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16 october 2014 – Day Food – Happy Monte Aventino School

FOOD WEEK / SEMANA DA ALIMENTAÇÃO

On the 17th October, Monte Aventino school invited parents and guardians to attend the closing session of the HEALHTY FOOD WEEK.

Under the topic EAT WELL, BE WELL, the students have selected healthy food recipes, have drawn a regional gastronomic map, have illustrated the topic WE ARE WHAT WE EAT, as well as they have assembled a giant food wheel.

Finally, in the afternoon, they prepared fruit juices and fuit brochettes, at the same time socializing with their parents and showing them how they have worked and what they have learned throughout the whole week.

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No dia 17 de outubro a escola de Monte Aventino convidou os pais e encarregados de educação dos seus alunos para o encerramento de uma semana dedicada à alimentação. Sob o tema “Eat well, Be well”,  os alunos selecionaram receitas de alimentação saudável, construiram um mapa com a gastronomia regional, ilustraram o tema “We are what we eat” e montaram uma roda de alimentos gigante.

Na tarde do último dia prepararam sumos naturais, espetadas de fruta e conviveram com os pais, mostrando também todo o tipo de trabalho realizado e os ensinamentos colhidos durante a semana.”

Building our Solar System

There came the day when we started to study about our Solar System and meet all the planets in it. Our favourite one – Earth, of course, because we live on it. But getting to know the other friends of Earth was a great challenge.

Especially, when you have to build them up! So, we combined creative recycling with science and guess what we created? 8 beautiful planets made up of old newspapers. We painted them afterwards and now they are waiting for us to order them in out own Solar System.

The workshop was fun, because we know how to learn and have fun in the same time!

World Book Day

Where to celebrate such a great day if not in a classroom? 

We entered the magnificent realm of the writers and imagine to be a writer for a day. What story would I write? What title would I choose? What cover would I draw for my book? So, we let go our imagination and started to create titles, stories, covers.

A great exercise of creativity! Be the writer of the story you would like to read!

We saw funny stories, adventure ones, stories about animals, fantasy and dreams coming true.

Come with us to the realm of magic and meet some of the youngest writers!

NEWS FROM 3B

When children have creativity they build beautiful things together. Our result for today is our first edition of our first newspaper.

It was hard, but we won and so the “EnglishKids” was born.

First, the name, then the logo and then learning how to write the news. The result is fabulous and you will see it soon in your homes.

      

 We are proud to be the first in our school to create a newspaper and we hope our colleagues will follow our example. The newspaper will soon be delivered to your house by your children and have the opportunity to enjoy our work.

And remember..our eyes and ears are open for new things that we can write about!

Waiting for news,

3B.

Means of transport

Every new subject we learn is connected to each other. We discover life on Earth through the human body, then through plants and animals and learn how food travels in the world.

Learning about food chains is a great adventure for the 3rd year, as it is for the 2nd year to learn about the means of transport.

We travel every day to school so we must know how we do it or how can we do it. We got to know the main means of transport so we started to work on that.

Learning about cars, buses, bikes, planes, hot air balloons is fun . Then , we learn about where they travel : on land, on or under the water and even in the air.

But the best part is when you built yourself a mean of transport and put the pieces all together.

Look how it looks like!

Understanding nature

Understanding nature.

Understanding nature

We understood how the human body works, but do we know how nature around us does?

Well, in order to do that we started with the plants. What are they? How do they help us? What can we do with them?

Plants are producers, they give us oxygen, they provide us food, but also pleasure. How can we use them? how do they grow? We discover the life cycle of a plant, we learned about their utility in everyday life, we studied the component parts of a plant. We also learned about the shape of leaves, and discover that some of them are always green.

But the most important lesson, is how plants can become our lunch. And, yes, we did that, enjoyed and ate a healthy salad.

Bom apetite!

  

Customs and Traditions – English Tea Party

The new semester started and brought us new subjects to learn about.

We started to discover the English culture, traditions and their best known custom – English Tea.

So, what was the best way for the best understanding of this custom?  Of course, the one of having our own English Tea Party.

After we learned about the royal family, we also got into the subject of tea custom : the way we can make the best cup of tea, how it can be served, etiquette when attending a tea party and,  of course,  learned about the order in which we have to eat the scones, savories and cookies.

We brought scones from home and shared them with our colleagues , ate them with butter and gem, and put milk in our tea as how English tradition requires it.

So, would you like a cup of tea?

English Tea

 

Christmas Party

The first semester is gone but not without any results. We added new things to our knowledge , we discovered new countries and made new friends and learned a lot of new subjects.

And because a great semester must end with a great party the children participated in a successful representation of dances, songs or musicals. Each of the classes had a unique act and performed it very well in front of a large audience that rewarded them with cheering and applause.