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 Happy St. Patrick´s day.     St. Patrick is the patron saint of Ireland. So today we´ll be making two symbols of Ireland.         Follow the steps on these two videos. It´s going to be sooooo easy!!!!                     Children in year 3 we´ll be making a SHAMROCK .                               The LEPRECHAUN will be for their year four schoolmates.                                        Have a very merry St. Patrick´s day!!!!!

  Do you know who Vincent Van Gogh was?     Watch this video and you´ll get to know something about him.                 Now you can paint Van Gogh´s Sunflowers following these steps .          

 Do you like reading comics? Do you know when comics were created? Watch this and you´ll go back in time to sort it out. Did you know that in Spain we differentiate between comic and tebeo ? We all know films based on comics are big blockbusters nowadays. Examples as  Marvel´s  or DC .  However, there are also examples of Spanish tebeos brought into the screen. Probably the  most famous is ... I hope after this short intro you are going to be able to create your own comic.

  Hi again and .... Happy New Year     We´re starting this second term with drawing a colourful bird: ... a CARDINAL.      To do so, watch this video and follow the steps carefully.        You´ll surely do JUST GREAT!!!!!!

 Do you know who Chilly Willy is?     Well... he´s a very funny animal. He´s black and white. Lives in a very cold place. He´s a bird but he can´t fly. He walks both to the sides and the front at the same time ...     Did you guess? Not yet ?     Wacth this and it will help you.      Do you know now?. YES, it´s a ....     Know you are going to give a bit of colour and texture to Chilly Willy´s family photo.     First, cover Chilly, Mom and Dad body with plasticiline: black for their body, brown for their beaks and feet as in the cartoons.     Then cover their chest with cotton, use the TEMPLATES (Baby for Chilly, then Mom and Dad)  to cut the correct size.      Thirdly, colour the background with wax crayons or water colours.     Now you are going to make the trees using TEMPLATES again (1, 2 and 3)    Then use more cotton for the snowground and the snowflakes falling...

Do you like snowglobes?    Here you are some info on their origin                                                             Now you can make your own snowglobe following this process:          1.         Draw the shape of a circle on a piece of black cardboard 2.    Draw the base of the snowglobe on a white paper sheet. 3.       Glue circle on top of base on a white paper sheet. 4.     Colour the base at your ease. 5.     Decorate the snowglobe with your favourite,   characters,   landscapes… 6.      Cut it out...

 Next Thursday we´ll meet Marina with her HARRY POTTER STORYTELLING. Before that let´s have a look at some basic facts of both HOGWARTS and HARRY POTTER himself:         ORIGIN OF HOGWARTS AND THE FOUR HOUSES                      ABC OF HOWARTS (READ ALOUD)                                    HISTORY OF HARRY POTTER   Now you´re ready to colour your ties and do the wordsearch. Which house will be the winner?       HUFFLEPUFF?....GRIFFINDOR?...SLYTHERIN?... or  RAVENCLAW?  it all depends on you.