Machines

Here is a game about machines:

The lever

Máquinas 1

Tipos de fuerzas

Máquinas

Simple y compuesta

Fuerza humana o motor

Machines in our lives

What do you need to...

We're off to the Musuem!

Since we are studying History, we are going to visit the Museo Arqueológico Regional de Alcalá de Henares.



Here you can take a virtual tour of the musuem.

And here you can watch a video about the museum's collection.

Today we celebrate San Isidro!

Here's a video about the San Isidro festival in Madrid.

Population and Traditions

This is our current unit in Science.

Here is a world population simulator based on natural growth (births and deaths.)

Traditions: regional clothing (trajes populares) in Spain



Traditional dances

Traditional dishes



Traditional desserts in Alcalá

Traditional buildings

Review

Continentes y océanos
CCAA:
Ríos:

Trinity Grade 4

How we study history

Here is a presentation about how we study history.

Cave paintings

Here are some examples of cave art from prehistoric times.

Cave Art Slides from ajlevings

More about the relief in Spain

Let's learn more about the relief in Spain.

Landscapes and coasts of Spain 

Inland and coastal relief



Play this game about the relieve de España

Climates in Spain

Climates in Spain game



Vertientes españolas
Ríos y vertientes de España

Questions!!!

Year 4-- It's your turn!

Now it's Year 4's turn to learn about the geography of Spain!

First we will learn the Autonomous Communities.



Here are some games to help you practice.

A game

Autonomous Communities puzzle

Name the Autonomous Community

Which is it?

Okay, now you have to learn the capitals!!!  Ready?  Here we go!!!!

Capitals of Autonomous Communities  (Hint: Practice first with the "Mirar" option. Then play the game to see what you know!

Choose from a lot of games on this excellent page!

Light (Year 4)

 Our next science unit is Light.





Refraction, lens, prism

Light as a form of energy

How we see things

Light and shadows

In Spanish: La Luz

La luz, los colores

A few more English games for Year 4

New games added!

Sentence monkey game for present simple
Sentence monkey past tense irregular verbs


Try this for like + ing.
Irregular past forms crossword
Comparing friends
Write questions for these answers.
Yesterday

Games for Year 3

Try these games:




Present simple and present continuous

Countable and uncountable nouns

Can and can't

Like and don't like

Adverbs of frequency (always, usually, sometimes, never)

Like + ing

Map games:

Political Simple Map of Spain

Name the Autonomous Community

Autonomous Community puzzle

Rivers of Spain

Energy (Year 4)

Now that we've learned about forces, let's learn about energy!



What is energy? Watch this.
¿Qué es la energía?

What are the different forms of energy?
Formas de energía

Where does energy come from?
Using energy
Changes in energy

Most-used sources of energy

Renewable and non-renewable energy sources
Fuentes de energía renovables y no renovables

Renewable energy sources
Non-renewable sources of energy

La energía y los usos de la energía
Las fuentes de la energía

Fun Games to practice grammar

Here are some games from the British Council's  LearnEnglishKids website.



Please give them a try!

Past simple questions

Past simple endings

Like + ing

Like and don't like

Adverbs of frequency

Going to

Present perfect (Grade 5)

Will for predictions (Grade 5)

Trinity Grade 5: Present perfect with for and since

Derechos del Niño

Watch this video about the rights of children.

Here is another video.

Robin Hood Theatre (Year 3 and Year 4)

We are going to see a play in English!  It's Robin Hood, and you can see a short video from it here.

Forces and Energy (Year 4)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/10_11/forces_action.shtmlTry this activity.

Watch this video:

Pushes and pulls game

Friction game

Forces in Action




Bill Nye force and motion video

Magnets




Push pull float sink

What are you going to do?

 Here's a review of how to form sentences with "going to."

What do you like doing?

Watch this presentation for a review of like + -ing.

Grammar present simple from ourbloggish

Try this exercise about like/don't like/love/hate + -ing.

 

Geography of Spain

Do you know the Spanish Autonomous Communities?  Test yourself!




The map of the Autonomies
El mapa Autonómico

Another map game
¿Which is it?
Puzzle

Enrique Alonso mapas interactivos

What about the physical features?

Watch this about the terrain of Spain.

Spain's inland and coastal relief.
El relieve interior y costero de España.

Fish (Year 3)

Birds (Year 3)

Amphibians (Year 3)

Reptiles (Year 3)

Mammals (Year 3)

Characteristics of mammals

Vertebrate Animals (Year 3)

We are going to study Vertebrate Animals.

Here is a great game about different types of vertebrate animals and their characteristics.

Lo puedes ver también en español.


 

More about vertebrate animals.

Here's another game to classify animals.

Classify animals game.

Vertebrates body coverings.

Body coverings game.

How vertebrates breathe

Vertebrate reproduction

In Spanish:
Mamíferos
Reptiles
Aves
Peces
Anfíbios

What's going to happen?

Watch this presentation and try to guess what is going to happen:

Going to from David Mainwood

Unit 6: Matter (Year 4)

We are going to learn about matter.




Watch this about States of Matter.

Properties of solids, liquids, and gases

Can you classify these items into solids, liquids, and gases?

Solids and liquids

Properties of States of Matter

Propiedades de los estados de la materia (in Spanish)

Characteristics of materials

A letter has arrived!

Here is the letter (email) from our new friends in Canada:

Hello! 

We are writing to you from Winnipeg, Canada.  We are a class of grade 1 and 2 students at  Rockwood School.  The students in our class are 6, 7 and 8 years old.

 We are learning about countries around the world this year and we would like to email your class to tell you about life in Canada.  We would also like to learn about life in Spain.

 Right now it is winter in Winnipeg.  We have cold winters with lots of snow.  Today it is a very nice winter day.  The temperature is going to be 2 degrees Celsius.  Usually the regular temperatures in the winter can be as cold as minus 30 degrees below 0 Celsius!  That is very cold!  We have to wear warm jackets, snowpants, hats, mittens, scarves and warm boots.  We even have to plug in our car engines when they are parked to keep them warm!  We will send you some photos of kids playing in the snow soon!

What is the weather like right now in your city?

We have attached two photographs showing what our school looks like now in the winter and what it looked like in the fall when we started school in September.  In the fall, the leaves turn beautiful colours and start to fall off the trees.  In the winter, the tree branches are bare without leaves.


 Hope to hear from you soon.

A Suprise... (Year 3)

What do you think this building is?  Where is it? What season is it in the pictures?  We will find out more soon!

Peace day

This year we will celebrate Peace Day on January 30th.  All students in Primary must wear a white T-shirt. The songs we will be using are:

"Dulce Margarita" by Miliki



"No Dejes de Soñar" by Manuel Carrasco





"The Winds of Change" by The Scorpions




Los Vientos de Cambio (Spanish version)

Grease! (Year 3)

For Carnaval this year our school theme is Musicals!  All of the Year 3 classes will go dressed like characters in the film "Grease."

Here is a video clip:

Europe (Year 3)

Watch this PowerPoint on Europe, made by Genevieve, our Language Assistant:



Europe from Kathleen Marcy

Can you answer the questions at the end???

Physical map of Europe interactive

Rivers of Europe interactive

Capitals interactive

Countries interactive

Art (Year 3)

This is the work of an artist called Roy Lichtenstein.








What colours does he use?  Can you see the tiny dots?

Ecosystems (Year 4)

We are going to study ecosystems.




Learn about food chains.  In Spanish: cadenas alimentarias.

Learn about terrestrial ecosystems and play a game.

Learn about different types of ecosystems  (biomes).

Relaciones en los ecosistemas.

Plants (Year 3)

We are going to study plants.








Here you can learn about the parts of a flower.

Here you can learn about the different parts of a plant.

Here you can learn how plants make their own food (photosynthesis.)





Here you can see some examples of plant sensitivity (growing towards the light):

Tomato plants
Beans and sunflowers

Europe (Year 3)

In this unit we are going to study the continent of Europe.

Watch this animation about Spain and Europe.

Now learn about the countries of Europe.

More games here.

Let's review the continents and oceans!

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