Saturday, December 30, 2017

Rudolph's song was performed at the school


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hega-GxyW6o



A song that shows us how much information we can learn.

The famous Christmas song Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer started life as a poem created by an American advertising executive called Robert May. He was requested to produce a poem that could be given away to children by the Santa Claus employed by Department Stores at Christmas! Working as an Advertising Executive Robert May had a natural flair with words and was able to compose the Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer poem which was specifically designed to appeal to children. It was commissioned by the Montgomery Ward department store who up to this time purchased third party colouring books to give away at Christmas, this idea was conceived as a cheaper "in-house" option!




You know Dasher, and Dancer, and
Prancer, and Vixen,
Comet, and Cupid, and
Donder and Blitzen

These are the names of the fictional reindeer that helps Santa Claus power his magical flying sleigh to deliver presents to all the children of the world. 

But do you recall
The most famous reindeer of all

This indicates that Rudolph is very famous.


Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer

This is the name of the reindeer in question.

had a very shiny nose

His nose would glow from time to time, giving it a “shiny” appearance.

and if you ever saw it
you would even say it glows.

This assures the listener/reader that his nose glows like a flashlight, another common household object used to provide an untethered, portable light source.

All of the other reindeer
used to laugh and call him names

This is a reference to the previously mentioned reindeer. They would laugh and call him names, and that made him sad. The writer made a reference to Pinocchio, a common household legend about a wooden doll whose nose would grow everytime he told a lie.



They never let poor Rudolph
play in any reindeer games.
Then one foggy Christmas eve
Santa came to say:
"Rudolph with your nose so bright,
won't you guide my sleigh tonight?"



Then all the reindeer loved him
as they shouted out with glee,
Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer,
you'll go down in history!





Everything messed up about Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer


Everything messed up about Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer 

You know Dasher, and Dancer, and Prancer, and Vixen, Comet, and Cupid, and Donner, and Blitzen, but do you recall the most famous reindeer of all? Well, you should — ever since it hit the airwaves in 1964, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer has become the longest-running Christmas special of all time. It's a beloved tradition that tells a story of how our differences can make us stronger, and was so well received that its producers, Rankin/Bass, spent the next 20 years focused on producing stop-motion Christmas specials that tackled everything from a donkey that was present for the birth of Christ to two completely different origins for Santa Claus.

But while it's not lacking in good cheer, Rudolph is hardly the squeaky-clean narrative you might remember. Dig a little deeper in that North Pole snow, and you'll find that there's a whole lot of messed up stuff going on.

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Rudolph is only loved once his differences prove to be valuable

It's difficult to imagine being alive today and not being at least slightly familiar with the narrative laid out by Johnny Marks in his original song, but just in case, here you go: Rudolph is a reindeer born with a red nose so shiny that some would even say it glows (like a light bulb). This caused him no end of trouble as a child, with the other reindeer shunning him, but once his nose-beam proved to be capable of lighting the way for Santa Claus on a particularly foggy Christmas Eve, he was lauded by his former tormentors and went down in history (like Napoleon or toothpaste, depending on where you went to elementary school).

Side note: If you're not sure who this Santa Claus guy is and why he's riding around in a sleigh pulled by reindeer, well, c'mon. There's only so much we can explain, and you're just gonna have to meet us halfway on this one.

The problem is right there in the song: "Then how the reindeer loved him." Before his differences proved to be valuable in propping up the existing North Pole status quo, they hated him so much that they wouldn't even let him play games. It was only once they realized they could use his nose for their own benefit that they "loved" him. If red noses weren't good fog lights, it stands to reason that he would've been shunned to his dying day. To the special's credit, it does make a point to have his family out looking for him before he comes back to light the way on Christmas Eve, but maybe teaching kids that you should run away to make everyone feel bad about ridiculing you isn't a great idea.



Donner is deeply ashamed of his son

You'd expect a bully like Fireball, Rudolph's young rival, to scorn Rudolph for his differences, but at least he can count on his family for support in those trying times, right? Wrong. When the song says "all of the other reindeer," it means all of them — including his own father.

The very first thing that Donner does upon witnessing the birth of his only child — after he recoils in shock — is decide that Rudolph's nose is so shameful that it must be hidden at all costs. To that end, he smears mud on Rudolph's nose with the intent of leaving it there forever. Not only does that hide the glowing, it also stuffs up Rudolph's nose, as evidenced by the fact that voice actress Billie Mae Richards makes him sound like he has a cold for the first 15 minutes of the special. So according to Donner, Rudolph's nose is so shameful that hiding it is more important than breathing properly.

It's actually pretty hard to blame him, though. Forcing your son into the nose closet is a rough decision, but considering that when Santa Claus finally finds out, he tells Donner that he should be ashamed of himself for siring a monstrosity like Rudolph, it's easy to see why he did it. If Santa Claus is showing up to smack-talk your kid, it's safe to assume something's gone very, very wrong.




All of the other reindeer almost caused the end of time

With a story as well-known as Rudolph, it's fun to play "what if," and try to figure out what would happen if things had gone a little differently. If Rudolph had never bothered to come back to the North Pole, for instance, there would've been some pretty dire consequences. The obvious change, of course, is that Christmas just doesn't happen that year, but in the grand scheme of things, that wouldn't be so bad — Santa could always just deliver the presents on New Year's or something, and in the meantime, all those greedy kids who abandoned their polka dot elephants could learn to appreciate the things they had.

The bigger problem, of course, is the complete collapse of the entire space-time continuum.

See, while it's far less well known than the original special, the sequel, Rudolph's Shiny New Year, is infinitely more insane. In it, a cosmically powerful vulture called Eon the Terrible, who's fated to disintegrate on January 1, sets his sights on kidnapping Happy, the Baby New Year, to stop time and therefore stave off his prophesied death. The good news is Happy is hiding out in the Archipelago of Last Years — which is basically what would happen if you mashed up Hawaii with the concept of time travel — and for some reason, Rudolph gets sent to bring him back. Apparently Santa Claus, who can literally see every child no matter where they are, couldn't be bothered to take a few minutes to save the universe from utter destruction.

Needless to say, Rudolph succeeds and the flow of time continues unabated. If he hadn't been Santa's go-to guy, however, it's pretty clear that we'd all be spending an ageless eternity on December 31, ruled over by a giant vulture. No offense, but Comet and Cupid ain't solving that one.



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Rudolph, the reindeer

Christmas Greetings Meaning

Greetings
A selection of goodwill greetings are often used around the world to address strangers, family, colleagues or friends during the season. Some greetings are more prevalent than others, depending on culture and location. Traditionally, the predominant greetings of the season have been "Merry Christmas", "Happy Christmas", and "Happy New Year". In the mid-to-late 20th century in the United States, more generic greetings such as "Happy Holidays" and "Season's Greetings" began to rise in cultural prominence, and this would later spread to other Western countries including Canada, Australia and to a lesser extent some European countries. A 2012 poll by Rasmussen Reports indicated that 68% of Americans prefer the use of "Merry Christmas", while 23% preferred "Happy Holidays".A similarly-timed Canadian poll conducted by Ipsos-Reid indicated that 72% of Canadians preferred "Merry Christmas".

Merry Christmas and Happy Christmas

The greetings and farewells "Merry Christmas" and "Happy Christmas" are traditionally used in English-speaking countries, starting a few weeks before Christmas (December 25) each year.
Variations are:
  • "Merry Christmas", the traditional English greeting, composed of merry (jolly, happy) and Christmas (Old EnglishCristes mæsse, for Christ's Mass).
  • "Happy Christmas", an equivalent greeting that is common in Great Britain and Ireland.
  • "Merry Xmas", with the "X" replacing "Christ" (see Xmas) is sometimes used in writing, but very rarely in speech. This is in line with the traditional use of the Greek letter chi(uppercase Χ, lowercase χ), the initial letter of the word Χριστός (Christ), to refer to Christ.

These greetings and their equivalents in other languages are popular not only in countries with large Christian populations but also in the largely non-Christian nations of China and Japan, where Christmas is celebrated primarily due to cultural influences of predominantly Christian countries. They have somewhat decreased in popularity in the United States and Canada in recent decades, but polls in 2005 indicated that they remained more popular than "Happy Holidays" or other alternatives.

History of the phrase

"Merry," derived from the Old English myrige, originally meant merely "pleasant, agreeable" rather than joyous or jolly (as in the phrase "merry month of May").Christmas has been celebrated since the 4th century AD, the first known usage of any Christmas greeting dates was in 1534. "Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year" (thus incorporating two greetings) was in an informal letter written by an English admiral in 1699. The same phrase is contained in the title of the English carol "We Wish You a Merry Christmas," and also appears in the first commercial Christmas card, produced by Henry Cole in England in 1843.
"Merry Christmas" appears on the world's first commercially produced Christmas card, designed by John Callcott Horsley for Henry Cole in 1843

Also in 1843, Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol was published, during the mid Victorian revival of the holiday. The word Merry was then beginning to take on its current meaning of "jovial, cheerful, jolly and outgoing". "Merry Christmas" in this new context figured prominently in A Christmas Carol. The cynical Ebenezer Scrooge rudely deflects the friendly greeting: "If I could work my will … every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding." After the visit from the Ghosts of Christmas affects his transformation, Scrooge exclaims; "I am as merry as a school-boy. A merry Christmas to everybody!" and heartily exchanges the wish to all he meets.The instant popularity of A Christmas Carol, the Victorian era Christmas traditions it typifies, and the term's new meaning appearing in the book popularized the phrase "Merry Christmas".
The alternative "Happy Christmas" gained usage in the late 19th century, and in the UK and Ireland is a common spoken greeting, along with "Merry Christmas". One reason may be the Victorian middle class influence in attempting to separate wholesome celebration of the Christmas season from public insobriety and associated asocial behaviour, at a time when merry also meant "intoxicated" – Queen Elizabeth II is said to prefer "Happy Christmas" for this reason. In her annual Christmas messages to the Commonwealth, Queen Elizabeth has used "happy Christmas" far more often than "merry Christmas".
In the American poet Clement Moore's "A Visit from St. Nicholas" (1823), the final line, originally written as "Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good night", has been changed in many later editions to "Merry Christmas to all", perhaps indicating the relative popularity of the phrases in the US.

Happy Holidays

In the United States, "Happy Holidays" (along with the similarly generalized "Season's Greetings") has become a common holiday greeting in the public sphere of department stores, public schools and greeting cards. Its use is generally confined to the period between United States Thanksgiving and New Year's Day. The phrase "Happy Holidays" has been used as a Christmas greeting in the United States for more than 100 years.

                                                       A Christmas cake with a "Merry Christmas" greeting
The increasing usage of "Happy Holidays" has been the subject of some controversy in the United States. Advocates claim that "Happy Holidays" is an inclusive greeting that is not intended as an attack on Christianity or other religions, but is rather a response to what they say is the reality of a growing non-Christian population.
Critics of "Happy Holidays" generally claim it is a secular neologism. The greeting may be deemed materialistic, consumerist, atheistic, indifferentist, agnostic, politically correctand/or anti-Christianity. Critics of the phrase have associated it with a Christmas Controversy termed the "War on Christmas".

Season's Greetings

"Season's Greetings" is a greeting more commonly used as a motto on winter season greeting cards, and in commercial advertisements, than as a spoken phrase. In addition to "Merry Christmas", Victorian Christmas cards bore a variety of salutations, including "Compliments of the Season" and "Christmas Greetings." By the late 19th century, "With the Season's Greetings" or simply "The Season's Greetings" began appearing. By the 1920s it had been shortened to "Season's Greetings",and has been a greeting card fixture ever since. Several White House Christmas cards, including U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower's 1955 card, have featured the phrase.


Christmas Seasons at CEIP Lope de Vega!!

As every year, our school gets ready to celebrate Christmas Seasons. Kids are so excited and they practise, once after another, Christmas Carols so popular in Spain and English speaking Countries.







Father Christmas came to the School and Kids and adults, as well, enjoy his presents and his company. 





Merry Christmas and see you at Christmas next year.



Thursday, December 14, 2017




WE MAKE A MODEL OFTHE RIVERS IN 6C



We made a 3D model that shows the course ofthe Spanish main rivers














We have researched and made with cardboard and other materials such as plasticine and phosticks large bodies of water and mountains systems. We are delighted with the result.