A Beantime Story - "Two brave pixies"

Visit "Beantime stories" whose mission is, among others, 
to share the characters and stories of the island of Meddybemps.

'READING CONTEST' RESULTS

This year the 'Reading Contest' was held on 28th March to encourage the love of books
and boost children's literacy.  The contest, for the sixth graders, had its focus on the story:
Frogwarts and the Easter eggs by Jerry Jindrich.

 

The 'Reading Contest' team winner is (from left to right):
Beatriz Esteves, Sara Guimarães and Maria Silva.





The participants received Certificates and the winners received an adventure book in English and small tokens.
The teachers of English didn't forget that: "Children should always have a book on the go.
[...] The difference in achievement between children who read for half an hour a day in their spare time
and those who do not is huge" (Gibbs, 2012)



'Spelling Contest' - 2nd Term Winners



Our School held the 2nd Term 'Spelling Contest' on 28th March 2011, under the theme: Countries and Nationalities.
The teachers Ângela Gonçalves (on the left) and Ana Ferreira ( on the right) were the jury.





THE CONTEST RESULTS

5th Grade

Ana Carolina Silva

Beatriz Machado

Gustavo Mendes

Iara Costa

6th Grade

Beatriz Esteves

Beatriz Silva

Francisca Weber

Maria Inês Oliveira

Sabrina Raposo

Vasco Leonardo






  

Degrees of adjectives

Hot Cross Buns - Nursery Rhyme song

Easter Chocolate Eggs

On Easter Sunday, people give chocolate eggs as presents. These eggs started in Europe in the early ninettenth century and came to Britain in the 1870s. Today some of the eggs are empty, others have small chocolates inside; some are very small, some very big.

Easter Egg Hunt

Some parents tell their children that the Easter Rabbit hides the eggs in the garden. 
The chidren must go outside and look for them.

Easter eggs

"Eggs are an important part of Easter because they mean spring and new life. One Easter tradition is ‘egg-rolling’. People decorate eggs with different colours, then take the eggs to the top of a hill and the eggs roll down. The first egg to get to the foot of the hill is the winner."
Jackie Maguire - Seasons and Celebrations. Oxford: University Press, 1997, p. 7.

Easter Greetings

"Many animals and birds are born in the spring. So when people start to send Easter cards in the nineteenth century, the cards often had baby sheep, rabbits or birds on them."
Jackie Maguire - Seasons and Celebrations. Oxford: University Press, 1997, p. 7.

    "Easter is the most important festival in the church year: more importat than Christmas. It begins with Good Friday which is the day the Romans killed Jesus Christ, in Jerusalem, about two thousand years ago.

   Two days later, on Easter Sunday, Christmas believed that Jesus returned to life.

   Easter is now a Christian festival but the word 'Easter' comes from 'Eostre', the pagan godess of spring. easter Day is teh Sunday after the first full moon after the first day of spring (21st March). It is different every year , but always between 22nd March and 25th April."

Jackie Maguire - Seasons and Celebrations. Osforf: University Press, 1997, p. 6.

Easter Hot Cross Buns

Many people eat hot cross buns at Easter.  These are small loaves of bread, made with fruit and spices, and they have a cross on top. These traditional spiced buns are served as a classic at Easter time.
See the recipe for hot cross buns here from BBC Food.


"In many historically Christian countries, buns are traditionally eaten hot or toasted on Good Friday, with the cross standing as a symbol of the Crucifixion. They are believed by some to pre-date Christianity, although the first recorded use of the term "hot cross bun" was not until 1733; it is believed that buns marked with a cross were eaten by Saxons in honour of the goddess Eostre (the cross is thought to have symbolised the four quarters of the moon);'Eostre' is probably the origin of the name 'Easter'." in Wikipedia


DID YOU KNOW?
Some people believe that sharing a hot cross bun with another is supposed to ensure friendship throughout the coming year, particularly if "Half for you and half for me, Between us two shall goodwill be" is said at the time.
 in Wikipedia