Welcome to Romania!

Gigantes y cabezudos 2

This is for telling all of you who couldn't see the photos in my last post that I have already fixed it.I include here a video where you can see other popular feature of Zaragoza feasts. It is the "jota" dance , a typical dance so popular that it is included in this zarzuela (Spanish opereta) whose tittle is "Gigantes and cabezudos" . I bet you do not need me to present the singer. I hope you enjoy it.

If you ever happen to visit my town during the feast (around october the 12th) you'll be able to attend many exhibitions of jota .

By the way, I am very happy because thanks to my error I have learned something I did not now: This kind of parade is not unique of Zaragoza. You can find it too in other Spanish towns: Toledo, Getafe, Alcalá de Henares or Santoña and more. What about other European countries? Do you know something similar?

Global Junior Challenge 2009 - Exhibition Hall

With Monika in the exhibition hall of Istituto Galileo Galilei , Rome for Global Junior Challenge.
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Global Junior Challenge 2009 - Award Ceremony

With Monika in Campidoglio, Rome, for the award ceremony. Another step together...

Big man keep our world clean!

Our preschoolers have made a poster designs that represent Earth in the future. Their messages were written by educators, that "we are small, but our designs we want to speak on our behalf.
Children want to live in a clean environment and peace. They call the big man to keep the world clean for the followers.

Big man keep our world clean!

Welcome to our Kindergarten

http://www.slide.com/r/GEsCBvgZ1z_6fth1sc6l6fOWG8mviH1g

Gigantes y Cabezudos

Gigantes

As we are celebrating the feast of Pilar these days, which is the greatest celebration of Zaragoza, I added these photos of one of the most popular events of this festival: the walk of Gigantes ( giants)and Cabezudos (big headed chaps). Each day they go through the streets of the city chasing the kids and trying to frighten them.They are very popular. I hope your pupils will like them as much as Zaragoza's children do.

Cabezudo (foto de Óscar Galván en Flickr)

Regards from Zaragoza, Elena

Blog Action Day 2009: Climate Change - it's time to take action!

Today at school we talked about the problems connected with climate change. And we created posters and slogans against it. We think the people with power have to change things soon. And people with the power to vote and to protest have to convince them to act NOW !!!

Samira Varallo, Alessia Spedale, School "Arnolfo di Cambio" Casole d'Elsa

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Blog Action Day 2009: Drawings against the Climate Change

Valeria Labruna, Agata Leal, Matteo Caiazzo & Nicola Mazur, Jacub Lysakowsky & Mattia Caliò

http://www.blogactionday.org/

School "Arnolfo di Cambio" Casole d'Elsa

A game for your class

« The Greenhouse effect »
« The climate changes! What about you? »

Play-action in class.

The teacher:

1. Paints the Earth on the blackboard.
2. Puts a globe on a chair in the middle of the class.
3. Places the chairs for the pupils around the globe in Π formation.
4. Have colored chalks, sponges and cellophane (one transparent and two orange-colored).
5. Brings photos from factories, arid soil, wind generators…

Action

Teacher:
We shall study a type of energy, which we use in our house… because we have many… appliances and then we receive a…huge bill!
What type of energy is it?
Pupils:
Electricity.
Teacher:
What electrical appliances can you think of? (Brainstorming)
Pupils:
Refrigerator, washing machine…
Teacher:
Come and write them around the earth on the board.
I΄ll begin.
(He writes refrigerator and paints three small clouds with CO2 - Carbon Dioxide inside).
· The first cloud-CO2 comes from the factory which produced the refrigerator.
· The second cloud-CO2 is for the automobile which carried the appliance home and
· The third one stands for the CO2 that is produced when the power plant uses lignite.
(The teacher gives the chalk to a pupil. Then the whole class takes turns in drawing electrical appliances and clouds around the globe following the above-mentioned procedure)

Teacher:
-I will explain what is happening here in a few minutes.
(The teacher approaches the globe in the middle of the class, handing the transparent cellophane and explaining).
1. If a planet lacks atmosphere, its temperature rises during the day. But at night it is very-very low because heat escapes into space.
2. If a planet has atmosphere like the Earth, (he extends the transparent cellophane around the Globe slowly), temperature rises during the day. But at night it doesn’t fall very much because the atmosphere withholds parts of the heat, so it’s friendly for life. This is called:

“The Greenhouse Effect”
And it is very good for us!!! And our life!!!
3. As far as the gas that is called carbon dioxide (CO2) is concerned, we must keep in mind that … it can withhold a lot of heat. So all these clouds around the Earth can trap large amounts of heat (the teacher slowly unfolds the orange-colored cellophane around the Globe), and the temperature of our planet keeps rising … (He extends the second orange cellophane slowly) and…The Greenhouse Effect increases continuously. (He shows relevant pictures saying):
4. -The climate changes…
5. -Αrctic ice melts…2007 is IPY: international polar year…
6. -Desert expands…
(The teacher takes a sponge, approaches the globe and embraces it)
· -Our planet is getting hotter and hotter!!!
· -Just like us, during summer time, when we enter our car after a bath in the sea!!!
· What can we do? What is your opinion? (Brainstorming)

Pupils:
(The teacher listens to their opinions. He might give them a little boost if necessary.)
-Turn the lights off before leaving the room
-Turn the tap off while brushing our teeth
-Plant trees as they absorb the CO2
-Walk more
-Use bags made of cloth instead of plastic ones
-Use green and renewable sources of energy: solar, wind, waves…

Teacher:
So you suggest:
1. Conserving Energy!!!
2. Green-Renewable Energy!!!
Ok. Very good!
Look what I am going to do and then you will continue…
(The teacher, holding a sponge on his hand, touches the Globe and gives a promise :)
· I will come on foot at school every morning!
· I will not use my car so I will not send exhaust-gases out in the atmosphere…so I may …rub out …some clouds around our Earth!!!
(The teacher erases some clouds from the board and stretches his hand with the sponge to a pupil)
· It’s your turn now…

(Every pupil, takes the sponge, touches the Globe, gives a promise, rubs out some clouds and gives the sponge to another pupil…
So when the earth on board is completely clean as it was in the beginning the teacher asks:
Are we going to leave our earth covered?
(He slowly uncovers the globe from the orange cellophane and leaves the transparent one-Atmosphere).

-Our planet is happy now!!!
- We can help our Earth by making minor changes in our everyday routine!!!
-We deserve a big applause!!!

Bibliographie : http://www.cres.gr/ http://www.windday.eu/ http://www.managenergy.net/

At home:
Each student can draw renewable sources of energy:

Solar - wind - geothermic - hydroelectric - of waves - tidal

Or verbs in the imperative form:

Turn off - walk - plant - change - recycle - decide…

And then they can place the projects on the announcement board in their classroom.

Stop the climate change!

Matteo Casati & Clara Pini, Samira Varallo & Vanessa Pelosi, Gianluca Ventura, Hiroshi Yuki Ionut Dragomir, Valerio Mansueto & Livia Salvini: our slogans against the climate change!

School "Arnolfo di Cambio" Casole d'Elsa, Italy

Greetings from Sweden

Hello everybody,

glad to meet you! I am Agneta, teaching at the smallest school in the world (?) We have 8 students in 6th-9th grades - and only boys! And at the whole school (1st-9th Grade) there are 25 pupils. A rather special situation, isn't it? I hardly dare tell people how few we are... I teach social scienece, history, geography, religion, english and art. At the picture you can see some of our us visting our National Park; Björnlandet.

Agneta

15/10/2009!

Hello partners,

tomorrow is the day of "Climate change"

if you want have a look at:

http://www.blogactionday.org/

Marika

Greetings from Korinth-Greece

Good luck to our Blog! Thanks Laura and Monica!

Best regards from Greece!

Together with Monika and the "eTwinning Team" in Siena... to talk about our new ideas and projects!

Hello from Greece!

I'm Irene Pateraki and I'm in this project from last year. This year I'm in a new school in Palaio Psychiko in Athens. I sent you a presentation I made for our school:

New blog

Dear Colleagues,

together with Monika we decided to create this blog in order to talk about our eTwinning project LLT and to share our ideas, problems and experiences.

I hope this one will be another pleasant and useful virtual place where we can meet and talk.

Thanks a lot for your brilliant work during our first year together. And now... let's go on !!!

I'm looking forward to reading your posts here as well,

Laura