Don't be foolish..... Prank a fool!!!

As we have seen at the class, today is April Fools' day, a special day celebrated every year on 1 April by playing practical jokes and spreading hoaxes. The jokes and their victims are called April fools. People playing April Fool jokes expose their prank by shouting April Fool. 

Some newspapers, magazines, and other published media report fake stories, which are usually explained the next day or below the news section in small letters. Although popular since the 19th century, the day is not a public holiday in any country.

28 December, the equivalent day in Spain and Hispanic America, is also the Christian day of celebration of the "Day of the Holy Innocents". The Christian celebration is a holiday in its own right, a religious one, but the tradition of pranks is not, though the latter is observed yearly. After somebody plays a joke or a prank on somebody else, the joker usually cries out, in some regions of Ibero-America: Inocente palomita que te dejaste engañar ("You innocent little dove that let yourself be fooled").

There are many examples of false-news in media, for instance, social networks as Twitter and Facebook, TV, radios and also important Newspapers.

Now, I propose you a sort list of pranks to use celebrating the April Fools' day:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/mikespohr/awesome-april-fools-day-pranks-your-kids-will-totally-fal#.vymlWal6z

• Fill your family's toes with paper.

• A mashed potato sundae also makes for quite the surprise.

• Put dye pellets under the cap of the faucet:

• Cover the remote season with a piece of tape.

• Everything with eyes in the refrigerator, an awkward situation:

• Put some Jell-o in a glass, it will seem a fruit juice:

And a Classic prank, tape an air horn to the wall next to the door.

Moreover, if you want to know more activities related with this funny day, you can visit 

Pinterest April Fools´Day

Limericks for St. Patrick's day...

One fun, easy and literary way to celebrate St. Patrick's Day is sing limericks together. A limerick is a witty or nonsensical poem that is short and simple, so kids, tweens and adults alike can all write and sing them.  Limericks are meant to be humorous and while they are often bawdy, you can leave that aspect out if the kids are around.

FamousLiteraryWorks.com explains that the word "limerick" as derives from the Irish town of Limerick. Apparently a pub song or tavern chorus based on the refrain 'Will you come up to Limerick?' where, of course, such bawdy songs or 'Limericks' were sung.

Here are some facts about Limerick:

• Limerick is both a city and a county in Ireland;
• Limerick is the fifth largest city in Ireland with a population of approximately 60,000;
• The River Shannon runs through the center of Limerick;

• Limerick is the setting for Angela's Ashes, Frank McCourt's best-selling memoir;
• King John's Castle is located on King's Island in Limerick. Built in 1210, this is a perfect example of fortified Norman architecture in Ireland;

• You can read about the city's St. Patrick's Day Plans in the Limerick Leader.

http://www.chicagonow.com/tween-us/2013/03/write-limericks-st-patricks-day-activity-poem-kids-family/

Now, the Leprechaun's Limerick for St. Patrick's Day:

There once was a green leprechaun,
Who jigged with his pointy shoes on,
To the left and the right,
He could jig through the night,

Til the break of St. Patrick's Day dawn.

Now, some stuff for you, many types of tasks and exercises for enjoying St. Patrick's day:

• Learn how to draw a Leprechaun.

• Draw Saint Patrick.

• Colouring pages

• St.Patrick´s Day Crafts

• Bookmarks

• Writing papers:

• Acrostic:

• Grid copy puzzles:

• Fuse bead patterns:

• Mazes:

• Shamrocks:

Valentine's day

The 14th of February is Valentine's Day, and as all we know, the lovers day.

We are children and we love many people, as our teachers, friends, family....

Here you have an interesting video explaining the history of V´s day:

Mr. Mike and his puppet recorded a cute and useful video talking about Valentine´s day too

Do you know who is Cupid? He is a famous person from Valentine's Day. In Roman mythology Cupid is the son of Venus, goddess of love. His counterpart in Greek mythology is Eros, god of love. Cupid is often said to be a mischievous boy who goes around wounding both gods and humans with his arrows, causing them to fall in love.


If you want to, you can play some games and activities related with Valentine´s day. Just click the images:

The World Peace day

Hello and welcome to our celebration!! Next Monday, 1st of February, we will celebrate the Wold Peace Day in CEIP Virginia Pérez.
Among some activities, we will sing and perform the Alvaro Soler's "El mismo sol".

With music to elsewhere

Three awesome artists visited us yesterday.
They performed many songs with their instruments and we also danced a vals with their rhythm.
The "Master" recorded many incredible moments of the performance and created a video:

And we were begging for listening the Super Mario Bros Soundtrack, so here we have it!!!!

And my favourite one, when Super Mario dies....

School trip and connivance in Regional Park Calblanque

Today, we visited the Regional Park Calblanque just near El Algar, an incredible place full of natural species, special ways through the mounts and with extremely awesome beaches.

We enjoyed a walking through the  park, many physical games with the teachers and families and finally, we came back to the school.

If you click the photo, you'll enter the the album with many photos of the activity.

Finally, I'd like to share with you the song that I've been singing all over the activity, I'm sure that you'll appreciate it:

Visiting museums in Cartagena

There are many special events and activities organised in museums around the world and also in Cartagena, so why not take this opportunity to visit the ARQUA to you? Here is some key vocabulary to help you out:

a curator – a person who oversees and manages a museum and its collections

The curator is an expert in her field.

a tour guide – a person employed to show tourists around places of interest

Our tour guide was very informative!

preservation – to maintain something in its original or existing state

As The Roman Boats over 3000 years old, there are many people working on its preservation.

an exhibition – a public display of works of art or items of interest held in a museum or gallery for people to see

I would like to visit the Sherlock Holmes exhibition at the ARQUA Museum  in October.

an admission fee – the fee charged to enter a place

Many museums in Cartagena do not have admission fees.

a donation – something that you give in order to help a person or organisation

There is a recommended donation of 2 Euros.

 an artifact (artefact – UK) – an object made by a human being, of cultural or historical interest

By exhibiting artifacts from the past, museums can teach us a lot about different periods in history.

a collection – a group of accumulated paintings, documents, or artifacts grouped together by a particular theme

The British Museum collection totals at least 8 million objects.

cultural – relating to the arts and to intellectual achievements

Visiting a museum is an example of a fun cultural activity.

a gift shop – a shop that sells items appropriate as gifts

My favourite thing about a trip to a museum is visiting the gift shop!

to wander (around) – to walk slowly across or around an area, usually without clear purpose.

You can find more information in http://www.kaplaninternational.com/blog/quick-english-visiting-a-museum/

And http://museoarqua.mcu.es

If you want to watch our incredible photos taken today, you only have to click the Photo

An animation with some of our pictures, made by Google photos:

And a video made with some of the photos of our album, do you like it?

Watching live sport, Volleyball in El Algar..

The teachers gave us a surprise last Friday. Just in our sport pavilion, we watched a Volleyball match in which A.D. Algar Surmenor played an exciting game. We enjoyed a lot, performing with a "big drum", supporting the team, clapping a lot and finally, celebrating the win.

Painting the walls, coloring our school, drawing the future...

Such an interesting days!!! We painted some walls in our school, and there were artists drawing amazing shapes and pictures for us.

Teachers encouraged us to be creative and use different colors in order to leave our "sign".

Click Here to visit the album with photos of our activity.

Emotional intelligence

Today, master Pepe visited us to help us with our emotions, our behaviour and our self steem. It is called "emotional intelligence" and we learned a lot of things about feelings, respect the others, respect ourself...

We were telling virtues and defects of ourself and of the rest of the classmates.

Finally, we watch a video in which there were a lot of people doing something good for helping the others.

Carnival time at School!!

Today was an exciting day for us, it was our carnival party!!!!

We got dress up with many different costumes, medieval dresses, traffic signs, Jedi Knights, athletes, tale's characters,  superheroes or trimmed characters.... We enjoyed a lot..

If you want to take a look in today's photo album, just Click here