Winter

Would you like to listen some Christmas carols?

SANTA, WHERE ARE YOU?

JINGLE BELLS

TWINKLE, TWINKLE LITTLE STAR

LITLE SNOWFLAKE

 S- A- N- T- A

CHRISTMAS

CHRISTMAS  INTERACTIVE BOOK

RUN SANTA RUN

CHRISTMAS  TALKING VOCABULARY

WRITE A LETTER TO SANTA



WOULD YOU LIKE TO DECORATE A CHRISTMAS TREE?



VISIT THE NORTH POLE!!



WHOSE PRESENT?

Christmas words

Which Christmas words do you know? 

Play a game all about Christmas words. How many sentences can you make?

We wish you a Merry Christmas!!!!

BUILD A SNOWMAN !!!

HELPING SANTA!!!

WORD GAME

18 Days 4 hours...
And...CHRISTMAS is here!

What do you know about Christmas?
Click on the Christmas bells and you can read 
what are the Christmas traditions in Britain.

And now it´s time for Christmas stories and music!!

December Writing Center

Here´s a list of words I put up for the writing center for December.

Click on the image to download

CAPITAL LETTERS

PINOCCHIO

A father, a puppet, and some imagination

Everybody knows the story: One day, a poor carpenter called Geppetto sculpts a puppet that comes to life and sets off on thousands adventures. But the mise-en-scene that Enzo D'Alò has chosen for his version of Pinocchio is completely original.

The film, that opens with the image of a kite flying over hills and fields, was written by the director with Umberto Marino, respecting the original dialogue written by Carlo Collodi, whose work has so often been adapted for both television and cinema. With its drawings by the inimitable Lorenzo Mattotti ("A great illustrator who for me is a legend," says D'Alò), this new animation film's particular style stands out from the very first scenes. Thanks to nimble editing that rightly renders the continuous mobility of the inexhaustible puppet, Pinocchio alternatively features both vast fantastic landscapes and detailed close-ups. The colours are bright and contrasting, and the illustrator's stroke is simple but firm.

The illustrator has given life to his pencil strokes thanks to advanced digital techniques, all the while referencing great Italian painters and metaphysical paintings, which renders the film different from American or Japanese animation. The result seems closer to the spirit of Collodi's original book than to its Disney adaptation. It makes the film, produced with France, Belgium, and Luxembourg, all the more Italian.

All this is accompanied by beautiful, moving music that perfectly matches the images and successfully marks the different moments in the story. We owe these notes to one of Italy's most cherished composers and songwriters: the late Lucio Dalla. "The music came before the storyboard," explained D'Alò. "It was constructed at the same time as the film."

SYNOPSIS

Carpenter Geppetto builds a puppet and names him Pinocchio. Upon his numerous adventures, the marionette runs into quite a bit of trouble, but fortunately, a Fairy with Turquoise Hair helps him extricate from his many mischiefs. The Fairy comes along with a Crow, an Owl and a Talking Cricket. Pinocchio later finds himself on the Island of Toys and is transformed into a donkey. After a brave escape, he ends up in the belly of a shark where he saves Geppetto, who had also been swallowed by the shark while searching for Pinocchio at sea.

DAZZLING COLOURS, BRILLIANT MUSIC

ENZO D´ALÒ, the Director

He is an Italian director.

He was born in Napoli, ITALY.

He has directed movies as  "Momo alla conquista del tempo", released in 2001, "La Gabbianella e il gatto" (1998).

Interview with Pinocchio's Enzo D’Alò 

from ABU DHABI Film Festival.

Original title:	Pinocchio
Country:	Italy, Luxembourg, Belgium, France
Sales agent:	Rezo Films International
Year:	2012
Genre:	animation
Directed by:	Enzo D'Alò
Film run:	75'
Release date:	IT 21/12/2012
Screenplay:	Enzo D'Alò, Umberto Marino
Music:	Lucio Dalla
Producer:	Antonia Luisa Muccardo, Roebben Anton, Malika Brahmi, Goesens Eric, Nicolas Steil
Production:	Cometafilm, Iris Productions, Walking the dog, 2D3D Animations
Backing:	Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali - Direzione Generale per il cinema
Distributor:	Lucky Red

We watched this film on Wednesday 21st of November in Gijón. We liked it very much. You can read about it . CLICK ON

A SCIENCE INVESTIGATION

Do you know how many living things can you find at the playground of your school?

On Friday 9th of November we investigated it and it was a thing that really surprised us.

Here you can watch a presentation of the project. 

It was really funny and interesting!

Would you like to see what type of living things could you find at the playgroung of our school?

CLICK ON the butterfly!!

BONFIRE NIGHT

CLICK ON THE BOMB AND READ INFORMATION ABOUT THIS ENGLISH TRADITION:

CLICK ON THE IMAGE AND PLAY ... IT´S BONFIRE NIGHT!!!

WATCH A VIDEO ABOUT THE STORY

NOW, IF YOU CLICK ON THE COMIC YOU CAN CONTINUE READING AND PLAYING. ENJOY IT!!

     

                   Sing and dance 

     with  4th Primary pupils !!!        

HALLOWEEN

Click on the pumpkins and read information about Halloween:

Halloween vocabulary...

Now, sing these two funny Halloween songs:

Watch this Casper Cartoon...

This is the life cycle of a pumpkin:

Would you like to play HANGMAN?

Now it´s time for a Halloween word search puzzle. 

Use your mouse to spell out Halloween words. 

Slide the puzzle pieces around until you've 

made the picture of the Jack o' lantern.

Catch the pumpkins, but first read the instructions!!!

Find numbers in order, as quickly as you can.

Do you like Memory games?

THE CELL

See the parts of a cell in action. Click on the image.

A VIRTUAL CELL TOUR

Click on the image again.

PARTS OF A MICROSCOPE

Click on the image.

Then move the cursor over the list of microscope parts and note the highlighted areas to identify various components.

Now if you click on PLANT CELL you can see it!!

We continue...

Click on the photo. Then click the labels and learn about the microscope again. 

Then draw a microscope and write its parts.

At the bottom of that page you can see the label MICROSCOPE. Click on it and you will see some different types of cells on the slides.