Our creations

The kids made wonderfull posters on Glogster. Here we have the results.

You will see a presentation of posters, but you may click on each one and open it bigger.

Well done kids!!!!

Working with Glogster

We will discover a new Internet Application that allows you to make Interactive Posters.

In our first work, we are making a Poster about Water Pollution.

Well done, kids!!

Programamos mandalas con Scratch

La palabra tibetana “mandala”, significa literalmente, “aquello que rodea a un centro”. En este contexto, “un centro” es un significado, y “aquello que lo rodea”, un mandala, es un símbolo redondo que representa un significado.  

Estamos programando nuestros mandalas en Scratch.

Aquí algunas imágenes de lo realizado por los chicos:

¡¡¡Muy bien hecho, chicos!!!

Working on Water Pollution

We read important information about theese interesting subject:

Talking About Water Pollution:

Water pollution is when waste, chemicals, or other particles cause a body of water (i.e. rivers, oceans, lakes) to become harmful to the fish and animals that need the water to survive. Water pollution can disrupt and negatively impact nature's water cycle as well. 

A lot of water pollution comes from human activity. Some human causes include sewage, pesticides and fertilizers from farms, waste water and chemicals from factories, silt from construction sites, and trash from people littering. 

There are many sources of water pollution. Here are a few of the major causes:

•  Sewage - Even today sewage is flushed directly into streams and rivers in many areas around the world. Sewage can introduce harmful bacteria that can make people and animals very sick.
•  Farm animal waste - Waste from large herds of farm animals such as pigs and cows can get into the water supply from the runoff of rain and large storms.
• Pesticides and herbicides - Pesticides are often sprayed on crops to kill bugs and herbicides are sprayed to kill weeds. These strong chemicals can get into the water through runoff of rain storms. They can also contaminate rivers and lakes through accidental spills.
• Construction, floods, and storms - Silt from construction, earthquakes, floods, and storms can lower the oxygen content in the water and suffocate fish.
• Factories - Factories often use a lot of water to process chemicals, keep engines cool, and for washing things away. The used waste water is sometimes dumped into rivers or the ocean. It can be full of pollutants.

(Extracted from http://www.ducksters.com/science/environment/water_pollution.php

Then we made these beautiful posters: (click on each one to see them bigger)

Algunos de los resultados de nuestros posters

Finalmente los chicos escribieron sus conclusiones sobre el peligro de Internet y cómo cuidarse, e hicieron unas hermosas infografías en easel.ly.com.

Los resultados están a la vista...
Sepan disculpar que no se pueden agregar acentos o letras ñ a las mismas.

¡Excelente trabajo chicos!

Ciudadanía digital

   ¿Qué es ser un ciudadano digital?

 ¿Sobre qué temas debería saber para ser un  buen ciudadano digital?

Nos hicimos estas preguntas en la clase de hoy, aprendiendo de esta forma que:

Ser un ciudadano digital es ser responsable en nuestras búsquedas, citando las fuentes del material extraído de internet.

También es muy importante en este concepto el respeto mutuo en tanto y en cuanto, somos partes de redes sociales que caracterizan nuestro comportamiento en la red.

Debería tener conocimientos de cómo buscar en internet exhaustivamente, un manejo adecuado de la computadora y saber comportarme en una red social. 

All About me...

We have started classes again!
Do we know all our classmates? Perhaps we know some, but we don't know the others... 
How much do we know about each one?
Let's start introducing ourselves! But with more than words!


The Task:

You will have to make a presentation in PowerPoint, in English, introducing yourself to other classmates.



The Process:

• You can work in groups of two, but each one of you have to make your own presentation. You can work cooperatively.
• The PowerPoint presentation must have 3 or 4 slides.
• You must use English language for your presentation.

Steps:

1. You have to take a digital photography of yourself to include in the first slide and save it in the folder that your teachers will tell you.
2. In the next slides you will have to describe:

• Your favourite meals
• Your favourite music and
• Your favourite actor/actress.

Let's do it kids! Good luck!

Dispositivos Tecnológicos

Aprendemos sobre los dispositivos tecnológicos realizando un mosaico multimedia colaborativo.

Popplet: Dispositivos Tecnológicos 2013 

Hacemos un dibujo para nuestra carátula

Como primer trabajo, haremos un dibujo en Paint para insertarlo luego en Word y hacer la carátula de nuestra carpeta.
Para motivarnos sobre las posibilidades que nos ofrece el Paint, podemos ver el siguiente video:

¡Excelente año!

Les damos la bienvenida a un nuevo año escolar.

¡Aprenderemos muchas cosas juntos este año!