Hello and welcome. This website is meant to serve as a temporary platform to find material for students at CEIP Isaac Albéniz in Chamartín, Madrid during the mandated school closure from March 11 until regular school hours resume. Above, you can find the material for each grade in the navigation bar at the top of the page. If you should have additional questions, please visit the official school site at https://www.educa2.madrid.org/web/centro.cp.albeniz.madrid. You can also contact your student's teacher via email or contact the school by telephone at 91 3596972.
Earth Day is celebrated on April 22nd each year to encourage people to reflect on their impact on the enviroment and enjoy the planet we call home! There are many things we can do as individuals that can make a BIG impact on the globe. For example, to use less plastic, we can reduce, reuse, and recycle. To use less water, we can turn off the water when we brush our teeth. To use less electrcity, we can turn of the lights when we leave a room.
What else can you do to help the planet become a healthier place?
The American Museum of Natural History
A message from the European Space Agency, ESA
Happy Learning: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Earth Day Celebrations Around the World
March 20, 2020
"Today’s Doodle recognizes Hungarian physician Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis, widely attributed as the first person to discover the medical benefits of handwashing. On this day in 1847, Semmelweis was appointed Chief Resident in the maternity clinic of the Vienna General Hospital, where he deduced and demonstrated that requiring doctors to disinfect their hands vastly reduced the transmission of disease." - GoogleDoodles
April Fools Day is on April 1st every year. It is an unofficial, but very widely practiced holiday that celebrates jokes and pranks. The holiday is celebrated in the UK, Ireland, Poland, Nordic countries, Italy, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Ukraine, Lebabnon, and Israel. It is not everyone's favorite holiday because a lot of people don't like being pranked or surprised. The jokester normally exposes their joke by shouting "April Fools!" at the recipient. The jokes can be small or big. Sometimes mass media like newspapers, radio stations, and TV stations will create fake stories on April 1st to prank the entire audience. For example, a radio station in the US pretended that there was an alien invasion on Earth one year and many people thought it was real. Another example is when the BBC aired a story that penguins could fly, when, in reality, penguins can't fly. Read the History.com article below and watch the videos to get a better idea of what the holiday is like and how it is celebrated. Remember, April Fools Day is the most important holiday EVER... APRIL FOOLS!!!
This month we celebrate Saint Patrick's Day in the USA and around the entire world. Below, you can watch a kid, Willem, explain the holiday.
Here are some videos of my favorite Celtic group, Anúna. They mainly sing Irish folk songs. The first two songs are sung in Irish. "Fionnghuala" is a woman's name that was very popular in medieval Ireland and is still used today, though it is spelled differently. I have an Irish friend named Fionnuala! The song "Dúlamán" is about gathering seaweed, which Irish people have done through history for various purposes such as fertiliser, bathing, and food. "Gaudete" is a sacred Christmas song sung in Latin and it means "Rejoice". The fourth video is of an irish step dance group called "Riverdance" performing at the Eurovision song contest in 1994. Irish step dance is a style of dance that is rather popular in the USA.
This final video on the left is by a group called Celtic Woman. It is an Irish folk song sung in English called, "Spanish Lady". It is sung from the perspective of someone observing a Spanish Lady as she does various things around the city of Dublin.
I reccommend listening to more Celtic music becuause it is a beautiful style of music that has a rich histoy in Irish culture. Happy Saint Patrick's Day, everyone!
Emily