Merry Christmas!

I wish you the best! Rest, play, read, write and enjoy with your family! Kisses: Silvia.

Did you know? Incubation

To incubate is to keep eggs warm.
Here you are going to see how emperor penguins do that.
Who goes fishing and who stays keeping the egg warm?

Birds incubate their eggs, and now you are going to see the process a chick follows:

 Here it is the female incubating the eggs.

 

Inside of them chicks are slowly developing. They need 21 or 28 days.

This chick is hatching from the egg. That is a big effort!



But the natural way of incubation is not the only one.

Eggs can be incubated in an artificial way too!

                                    And that's all folks!

Did you know? Dolphins

We have learnt that  dolphins are mammals, so they are born live and they feed their babies with their mother's milk.
I have a question, do they breathe through gills or do they breathe with lungs?


Here you can see a baby dolphin inside its mother:

Now you can see the dolphin giving birth:

And here you can see the mother feeding its baby:

Can you see these two lines? They are the place where they have their milk. 
They are not similar to human breasts!

Remember that the same happens to whales!

Free time

I love reading. What about you?

I have found these sites where you can read or listen to stories online. They are nice!!!! 
Have a look, you will enjoy them. 
It feels like having a whole library at home!

Stories
Online storytime
More storytelling
National Geographic Magazines

EVENTS: Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving Day or Turkey Day is a nice opportunity to show how lucky we are having family, friends, health, food, a place to live, pets...

Today we have learnt that every year, the fourth Thursday in November, people in the US celebrate this festivity.

Now we know what do they have for dinner:

We have seen their nice parades:

And we have met the luckiest turkey today:

I hope you have enjoyed this special day!

Events: November 22, Music Day

Because of the Music Day we have had a violin concert.
Here we were helping them with our clapping.

The violinists explained us facts about Vivaldi:

and Mozart:

They also showed us different kinds of music played with a violin.

Irish music: Toss the feather



Country music: Cotton eye Joe



So, enjoy music and have a nice weekend!!

Arts&Crafts: Calligrams

I promised Arantxa to put here more examples of Calligrams and here they are.

They also receive the name of Shape poems, and you will see why:

did you know? bones

We know that the smallest bone in our body is one of the three small bones in our middle ear. 
It is the one in contact with the cochlea, it is called stapes or stirrup (estribo in Spanish, as when we ride a horse!)

And the longest bone is in our leg, it is called femur.

Did you know that the only bone that is not attached to another thanks to a joint is in our throat? 
It is called hyoid bone.

Our body is amazing!

unit 3: locomotor system

We are learning about our body. Thanks to our locomotor system we can move. 
Remember that we have: bones, muscles and joints.

 Bones have two functions:

      - to hold our body

      - to protect delicate organs

There are long, short and flat bones.

In these pages there is interesting information: 

Let's chek it here!

And here!

Taking x-rays we can see bones.

Helping us with pronounciation. 


If you have one of this at home, ask your parents if you can bring it to school. 

We want to meet your bones!

 
Look! Alberto has sent me this calligram (caligrama in Spanish).  
This is when you use words to do a drawing.

What is this drawing?
Can you read the name of the different bones?
It is very nice! I love it!

We can try to do this technique in Arts&Craft. 
Do you want to try it?

Goodbye! See you in Canada!

We have had for a long time this suitcase from "Canada". We have been very lucky because it was full of stories and books...
Let see if next year we receive a new one! 
Cross your fingers!

Halloween: songs

And now, let's sing!

Halloween is coming!

Let me introduce you some friends of mine: Winnie, Meg and Mog and Casper.

You will enjoy with them, trust me!

Did you know? Heterochromia

Learning the parts of the eye, we have talked about the different colours of iris and people or animals having each eye of a different colour.
This is called heterochromia (heterocromía in Spanish) and it is not too frequent.

Here there are some examples:

 

And what about you? What colour is your iris?