Use of Glue

On the way to the bathroom with glue on his hands, Rodrigo complained to D. Emília that I am always telling the children to use glue and that one day his fingers might remain stuck together. He said that it was dangerous!

Giggles

Lourenço and Zé Pedro were giggling while they were drawing.
I looked over and they giggled some more.
Giggles continue.
I walk over.
The boys look up with broad smiles.
"Estávamos a falar em inglês!"
More giggles...

This was funny, but very true. The children are starting to talk
spontaneously among themselves in English. Well done!

Why is music important?

Why should children be exposed to learning a musical instrument even if they do not become musicians?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=R0JKCYZ8hng

The Creation of the World

This was the focal point of our Topic work
in the first half term. It was a great opportunity to learn about 
the wonderful world we live in.
Among other activities these were some of the highlights:

Let there be Light!  -   Exploring light and dark.

God separated the waters above and below an expanse.                               This is how we made the water under the heavens. We made sure the strips of paper were aligned to one side on the paper. Once it was dry we printed different circular shapes to make the foam and bubbles across the top.

On Day 3 God made the dry land appear and ordered that grass and trees should grow. We found a fun way to make trees.

For the 4th day we used milk to make
some stars for our Milky Way.

We made some moons from cheese, inspired by Wallace and Gromit's Grand Day Out. We thought it was very funny to think that the moon could be made of Cheddar, Stilton or....  Queijo da Serra!

Day 5 - We had a closer look at fish in the primary kitchen.

Rodrigo was inspired by all that talk on fish

and drew this picture.

We explored the BIRD page at www.poissonrouge.com

The school library had lots of books on mammals. 
We took some books on loan so we could find out more about mammals at home.
Mr Evans came to visit our class. He said, "Good morning children."
We said, "Good morning Mr. Evans, you are a mammal! 
We are all mammals!"

These are our drawings of ourselves in our wonderful world.

Please view the video below and leave a comment about your favourite section.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uUbnlxKQPw

Happy Divali

Today we learnt a little more about the festival of lights.

View this video to learn about Divali.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp59n0So-XE

Visit our classroom soon so you can see our Rangoli patterns.
We learnt a little dance. You can view our efforts here:
First the teachers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiL7oMpQ4QM
Then us
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpZQGgluCbw

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

Sweet and Radical

This Saturday was "sweet day."

Ted made an orange cake.

When Ted tasted it,

the bear shouted, "Yumiiiii!"

On Sunday it was "sports day."

We went on a bike tour and Ted went RADICAL!