Quinta do Seixo

Our end of year trip.

The day started with some traditional games:

Jogo da Malha'

Sweets in flour

A real egg on a spoon

Sack race


Pick your own raspberries

Lunch time

Cleaning our teeth after lunch!

We had some time on the slide.

During the night these turkey chicks hatched.
You can still see the egg shells.

Feeding the goats. The kid just watched.

This was a lovely ride!

A peaceful walk to end the day!

What a long day! - What a great day it was!

Viarco and Paper Mill

Viarco
is possibly the smallest pencil factory in the world.
We were able to see the various stages of pencil making (as they were made 100 years ago.

Find out more here

The responsible
for keeping this 
project a 
living 
museum.
Thank you









Museu do Papel
On the same day, we visited the The Paper Mill, 
where we could see how paper used to be made.
It is a beautiful place, renovated with care.
We wished we could have stayed there longer.

The water that makes the mill go round

The materials used - cloth made from natural fibers

The drying room was followed by the packing and paper bag making areas.

We will need to go back to see how paper is made today!

Last but not Least

Cenas Infantis was the last workshop at
Casa da Música for Reception Bears.

As soon as we walked in the room we were asked to 
stamp, stamp, clap, pause (1234).
Once the children had picked up a good pace, 
a melody could be heard:
The six suits for unaccompanied cello - J.S.Bach.

The children were asked to create sounds, follow visual and aural instructions at the same time as clap, stamp, dance or play simple instruments. The musicians who guided us, helped us through sections of these pieces from the Baroque to Contemporary.
We worked both sides of the brain simultaneously.

This is a small sample of the end of the session:

Bach Be Cue

Drawings by Grace and Suhani

Magic carpet

Today Prep and Reception classes visited the
"Magic Carpet" factory at Casa da Música.

The factory workers were making, painting, hanging, and folding magic carpets.
One particular carpet did not want to fly.
As we listened to music from around the world we saw one of the factory workers climb up to the sky to get some magic dust.
We saw some elegant magic tricks performed to the sound of oriental music but the carpet still would not fly.
The carpet was tired of being trodden on, it wanted to dance instead to the sound of a Tango.
Dance lead the Magic Carpet all the way to Hollywood.

Miniature Transport Museum

Fundação Cupertino de Miranda
The photographs speak for themselves:

 To view our drawings please come to our class.

Visit Fundação Cupertino de Miranda to view collection, open on week days.

Find out more here

Dominguez Alvarez

Fundação Cupertino de Miranda opened its doors to
Reception Children and showed us 150 paintings by 
Dominguez Alvarez - an artist who followed his dream!

Alvarez was a painter from Porto who painted what he saw from his attic window and while walking around Porto.
He painted many landscapes with castles, bridges, churches and villages.

Alvarez also painted people:
- Sad people
- People struggling to walk up the hill
- People looking at the sky
- People hump backed
- People in hats
- People running from the rain
- People with weird faces
- Children


http://www.facm.pt/facm/facm/pt/agenda-cultural/Exposicao-de-pintura-de-Dominguez-Alvarez

"Porque os animais não conduzem?"

Today we went to Casa da Música for a musical
workshop.

We learnt about road safety through song,
rhythm and movement.