villar

Iris Domínguez & Iria Piñón

Mara Álvarez & Marta Alves

Lucía Iglesias & Vega Rodríguez

Jaime Pérez & Pablo Vilaboa

Xoel Fonseca & Nicolás López

Joel Durán & Alberto Piñeiro

Lucía Gómez & Eva Muñoz

Mario Rodríguez

Olalla Martínez & Nicolás Troncoso

ICT activity - February

The Carnival in Rio de Janeiro is a world famous festival held before Lent every year and considered the biggest carnival in the world with two million people per day on the streets.

The typical Rio carnival parade is filled with revelers, floats and adornments from numerous samba school which are located in Rio (more than 200 approximately). A samba school is composed of a collaboration of local neighbours that want to attend carnival together, with some kind of regional, geographical common background.

One of the many main purposes of the Rio carnival parade is for samba schools to compete with fellow rival. This competition is the climax of the whole carnival festival in this city.

The Carnival of Venice is an annual festival, held in Venice, Italy. The Carnival ends with Lent, forty days before Easter on Shrove Tuesday, the day before Ash Wednesday.

The carnival in Venice was first recorded in 1268. The subversive nature of the festival is reflected in the many laws created over the centuries in Italy attempting to restrict celebrations and often banning the wearing of masks. Masks have always been a central feature of the Venetian carnival. Venetian masks can be made in leather, porcelain or with the original glass technique. The original masks were rather simple in design, decoration, and often had a symbolic and practical function. Nowadays, most of them are made with the application of gesso and gold leaf and are all hand-painted using natural feathers and gems to decorate.

Mardi Gras is an annual carnival celebration in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. The New Orleans Carnival season is a season of parades, balls (some of them masquerade balls), and King cake parties. It has traditionally been part of the winter social season; which at one time was when parties for  Southern  Society  women, débutante  balls, were arranged.

Celebrations are concentrated for about two weeks before and through Fat Tuesday (Mardi Gras in French). There is usually one major parade each day, but many days have several large parades. The largest and most elaborate parades take place the last five days of the season. In the final week of Carnival, many events large and small occur throughout New Orleans and surrounding communities.

The parades in New Orleans are organized by Carnival “krewes”. Krewe float riders toss throws to the crowds; the most common throws are strings of colorful plastic beads, doubloons (aluminum or wooden dollar-sized coins usually impressed with a krewe logo), decorated plastic throw cups, and small inexpensive toys.

For further info visit the following websites:

www.carnevale.venezia.it

www.rio-carnival.net

www.mardigrasneworleans.com

Exchange with Norway

From January 18th to 25th ten 3rd ESO students travelled to Namdalseid (Norway) as part of a school exchange. The Norwegian school's name is Namdalseid skole and is located in Namdalseid, a town 159 km far from Trondheim, the third largest city in Norway.

The experience was amazing: we rode snowmobiles, learned about ice fishing, Sami costumes, saw moose, tried skiing, etc. And the most important thing: we lived as Norwegians and made friends for life.

Thanks a lot Namdalseid community!!!!!!

You can watch a video on our Facebook page.

ICT activity - January

New year, new destination: Seattle! Seattle is a coastal seaport city in the US state of Washington. It is the largest city in both the State of Washington and the Pacific Northwest region of North America and the fastest-growing major city in the United States. 

The Seattle metropolitan area of around 3.6 million inhabitants is the 15th largest metropolitan area in the United States. Seattle is also the 8th largest port in the United States and the 9th in North America. 

Apart from this, Seattle is also famous for its musical history. From 1918 to 1951, there were nearly two dozen of jazz nightclubs in the city; and it is the birthplace of rock musician Jimmy Hendrix and the alternative rock style grunge.

For further info: www.visitseattle.org/Home.aspx