Papalotzin y las monarcas

Papalotzin y las monarcas
Un cuento fronterizo bilingüe Al fin llegó el día en el que el Gran Norte construyó una Gran Muralla para apartarse del Gran Sur. Nada ni nadie podía pasar de un lado al otro, ni siquiera las nubes, ni el viento que antes había zurcado el cielo.
Al principio, a la gente del Gran Sur no le había importado el asunto. Además, pensaban, eran afortunados. Las mariposas monarcas se habían quedado de su lado. Y allí estaban todas, revoloteando como hojuelas anaranjadas y doradas todos los días del año.
La situación molestó a Papalotzin, dios de los monarcas. Desde tiempos lejanos las mariposas siempre se habían desplazado libremente de un lado al otro. ¡La migración era como la circulación de la vida en la Tierra!
Sus razones tenía Papalotzin por preocuparse. Cuando las mariposas se cansaron de revolotear ante la imponente muralla, empezaron a caer al suelo. Al desaparecer ellas, ya no hubo colores en el cielo. Todo lo demás empezó a descolorarse. Los girasoles perdieron su amarillo. El café de los troncos de árbol, el rojo de las manzanas, el rosado en las manos de la gente—todo ello desaparecía. Hasta el digno saltamontes se deprimió cuando se quedó invisible al perder su abrigo verde.
La gente del Gran Sur ayuda: "¡Oh, Papalotzin!, ¡pronto estaremos tan descoloridos … como la muerte!"
Papalotzin se asomó sobre la Gran Muralla y descubrió que la gente del Gran Norte también sufría. Todo de ese lado también se estaba quedando descolorido. Las fresas ya no eran rojas. Las naranjas ya no estaban anaranjadas. Y el pájaro azul tan platicador dejó de hablar por que ya no tenía más que decir sin el azul brillante de sus plumas. "¿Qué vamos a hacer?" gritó la gente del Gran Norte.
Papalotzin sabía que tenía que rescatar a las gentes de ambos lados, al igual que a los animales, las flores, las frutas, y hasta el sol que ya estaba perdiendo su resplandor, y hasta la luna que iba perdiendo su lustre, y hasta los cielos que se estaban quedando gris como la arena.
Con su gran pié de dios, Papalotzin pateó y derrumbó la Gran Muralla que había dividido al Gran Norte del Gran Sur. Luego resolló profundamente y sopló un aire fuerte con sus pulmones de dios lanzando al aire a las mariposas.
De nuevo en vuelo, los monarcas se desparramaron por todos los cielos y de inmediato los colores regresaron con vida. Todo el Norte y el Sur se puso de fiesta: ¡Urraaa! Hooraaaay! Y hasta el saltamontes brincó de felicidad una vez que volvió a ser visible. El pájaro azul comenzó a cantar, alegre de su color brillante.
El Gran Norte y el Gran Sur decidieron que era mejor dejar las cosas así, que los monarcas, y que todo y todos, pudieran migrar de un lado al otro de así en adelante. Y Papalotzin pensó lo mismo mientras que aleteaba sus grandes alas que empujaban a los bellos arcos iris hacia lo alto del cielo.

Ecosystems

BBC HABITATS

FOOD CHAIN

ECOSYSTEM VIDEOS

Health and disease

Here you have some games to work on unit 5:

Thanks Michelle ;-)

Spanish Language

Dipthongs and Triptongs

Blog about the same...

Nervous system

Check on these videos:


Look at this cool video that some 8th graders made

Website we worked on Thursday

Click on the link to do the activity again:

Spent

The body systems

Up to now we have studied the three main system and now we are going to complete the study of our body

ALL SYSTEMS

The five senses games

Click on the pic to get info about the five senses experiments that we can do at home (you have some puzzles and games on the same website):
How the body works? (what we saw Thursday in class)


Click on the skeleton to watch the video about how our body works:


Click on the muscular system for worksheets about the systems and interesting info.

Booo!! Let´s check a little on the story of Halloween! Spooky...

Click on the pics for some ideas for Halloween:

Now some games ideas:

http://familyfun.go.com/halloween/halloween-games/

Our Horror spooky story:

Title - The School of the Dead

Characters - A girl (named Sara), zombies, a possessed (haunted) person

Setting - a school

Plot –

(One day, it was a day like any other day, a young girl named Sara asked the teacher if she could go to the bathroom. The teacher said that she could, so Sara left the classroom and went to the bathroom. When she got there however, she saw something strange in the mirror, but when she turned around, it was gone. ) Rodrigo

(Sara went on with what she was doing, but when she looked up again, it was back. It was the face of another young girl like her, but had a pale gray face, and glowing red eyes. ) Antonio

(The girl waved her hand for Sara to go and to open one of the doors in the bathroom so Sara went. When she opened the door, there was nothing but darkness and swirling green smoke. All of a sudden from out of the toilet came a strange creature. It looked like Sara but she was a zombie.) Ruben

(The zombie walked slowly toward Sara and stared in her eyes the entire time. Sara was turned into a zombie too and they both walked out of the bathroom. They walked around the school and made all of the students and the teachers into zombies, and the school became the School of the Dead.) Juanmi

Thanks to Eric and my 6th graders, I enjoyed it a lot!

Respect yourself and others

The Witches-Roal Dahl

You probably have heard about him, he wrote Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and The Jungle Book but there is a little story we will read for Halloween that talks about WITCHES!!
Click on the picture to know more about the book and his author.
I hope you enjoy it!

Halloween is coming!!

Click on the pictures for some interesting games....

This is for my 4th graders

5 A DAY SONG

Spanish Language

Demonstratives

Dealing with feelings...

Website to work on Friday

The circulatory system

How does our circulatory system work? Have you ever wonder how our heart pumps our blood all over our bodies? Let´s take a closer look.








http://www.neok12.com/diagram/Circulatory-System-01.htm

http://www.neok12.com/vocabulary/Circulatory-System-01.htm

Activities to practice for the respiratory system

Click on the lungs and enjoy!

The Respiratory system

Take a look at this website to find out how our body works

RESPIRATORY SYSTEM

Check these videos:

Practising the comparatives...

COMPARATIVES

GRAMMAR PRACTICE

Click here and let´s do it!

DIGESTIVE PROCESS

Now we review the digestive process in English.

GAMES FOR THE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM

THE DIGESTIVE PROCESS

Click on the picture to review what we have seen in class.

A healthy diet..

Check on the calories of your favourite food with these woderful games...

CLICK ON HERE

play this game to prepare a healthy plate

Check on this website, investigate about healthy and unhealthy food, click HERE

FLASHCARDS TO DISCUSS HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY IN THE CLASSROOM

Learn how to read FOOD LABELS

Website fo the teacher

STORIES TO READ, WATCH AND LISTEN AT HOME

CLICK ON THIS LINK TO READ THE HAPPY PRINCE

CLICK ON THIS LINK TO LISTEN TO ALICE IN WONDERLAND (click on the mp3)

INFO ABOUT SCIENCE: ANIMALS

ANIMAL CLASSIFICATION

WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE? ANIMAL CLASSIFICATION

JEOPARDY! ANIMAL CLASSIFICATION

SCIENCE QUIZ

ANSWER THE SCIENCE QUESTIONS...

SCIENCE TEST

PRACTICE YOUR LISTENING

You can practice your listening as much as you want with these stories, listen to them until you understand the whole story, good luck!
Click on the link above.

STORIES

Welcome back to school!

Welcome back my lovely students! I just thought we have a couple of weeks before we see each other again and posted some games in English so you can refresh your little brains before we start back.

Have fun at the "feria" and I see you really soon.

GAMES -- bread eating

MORE GAMES castle maze

EVEN MORE GAMES recycling game

BACK TO SCHOOL GAMES

Mooooore homework...

Here you have more excercises just in case you want to review and study a little more ;-)
Hope you are enjoying your summer!

SPANISH LANGUAGE

MATHS

Missing you already...

Oh Lord!Not even three days without you and I miss you already... XD

I hope you are already fully enjoying the summer and this lovely hot weather.

Thanks to all the little people (and coliflowers too) that have commented on the blog, it was nice to get feedback. If you need more homework you just need to say it ;-)

I´ll write again pretty soon.

Your teacher.

Summer time.....

Yup kids, the summer is officially here so I want to thank you for this absolutely amazing school year together, I hope you have a great summer with your families and We will see each other again in September!!

Song about homophones

Thanks María!;-)

More activities for the homophones

HOMOPHONES

COOL MATCHING GAME

MORE COOL MATCHING GAMES

ONE MORE

Listenings!!!

click on these links to listen to people talking in English. Practice during the summer.

LISTENINGS

MORE LISTENINGS

Grammar games

here it is:

http://www.lancsngfl.ac.uk/curriculum/literacy/lit_site/lit_sites/pages/spelling_phonics_3.htm

Castles and knights audio

Audio part 1

Audio part 2

Listen to it at home!

Homework for the summer :-)

Sorry but you know it was coming, here you have a little something to work on while you are on vacation (beach, swimmingpool, mountains, cruise...at home like me...)

SPANISH LANGUAGE HOMEWORK:

- Readings + questions about the readings

- Review some grammar (verbs-easy, just review what are and a little more)

- The dictionary

- Help to write properly + more

MATHS HOMEWORK

check on these websites and practice:

CURRENCY

TIME

MEASURING

GEOMETRY MORE GEOMETRY

FRACTIONS MORE FRACTIONS

All of that plus the websites you have in favourites

English and Science:

All I want you to do in the summer is review what we have done trough the year, at least what we have in the blog. Play the games we have here and here you have some more interesting sites.

GAMES

MORE GAMES

For science in Spanish you have to review all the geography that we have seen this year (comunidades, provincias, rios, montañas, etc.) For that purpose I put here the same websites we have been working in class.

geography maps

Have a great summer and don't miss me at all!

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The Middle Ages

Here you have some info to help you out with the presentation, I hope you do a great work as always!

Cool games to study the Middle Ages:

http://www.childrensmuseum.org/castles/games.php

http://www.kyrene.k12.az.us/schools/brisas/sunda/ma/mahome.htm

Medieval Ages power points

A little more to go...

"People", we are about to end the school year, we have a little more to go so I encourage you to work harder than ever this last (roughly) couple of weeks that we have left so you can have some reeeally good grades and you can enjoy your summer.

Good luck.

Our Michelle is leaving... :-(

Michelle's last day in our school is Friday so we have to give her a proper farewell. Get ready to give her the biggest hug ever!!

Spanish Verbs

Here you have the website to practice the verbs in Spanish enjoy and practice!

Nice trip to Huelva.

Here you have some pics about our trip to Huelva, thanks everyone for a really fun day together, exausting...

Awsome website!

This is for you my dear cousin-future-coworker ;-) I love you!

Rain Sticks

Sooo cute! Look at our rain sticks, they look really nice and they sounded

really good too!;-)

The discovery of America

We have studied the different tribes of Native Americans that were living in America before the Europeans arrived. Christopher Columbus, with Ferdinand and Elisabeth of Spain's money, was the first sailor that "discovered" America and he departed from Puerto de Palos in Huelva. Since we are visiting that port we should study that part of our history first...

Native American Crafts

Click on the tepee and you will find crafts to do related to the Native American people

Look at this blog, it´s fun!

ENGLISH BLOG

Let's make a teepee!!!

Click on the pic and you'll find out some facts and interesting info about the native american housing.

Practice your grammar!

Click on the picture and practice on how to differenciate the nouns from the adjectives and verbs, etc.

Mother´s day 2011

First of all: HAPPY MOTHER´S DAY TO ALL OF MY KID´S MOMS!

This one is for you!

Mother's Eyes
by Mary D.B.Hull

What are the songs the mother sings?
Of birds and flowers and pretty things;
Baby lies in her arms and spies
All his world in the mother's eyes.

What are the tales the mother tells?
Of gems and jewels and silver bells;
Baby lies in her arms and spies
All his wealth in the mother's eyes.

What are the thoughts in the mother's mind?
Of the gentle Saviour, loving and kind;
Baby lies in her arms and spies
All his heaven in the mother's eyes.


Here you have some of the crafts we may do for the mother´s day: click on the pics for some more info about them.

Helpful links for the native American project

Native American Food
Native American Cothing

Native American Gods



Some native American tribes info:


- Seminole
- Navajo- Cheyenne