Language can link kids beyond frontiers

Good evening.
As you know,October is considered (at school) to be a month to raise some money for those countries whose kids are deprived of their basic rights.
There was a campaign last week to raise awareness of the importance of cooperation.
English is a language and,therefore,the means to relate to kids all over the world.
That is the reason why kids in 4° have started writing two letters to send them to two girls who suffered devastation after the floodings in Haiti,a few years ago.They are also 9 like them and we will send those letters as soon as we finish them next week.We are all sure they will make them smile when they get them.
Thank you,kids!

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Monsters and Mythology in films, songs and literature. 6º approach to Halloween

Good evening.
 I hope you enjoy the link below to a Google Drive document which one of our students in 6º has written. It is  about a funny film  called Hotel Transylvania.
You should have a look!
Thanks, Julia!


Julia´s Review. HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA (CLICK ON THIS LINK)
Trailer (Click on this link)

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Halloween

Welcome to this blog after a long break.

Halloween is here at last and as I do every single year,I'll give my view on it.

I was raised into a generation to which Halloween was something only to be seen in American films of the late 70s and 80s.

However,I was lucky enough as to end up living in Northern Ireland,where the Halloween tradition as an evolution of the Shamáin Celtic festival is supposed to have been originated at first.

Halloween is not an American tradition but one the Irish immigrants brought into the States.

I learned about all that during my stay near Londonderry (or Derry) for Halloween.When you walk through fields,next to graves in churches in the city centre,covered by the mist and with ravens as pedestrians,waiting on traffic lights posts to cross the road,then Halloween makes sense.

Therefore,I do not believe in the "imported" Halloween through mass media but in that ancient festival Celts were fond of.

I'll stick to gachas and buñuelos,what really makes sense to me in my culture.

Here I post a link to what Halloween should be here,something deprived of terror.Liam Neeson,an actor from Northern Ireland and Count Drakko,one of my childhood heroes.

Enjoy the video

(PINCHAD EN EL ENLACE).

Como curiosidad,Drakko hace un guiño a una de las composiciones más famosas del norteamericano 

Glenn Miller's 'Pennsylvania 6-5000' ...aqui a modo de Transilvania

 6-5000

Counting Halloween style.Good fun!

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