Prehistory

Good morning everybody!! We have chose this topic and this is our summary:

Prehistoric Facts

 Prehistory, meaning before history, is the span of time before recorded history or the invention of writing systems. It refers to the period of human existence before the availability of those written records with which recorded history begins. More broadly, it can refer to all the time preceding human existence and the invention of writing. See the fact file below for more information about prehistoric times.

• The Earth is 4.5 billion years old, but humans have only walked on the planet for 190,000 years. The earliest living organisms were microscopic bacteria, which showed up in fossils as early as 3.4 billion years ago.
• Many things had happened in that time. The Earth formed and oxygen levels rose. About 800 million years ago, oxygen levels reached about 21 percent and began to breathe life into more complex organisms. The oxygen-rich ozone layer was also established, protecting the Earth’s surface from harmful solar radiation.
• The Paleozoic era gave rise to hard-shelled organisms, vertebrates, amphibians, and reptiles.
• During the Mesozoic Era, dinosaurs ruled the Earth.
• 64 million years after dinosaurs became extinct, modern humans emerged in the Cenozoic era.
• Humans have really been on the planet for a fraction of the lifetime of the Earth. Archeologists estimate that modern humans have been on the Earth for about 200,000 years. They believe this occurred in the Middle Palaeolithic period in southern Africa.
• Humans are a member of a species of bipedal primates (this means they walk upright on two legs, which allowed them to use their hands) in the family Hominidae. Everyone on Earth is a homo sapien. This is Latin for the term, “wise human”. Humans have highly developed brains, a bipedal gait, and opposable thumbs, which allow the thumb to lock something into the hand like a tool or a weapon.
• 70,000 years ago, humans migrated out of Africa and began colonizing the entire planet. People spread to Eurasia and Oceania 40,000 years ago, and reached the Americas 14,500 years ago.
• One of the oldest sites of human settlement is located at Middle Awash in Ethiopia, where humans lived 160,000 years ago.

    

Writen by Group 3

PARTS OF A NEWSPAPER

A newspaper is...
a publication, usually issued daily or weekly, containing current news, editorials, feature articles, and usually advertising.


In all  newspapers we can find diferent parts and sections as:


Headline
The words printed in large type across the top of a newspaper article to catch the reader's attention. 

Dateline 
The words at the beginning of a news article that tell when and where the story was written. 

News article In a newspaper, a story about an event that has just taken place. 

Feature article 
In a newspaper, a detailed report on a person, an issue, or an event. 

Editor 
One of the people who runs a newspaper. 

Editorial 
An article in which the people who run a newspaper give their opinion on an important issue. 

International:
The international section of a newspaper tells you about news in different continents, such as Africa, the Americas, Europe, and Asia. 

Business: 
The business section is for things that are happening business-wise. For example, the business section might contain media and advertising, world business, the economy of the country that you live in, the stock markets, company researches, mutual funds, and stock portfolios. 

Technology: 
The technology section contains things that are going in and out of style in the technology world, things that are coming out, and things that have been out, but they're coming back in style. 

Science: 
The science section in a newspaper contains things that are happening in our medical world today. For example: a science section in a newspaper might contain what's happening in outer space, and it might contain things that are happening in and around our environment. 

Health: 
The health section in a newspaper would usually contain the things that are happning to a modern day person's health. For example: they might have come out with a new medicine that could clear the human race totally of allergies. In a health section, there might be news containing things about fitness and nutrition, new health care policies, and mental health and behavior. 

Sports: 
In a sports section, you may find out about last night's baseball, basketball, and football game. That's the second thing besides asking your buddies down at the pizza parlor. It may also tell you about a player on a team that might have gotten injured and cannot play. In a sports section, you can find out things about basketball, professional basketball, golf, soccer, tennis, professional football, and different sports that maybe you'd want to look for. 

Education: 
The thing that a student favors the most: the education section. In the education section you might be able to find out the overall average for students in a partucular school, and maybe even a couple of awards that a student won for the school that they attend, or doing something that would help their school do better. 

Weather: 
In a weather section, you can find the weather, where ever you may need to know. 

Obituaries: 
In an obitary, you cn find out about people who passed on recently, and people think that their death should be mentioned to the community. When you would go to this section in a newspaper, you can most likely find a picture about someone and a short biography. 

The cover page story: 
In this section, you'd just find the story that has the cover page has on it. It has more detail, and is usually found in the first few pages in the newspaper. 

Table of contents: 
This is the most important part of a newspaper. This part of the newspaper shows where to find all of these newspaper sections. Without it, reading the newspaper would take hours to read! 

As you can see, There are many sections to a newspaper. They all play an important part, and when they act together, they make a newspaper. 


Since no newspaper can survive just on selling its papers, newspapers also carry advertising, usually divided into "showcase" or "display" ads that can take two pages, a whole page, half a page, a quarter of a page, etc., and "classified" ads that are only a few lines each and a lot cheaper than the display ads. 

Modern newspapers also carry things to entice people who don't care for news, but are interested in entertainment, self-improvement, etc. 

To provide some stimulus to people to buy their papers, many also carry "op-ed" columns, opinion pieces written by people who are known and sometimes respected for their opinions. 

Many local newspapers also carry items like obituaries, foreclosures, bankruptcies, court proceedings, etc., out of a feeling they are "newspapers of record" and have a duty to report this information so members of the community know what is happening in the community. 

So, there is no one definition of a newspaper and no standard divisions into sections.

Group 3

Narrative, descriptive and dialogue's texts activity GROUP 3

ACTIVITY

 This is the activity more enjoyable of this topic, because we like to create new stories

Which type of text is each one? First, we have to identify the different texts that I’ve exposed you (in a individual way). Then, by group of 5 we have to create 3 different texts of narration, description and dialogue (between 10-15 lines)

We have done the first part of the activity in a individual way but we have written our common answer to write in this blog.

1.I have a beautiful dog. He is my baby, and he is sweet like a vanilla ice cream. He is really cute, and he is like a little baby, because he is very lovely. When he was a baby he was like a little cat, because his ears are like catís ears and because he doesnít likes take a bath.
He is not big, but not small. He is black and white like a cartoon cow. His eyes are blue like two pieces of sky, and they are bright like clean glasses. His name is Lobo, because he is like a real wolf, and because he wails like a wolf too.
He is a Siberian Husky, and this is the reason why he is like a wolf. He makes me Very happy, and I love him with all my heart, and I think that he loves me too, and I am going to take care of him, and love him all my life.

This first text is descriptive because it is giving information about the characteristics of something.
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This second text is a dialogue, because there are two people who are changing information about them.

3.

One upon time, a mother duck sat on her eggs. She felt tired of sitting on them. She just wished the eggs would break out.

Several days later, she got her wish. The eggs cracked and some cute little ducklings appeared. "Peep, peep" the little ducklings cried. "Quack, quack" their mother greeted in return.

However the largest egg had not cracked. The mother duck sat on it for several days. Finally, it cracked and a huge ugly duckling waddled out. The mother duck looked at him in surprise. He was so big and very gray. He didn't look like the others at all. He was like a turkey.

When the mother duck brought the children to the pond for their first swimming lesson., the huge grey duckling splashed and paddled about just as nicely as the other ducklings did. "That is not a turkey chick. He is my very own son and quite handsome" the mother said proudly.

However, the other animals didn't agree. They hissed and made fun of him day by day. Even his own sisters and brothers were very unkind. "You are very ugly" they quacked.

The little poor duckling was very unhappy. "I wish I looked like them" he thought to himself. One day, the ugly duckling run away and hid in the bushes. The sad duckling lived alone through the cold and snow winter. Finally the spring flowers began to bloom. While he was swimming in the pond, he saw three large white swans swimming toward him. "Oh, dear. these beautiful birds will laugh and peck me too" he said to himself. But the swans did not attack him. Instead, they swam around him and stroked him with their bills. As the ugly duckling bent his neck to speak to them, he saw his reflection in the water. He could not believe his eyes. "I am not an ugly duckling but a beautiful swam" he exclaimed.

He was very happy. From that day on, he swam and played with his new friends and was happier than he had never been.

Finally this text is narrative because it is telling a story.

In the second part of the exercise we, as a group, have create 3 different text: one narrative, other descriptive and the last one that is a dialogue. However we have not uploaded it on the blog because we would spend a lot of time.

Made by the group 2

Narration, description and dialogue theory GROUP 3

 This is some information about the theory that we have learnt in a language class during this week:

Narration, description and dialogue

1.The way of speech

The way of speech are the different manner of expression that the message in a text can adopt. There are 3 sequences:

-Narrative sequence

-Descriptive sequence

-Dialogue sequence

2.The narration

To narrate consists on telling facts, real or imaginary, that are carried out by some characters.

Tales and novels are narrative texts.

The elements of the narration are:

-Narrator: How are telling the facts.

-Narrative plot: It’s the combination of facts, real or imaginary, that are presented as they would have happened.

-Characters: They are who carry out the actions in the story.

3.Description

It consists on representing the features of the people, objects, places or phenomenons for the receptor can create a loyal image of them.

Descriptions can be objective or subjective, in this one the emisor transmits his own perception and his opinion.

In the description are used adjectives, comparisons and metaphors (to describe) and spacial indicators (to place the elements in the space).

4. Dialogue

It consists on interchanging information between two or more interlocutors that alternate the turn of the Word.

Dialogues can be spontaneous (a conversation that is not planned) or planified (it is developed according to a previous scheme)

In narrative text appear some dialogues that are introduced by speaking verbs.

Made by group 3

VISITING ALHAMBRA

ACTIVITY: 
 Last week we visited the Alhambra and we have look for some information on Internet about it:

The Alhambra, formed by a group of palaces, gardens and strength that housed a true city within the city of Granada, which served as shelter to the monarch and the court of Kingdom of Granada. 

In the Alhambra we saw different creations made with lines and other geometric shapes that the teacher had explained in class. In addition, we saw different sculptures, sources and squares that were very beautiful.

 This activity was very interesting and we learned about Art ,History and Social Sciences. The guide and the teacher told us different histories and legends of the Alhambra and the people that lived there. We made a lot of photos of the place and also with our partners, we had fun playing in the gardens.

After the visit the teacher gave us  a dossier with some questions about the Alhambra.

History: Al-Andalus and the Alhambra

1.       What was the name of the territory of the Iberian Peninsula dominated by Arabs? What time and how long that domain?

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2.        Why can we say that the Alhambra was not only a palace (or a set of them) and if a true royal city?

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Art and Architecture

3.       What materials are used in the construction and decoration of palaces?

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4.       Are those expensive or luxurious materials?

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5.        What figures predominate in the decoration of arches and walls Alhambra?___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

6.       Note the presence and arrangement of vegetation and especially water in The Alhambra and the Generalife. What can we say about the culture of men who designed and built?

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7.       Unlike the Alhambra, Generalife entire building is ingenerally poor, indicating the air of intimacy and tranquility sought by monarchs to retiring. What was the role of the Generalife?

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Edited by: students of Group 2.

 We have acquired new knowledge of Art education learning theory and practising throught a lot of activities. This are some terms that we have studied in class:

POINTS.

All figures in the last analysis, are composed of points, which is the minimum graphics unit.

 THE LINE.

A line is a continuous succession of points.

- There are different types of lines, so, we will explain the more important in which children will work.

• Straight - when all points are aligned in the same direction. Inside the straight lines there are also subgroups which are:

HORIZONTAL LINES                   

VERTICAL LINES

SLOPING LINES

• Curves - when the points are not aligned in the same direction. It can be drawn open or close:

CIRCUNFERENCE

ELLIPSE

 

SPIRAL

 The line in art, is a very useful tool and takes great variety of shapes, colors and textures. Its stroke can be done with markers, crayons, pencils, watercolors ...

Joining lines we can obtain different creations. In addition we can vary its intensity with more or less pressure in the surface where we are drawing.

The line can express emotions, ideas and feelings and depending on the type of line used the creation can transmit us a determinated feeling. For example, horizontal lines can make us feeling relaxed.

GEOMETRIC SHAPES

 The geometrical figure is a set whose components are points (one of the fundamental entities of geometry), meanwhile, is the Geometry discipline that will address their detailed study of its main features: its shape, its size, its properties and their relative position. The geometric figure is defined as a non-empty set that is composed of dots and understood as a closed area by lines or surfaces, either in a plane or in space. The objects and buildings are composed by geometric shapes.

-Symmetry: Correspondence of position, shape and size, with respect to a point, line or plane, of the elements of a set or sets of two or more elements together. Symmetry is a characteristic feature of geometric shapes.

Edited by: students of Group 2.

Activity about the digestive system

In this week, in the subject of Natural Sciences we do a lot of activities related to the systems of the body, like soup of leters, complete sencentes, match parts of the body with the system correspondent... 


But the most important for us was built some organ that be part of a human system using recycling materials in the most easy way. After that each one explain to the others which part is, what is the system pertinent of it and why is important in our body. 

Here we have my example:

I made these lungs with ballons and flour into them. 

In my opinion, do this type of manual arts are a very  good idea because we learn in a different way, and also we learn to have a good time with our schoolmate.

Postscript -> I obtained a 10 in my project!! 





I am Carmen López,  the publisher (Group 1)

SKELETAL SYSTEM GAME!

Yesterday, in class of Natural Science, the teacher brought some laptop in order to use Internet to play games related to the skeletal system. We think that is a good idea write te steps if you want to try. 

1. Google: Learn the skeletal system. Label the bones. (Clik in the first one)

2. Yo can choose between : Label // Assemble.

3. You are ready to start!

This is the link:

http://www.abcya.com/skeletal_system.htm

Published by the group 4.

Activity connected with The Universe.

Activity:

We have made a lot of activities during the week but we have selected this:

In groups of 5, we did a mock-up in order to explain, with the help of this, the Solar System to children that are in 4th course. 

We have chosen this activity because is different and because with this we can work other subjects too, as art and language. Furthermore, we think that this activity was the funnest because we could choose a lot of matarials ir order to doing it! For us is more motivating doing activities like this. 

Writen by Group 3

The Universe

Hello! This week in class we have studied the Universe and we have learnt that: 


 The Universe is everything, without exceptions. Matter, energy, space and time, everything that exists is part of the Universe. It is very big, but not infinite. 

The Big Bang

  Most astronomers believe the Universe began in a Big Bang about 14 billion years ago. At that time, the entire Universe was inside a bubble that was thousands of times smaller than a pinhead. It was hotter and denser than anything we can imagine.

 Then it suddenly exploded. The Universe that we know was born. Time, space and matter all began with the Big Bang. In a fraction of a second, the Universe grew from smaller than a single atom to bigger than a galaxy. And it kept on growing at a fantastic rate. It is still expanding today.

 As the Universe expanded and cooled, energy changed into particles of matter and antimatter. These two opposite types of particles largely destroyed each other. But some matter survived. More stable particles called protons and neutrons started to form when the Universe was one second old.

 Over the next three minutes, the temperature dropped below 1 billion degrees Celsius. It was now cool enough for the protons and neutrons to come together, forming hydrogen and helium nuclei.

 After 300 000 years, the Universe had cooled to about 3000 degrees. Atomic nuclei could finally capture electrons to form atoms. The Universe filled with clouds of hydrogen and helium gas.

The Solar System and its planets

 The Solar System is made up of the Sun and all of the smaller objects that move around it. Apart from the Sun, the largest members of the Solar System are the eight major planets. Nearest the Sun are four fairly small, rocky planets - Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars.

 Beyond Mars is the asteroid belt – a region populated by millions of rocky objects. These are left-overs from the formation of the planets, 4.5 billion years ago.

 On the far side of the asteroid belt are the four gas giants - Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. These planets are much bigger than Earth, but very lightweight for their size. They are mostly made of hydrogen and helium.

 Until recently, the furthest known planet was an icy world called Pluto. However, Pluto is dwarfed by Earth’s Moon and many astronomers think it is too small to be called a true planet.

 An object named Eris, which is at least as big as Pluto, was discovered very far from the Sun in 2005. More than 1,000 icy worlds such as Eris have been discovered beyond Pluto in recent years. These are called Kuiper Belt Objects. In 2006, the International Astronomical Union decided that Pluto and Eris must be classed as “dwarf planets”.

 Even further out are the comets of the Oort Cloud. These are so far away that they are invisible in even the largest telescopes. Every so often one of these comets is disturbed and heads towards the Sun. It then becomes visible in the night sky.

 Furthermore we have seen this video in class, and we think thtat it is interesting, so we want sharing with all of you!

Group 3 

Learning through games

Hello guys!!! We hope that all of you are fine!

 In class we are looking for resources in order to do the learning more motivating and funny we have found a website that contains educational games of different areas.

This is the link: http://www.mundoprimaria.com/

We hope that you enjoy with it, Best regards!!

ACTIVITY OF COMMUNICATION GROUP 2

After have learning the theory about ''communication'' teacher has given us a lot of activity to do, but the most interesting is this one, here we have to  Identify  the elements of the comunicacion in following cases. Then, we  have to know the type of function of the lenguage.


In the first case is the representative function, because the teacher is telling something to the student.
The emisor is de teacher; the receptor is the student (although he is not understanding anything); the message is that ''bilingual education has been voted down in california''; the code is English language; The canal is by voice (speaking), and the context is in a classroom.

In this case, the function of the text is the emotive one, because the author is expressing his feelings. The emisor is the author, the receptor is the public who read it, the code is English, the canal is by readig and the context is a book, the message are the pleasures of the author.

In this last text the function is conative function, because there is a prohibition. The emisor is the person who has put it in some place, the receptor is the public who go there, the message is that they musn't smoke, the code is English, the canal is by writing and the context is the place where it is.


We think that is activity has been correctly related with the theory that we have learnt, however we had to learnt very well it before doing the activity.

Made by the group 2.

Theory in language class: the function of speech GROUP 2

This is the theory that we have learnt in the language class:

Which are the functions of the speech?

The functions of the speech are the different objectives in which the emisor can use the lenguage in particular communicative situation. There are three basic functions :
- Apelative function
-Expresive function
-Representative function

1. Representative or referencial function:

The messages transmited by the emisor in this function are about information of around the world. Is the most common function.
In this typology are usual verbs in 3rd person and an objective lexical.

2. Expressive or emotive function:

Emisor transmits his feelings and emotions ,and his opinions.
In this function are usual: verbs in 1st person, interjections and  exclamations, and a subjective lexical.

3. Apelatative and conative function:

Here, messages expect to have influence  in the ideas and behavior of the receptor (orders, instructions, questions...)
In this function are common: imperative verbs and in 2nd person, allusions to the receptor,  and exclamations and questions.


Information made by the group 2

ACTIVITIES.

We have made a lot of activities in this subjects but these are the activities we like most: 

PUPPETS

Teacher gruped us into 5 groups of 5 and each one had to do a puppet. Group 1  worked with the primary colors, group 2 with secondary colors, group 3 with tertiary colors, group 4 with warm colors and group 5 with cold colors. When we finished making the puppets each group  made  brief representation with them. We could choose the topics in which we were interested but some guiding topics were: friendship, solidarity, respect, sports that we like, subjects we prefer, etc.We  recorded it.

 

In our opinion, this activity was very funny because we enjoyed making the puppets and also doing the representation. In addition, we reviewed a lot of things that we have studied, like the types of colors and we worked in group that is better because each partner has different ideas for doing the work.
Edited by: students of  Group 1.

We are learning a lot of things in Art!
This is a summary that we have made of the theory of colors that teacher explain us.
So:

The color wheel is a circular ordered representation of the colors according to hue or tone, where the primary colors and its derivatives are represented.

In the color wheel we can identify:

Ø primary colors: red, blue and yellow; colors are considered absolute and can not be created by mixing other colors. However, the primary mixing in various combinations make an infinite number of colors.

Ø secondary colors: green, purple and orange; are obtained by mixing equal parts of two primaries.

Ø tertiary colors: purple red, orange red, orange yellow, yellow-green, blue-green and violet blue; tones are obtained by mixing equal parts of a primary tone and an adjacent side.
WARM AND COOL COLORS.

Those are called warm colors ranging from red to yellow and cool colors are ranging from blue to green.
Edited by: students of Group 1.