Guy Fawkes Night versus Halloween

Bonfire Night 

Guy Fawkes Night, also known as Bonfire Night, is an annual commemoration observed on 5th November, primarily in Great Britain. Its history begins with the events of 5 November 1605, when Guy Fawkes, a member of the Gunpowder Plot, was arrested while guarding explosives the plotters had placed beneath the House of Lords. 

Celebrating the fact that King James I had survived the attempt of his life, people lit bonfires around London, and months later the introduction of the Observance of 5th November Act enforced an annual public day of thanksgiving forthe plot's failure. 

Remember, remember the fifth of November ...

Immortalized in this nursery rhyme, the Gunpowder Plot is introduced early into the young minds of children throught the United Kingdom.

http://www.bonfirenight.net/index.php

We hope you celebrated Bonfire Night in style at a spectacular London fireworks display.

To this day, it is customary for the cellars in the Houses of Parliament to be searched by the Yeoman of the Guard before each State Opening of Parliament. 

Bonfire Night is also known as Fireworks' Night, it is a British tradition dating back to the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, when Catholic conspirators tried to blow up the Houses of Parliament and King James I.

It is celebrated each year with fireworks and bonfires. Effigies of Guy Fawkes are often burned on top of the bonfires. 

Top 10 Bonfire Night Celebrations

http://www.theguardian.com/travel/2013/nov/05/top-10-bonfire-night-celebrations-fireworks-displays

The Flaming Tar Barrels of Ottery St. Mary

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travelvideo/9705502/Ottery-St-Mary-Tar-Barrels-the-ultimate-bonfire-night-party.html

Has Halloween now dampened Bonfire Night?

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-20206853

Halloween at CEIP Lope de Vega with our Linguistic Assistant:

Get Ready for a Colourful Year!!

This school discovered really good artists in 4th Grade this academic year. So far, they dared to paint a copy of La Giconda, by Leonardo da Vinci. 

Did you hear from da Vinci before? Here you are some information about him:

Leonardo da Vinci

An explanation about how they started painting 'The Mona Lisa'.

La Gioconda (The Mona Lisa)

It happened long long before there were cameras.

To have a portrait done you had to look for a painter.

Many portraits of important people are famous today.

Other painters wants to make a copy of famous portraits.

The copy can be as the same size as the original.

Or it can be larger or smaller.

By the way, do you know how to make a copy of a portrait?

We need:

• Piece of paper

• Ruler

• Pencil

• Coloured pencils

• A bit of patience!

Let's do it!

Making our own copy of La Gioconda!

Grids can be used to help make a copy of a portrait.

Copy the grid on a piece of paper as indicated.

Make your own copy by following the steps:

1. First, draw the grid on a piece of paper with a ruler.

2. Second, add the letters and numbers.

3. Then, draw the portrait on the grid as the model.

4. Finally, colour the portrait.

How good is their copy?

Expectations from Students CLOSE TO Promotion of Students Success

10 Expectations From Students

Carolyn Cameron, one of the most open and progressive principals, shared the following video regarding student expectations for school.  The first point was that it was important to build relationships and know students as individuals. The nine other points are things that she really believes in, but it was great hearing it from a student perspective.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K96c-TGnSf4

close to

RESULTS AND INDICATORS OF STUDENT SUCCESS. 

This Community suggests nine results, both short and long term, that are essential for student success. Please note that interaction between the “conditions for learning” may contribute to more than one result. 

Short Term Results :

◆ Children are ready to enter school 

◆ Students attend school consistently 

◆ Students are actively involved in learning and in their community 

◆ Families are increasingly involved in their children’s education 

◆ Schools are engaged with families and communities 

Long Term Results: 

◆ Students succeed academically 

◆ Students are healthy—physically, socially, and emotionally 

◆ Students live and learn in safe, supportive, and stable environments 

◆ Communities are desirable places to live All of these results move community schools towards contributing to the larger impact of: students graduate ready for college, careers, and citizenship. 

http://www.communityschools.org/assets/1/AssetManager/CS_Results_Framework.pdf

The First Days of School

How To Be An Effective Teacher

THE FIRST DAYS OF SCHOOL

By Harry K. Wong & Rosemary T. Wong

Outline

(CM) Unit A – Chapter 1 – Why You Need to Succeed on the First Days of School

• What you do on the first days of school will determine your success or failure for the rest of the school year.  You will either win or lose your class on the first days of school.
• There is overwhelming evidence that the first two to three weeks of school are critical in determining how well students will achieve for the remainder of the year.
• Student achievement at the end of the year is directly related to the degree to which the teacher establishes good control of the classroom procedures in the very first week of the school year
• Effective teachers are able to affect or make an impact on their students.  A teacher’s role is to open the door to learning.  Effective master teachers know how to get their students to enter for learning.  To make an impact on your students, you need to use effective teaching practices.  Students learn only when the teacher has an appreciable effect on a student’s life.  You have arrived as a teacher when you reach this stage.  You have gone beyond mastery.
• The Effective Teacher

Ø  1.  Establishes good control the first week of school.

Ø  2.  Does things right, consistently.

Ø  3.  Affects and touches lives.

(CM) Unit A – Chapter 2 - What Is an Effective Teacher?

• The Three Characteristics of an Effective Teacher…An effective teacher…

Ø  1.  has positive expectations for students.

Ø  2.  is an extremely good classroom manager.

Ø  3.  knows how to design lessons for student mastery.

• It is essential that the teacher exhibit positive expectations toward all students.
• Well-Ordered Environment + Positive Academic Expectations = Effective Classroom
• Student success in the subject matter of the class will be the result of how well the teacher designs lessons and checks for mastery.
• The Effective Teacher

Ø  1.  Exhibits positive expectations for all students.

Ø  2.  Establishes good classroom management techniques.

Ø  3.  Designs lessons for student mastery.

Welcome back to School

The back to school period of time usually lasts from mid-September through late-June in Spain. In United States, Europe and Canada the school period lasts from mid-July through early/mid-September. In Australia and New Zealand, this usually occurs in January, while in Malaysia, this period lasts from late November to December. In India the back to school starts in the month of June. In Japan, which is unusual in that it starts its school year in spring.

In merchandising, back to school is the period in which students and their parents purchase school supplies and apparel for the upcoming school year. At many department stores, back to school sales are advertised as a time when school supplies, children's, and young adults' clothing goes on sale. 

 


Office supplies have also become an important part of back to school sales, with the rise in prominence of personal computers and related equipment in education: traditional supplies such as paper, pens, pencils and blinders will often be marked at steep discounts, often as loss leaders to entice shopper to buy other items in the store. Many states in America offer tax-free periods (usually about a week) at which time any school supplies and children's clothing purchased does not have sales tax added. 

After all sale period, the real sense of school comes: Students are exposed to new subjects, new knowledge and new responsibilities and duties:

One of the most difficult school subjects for the students during the academic year is Maths and English. We all know about what Maths is envolved, but children already know how difficult and complex English Grammar is.

English language grammar includes an ever-unfolding set of rules. As a subject of study, it's more deep than broad: students in the early grades learn a basic overview of parts of speech and sentence types and as theyadvance in grade level, older concepts are broken into more complex systems.

In that way, English grammar is like the branches of a tree, with new rules and concepts extending outward from previously learned principles.

School Closed!!

Yes, we are closed, but here you are some activities to do during summer time. We hope you enjoy them all!!!

http://blocs.xtec.cat/montjuicenglishclass/2011/06/

The benefits of a bilingual brain

It's obvious that knowing more than one language can make certain things easier - like travelling or watching movies without subtitles. But are there other advantages to having a bilingual (or multilingual) brain? 

Mia Nacamulli details the three types of bilingual brains and shows how knowing more than one language keeps your brain healthy, complex and actively engaged. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMmOLN5zBLY

Our School wishes you a very nice summer and remember that we will be back in September. Keep practicing your second language!!!