Sowing Life

The activity consisted of two parts: The first students met the great plant biodiversity of the urban park of Tres Arroyos and their practical usefulness to humans.

The second part will be performed at the star activity, reforestation of typical Mediterranean forest trees, holm oak (Quercus ilex), pine (Pinus pinea) and cork oak (Quercus suber), thus contributing both to the rejuvenation of our pasture, and the environmental awareness of the students.

As you can see by the pictures we had a great day.

HALLOWEEN

Where does this tradition? Discover more about the Halloween fun and different customs. 

Halloween is a celebration of British culture that is celebrated on the night of October 31. 

Its origins date back to the Celts more than 2,500 years ago when the Celtic year ended at the end of summer, on 31 October our calendar (Samhain). Cattle were the meadows led to the stables for the winter. That last day, it was assumed that the spirits could come out of the graveyard and take over the bodies of the living to rise again, ask food and cursing. They were victims of spells if they did not accede to their requests: you give me something or get into mischief, which is the translation of "Trick or Treat". 

To avoid this, the Celtic villages littered houses and "decorated" with bones, skulls and other nasty stuff, so spend long dead scared. Hence the tradition of decorating houses with sinister motives in the current eve of All Saints and also costumes. It is thus a party associated with the coming of the heathen gods to life. 

Now you could look for information on the internet  about history of Halloween pumkins, Halloweens comes to America, Today's Halloween Traditions and Halloween Superstitions.
You can help looking at these websites

• The story of Halloween
• Halloween
• Halloween history
• Wellcome Halloween Fans to Halloween.com!!!

Hi 2014/15!

Welcome back to school and to our blog. 

If you are a student of first year , don’t be afraid of the New School Year, if you work, there is nothing to fear. We invite you again to visit our “wonderful blog”, and hope you enjoy it.

Bye, bye Hayley

Our English assistant Hayley,  who has been with us for two years, is going to teach at another school. We wanted to say goodbye to her with an English breakfast and our colleague Mary made some delicious pancakes. Moms of  Laura Romero and Marta Borrachero also put their two cents with a cake and  great cookie lollipops. 

In the gym Hayley , who is from New Zealand, was presented by the student boys with the Haka, a Maori dance which  is often used as a sign of welcome and hospitality, but it is also performed before  sporting activities, especially rugby. The girls  danced a  traditional dance from Extremadura, "El Candil". 

This  has been our way to thank  and show her that although her country is very far, we can feel it very near.

Thank you very much!   We´ll really miss you, Hayley!

We visited the two exhibitions of A Certain Science program

Last Friday we visited the two exhibitions of A Certain Science program ,  "Lessons Natural History " books and documents on the Provincial Institute located in Extremadura Library  and the Cabinet of Natural History of the Council room. 

The students enjoyed themselves, especially the peaces of the last exhibition.

Hornachos II

U.D. 5 - Strength

Aquí os dejo la Unidad Didáctica 5, que trata sobre la Fuerza: concepto, efectos, clasificación, entrenamiento, etc.
En esta Tercera Evaluación trabajaremos, a nivel teórico y práctico, la Fuerza junto con la Flexibilidad y la Resistencia.

Para bajarla pincha en la imagen adjunta y no olvides llevar siempre contigo este Notebook en todas y cada una de las sesiones de Educación Física.

También os pongo dos videos, el primero es un resumen de las cuatro capacidades físicas. Y el segundo, más abajo, un video más extenso que se adentra un poco más y de forma más específica en el concepto de la Fuerza.

Y como no podía ser de otra manera (and as it couldn´t be otherwise) terminamos con un video, en inglés, sobre la importancia de mantener una vida activa y practicar actividad física durante la juventud. Como siempre: relájate, escucha y disfruta.