Let's draw! Here I post a template of the next drawing. So your first task will be to copy this template on a white page. Start with your pencil, then use watercolours.
You can make your own watercolours using coffee mixed with water. There you will have brown colour.
This is the first stage of the drawing. Once you do this, you can start working the details.
Don't forget to use watercolours. In the background I'm going to reproduce a famous painting. The Gioconda that was painted by Leonardo Da Vinci in 1517 and experts say about this piece of art that it is the best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, the most parodied work of art in the world.
So we are going to use the background and put it into our picture. Like this.
Can you see the columns? There is also a sea or a kind of lake. When I drew this for the first time I thought it could be Livia Drusila a famous roman woman. But the model I got it from was another painting.
I hope you enjoy this activity. Once you finish you can make a photo with your parents mobile and upload it on google classroom.
Here are the solutions for the crossword. If you have done it please correct it and check the answers with the notes that I gave you. You will find all the information here:
Tomorrow 31st of March at 11:30 there will be a premiere (estreno).
You will be able to watch a short video that I have made about the present perfect. On the right side of the screen you can make comments and chat alive!!
Activity: Find the six sentences in the present perfect and write them in your notebook.
Then make the affirmative, negative and question of each one.
Finally, what's the advise that I give in the end of the video? Write it down.
See you tomorrow and post your comments! πππ
Before living for months in space, Christina Koch lived at the South Pole and Chris Hadfield lived at the bottom of the ocean, in a laboratory just off the coast of Florida.
The astronauts didn’t get out much, or couldn’t, with Koch surrounded by frozen terrain and Hadfield 62 feet underwater. But the experiences proved useful. When they rocketed out to the International Space Station, each on separate months-long missions in different years, their brains were well acquainted with isolation.
Koch returned to Earth from her 328-day mission on the space station just last month, breaking the record for the longest spaceflight by a woman, while Hadfield spent more than five months on the ISS from 2012 to 2013.
The station is like a cluster of pressurized aluminum bubbles, and feels like living in the boiler room (cuarto de calderas) in the basement of a large building for a long period of time, Hadfield said.
They work each day with the same small group of people, with no way to leave. Their workspace is their living space. They are connected to the people they love only through the power of video chat.
Astronaut Christina Koch knows a few things about isolation, having returned to Earth from her 328-day mission on the International Space Station just last month.
Now, in the middle of a pandemic that has sent millions of people into an oddly similar situation, the astronauts might just be some of the most qualified people on the planet to offer advice about how to live in a socially distanced world.
“The big parallels to what people are going through right now is that there is a big unspoken danger out there that is not clearly defined,” said 60-year-old Hadfield, a retired Canadian astronaut who served as the commander of the space station in 2013. “It’s not like a car driving down the road. It’s like a big, amorphous, frightening thing, and operating a rocket ship is very much like that. There’s a constant elevated level of danger, and it’s sort of nameless and quiet. We are very remote, unable to return in any easy sort of way and physically separated from all 7.7 billion people.
“And then the question is, how do you deal with that?”
Speaking to The Washington Post this week, Hadfield and Koch are among several astronauts offering self-quarantine tips as at least 175 million people across the country have been urged to stay at home or shelter in place.
They know what it’s like adjusting to extremes, relearning social interaction after months of isolation. But now the key is to leave behind a life ruled by “external demands,” Hadfield said, trading a daily schedule built around going places for a daily life built around going almost nowhere.
As sleeping, studying, playing, and virtual happy hours all happen in the same confined quarters, Koch said the way to think about “this new normal” is to look at it as if it were “a new planet to explore."
“There will be things that you can do that you’ve never done before. There will be things you can’t do,” said Koch, 41. “But we’re almost like a new group of people now, operating within a completely different set of rules and under a completely different normal.
What are the new things people can do on this new planet?”
Hadfield, who became the first Canadian to spacewalk in 2001, said rule No. 1 is that people should research the risks of the novel coronavirus in their immediate area. Then, they should understand how it affects and constrains them individually.
“Become experts on the thing that is threatening you,” he said.
Next, is to “be your own taskmaster” — developing mini-missions for every day.
On the International Space Station, to-do lists were regimented down to five-minute intervals, for 12 hours a day, seven days a week. Missions ranged from fixing a toilet to investigating the subatomic particles of the universe. But at home on Earth, those missions can be as simple as reading, tidying up your room, cooking, doing some exercise, or calling a grandparent.
“You should always have objectives every single day,” Hadfield said. “What do I want to get done in the next 10 minutes, and what do I want to do in the next hour? And if today goes perfectly, what will I have done by bedtime tonight?”
Make a to do list of the things that you are going to do today.
The goals of unit 4 in Global Scholars are the following:
Learn about the benefits of biodiversity.
Share your opinion about the most important benefit of biodiversity in your city.
Analyze how human actions impact biodiversity.
Identify solutions to address climate change and global biodiversity issues.
Learn about biodiversity issues and solutions in your city.
Explain your ideas to your peers and support your ideas with facts.
Know the difference between fact and opinion.
Survey members of your community to learn which biodiversity issues are most important to them, and the actions they would be willing to take to improve biodiversity issues.
Create an infographic to share what you learned from your community.
Copy the crossword in your notebook and find the correct words. If you need a clue ask me like this: Simon I need a clue for three across and I will tell you something.
And here you have the answers to the questions. Notice that you can always answer in different ways but this will help you to check if you have done it correctly.
Light is a form of radiant energy that we can see with our eyes and is transferred through radiation. It’s made up of microscopic particles that travel in the form of electromagnetic waves. Without light, we wouldn’t be able to see.
The Sun is a natural source of light, but many artiο¬cial light sources have been invented too. For example, light bulbs and computer screens both produce light energy.
Light phenomena
Light phenomena are observable events that occur when light interacts with matter.
Light travels in straight lines. When we put an opaque object in front of light, we can see a shadow behind the object. Light is blocked by the object, and forms the shadow.
The shadow has the same shape as the object because the waves of light that aren’t blocked travel in straight lines.
Light travels very fast. It is the fastest thing in the universe. Nothing can travel faster than light. The speed of light is 300.000 kilometres per second.
Objects react to light in diο¬erent ways.
A transparent window. It doesn't block the light
This glass is transparent: it doesn’t block the light. Imagine a house with no windows. It would be dark.
Curtains like this are translucent
The curtains are made of a translucent material: they block some light, but some light passes through the material.
Thick curtains or even a wall can be opaque: it blocks the light completely.
Uses of light energy
We use light energy in many ways.
• We use light from the Sun to see and to produce electrical energy with solar panels.
• We use light energy to see at night. Light energy enables us to see things on television and computer screens.
• Lights can indicate when a machine is switched on.
Solar panels
Reο¬ection occurs when light energy bounces oο¬ a surface and changes direction. Reο¬ection is one of the basic laws of light.
We know that light travels in straight lines. However, some surfaces, like mirrors, cause the light to change direction.
Smooth surfaces, such as glass, metal or the surface of a large body of water, reο¬ect light better than rough surfaces, such as wood or stone. For example, when light energy hits a mirror, it’s reο¬ected. As a result, we see a reο¬ection in the mirror.
Light travels in a straight line from the object to the mirror.
The mirror reο¬ects the light, causing it to change direction.
A boy or a girl can see the reο¬ection of the object in the mirror When light passes from one medium to another, for example, from air to water, the light energy changes direction. This process is called refraction.
Water changes the direction of the light rays that pass through it.
When we look at the straw, it appears to be bent. This is because the water is refracting the light.
White light
White light is made up of all the colours combined together. We can separate white light into colours by refraction. The colours are not refracted equally, so we see all the diο¬erent colours. For example, prisms reο¬ract light. As a result, we see the colours that make up white light.
Activities
1. Match to make sentences in your notebook:
a) Reflection causes light to...
b) Refraction causes light to...
c) White light is made up of...
1. ... bend as it passes through a different medium.
2. ... all the colours combined together.
3. ... change direction when it hits a surface.
2. With someone from your family, predict which of these materials will be opaque, transparent and translucent.
Aluminium foil, cardboard, a sheet of paper, cling ο¬lm, a plastic water bottle, a white T-shirt
Use a torch to test your predictions. How many of your predictions were correct?
Make a table to show your predictions and your results.
3. Write down three important features of light. 4. Once you finish complete the assignment on milton.
A new day starts and here is a song that I want to share with you. If you can use headphones and close your eyes. It seems that they are whispering in your ears.
Surprisingly I found that there is a "Simon" in Clan TV. ππ
Dad is weird today
It´s very funny! Of course it's for little kids, more little than you, but even though it's perfect English and you can learn basic vocabulary, conversation and expressions that are used inside a family and between brothers, so if you want you can watch it. Also you can investigate that page for other things.
Tell me if you found something interesting for our class.
Islam is a religion that began on the Arabian Peninsula in the 7th century A.D. The followers of Islam are called Muslims. They follow the teachings of the prophet Mohammed. Muslims believe in one god, Allah, and their sacred book is the Koran.
In the Middle Ages, there was a great Muslim civilisation with its own laws, customs and art. This Muslim empire was called the caliphate and it was ruled by the caliph. The caliphate expanded rapidly through the Middle East, North Africa and up to the Iberian Peninsula.
The Rise of Muslim Spain
Muslim expansionism reached Spain in 711 A.D. when Moorish troops (mainly Berbers from Morocco) invaded a nearly defenceless Hispania at Gibraltar. There was little resistance and they quickly took the Spanish capital of Toledo and within a few years had control of nearly the entire Iberian Peninsula.
The battle of Guadalete
The Battle of Guadalete was fought in 711 at an unidentified location between the Christian Visigoths of Hispania under their king, Roderic, and the invading forces of the Muslim Umayyad Caliphate, composed mainly of Berbers and a few Arabs under the commander Tariq ibn Ziyad. Watch this video which explains the battle of Guadalete:
The battle was significant as the culmination of a series of Berber attacks and the beginning of the Umayyad conquest of Hispania. In the battle Roderic lost his life, along with many members of the Visigothic nobility, opening the way for the capture of the Visigothic capital of Toledo.
Tariq ibn Ziyad
A few years later it was a Visigoth Noble (Pelayo) who in 718 A.D founded the Christian Kingdom of Asturias after beating the Umayyads in the battle of Covadonga which was the start of the Christian Reconquest of Spain.
Don Pelayo
In al-Andalus, most people were farmers and agriculture was the most important economic activity. However, there were also artisans in the towns and cities like blacksmiths and millers. Merchants sold the products made by the artisans. As a result of growing trade, there were more towns and cities in al-Andalus than in the Christian kingdoms.
Artisans made products such as textiles, leather goods and pottery. There were many merchants. They bought and sold these products in the souk.
Cities were ruled by a governor. He lived in the alcazaba. This was a fortress.
Alcazaba
A very important building was the mosque.
Some people in al-Andalus were Christian or Jewish. Muslims, Christian and Jews lived in peaceful coexistence together in al-Andalus. The combination of these cultures made al-Andalus one of the most advanced states in the world at that time. The Muslims didn’t consider non-Muslims to be equals, but they gave them some basic rights.
• Christians and Jews could live where they wanted to and practise their religion.
• They could also do any job, but they couldn’t have authority over a Muslim.
• They had to pay special taxes, wear a special badge and obey Muslim laws. They couldn’t carry weapons.
Al-Andalus was a vibrant centre of art, culture and learning. Scholars made advances in medicine, geography, literature and philosophy. The Muslims also built many beautiful buildings, such as the Alhambra in Granada and the Great Mosque in CΓ³rdoba.
Life in al Andalus
The Muslim conquest created a new society, which was slowly evolving over time. It was made up of different population groups.
At the top was the Arab aristocracy, descendant of the Arabs who had been part of the invading armies and who had settled in al-Andalus later. Among them, tribal rivalries were frequent.
Next were the Berbers, people from North Africa who had played a major role in the invasion. They were not Arabs. At the time of the invasion they had just converted to Islam. They settled in al-Andalus grouped in tribes. At times they staged uprisings because they felt discriminated against the Arabs.
If you want to learn more about the Al Andalus, watch this video:
Then there were the Hispanics who converted to Islam: the muladΓes. From the beginning the conversions were very numerous, because being a Muslim gave great social and fiscal advantages. Over time they became the largest group and fully assimilated the Arab culture. His social promotion was promoted by the emirs and the caliphs. That does not mean that they also frequently protested for feeling socially discriminated against by the Arabs.
On the other hand, there were the "protegidos", that is, Hispanics who professed one of the "book religions", that is, Christianity and Judaism, and to whom Islam offered protection in exchange for certain taxes.
Christians who lived in a Muslim state were called MozΓ‘rabes. Over the years, their rites and customs were separating from those of Christians who lived in Christian kingdoms. They even spoke a different language, the result of the evolution of Latin in contact with Arabic. As time passed, their numbers declined due to conversions and migration to the Christian kingdoms.
The Jewish community gave al-Andalus great intellectuals
This process was accentuated by periods of persecution and conflict with the Muslim majority, which alternated with other periods of coexistence. In the Christian kingdoms the Mozarabic population had a great cultural and artistic influence, serving as a bridge between the Christian and Muslim cultures.
The Jews were very numerous especially in the cities. Under Muslim rule they generally found greater tolerance than they had received from the Visigoths. So the Jewish communities flourished. Most Jews were engaged in non-agrarian activities, such as crafts, commerce, and finance. In addition, the Jewish community gave al-Andalus great intellectuals.
Finally there were the slaves. Most of the slaves came from sub-Saharan Africa, Christian Europe, and Eastern Europe. Slaves could convert to Islam and be freed, as in ancient Rome. This allowed many freedmen of powerful Muslims, especially of the emirs and caliphs, to acquire a high social position.
Over time, the Islamization and orientalization of Hispanic society and the combination of different ethnic elements in it led to the development of a very particular culture, the Andalusian culture. It was a rich and complex culture, in which Christians, Muslims and Jews adopted Arabic as a cultural vehicle. Curiously, in al-Andalus the classical Arab tradition maintained a force that in many other places of Islam was lost over time. In this cultural medium, the arts, scientific and humanistic disciplines flourished, supported by the emirs and caliphs.
The Christian Kingdoms
When the Muslims created al-Andalus, many Christians moved to the mountains in the north. In 722 A.D. the Battle of Covadonga took place between the Christians and the Muslims. A Visigoth noble called Don Pelayo was the leader of the Christians. He defeated the Muslims in the battle.
Watch this video that explains very well the Battle of Covadonga:
Aο¬ er that, Don Pelayo established the Kingdom of Asturias. Later on this became the Kingdom of LeΓ³n. There were other Christian kingdoms too, such as the Kingdoms of Castilla, Navarra and AragΓ³n.
During the Middle Ages, these kingdoms were constantly changing. For example, the Kingdom of LeΓ³n became part of the Kingdom of Castilla. Other new kingdoms emerged, such as the Kingdom of Portugal. At the end of the 15th century, there were ο¬ve kingdoms in the Iberian Peninsula: the Kingdom of Portugal, the Kingdom of Castilla, the Kingdom of Navarra, the Kingdom of AragΓ³n and the Muslim Kingdom of Granada.
Society was divided into three groups: the clergy, nobles and peasants.
Most people were Christians. Priests and monks were important members of society. In the monasteries monks copied and translated important books.
Most people were peasants and they lived in the countryside. There weren’t many big cities. Peasants grew crops and raised animals. People produced what they needed, so there wasn’t much trade.
The king ruled the country, but the countryside was divided into small areas. Each area was ruled by a noble who was called the lord.
Each kingdom had its own language, but all the languages were similar to Latin. Galician, Spanish, Portuguese and Catalan began to develop.
There were also some artisans, such as blacksmiths and millers. There were soldiers to defend the lands too.
Architecture
The Christians built many religious buildings that we can still see today, such as churches and monasteries. There were two main styles of architecture in the Middle Ages: Romanesque and Gothic.
San Martin de Fromista (Romanesque)
Romanesque architecture combined aspects of Roman architecture with local styles. Its churches have thick walls, round arches and small windows.
Gothic architecture came later on. Gothic churches have thinner walls, pointed arches and large windows.
Here is a review of what we have seen so far about heat.
Heat
Heat is a form of energy. Heat flows from hot objects to cool objects. It flows from one object to another because of their difference in temperature. The cool object absorbs the energy and becomes warmer. Let´s watch this video about heat!
Molecules
Objects are made of particles, or bits, called molecules. Molecules are always in motion. As an object is heated, the molecules in the object move faster. When this happens, the temperature of the object rises.
Examples of different molecules
Heat travels in three ways: by conduction, by convection, and by radiation.
Conduction is the flow of heat inside an object. It is also the flow of heat between objects in contact with each other. An example is the flow of heat from a hot frying pan to food placed on the pan to cook.
Convection is the flow of heat caused by the motion of a liquid or a gas. An example is the heating of water in a teakettle. As water is heated, the molecules that make up the water rise and the heat spreads.
Heat radiation is the flow of heat between objects that are not in contact with each other. An example is the heat felt by someone standing a distance away from a hot stove.
Radiation from the Sun gives Earth most of its heat. Energy from the Sun’s radiation is stored in such fuels as coal, oil, gas, and wood. These fuels can be burned to provide more heat.
Now you can make a mindmap of these concepts and watch the following video:
The Middle Ages began in 476 A.D. when the Roman Empire fell. The lands that were part of the Roman Empire were now ruled by many diο¬erent people. In Hispania, a Germanic tribe called the Visigoths established a new kingdom.
Here is a timeline of the Middle Ages. Please draw it in your notebook (or print it if you want and have a printer).
Society was divided into three groups: the nobles, clergies, and peasants.
Here is a video about the history of Spain. Watch until minute four.
The Visigoths
During the 4th Century A.D. the Iberian Peninsula was invaded by Germanic tribes (Suevi, Vandals and Alans).The Roman Empire was in decline and by the start of the 5th Century they had lost all but Tarraconensis ( Tarragona). In order to try and regain control of Hispania the Romans made a pact with the Visigoths who in 415 A.D. drove the Alans and Vandals out of the central part of the peninsula.
At ο¬rst, the Visigoths helped the Romans ο¬ght other Germanic tribes. Then, aο¬ er the fall of the Roman Empire, the Visigoths established a new kingdom with its capital city in Toledo. It was called the Kingdom of Toledo. It was established in 507 A.D.
Religion
In 589 A.D., King Recaredo converted to Catholicism. This was an important event in Spanish history. It united the Visigothic kingdom under one religion. Now the Visigoth nobles and Hispano-Roman nobles had the same religion.
Culture
The Visigoths learned to speak Latin and they adopted Roman laws. There were some important cultural developments. St Isidoro of Sevilla was a bishop and an important Visigoth thinker. He was the ο¬rst Christian to write an encyclopedia.
Make a mindmap of the Visigoths.
Please leave your comments and any question you have post it!! Don't hesitate!
Here is a recipe that you can do with your parents when you finish the English activity that you will find in Milton Education. There are three assignments.
Hash Browns are a recipe based on potatoes. This hash brown recipe is easy to make, it's crispy and delicious just like one you would buy from fast food and stores even though in Spain there are not very well known.
They consist of a combination of grated potatoes, onion powder, garlic, salt, pepper, all purpose flour, and cheddar cheese.
In November 2008, Jan and Dave Griffith were on a yachting trip with their dog, Sophie Tucker. They were off the coast of Queensland, Australia, when there was a big storm...
Watch the video of this incredible story and let me know if you liked it.
As many of you have liked very much this story, let me tell you that this is a real story. Here is the photo of the real dog.
It has very good reviews, by the way. Here are some:
"Wanted to read this book for some time. It's as good as I hoped it would be. What a resilient, loyal and marvellous dog she is. If you're an animal lover I recommend you read this non-soppy but great read".
"Sophie dog overboard is the best book I've read in ages, so enjoyable I didn't want it to end, Sophie, the blue cattle dog, is adorable, I bet her family feel so proud to own her. I was so pleased they got her back. Emma Pearse is to be commended for writing such a brilliant real story".
"This true story is for all animal lovers and shows the tenacity and incredible courage and resourcefulness of a remarkable dog. A Robinson Crusoe in canine form. Well worth reading".
"Fantastic book couldn't put it down; sad in places but a remarkable true story about a wonderful breed of dog".
Hi kids! Here is a letter from Matthew, he's going to explain us an experiment in a letter and a video. You can do it yourself at home if you wish. You don't need to boil water just with the hot water from the tap will be fine. I hope you enjoy it!
Simon π
Hi, I’m Matthew. Today on Experiment Time, we’re going to find out which is the best thermal conductor, out of plastic, wood and metal. I’m going to make a hypothesis and then, at the end, you can tell me if I was right or not. Which of these three is a good thermal conductor? Which one would you choose?
I’m going for wood. My hypothesis is that wood is a good thermal conductor. Let’s check if my hypothesis is right.
This is what you need for the experiment
For this we need; a medium size bowl, some warm water, remember not too hot, not too cold, three spoons: a plastic spoon, a wooden spoon and metal spoon, and half a packet of butter. We’re going to fill the bowl up with warm water and put some butter on the spoons. First on the plastic spoon, the wooden spoon and on the metal spoon. There. Then I’m going to put each spoon into the warm water, making sure that the butter isn’t touching the water. The idea is that the heat from the water will travel up from the spoons if they’re a good heat conductor and melt the butter.
So in which spoon, do you think the butter is going to melt first? Which one do you think? Don’t forget, I’m betting on the wooden spoon.
So what spoon do you think has won? Has the butter melted on any spoon? Come and have a look. Yes it has, hasn’t it! It has melted on the metal spoon. How about my wooden spoon? Oh, not much melting going on there. And the plastic spoon? Oh, the butter has melted a little bit, but not that much. Was my hypothesis right? Remember, I thought wood was a good thermal conductor. No, if it isn’t a conductor, it’s an insulator which means it stops heat from going around. So, what is the best thermal conductor? That’s right! The metal. Was your hypothesis correct? See you later alligator!
Remember to look up the words you don't know in wordreference.
