Les mégalithes de Carnac

Les alignements de Carnac sont situés dans Morbihan en Bretagne.

Il s'agit d'un site d'alignements mégalithiques exceptionnel constitué d'alignements de menhirs, de dolmens et d'allées couvertes et réparti sur plus de quatre kilomètres.

Les alignements de Carnac sont les ensembles mégalithiques les plus célèbres et les plus impressionnants de cette période avec près de 4 000 pierres levées.
La construction des alignements semble dater du milieu du IVe millénaire, dans la période de la Préhistoire dite du "Néolithique".

Christmas Bazaar this Saturday!

Histoire de l'art - Oeuvres étudiées

Voici un questionnaire concernant les oeuvres étudiées en Histoire de l'Art.
Tu peux le remplir seul ou avec tes camarades.

Merci d'avoir participé !

Final recounts - further clarification

Further to my mail and post yesterday can I just point out that the 4 or 5 photos for the kids' recount e-books should be from the same event, so that they can write one detailed recount about one event. 

Please also make sure that your child knows what photographs you will send. Discussing it with them and showing them the photos as you go along will make the whole process much easier and relevant for them.

Example:

Photo 1 - walking to the MRT station

Photo 2 - Arriving at Grand-ma's house

Photo 3 - Sitting down and eating lunch at the table

Photo 4 - Taking the dog for a walk in the park with Grand-ma after lunch

Photo 5 - Saying good bye to Grand-ma

Any questions, don't hesitate to ask.

Thanks.

The Water Cycle

The kids have been working on the water cycle for the past couple of weeks as you know. Last week they made a model to illustrate the cycle and some 

 remixed or made their own Bitstrip over the weekend too.. 

Many thanks to Elisa, Celine and Sophia for coming in and helping out with the model making. We couldn't have managed without you!

Final Recounts

As you know we have been working on writing recounts this term in English literacy. The kids have seen many different examples, picked them apart, re-written them from different points of views, written biographical and auto-biographical recounts. They have thought about and practised writing in greater detail and how to make their writing more interesting for the reader.  

It's time now for one last recount which they will write next week. I would like them to make an e-book using the iPads and then share these with each other, other classes and you. 

To make the e-book more interesting I have asked the children to include some photographs to go in their e-books. I expect they will need your help for this. 

Something the kids have learned about writing recounts is that they don't have to be about exciting or special events. They can be about something as simple as a meal with Grand-ma, buying a new pair of shoes or going for a swimming lesson so there is always something to write about!

If sometime between now and next Monday you could talk to your child about a recount they will write and then take some photos or lend them your smart phone so they can take a few pictures, then next week's literacy activities will be much more meaningful and enjoyable.

If you could e-mail the photos to me before Monday, I will store them somewhere for the kids to access when they need them. 

Thanks for your help, and I look forward to reading the children's final recounts in a few weeks time. 

Arte Journal Junior / 1jour1actu

Vous pouvez profiter des actualités sélectionnées et présentées pour les enfants sur :

ARTE Journal Junior (tous les jours en semaine)
http://info.arte.tv/fr/revoir-arte-journal-junior
Les vidéos sur : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXV7LUI7G1MaKRN18yQ5y7Q

Arte Junior - Le Mag (le dimanche)

La version longue du week-end, un peu plus difficile à trouver !
Il faut aller sur  http://www.arte.tv/guide/fr/emissions/JUN/arte-junior/?vid=058845-012_PLUS7-F puis descendre sur la page jusqu'à "(Re)voir les derniers programmes Junior". Il se trouvera parmi eux !

The weekly 14 mn-long version of the news. A bit harder to find: go to http://www.arte.tv/guide/fr/emissions/JUN/arte-junior/?vid=058845-012_PLUS7-F then scroll down until you see "(Re)voir les derniers programmes Junior" then you can find it among the few proposed videos.


1jour1actu (tous les jours en semaine)

Les documents écrits pour mieux comprendre sont sur : www.1jour1actu.com

Les vidéos sur : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLmlUMA_bGiMWWgfDwfNDgw

Les mosaïques de Saint-Romain en Gal

Dans l'antiquité, Saint-Romain-en-Gal, situé sur la rive droite du Rhône, était un vaste quartier résidentiel et commercial de la ville de Vienna, alors une des principales villes de la Gaule romaine.

Au XIXème siècle, on y découvre un nombre considérable de mosaïques.
Des fouilles archéologiques révèlent toute l’ampleur et la richesse de ce quartier.

Devant l’intérêt exceptionnel du site, le site est classé monument historique et bénéficie d'importants travaux de restauration.


La Mosaïque du calendrier agricole


Maintenant, Saint-Romain en Gal célèbre encore son passé antique en organisant des journées gallo-romaines au cours desquelles on peut découvrir la culture et la vie quotidienne d'il y a 1800 ans.

Les arènes d'Arles

Au début de l'année, en présentant le pont du Gard, nous avions pu voir les arènes de Nîmes dans un épisode de C'est pas sorcier.

En travaillant sur "La nuit étoilée" de Vincent Van Gogh, nous avions parlé d'Arles, la ville du Sud de la France dans laquelle il s'est installé en 1886, de nombreuses années avant les grands-parents d'Angeline.

Aujourd'hui, nous allons donc parler des arènes d'Arles.

Les Arènes d'Arles sont un amphithéâtre romain construit vers 80 ap. J.-C. / 90 ap. J.-C. et ont une longueur totale de 136 mètres, soit une dimension supérieure à celle des arènes de Nîmes. Cet édifice pouvait accueillir 25 000 spectateurs.

Construit pour les jeux, il reste en fonction jusqu’à la fin de l’Empire romain.
En 255, l'empereur Gallus y fait organiser des jeux en célébration des victoires remportées par ses armées dans les Gaules. Au début du ive siècle, Constantin y fait représenter de grandes chasses et des combats à l'occasion de la naissance de son fils aîné. Plus tard, Majorien y donne plusieurs spectacles. Enfin, en 539, Childebert, roi mérovingien de Paris, veut qu'on renouvelle en sa présence les jeux des romains antiques.

À la fin du VIème siècle, les arènes sont transformées en bastide, une sorte de forteresse sur laquelle on ajoute quatre tours et deux chapelles.
Petit à petit, ce théâtre devient une sorte de grand immeuble : 200 logements y sont contruits à l'intérieur !

En 1516, François Ier visite la ville et s’étonne de trouver ces belles arènes dans un si triste état.

Ce n'est qu'en 1830, 56 ans avant que Van Gogh ne vienne s'installer à Arles, que les gens qui habitent à l'intérieur sont expulsés et que les arènes retrouvent leur fonction initiale : celle d'être un lieu de fêtes et de jeux.

On y organise encore maintenant des courses de taureaux.

Cardboard Boxes

Hi - please remember to save any boxes you use at home or have ready to be recycled. The kids need one each for next Wednesday in order to make a water cycle model. The size of a cereal packet or shoe box is the perfect size. Thanks.

Bitstrips!

Our first Bitstrips are in the Gallery  ready for the rest of the class to look at and comment on. Well done to Rémi, Lucas, Claire and Evelien. I look forward to seeing lots more soon!

The class Gallery can be found here. 

Parallel lines, Perpendicular lines and the Water Cycle

We've started to look at shape this week in maths and the kids have first been learning about right angles, perpendicular and a parallel lines before we go into further details next week.. One of the tasks this week was to go out and about and find examples of all three.. Here are some of what they found..

You might like to keep an eye out for more examples when you're out and about..

In science, we have come back to the water cycle which is what we started just before I fell off my bike and was off for two weeks.. The children are familiar with the idea of the water cycle but we'll be looking in greater detail over the coming two or three weeks.. 

Here are a couple of songs which got them back in the mood this afternoon...

I asked the kids to start bringing boxes to school as soon as possible. Next week we will make water cycle dioramas. I'll provide everything we need except the boxes. Shoe boxes, cereal boxes or any other similar size boxes will be ideal. 

Bitstrips for Schools

Your child may have told you about Bitstrips over the weekend or you may know about it because you have a child in another class who has used it before. 

It's an on-line comic creator which can be used for all sorts of activities. It can be a fun way for the children to learn and has been very popular in the past. It takes a while to get the hang of manipulating the character, but in my experience, the children pick it up pretty quickly once they know the basics.

Comics can be 'graded' by me and sent back for amendments if it's a specific task, and kids are welcome to create their own for fun. Comics are shared in the class gallery where they can be commented on by the rest of the class members. 

Last week the kids logged in and created a password. They log in by simply entering the class code: CE2-2015, they then select their own names from the drop down tab, and then enter their own password. I suggested they use the same one as mathletics.

www.bitstripsforschools.com/

I've started the kids off today with a quick demonstration of how to create comic strips, and there is an assigned activity on their pages. If they haven't yet created their characters, they will automatically be taken to the page before they begin the activity. Please note that whilst it is not obligatory to create comics, sometimes I will set an activity for homework, and the more familiar your child is with creating comics, the more fun and beneficial it becomes. I will post a link to the gallery as soon as there is something to see.

Le Cirque

Le Cirque est un tableau de Georges Seurat peint en 1890 que l'on peut découvrir au Musée d'Orsay à Paris. 

Nous sommes ici plongés en plein cœur d'une piste de cirque où tout semble tourner autour de l'écuyère au centre du tableau. Quand on s'approche très près du tableau, on découvre qu'il est composé avec des milliers de points de couleur. 

Cette technique, le pointillisme, part du principe scientifique que notre œil a le pouvoir de reconstituer automatiquement les couleurs. Le peintre ne les mélange pas, il laisse notre œil faire le travail.

Comme cela demande beaucoup de travail et de temps, Georges Seurat n'aura pu faire que sept grand tableaux tout au long de sa vie !

Voici quelques vidéos parlant de ce tableau :

- D'Art d'Art :

- Une minute au musée :
(télécharger le fichier en cliquant sur l'image)

Recounts, Team Games and Measurements

The children have been working on length for the past 3 weeks during maths lessons in English. They have learnt about millimetres, centimetres, metres and the relationships which link them. They have learnt how to measure objects as well as lines, and express those lengths using different units of measurement (450mm = 45cm =  0.45m)

This week the children were challenged with making a half sized model of themselves with a partner. 

First they had to take measurements of various body parts, record the results then calculate the halves. Then they measured and cut up strips of paper and stapled them together accordingly, in order to produce a model which was half their size! 

Not an easy task, but I was pleased with the results. 

In English we have been continuing with the topic of writing recounts and this fortnight the children have written several. 

The first was based on some mixed up pictures of a couple of children winning a sand castle building competition, the emphasis was on the order which the events happened. 

The second was a recount of the trip to the astronomical museum. The emphasis was again on time words but also supporting sentences, to add information so that it was more than a list of events which took place. 

The third was about a boy, Ewan, who had been in  a swimming competition. The children were given two sentences which they had to add detail to so as to make the recount more detailed and interesting for the reader. 

Please take some time to read through your child's work this weekend. I think you'l be pleasantly surprised! Some excellent writing coming out of this unit.

In P.E this morning we did some more teamwork games. I'll leave it to the kids to explain what was going on in these photos...