Happy New Year 2013

With this traditional greeting from Edinburg I wish you a very Happy 2013 full of health, harmony and joy.
Listen to traditional Scottish melodies.Click on the piper to enter the castle.

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Auld Lang Syne, a  traditional  poem used  to celebrate the start of the New Year  at the stroke of midnight:

Christmas around the world

Find out how Christmas is celebrated around the world:

Here you have an interesting e-book found at
http://www.livinglifeintentionally.blogspot.co.uk:

 

 

Gingerbread White House

Every year the White House Pastry Team makes a Gingerbread White House that is over 400 pounds.
Click on the picture to see the video:

And a marzipan replica of Bo, Obama's dog,  is placed in front of the White House.

Inglés en Navidad, consejos para padres

Here you have a few tips to help your kids with their English at Christmas.
Las vacaciones son una excelente oportunidad para practicar inglés con los/as más pequeños/as de la casa. Aquí tenéis algunos consejos y sugerencias.

Boxing Day

Today is Boxing Day, a traditional British holiday dating back 800 years. Boxing Day in the United Kingdom is the day after Christmas Day and falls on December 26.
Go to pages 22 and 23:

It's also known as St Stephen's Day. Learn more about this festivity:

May all your Christmas wishes come true

      Enjoy this card at  http://www.jacquielawson.com/   

¡Que  todos vuestros deseos se hagan realidad esta Navidad!

It's winter

What's the weather like in winter? Watch this movie at Brainpop site:

When it's winter in the Northern hemisphere, it's summer in the Southern hemisphere:

Maisy's Christmas Eve

It's Christmas Eve and Maisy has invited all her friends to celebrate.
Read the story at Signed stories site:

We wish you a Merry Christmas

Listen and sing this Christmas song at ceip claracampoamor site:

Happy Holidays

Goodbye snowman song at supersimplesongs:
 

 

My favourite day, Christmas

December 25th is Christmas Day. Listen to a boy and find out about Christmas traditions:

Find more activities here:

 
http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/word-games/find-the-pairs/christmas

Santa's little helper

It's Christmas Eve and Santa's getting ready to deliver presents to boys and girls all round the world. How can he deliver all the presents in time?

Read this story learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org site:

Maisy makes gingerbread

What's Maisy doing?
Learn Maisy's recipe to make gingerbread cookies:

Christmas words

Learn about Christmas with this fantastic interactive book by Mrs Haquet:

And here you have a video:

Practice the Christmas words with this game:

Santa Claus is coming to town

Listen to this Christmas carol and sing along:

Here you have the animated version:

 
Listen to Justin Bieber version:

Gingerbread Man

Run, run, as fast as you can...

Read the Gingerbread Man story:

Decorate the gingerbread man at starfall site:

Design your gingerbread house

Interactive Christmas games

Have fun with these interactive Christmas games:
Make a Christmas tree

Make a snowman

 Make a snowflake

More games at tes.iboard.co.uk site:

At Mazcuerras mill

Here you have some of the pictures taken on our school trip to The Nansa valley.
  Mazcuerras mill on PhotoPeach

Advent calendar

Christmas is just around the corner. Check off the days until December 25 and have fun with this Advent calendar from National Museums Liverpool:

Here you have " The twelve days of Christmas" Advent calendar at
ngfl.northumberland.gov site:

This is the Advent calendar you know from last year. Click on today's sock:

St Andrew's Day

St Andrew's Day is celebrated by Scots around the world on the 30th November. 

 
Celebrations usually involve traditional Scottish music(bagpipes and fiddle) and Scottish Higland dancing:

 
 

Read more: Scotland Culture - Not Just Tartan & Bagpipes http://www.scottish-at-heart.com/scotland-culture.html#ixzz2DfIh1kOc

Read more: Scotland Culture - Not Just Tartan & Bagpipes http://www.scottish-at-heart.com/scotland-culture.html#ixzz2DfIh1kOc

The Scottish love a party, and celebrations usually involve traditional Scottish music (bagpipes and fiddles are the most popular), Celtic lyrics, and Scottish highland dancing.

Read more: Scotland Culture - Not Just Tartan & Bagpipes http://www.scottish-at-heart.com/scotland-culture.html#ixzz2DfIh1kOc

The Scottish love a party, and celebrations usually involve traditional Scottish music (bagpipes and fiddles are the most popular), Celtic lyrics, and Scottish highland dancing.

Read more: Scotland Culture - Not Just Tartan & Bagpipes http://www.scottish-at-heart.com/scotland-culture.html#ixzz2DfIh1kOc

Mazcuerras mill

Last October we went on a school trip to the Nansa valley. Here you have some pictures at Mazcuerras mill:

At Mazcuerras mill on PhotoPeach

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People who help us

Learn the names of some people who help us:

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Diary of a Wimpy Kid

Here you can find fun stuff of the book Diary of a Wimpy Kid:

You can wimp yourself:

Colour Greg,his friends and his family:
 

Jeff Kinney, the author of the book shows us how to draw the character of Greg Heffley: 

Investigating the first Thanksgiving

You are the Historian. Investigate what really may have happened at the First Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving Day

It's Thanksgiving Day:

Americans celebrate Thanksgiving, a national holiday honoring the early settlers and their harvest feast known as the first Thanksgiving.

The history of Thanksgiving:

Play a game at Activity village site. Arrange the family members around the table, respecting their preferences of what and who they like to sit next to, or avoid:

                                        

Universal Children's day

Universal Children’s Day is celebrated on 20th November every year in most of the countries.
Pocoyo partners with UNICEF to support Universal Children's day:

We all have the right to a free, quality education that will enable us to be citizens with a concern for the respect of human rights around the world.

What can you do?

Here you have a simple video to practise what you can do and revise some animals:

I can/ I can't:

Make a silly turkey

Here you have a great game at highlightskids.com

Make a silly turkey at starfall site:

The first Thanksgiving

Plymouth colonists and Wampanoag Indians shared a harvest feast in 1621. That was the first Thanksgiving.
Americans celebrate Thanksgiving on the fourth Thursday of Novembrer.
Take a virtual tour abroad the Mayflower:

Diwali, the festival of lights

Diwali is a colorful holiday celebrated  by Hindus in India and all around the world in October or November.
Diwali will next be celebrated on 13th November 2012.
Learn more about this festival:

 

Find colouring pages and crafts ideas at activity village site.

Means of transport

Learn the names of some means of transport:

 

Paint it:
                                        

The ant and the grasshopper

Enjoy this version of the Aesop's tales at cartoonsoup site:

Colour the story:

Opposite adjectives

Match the opposite adjectives:

What is an adjective?

Firework display

Bonfire Night is celebrated with bonfires and firework displays.
Read Welephant's story:

Here you have some tips for a safe Bonfire Night:

 Here you have a safe firework display because it's virtual:

The Gunpowder Plot

Here you have a game to check your knowledge about the Gunpowder plot and Guy Fawkes:

Bonfire Night

On November the 5th, people in the UK celebrate Bonfire Night, also called Guy Fawkes' night. 
They "celebrate" the discovery of the Gunpowder Plot against the King and Parliament in the early 17th Century.

The story of Guy Fawkes:

 

 What is Bonfire night?