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• 6. House of sticks: We made it stick!

  By miliscosceria on December 6, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  Our house of sticks is finally ready! After many more hours than we had ever anticipated the house is ready and sitting in the playground at Punta Chica. The children enjoyed playing in it during the last couple of days… Read More ›

• Roald Dahl 8: We have reached the end!

  By miliscosceria on December 6, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  The final steps of our project are ready! Students created a  mural  and a picture book with the drawings of their favourite Roald Dahl characters. They also brought their favourite Roald Dahl book in Spanish and we are ready to… Read More ›

• Roald Dahl 7: A new member tags along!

  By miliscosceria on December 5, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  After working together with Greta in the final aspects of our project, she has become a member of the team. Welcome Greta! And thank you for your help in all the aspects concerning the mural and the book!

• Roald Dahl 6: Behind the scenes! Our learning journey to create the virtual museum.

  By miliscosceria on November 16, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  Here is a step-by-step summary of all the work we have been doing behind our virtual museums. We hope you enjoy it! Meeting the author. In order to know more about Roald Dahl, we read about his life and created… Read More ›

• Roald Dahl 5: We became digital illustrators! Merging Felicitas Tomkinson’s technique with Quentin Blake’s.

  By miliscosceria on November 3, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  We invited Greta Beeh, our Art teacher, as an expert to help us recreate Quentin Blake’s technique digitally. During the Art lesson, 4th graders used an app called “Pen and Ink: A watercolour notebook” to create a digital illustration of… Read More ›

• Roald Dahl 4: Stop, Think, Act!

  By miliscosceria on October 26, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  We decided to make a stop and analyze the  work done up to now in our Virtual Museums. We used the colours of the traffic lights to assess our work: Green: My museum design looks great and everything works well… Read More ›

• Roald Dahl 3: We received the visit of an expert!

  By miliscosceria on October 24, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

   

• 4. House of sticks: Making it stick!

  By miliscosceria on October 11, 2016 • ( 1 )

  

  Punta Chica, First Grade HOUSE OF STICKS project update: We have been making progress with our House of Sticks, changing plans as we go… adapting what we thought would work best to what actually works best… solving problems as they… Read More ›

• Roald Dahl author study 2: Making a difference through literature

  By miliscosceria on September 13, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  When starting our project, we came across an amazing online application called emaze (www.emaze.com) that provides the students with the possibility of showing their work in a more suitable way, giving them the opportunity of “touring” the museum. This fact… Read More ›