Some activities to practice when you can and have days off, ar you are bored or else :-)

Some sheets and listenings to practice at home...

http://www.juntadeandalucia.es/educacion/webportal/web/PEL?vismenu=0,0,1,1,1,1,0,0,0

Crafts for the Egypt unit:

- Canopic Jars

- Tombs wall painting

http://historylink101.net/egypt_1/pic_wall_paintings_1.htm

- Pharaoh Casquet

http://www.dia.org/education/egypt-teachers/mummies/kadaj/activity.htm

- Egyptian Jewelery

http://artsmarts4kids.blogspot.com/2008/07/create-your-own-egyptian-jewelry.html

more ideas...

http://www.abookintime.com/crafts/projectsancientegypt.html#egyptcrafts

Egypt

This is the super coolest best unit ever: EGYPT!!!!!!!


We will work on this project for two weeks and a half and I hope you enjoy as much as María and I surely will :-)

We will study something different about the ancient Egyptian culture every day and to finish the project we will do the most awsome handicraft ever!

King Tut Ank Amon, he´s probably the most famous pharaoh. Click on the link to know more:

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/Homework/tut.html

* Date line + daily life + hierarchy in ancient Egypt.

* Clothing + Traditions:

http://www.reshafim.org.il/ad/egypt/timelines/topics/clothing.htm

http://www.dragonstrike.com/egypt/cloth.htm

http://www.historyonthenet.com/Egyptians/clothing.htm

* Religion (gods, the book of the dead, embalming rituals, etc.)

Check on the links:

http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/young_explorers/childrens_online_tours/journey_into_the_mummy/journey_into_the_mummy.aspx
http://www.egyptartsite.com/glossary.html

http://kids.discovery.com/games/just-for-fun/mummy-maker

* Architecture (temples, pyramids, different types of burials depending on the position of the deceased in the Egyptian society)

http://www.3dmekanlar.com/en/the-pyramids.html

http://www.thebanmappingproject.com/

* Art (hieroglyphics, sculptures and paintings)

http://www.eyelid.co.uk/hiero1.htm

http://www.greatscott.com/hiero/

http://historylink101.net/egypt_1/pic_wall_paintings_1.htm

http://www.travelsinparadise.com/egypt/valley_kings/index.html

** Some more links:

http://www.show.me.uk/games/games.html

http://www.schoolsliaison.org.uk/kids/mummies.htm

Visit this website for videos about Egypt:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUa1tZ2TklY&feature=related

Prehistory

Here we go again studying prehistory, it is so interesting that we are going to do and see some things we didn´t have time to do.


Let´s check on all of these pictures and learn some about prehistoric men and women and their culture.

Click on the two pics below and learn more about this fascinating period of time.

Some mo info:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/prehistoric_life/human/species/
We can paint and do pottery like men and women in prehistoric times did.

Carve your own rock art panel

http://rockart.ncl.ac.uk/interactive/learningjourneys/interactive_learningjourneys_game.htm

CHARLES DICKENS

Last Tuesday, we celebrated the 200th anniversary of Charles Dickens, one of the most important novelists of the Victorian period in England. He will be remembered by famous novels such as: Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations, A Christmas Carol or David Copperfield among many others. Click on the page to read more about Dickens.

As a little tribute to this genius of the all times literature we will study a little work called "A Cricket on the Hearth". Click here to read the whole text: