domingo, 12 de febrero de 2012
The Wizard of Oz
The 5 year olds are learning about "The Wizard of Oz". Here is a song to help tell the story.
Los niños y niñas de 5 años están aprendiendo sobre "El mago de Oz". Esta es una canción para ayudarles a contar el cuento.
martes, 7 de febrero de 2012
magnets
The 5 year olds have discovered that they can paint with magnets! They use magnets to drag nails and clips through the paint to create patterns! They also answered Carla's question of whether or not a magnet can pick up keys through an open window. The answer is yes, but only if it is close enough!
Los niños/as de 5 años han descubierto que pueden pintar con imanes. Puden usar imanes para arrastrar uñas y clips a traves de la pintura para crear moldes.También respondieron a la pregunta de Carla de si un imán pude o no lcoger unas llaves a través de una ventana abierta. La respuesta es si pero solo si está lo suficientemente cerca.
my shadow 3b
Here is 3B singing "my shadow".
Aqui están los niños/as de 3 años B cantando "my sombra".
Shadows
The 3 year olds continue learning about shadows. They have made shadow puppets and can make them small (away from the light) or big (close to the light). They also saw some interesting shadows of sea animals! Nacho and Lucia brought two games to play with us. They were matching shadows with the correct animal, and matching the person with the correct shadow. Thank you Nacho and Lucia!
In English, the children can say "shadow, light, big and small". They are starting to speak in spanglish more and more. One child today said "no tienes my shadow" when the light was switched off. It's fantastic to see the children start speaking English!
Los niños de 3 años continuan aprendiendo sobre sombras. Han hecho marionetas de sombras y pueden hacerlas pequeñas (alejadas de la luz) o grandes (cerca de la luz). También han visto sombras de animales del mar. Nacho y Lucía trajeron dos juegos. Fueron relacionando las sombras con el animal corecto y cada persona con su sombra. Gracias Nacho y Lucía y a su familia que siempre nos ayudan y colaboran.
Los niños/as saben decir en inglés:" sombra, luz, grande y pequeño". Están empezando a hablar en spanglish ( mezclando mucho inglés con español) más y más. Uno de los niños dijo hoy: no tienes my shadow (mi sombra)" (esto es spanglish) cuando la luz se apagó. ¡Es fantástico ver a los niños tan pequeños empezando a hablar inglés!
magnet song 5 years
Here are the 5 year olds with their version of the magnet song. It's very difficult, but they do a great job!
Aqui están los niños/as de 5 años con su versión de la canción sobre imanes. Es muy dificil pero lo hacen muy bien.
jueves, 2 de febrero de 2012
Magnets.
Today, the four year olds went for a walk around the school, looking for anything magnetic. They had lots of fun!
Hoy los niños/as de 4 años fueron a dar un paseo por el colegio buscando cosas magnéticas. Lo pasaron muy bien.
Experimentar es la mejor forma de aprender.
Magnets
Oscar: if a ball gets stuck in a tree, can a magnet get it down?
Ivan and Jaime: can magnets pick up staples?
Natalia: is it quicker to pick up screws with magnets?
Ismael and Celia: can magnets stick to metal?
Carla: if a star falls down, can we catch it with a magnet? and if you leave your keys inside, and a window is open, can you get them with a magnet?
Oscar: if two people have two magnets and they get stuck, are they stuck together forever?
Ivan: can magnets pick up spoons?
Natalia: can magnets pick up a hammer?
Rocio: can they pick up a scarf?
Luna: can they pick up a hat?
Hugo: can they stick to a watch or clock?
Cristian: can they stick to a cup?
To find out, we did some experiments.
The first one: can magnets pick up balls? (related to Oscar's question).
We tried with three different balls and two different magnets, but NO, the magnets didn't stick to the balls.
Ivan had the idea of adding a clip to the ball, to see if the magnet could pick it up. Pablo suggested using sticky-tape to stick the clips to the balls.
We then tried again. YES, the magnet stuck to the clip, but NO, it didn't pick up the balls. We decided that the balls were too heavy for the magnets.
We then tried to discover if two people could be stuck together forever with magnets. Paula and Oscar tried, but NO, they didn't get stuck!
Then we tried with a hat, a scarf, a hammer, a watch, a cup, and staples. Natalia and Ismael recorded the results:
Hat: no.
Hammer: yes.
Scarf: no.
Watch: no.
Cup: no.
Staples: yes.
Then we discussed whether or not they stuck to children.
We passed some magnets around, and by chance we found that the magnets stuck to Natalia's hairclip and Ainslie's earring!
We are really enjoying this unit on magnets.
miércoles, 1 de febrero de 2012
peace week
Aqui tenéis algunas fotos en el escenario recitando un poema y cantando: "¿Cómo te sientes?. Hicieron un fantástico trabajo.
There are more photos on the 5 years blog: lapicesmagicos.
Hay más fotos en el blog de 5 años:lápicesmágicos.
Magnets.
The 4 and 5 year olds are learning about magnets for the science project.
The 5 year olds are doing different activities:
Science table: testing objects to see if they are magnetic and completing a report.
Maths table: fishing with magnets.
Creative table: cut and paste magnet activity.
Writing table: writing useful vocabulary.
Games table: creating magnetic words with the magnetic letters.
The 4 year olds answered the question "what do we want to know about magnets?"
Angela: do magnets stick to elephants?
Pablo L: do magnets stick to dinosaurs?
Gloria: do magnets stick to tigers?
Adrian: do magnets stick to snowmen?
Nieves: do magnets stick to giraffes?
Angel Manuel: do magnets stick to metal robots?
Irene: do magnets stick to pipes?
We decided to find out if magnets stick to animals. Sergio and Hector J both said that magnets don't stick to animals because they are made of meat and bones, a continuation of yesterday's conversation. We then thought of how we could test this. It is very difficult to bring elephants, dinosaurs, tigers and giraffes to school! We tried to think of other things that are made of meat and bones....suddenly we realised that WE ARE!! We passed a magnet around the circle to see if it stuck to us, but it didn't! We then came to the conclusion that magnets don't stick to animals, because they don't stick to people!
We then played a game of fishing with the magnets. We had to try and get the magnet on the paperclip, because magnets stick to clips, not paper. The children really enjoyed this activity!
Tomorrow the investigations continue!
martes, 31 de enero de 2012
Shadows: what do we know?

Today the 3 year olds began learning about shadows. Some children complained they didn't have a shadow, while others said they did.
Some of the children who think they have a shadow are:
Mario, Lucas, Nacho, Alex, Cristian, Eloy, Andrea, Miguel, Adriana, Alberto, Victor, Lucia, Jorge, Adrian, Nerea, Alejandro, Blanca, Iker, Netsanet, Raul A, Eva and Jimena.
Some of the children who think they don't have a shadow are:
Gonzalo, Carlos H, Elena, Vera, Laura, Nora, Dakota, Carlos V and Sanabil.
Many children chose not to answer!
Some further interesting comments were:
Alberto: When the sun comes out, shadows appear.
David: shadows are black.
Alejandro: they are made by the sun.
We are going to investigate shadows over the next few weeks.
Hoy los niños/as de 3 años han empezado a aprender sobre sombras. Algunos se quejaban de que ellos/as no tenían sombra, otros decían que si tenían.
Los niños/as que pensaban que si tenían sombra son:
Mario, Lucas, Nacho, Alex, Cristian, Eloy, Andrea, Miguel, Adriana, Alberto, Victor, Lucia, Jorge, Adrian, Nerea, Alejandro, Blanca, Iker, Netsanet, Raul A, Eva and Jimena.
Los niños/as que pensaban que no tenían sombra son: Gonzalo, Carlos H, Elena, Vera, Laura, Nora, Dakota, Carlos V and Sanabil.
¡ Muchos niños/as no sabían que contestar!
Hubo comentarios muy interesantes:
Alberto:Cuando sale el sol, aparecen las sombras.
David:las sombras son negras.
Alejandro: Las hace el sol.
Vamos s seguir investigando sobre las sombras en las próximas semanas.