past tense of to be

Year 5 and year 6 are working on the past tense of to be, the most important verb in English . To make easier to understand its use, I've found some videos that may be useful.

International Women's Day

We are celebrating the International Women's Day this week, a very important date for all of us who believe in a better world with no differences between men and women. Here you have a short and interesting video about the History of this day and why do we celebrate it.

Sir Edmund Hillary

We are working on superlatives and comparatives, here you have a short film about Sir Edmund Hillary, the first man to climb the highest mountain in the world: Mount Everest.

Christmas is coming

As you already know, Christmas time is here! All the staff wish you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2019.

interesting and funny website

Lyrics training is an interesting and funny website you can use to improve your listening skills while you listen to your favourite music, have a look and enjoy.

https://lyricstraining.com/

Summer Holidays

Summer is coming...and so the HOLIDAYS!! Have fun, relax, sunbathe, play, read and discover...just enjoy your summer! Thank you for following this blog, next year we will post a lot of interesting things...stay tunned!!

Environment

We have been watching some videos about plastic and what can we do to help our planet. Here you have an interesting video. Please, remember that you can REDUCE, REUSE and RECYCLE at home. Let's start taking care of our homes and spread it to the world.

There was a dragon

The story of Saint George and the dragon is also a song, listen to it and you will discover how George became a Saint.

Sir George and the dragon

Saint George's day is coming, and as we all love the day, here you have a short story about Sir George and what happens when he meets the dragon...It's a lovely story about cooperation and friendship. Enjoy it.

The origin of vaccines

Year 6 is working on past tenses, and the story we are reading is about the discovery of vaccines,how did Edward Jenner discover vaccination? What was smallpox? What was cowpox? We read the story and we are working on a summary, individually and in small groups. But in order to make the story easier to understand and funnier to know, let's watch a video about the curious origin of vaccines.

Letter from Solihull

On Tuesday 11th, Mrs. Anke Lanham, visited our school. She's a teacher from Solihull, and she teaches Spanish to young children. She brought us some letters answering the ones we sent a few months ago. We are going to read them at class and answer them back. Have a look at their web page and discover about their school.


Ulverley School

Escola Verda

As we are working on Escola Verda, this week 4th graders are going to work on the 3R: Reduce,  recycle and reuse. An important issue is plastic, we use too much plastic. What happens with all the plastic we don't recycle? Can we reduce it or reuse it? National Geographic offers us a lot of short documentaries we can watch at home and think about it.

The story of a spoon

Here you have a very interesting video you should watch. Where does a spoon come from? Discover the story of a spoon and be aware of what can you do for our planet. Recycle, reuse, reduce.

stressed out

Not all the songs we sing are just for learning....

We've singing Stressed out by Twenty one pilots for two weeks..., because music should be an important part of our lives.

Still working on past tenses

Nothing better to work on the simple past than music. Lukas Graham has written amazing songs that we can use to teach: "7 years old" ( working on past tense and writing a short story) and " Mama said". Here you have the second one, it's going to be "the song of the week" for 5th and 6th graders.

Letters to Solihull

We just have prepared some letters to send to Ulverley School in Solihull, in a few days, you will see some samples here in our web page. Stay tunned!!

California dreamin'

Welcome back to the 60's. Here you have "California Dreamin'", The Mamas & the Papas version recorded in 1965.The lyrics of the song express the narrator's longing for the warmth of Los Angeles during a cold winter in New York City. Enjoy the song!!

Back to School

One of the most popular films is Grease (I loooooove it!!!) so I thought it would be a great idea to start with this song, GREASE, here you have a version of the Bee Gees. Hope you like it too!!

Here we are again! Did you enjoy summer? We are already working in new projects and ideas, hope you will like them. To start, I would like to inform you that this year we are going to work some English projects,  four grade students are going to work on praying mantis. And if you have any suggestions, please leave a comment and we will answer you back!!

Remember the 80`s

Welcome back to the 80's! Sixth graders have enjoyed a song, if you were born in the 70's or early 80's, I'm sure you know it. It was a surprise for me to discover that they liked it. Hope you like the video, it includes the lyrics so you can sing aloooooooooong!!!