Feb26
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Dec12
Listening activity
Watch the video, then click HERE, and answer the questions in google forms. You have two days to do it.
Jan21
Happy Blog Anniversary!!!
Today marks the 3rd anniversary of pinklesweet.wordpress.com. It’s been exactly 3 years since I started this blog as a way to provide my students with worthy and enjoyable activities, videos, photos,.. related with the subjects English and Science and it also served as a diary of our classroom routines, festivals,…
I’m really pleased with the positive responses I’ve had to the blog. Thank you to each of you reading this, and I hope you will continue to enjoy – or at least find intriguing – what I post. I’m also thankful for all your comments that are wonderful!!!!!!
Apr15
Titanic… the tragic loss of an “unsinkable” ship
Many tragedies have happened throughout history, but somehow the sinking of the Titanic
seems to touch more people than most tragedies.
100 years ago, on the 15th April 1912, the worlds largest passenger ship at that time, the TITANIC, sank in the North Atlantic Ocean.
The Titanic’s first voyage began on April 10th 1912 when it set off from Southampton in England on its journey to New York.
The Titanic hit an iceberg on April 14th at 11.40p.m. The huge hull was damaged and the ship rapidly began to take in water.
The Titanic had twenty lifeboats but these were not enough. Out of 2200 people on board only 705 survived. The people were rescued from the lifeboats by another ship, the Carpathia, which picked up the Titanic’s S.O.S. message.
The Titanic finally sank in the early hours of April 15th, 1912.
Geography, Class, and Fate is an interesting map of Titanic passenger data. The map shows where each passenger was from, which class they were traveling in, and whether or not they survived the Titanic’s sinking. Click the placemarks on the map to learn the passengers’ names, where they were from, and the class of service in which they traveled.
Titanic: Faces of the Crew. Click on the pictures of the crew to reveal their names. You can filter the display according to gender, position in the crew, and whether or not a crew member survived.
A beautiful video with an awesome song
James Cameron and his team pull together a new CGI of how they believe the Titanic sank and reached the ocean floor…”
If you like this topic, here is a web link with sheets, printables, free activities, videos, songs and further information: http://www.activityvillage.co.uk/the_titanic.htm
Sep30
San Cristobal’s magazine
This week my students have been working in a school magazine. The result you can see here was all lavishly illustrated by my 3rd graders. All wrote about the different teachers that work in our school as a part of an English lesson project. I’m very proud of you all. You did a good job kids!!.
Sep11
Remembering September 11
Americans are remembering today the horror of September 11, 2001, and the nearly 3,000 people who died in the hijacked plane attacks with a emotional 10th anniversary.
StoryCorps is a web where I’ve found some moving stories which remind us every life lost on September 11, 2001. I’ve thought they could be interesting and here you have some samples:
Sep9
welcome everyone!!
I hope that all of you have had a nice summer and are ready to get back to school. I am so excited about the new school year! This post is just to say hello and welcome you back to school. Some of you I probably already know and some of you I’ll meet for the first time but I wish you all the best. I hope we can work well together and learn a lot from each other. I promise I’ll do my best. Have a great weekend and I will see each of you Monday.
Looking forward to a fantastic year,
Alicia
Feb23
Grammar is fun!!
I’ve found a colourful website called Grammaropoliswhere you can learn the parts of speech.
The parts of speech are personified with cute characters that are really appealing. For example, the Preposition is a little green character whose profile says “Yes I’m small, but that doesn’t mean I can’t locate an object in space and time.”
You can click on any of the characters to read that character’s story. After going through the character stories you can watch videos about the parts of speech and play games about the parts of speech. The site contains explanations, quizzes, books, games, and even a catchy song!
Would you like to hear it?
Just click the picture below to visit this website
Dec9
Thanks Estrella y Salud!!!
I found this video on youtube and I would like to share it with you all.
Thank you Estrella y Salud. we still miss you a lot!!
Jun14
Music music and more music
TomTheHand
We sing several songs to familiar tunes as part of our daily routines. Singing is a favourite part of our day! We like dancing so we can freely make movements and clap while we sing. When we sing and make properly the sound of the words we are studying, we have fun thinking of words that are missing in our worksheets and those we have to include to complete the verses. What is more the theme songs help us remember things we are learning about Science, Maths and English.
Singing is a fun way to learn!!
So if you really want to listen some music just click on the letters (You can find almost everything you like to listen right here)
Goldie Pinklesweet 
