Colcalnnon. Irish food!

St. Patrick´s Day in our school.

I hope you enjoy yourself like us!

A leprechaun called Yanira.

Here you are the Spanish version of St. Patrick´s story.

I can see a rainbow.

  Cuenta la leyenda que en el nacimiento del arco iris hay un duende, y que este duende custodia un tesoro que será para aquel que sea capaz de encontrar su nacimiento.
  Hoy, los peques de Primaria, y dentro de las actividades relacionadas con la celebración de St. Patrick, han estado ensayando esta canción sobre "the rainbow"

Farm animals!

Very well done children!



And a small gift for your efforts: Congratulations!

La historia de la Música Celta

La música celta, tal y como su nombre lo indica, es un género musical que parte de la tradición de las culturas celtas del occidente de Europa, por esto, la música celta se considera un tipo de música contemporánea de raíces folklóricas que comparte un origen etnológico y musical. Esta música tiene una característica muy especial y es que no se limita a un país, como normalmente lo haría una música tradicional, si no a todo una zona (Europa Occidental) que incluye a cualquier país que tenga influencia de la cultura celta. 

De estos países, Escocia e Irlanda son los más conocidos en cuanto a la cultura y música celta, ya que son estos países los que han conservado en gran parte esta cultura lo que los ha encaminado a tener rasgos culturales muy semejantes. Sin embargo, los otros países celtas también conservan ciertas características que celebran en festivales, por ejemplo, en Bretaña hay festivales a lo largo del año llamados Fest Noz en donde grupos de cantantes, músicos y bailarines interpretan música y bailes celtas en vivo y con instrumentos acústicos; asimismo en Gales se celebra el Eisteddfod, una celebración en donde poetas y músicos exponen sus obras (de características celtas) al público.

Cultura Celta

Los celtas fueron originados de sociedades tribales conformados por indo-europeos que se comunicaban con el lenguaje celta durante la Edad del Hierro (1200 A.C.-500 D.C.). Estas culturas se desarrollaron principalmente en el centro de Europa y se fueron expandiendo debido a la migración a lugares como las islas Británicas y Francia, aunque después se expansión se vio limitada e incluso reducida debido a la expansión del Imperio Romano (evento que también romanizó varios asentamientos celtas que quedaron bajo el imperio Romano). Los primero registros que se tienen de las ciudades celtas indican que adoptaron una estructura de gobierno regida por un rey, estableciendo una relación cliente-patrón parecida a la de los romanos, y una estructura social separada por clases (guerreros y aristócratas, intelectuales y los comunes). Los títulos nobles de oficiales y reyes eran pasados por medio de la tanistry, el cual era un sistema en donde los títulos y tierras eran pasados por jerarquía de mando al siguiente inmediato.

Características

Aunque se relaciona a las canciones contemporáneas Irlandesas o Escocesas con la música celta, no se debe confundir entre estas, ya que si bien la música celta es parte de su música tradicional folklórica (junto con Bretaña, Man, Gales, Cornualles, etc.) hay diferencias entre esta y la contemporánea de cada país. Una de las principales características de la música celta es su métrica compleja y ritmos contrastantes, es decir, desde alegres, que incluso pueden llegar a sonar como melodías de guerra, hasta tristes y apacibles. Los temas más comunes de los que se puede escuchar en la música celta son el amor, la guerra, la caza y la naturaleza; al unir la temática con el contraste de ritmos la música celta daba origen a celebraciones en una victoria en la guerra, en un buena cosecha e incluso en una boda y por el otro lado a lamentaciones de tragedia.

Instrumentos característicos

La música celta tiene dos elementos que la hacen característica, una de ellas son los elementos musicales como forma, textura, ritmo, temas, etc. Y la otra son los instrumentos que se usan. Estos instrumentos no son usados frecuentemente en óperas o en ensambles sinfónicos, por lo que es fácil identificar la música celta de otros géneros. Entre los principales instrumentos empleados en la música celta están:

·      Instrumentos de viento

o  Gaita: Bolsa de aire que se infla soplando a través de un soplete, después con la presión del brazo se envía el aire almacenado por unos tubos que producen el sonido de este instrumento, su rango es de alrededor de dos cuartillas

o  Flauta / Tin Whistle: Es un tubo de metal con seis orificios y una boquilla con una gama de alrededor de dos octavas

o  Acordeón a botón: muy parecida al acordeón tradicional que en vez de teclas tiene un segunda fila de teclas (en forma de botones), afinado un semitono arriba del primer set, lo que genera un instrumento totalmente cromático

 

o  Bombarda: Es un pequeño oboe que se toca como el tin whistle con un agujero extra que permite una nota debajo de la nota tocada (normalmente si bemol)

·      Instrumentos de percusión

o  Panderos

o  Tambores

o  Bodhram: tambor de piel de cabra

·      Instrumento de cuerdas

o  Violín: en la música celta es llamado fiddle

o  Arpa: Las arpas celtas son pequeñas y se puede apoyar en la rodilla

   Dulcémele: Es una especie de citara, es un tablero trapezoidal con pares de cuerdas tendidas sobre este y tocados con martillos ligeros

SAN PATRICIO. EL PERSONAJE

   San Patricio fue un misionero y predicador cristiano. Se le considera el introductor de la religión católica en Gran Bretaña. Es el patrono de Irlanda, junto con Santa Brígida y San Columba. Vivió entre los años 385 y 461, aproximadamente.

Nació en lo que hoy en día es Escocia en el seno de una familia católica. A sus 16 años cayó en las manos de unos piratas irlandeses que lo vendieron como prisionero. Estando cautivo en Irlanda, debió dedicarse al cuidado de ovejas.

Luego de varios intentos logró escapar gracias a la inspiración divina que recibió por medio de un sueño. Partió en barco a Francia donde, se presume, estuvo cerca de 20 años. Fue allá donde fue ordenado sacerdote. Se cree que visitó Roma y que habría sido el papa Celestino I quien le habría solicitado que regresara a Irlanda.

Ya de regreso, como obispo, se dedicó a proclamar el Evangelio. Era un gran predicador ya que hablaba con un leguaje sencillo y directo. Por ejemplo, para explicar el misterio de la Santísima Trinidad hacía una analogía con las hojas de un trébol, símbolo que actualmente es muy común entre los irlandeses.

En su labor, se encontró con un grupo opositor: los druidas. Ellos eran una clase social elevada que representaban a los dioses paganos. Otro sector con el que tuvo problemas fueron los herejes pelagianos que llegaron al extremo de calumniarlo.

En reiteradas oportunidades intentaron matarlo, sin embargo siempre logró escapar airoso de los peligros. Esto, él se lo atribuía a una intervención milagrosa.

A pesar de todas las cortapisas, San Patricio no cesó en su labor evangelizadora. Construyó una serie de abadías en Irlanda, las cuales fueron originaron ciudades a su alrededor.

La fiesta en honor a San Patricio se celebra el día 17 de marzo, en Irlanda y Estados Unidos, especialmente. Para la ocasión, en la Quinta Avenida neoyorkina se realiza un desfile en el que la calle se llena de gente vestida de verde. Por su parte, las ciudades irlandesas se tiñen del mismo color y los tréboles se ven por todas partes, se bebe mucha cerveza y se celebra por cinco días.

Susana, la profe de Religión ha estado trabajando con ellos el personaje

St. Patrick´s movies

Weather. 2nd grade

 Sing a song about the weatherhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcW9Ct000yY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8GeA3anPdo


Weather flashcardshttp://www.eslgamesplus.com/weather-flashcards/

sunny	cloudy	rainy
snow	storm	rainbow
cold	hot	windy

It's sunny	Está soleado
It's cloudy	Está nublado
It's raining	Está lloviendo
It's snowing	Está nevando
It's windy	Está ventoso
It's stormy	Está tormentoso
It's hot	Hace calor
It's warm	Está templado
It's cold	Hace frío

the sun	el sol
the moon	la luna
the stars	las estrellas
a cloud	una nube
the rain	la lluvia
the snow	la nieve
the wind	el viento
a storm	una tormenta
the temperature	la temperatura
the forecast	el pronóstico

Ireland Project. 5th

Working about ireland from bibliotecaantigua

The book of the animals. 4th grade.

Aquí os dejo el libro que el año pasado hicieron vuestros compañeros, que ahora están en 5º. Es sólo para que os hagáis una idea.
Good luck!

The books of the animals

Por si alguien no tomo nota, ahí tenéis el animal que os ha tocado hacer:
- Monkey,  antelope, María T.
- Lion, Mateo.
- Horse, wolf, Paola.
- Elephant, bee, Andrea.
- Snake, Jony.
- Lizard,  hyena, María A
- Parrot, J. M.
- Tiger, bull, juanjo.
- Iguana, Mario.
- Spider, Saray.
- Leopard, Luis Alberto.
- Crocodile, rat, Adrián.
- Rhino, Mahel
- Puma, Absalón.
.- Hippo, shark, Alfonso.
- Chita, Juan.
- Giraffe, fox, Carolina.
-  Eagle, Blanca.
- Cicada, María L.
- Zebra, Yolanda.
- Mosquito, Marta.
- vulture, penguin, Kevin.

The story of St. Patrick by John Wilmott. 4th and 5th grades.

Os cuelgo la historia de St Patrick, contada por el propio autor, John Wilmott.

As usual, I hope you enjoy yourself!

The story of St. Patrick

An original version from our Irish friend John Wilmott

   Many, years ago in the day of old,  even older than Teresa, in a land far, far away from Spain the story begins which tells of the boy who becomes St Patrick.

    He was not born in Ireland, which many people believe, including many Irish people. No, he was born in a country across the sea from Ireland called Wales. Wales is not far from Ireland which turned out to be rather unfortunate for young Maewyn Succat. Who is that? I hear you ask. You see that was his name before he became Patrick, I am glad he changed it as St Maewyn Succat’s day is much harder to pronounce. I am sure that young Maewyn had a normal childhood; perhaps he played football with his friends who also had silly names. Perhaps he used the Internet. Could he have had a Facebook page? Or, how about a mobile phone to text his friends? I wonder which TV programmes he preferred? Well you see, electricity had not been invented in Maewyn’s time so he would not have had any of the things that young people today could not imagine living without. What kind of games do you think young Maewyn and his friends played so long ago? Anyway, back to the story. When Maewyn was sixteen years old a group of mad Irishmen raided his little Welsh village and captured him. Without even asking for permission, they bundled him on a boat back to Ireland to sell as a slave. He always wanted to go on a boat journey but not like this. No more normal childhood for young Maewyn. He was sold to a Druid chief who had a large herd of pigs. Guess what his new job was to be? Yes, you guessed correctly; a pig farmer. Now life as a pig farmer was no picnic for the young man from wales. It was a very difficult and smelly job to do, perhaps at that time his name was changed to Smelly, we just don’t know.

He ate, slept with and generally lived among the pigs and each night he would tell them the story of “The three little pigs”, how they loved that story. It was during his time in Ireland that Smelly, sorry, Maewyn became a Christian. One night he heard a voice in his dreams telling him to get an airplane back to his own country, but as airplanes were not yet invented he had to go by ship. He fled the coast of Ireland and found his way back home. After having the world’s longest shower he joined a monastery where he stayed for the next twelve years. It became his goal in life to convert the pagans of Ireland to Christianity. Perhaps he thought that this would put a stop to their pastime of kidnapping and selling young boys into slavery. It was at this time that he took the name Patrick. He became a bishop and went back to Ireland to pursue his destiny. He was very good at his job as he helped many people to find God and leave their old pagan ways behind. He even went to visit his old slave master to show that he had no bad feelings towards him. Perhaps he also wanted to visit his old roommates the pigs, but alas, they had all been eaten. This upset Patrick because he was looking forward to a nice piece of ham. The story goes that his old master took all his valuables to his house and burned it down with himself still inside. Apparently, he did not want to face his former slave who had become famous.

Many stories have been written about Patrick. He was not yet called St. Patrick, which would come much later. It is said that he drove all the snakes out of Ireland, not in a car mind you because cars had not been invented yet either. This is not exactly true, at that time there were no snakes in Ireland. As the devil is often referred to as a snake, it is said that it was the devil he banished from Ireland. It is said also that he used the shamrock as a symbol of the Holy Trinity. That is why the shamrock is very famous in Ireland and people around the world associate it with Ireland. But we do know that he built many churches and schools all over Ireland. He spent almost thirty years in Ireland teaching the pagans of that green land about the wonders of the Catholic religion. The Irish people never forgot about the boy who, in the twelfth century became a saint, taking the name St Patrick. St Patrick day was originally a religious holiday but these days it is a secular holiday. It is celebrated each year on March 17th, which is the date on which he died. Ireland is not the only country to celebrate. Over the centuries many Irish people went to distant lands to find fame and fortune. With them they brought their culture and traditions. Today St. Patrick’s day is also enjoyed by both Catholics and non-Catholics. In my own little town, on the south coast of Ireland, we have a beautiful parade through our city streets. Lots of children dress up as leprechauns and mini St Patricks. It is a day to remember all the good things about being Irish, a time to be proud of our history.

February magazine

FEBRUARY. Magazine

Os cuelgo el último número de Doorbell.
 I hope you enjoy a lot with it, as usual.

St. Patrick. A lot of good ideas for kids

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/crafts/stpatrick/

5th Science. Rivers and coasts

Here you are a very nice side to  work this theme.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/riversandcoasts/index.shtml

http://www.simscience.org/cracks/beginning/dams1.html

eTwinning. February magazine

Here you are the last issue. In it appears an interview with our President.

An open window towards knowledge. February

We were with the Extremadura President.

 

Celtic Music

2014 Carnival.

Here you are some photos about our school carnival. The issue this year was "Mozarito". We had a good time.
I wish you a Happy Carnival.

Carnaval 2014 from bibliotecaantigua

Leprechaum

Supplies Needed Per Leprechaun:

• Green Construction Paper 2 sheets
• Pink Construction Paper 1/2 sheet
• Yellow Construction Paper 1/2 sheet
• Black Construction Paper 1/2 sheet
• Orange Construction Paper 1/2 sheet
• Glue
• Scissors
• Marker
• Template For Hat, Hair, Face, Hands and Bowtie

To view these coloring pages and templates, you will need Adobe Reader installed on your computer (the latest version is recommended).
You can get your free Adobe Reader here (a new window will open so you can download without leaving this page).

St Patrick Day Crafts Instructions

Step 1

Fold one sheet of the green construction paper in half with long ends together.Draw a line across the length of the paper 1 ½ inches down from the open end.
Draw lines spaced 1" apart from the fold of the page to the horizontal pencil line you made.

Step 2

While the paper is still folded, cut the vertical lines (the ones that are spaced 1" apart ) up to but not over the horizontal line.Don't worry if the pencil lines are showing. Trying to erase them on construction paper can rub the paper into shreds.
Carefully unfold the paper.

Step 3

Bring the short ends of the unfolded paper together to form a tube shape.
This is the body of your leprechaun.Glue, staple or tape the ends together.
I found it best to put a staple into the top and bottom just to make sure it holds together.
Set the body aside and get the rest of the pieces together.

Step 4

Using the St Patricks Day Crafts Template cut the following pieces out:

• Pink paper: 1 face circle and 2 hands
• Yellow paper: 1 bowtie
• Black paper: 1 hat
• Orange paper: 1 hair
• From the Green paper: 2 strips 1" x 8½ (not on template)

Step 5

Glue the orange hair onto the pink face circle.Glue the black hat on the orange hair so that just a touch of hair is hanging out.
Draw a face onto the pink circle.
Using a scrap of yellow, cut a small square shape to be a buckle for the hat and glue it into place. Using a scrap of the black paper make an even smaller square and glue it on top of the yellow square.
Glue assembled face onto the top of the green body.

Step 6

Take the two strips of green paper and fold each of them accordian style. Glue a pink hand to the end of each green arm.
Glue the arm onto the sides of the leprechaun body.
Glue yellow bowtie to the body.

vocabulary to work in Physical Education class. We are creating a bilingual vocabulary to work in Physical Education class. As usual, we will try that you enjoy a lot while you learn.

 12 HOLD YOUR HANDS 12 LOOK OVER HERE 12 LOOK OVER THERE! 12 MAKE A CIRCLE 12 MAKE A CIRCLE 12 PASS THE BALL12 LISTEN CAREFULLY15 SKIP