miércoles, 18 de enero de 2012

miércoles, 23 de noviembre de 2011

THANKSGIVING

The spirit behind this holiday is to thank god for all the goodness around us as the pilgrims did when they celebrated the first Thanksgiving day.

In this project we will see a video about the journey the pilgrims made and the challenges they had to face when they arrived to their new home. After seeing it we will write our toughts using the next frame:

If I were a pilgrim celebrating the first Thanksgiving day I would say thanks for... Now I want to say thanks for...

martes, 22 de noviembre de 2011

App Revolucionaria

Today we studied "The Mexican Revolution", Mr. Cabrera a history expert, came to our classroom and share with us his knowledge about the time line of Mexican History through the use of IPADS, (App Revolucionaria) We shared our ideas, and worked together having fun and incorporating knew data to our previos knowledge.

Here we are sharing our class and some "Mexican History" about the Revolution who was celebrated last 20th of November. 

El día de hoy recibimos una visita del Sr.Omar Cabrera experto en Historia de México. Nos enseño una aplicación de historia de México "app revolucionaria" que se encuentra disponible en App store. Para hacer esto posible, se analizaron los conocimientos previos de los alumnos con una linea del tiempo . Visiten este enlace para ver como lograron con éxito desarrollar la linea del tiempo.
 http://youtu.be/LEPo1q9FEsg 



Los alumnos se divirtieron y aprendieron muchos datos que no conocían , compartieron opiniones y se interesaron por conocer un poco mas de la historia de nuestro país. Están muy emocionados por compartir esto con personas de todo el mundo . En este enlace podremos ver la forma tan divertida de aprender con esta aplicación.

jueves, 20 de octubre de 2011

"Día de Muertos"

Hola vamos investigar sobre las tradiciones de los pueblos Mesoamericanos, especialmente sobre
el rito a los muertos.
En dónde se origina esta tradición,qué significado tenia el colocar cráneos de barro ,jade o vidrio.Hacia donde se suponía que se dirigían sus almas, qué les hacia pensar al levantar un altar.
Como lo puedes relacionar con la forma de conmemorar esta tradición en nuestros días se sigue creyendo igual que los antiguos pobladores.

miércoles, 19 de octubre de 2011

Weathering, Erosion and Deposition

Weathering, erosion and deposition are three natural processes that change the surface of the Earth.

1.- Investigate the definition of each process and post it on the blog.

2.- Make a model using a box of milk:

Cut one of the bigger sides of the box.
Cut a little pice from one of the smaller sides of the box.
Fill the box with soil.
Use a plastic glass and a straw to simulate a river.

3.- Explain what happened. When did the weathering, erosion and deposition processes took place?

4.-Write your comments on the blog using the structure: Making the model I observed that...

martes, 18 de octubre de 2011

Halloween traditions















































For this project we will find out:

1.- Which are the Halloween traditions of the next countries: Australia, Czechoslovakia, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Poland, Portugal and Vietnam.

2.- We will make an information card of each country and will upload photos to share our work.

3.- Now that we know about different traditions you can tell what you think about them. Which traditions you like? Which ones you don't like? Do you think is important to respect all the different traditions? Why?

4.- For HOMEWORK: Talk to your parents and other adults that you know. Ask them the next questions: Did they celebrate halloween when they where kids? Why or Why not? How did you celebrate it? Did you celabrate other festivities (Day of the death or All Saints Day)as a kid?

5.- Post the answers using the next structure: After talking with.... (my mom, my dad, my grandmother, my grandfather, etc.) I learned that....


6.- We will be searching for information about Halloween:

In which country was Halloween invented? Why was Halloween celebrated originally?, Why do we use costumes and go trick or treating in Halloween?

7.-We will make visual aids to explain secon grades the traditions of Halloween.

8.-We will explain second graders the traditions of Halloween.