Last day of spring week! Beatles special!

Hello kids!
I think the perfect ending for spring week is to have a Beatles special! Love songs by The Beatles, one for each year they were together. Enjoy them!

"Love me do" (1962)



"All my loving" (1963)



"Eight days a week" (1964)



"I've just seen a face" (1965) (PERSONAL FAVOURITE OF MINE!!!)



"Here, there and everywhere" (1966)



"All you need is love" (1967)



"I will" (1968) (ANOTHER PERSONAL FAVOURITE!)



"Something" (1969)



"Two of us" (1970)

Spring week is finishing! Today, love songs to sing along to!

Hey kids!
Spring week is coming to an end, and today I'd like to share with you two songs I love to sing.

"Can't help falling in love" by UB40



"Stuck with you" by Huey Lewis & The News (Super cute 80's song, show it to your parents!)



Same song, live in concert:



Get ready for the Beatles special tomorrow!

Spring week, day 5: Queen special!

Today's post will be dedicated to Queen!
First, by popular demand, two very well-known songs. They're both a little sad, actually, but oh so beautiful!

"Love of my life" (amazing performance at Wembley, in 1986)



"Somebody to love"



Now, two less popular songs:

"You're my best friend" (If you google the lyrics you'll see it is really about love.)



"I was born to love you" (This song is by Freddie Mercury as a solo artist, not by Queen. It has one of my favourite song beginnings!!! The video is actually kind of cheesy, don't you think?)



I hope you like them!

Oldies attack!!!

On day 4 of Spring Week, I'd like to show you 3 of my favourite oldies. (Oldies are old songs!) As you probably know already, I like many different kinds of music!!!
Show them to your parents, aunts, uncles and grandparents and see if they know them!

"You send me" by Sam Cooke. This song was written in 1957! And it was Sam Cooke's first single.



"I only have eyes for you" by The Flamingos. They recorded this song in 1959, but it was actually written in 1934! The images in the video are from a movie called "American Graffiti".



"Let's stay together" by Al Green. He wrote this song in 1972, but in the video he's performing it live in 1978. Check out the clothes, and the hair!



I hope you like them!

Today, an upbeat song about love!

Especially requested by Fede, if I remember correctly, here's a song I love dancing to!

Mika, "Love today"



I hope you like it!

Spring celebration!!!

Hi kids!
I had so much fun today!!!

Here are the songs that we learned today in the spring celebration:

"Love is all around" by Wet Wet Wet



"Everybody needs somebody to love" by The Blues Brothers



Enjoy them!!!

Spring is here!!!

And to celebrate, I want to show you a song that I love. And it's about love and spring!
It begins like this:

Bring out the charge of the love brigade
There is spring in the air once again
Drink to the sound of the song parade
There is music and love everywhere
Give a little love to me
Take a little love from me,
I want to share it with you
I feel like a millionaire

Here's the original song:



And here's Queen singing it in a concert:



And here you can watch Freddie Mercury singing another Queen favourite of mine, "Crazy little thing called love".

Happy spring!!!

Weird animals!!!

I hope I don't scare you with this...


It IS kind of scary, isn't it?
For more strange animals, go to this page:
My own (borrowed) menagerie

Colour explosion!!!

Kids! Check this out!


EepyBird's Sticky Note experiment from Eepybird on Vimeo.

Now I want to be in a Sticky Note party!!

Love is in the air!

I don't know about you, but when spring approaches I always feel happy! And I think about love :)
To celebrate the coming of spring, why don't we share some beautiful music? Love songs, of course!
So, what are your favourite love songs? I want to know!
This is one of mine:



And here you can watch Paul McCartney singing it live in a concert.

I think these are probably the sweetest lines ever written!

Astronomy videos!

As we get ready to start reading "The Knight at Dawn", here are the videos we watched while we were working on the astronomy project. You can watch the first two at their original web page (Videojug) by clicking on the names of the videos.

The Planets Explained (from Videojug):



What Is The Moon? (from Videojug):



And here are links to the last two videos we watched:
Our Solar System and beyond: The beginning (from HowStuffWorks)
When the Sun becomes a red giant star (from HowStuffWorks)

Enjoy them!

A new picture by David!

Hi kids! I hope you all had a great weekend!
Here's the picture David made last Friday:


Cool, isn't it?

And here's a close-up:


Maybe we could think of ideas to suggest to him for the Fridays to come!
See you tomorrow!

Jack Black from "School of Rock", singing and dancing

Hi kids! Today I was correcting the story with Pablo, Juli and Damián. I don't remember how we started talking about the movie "School of Rock", and I remembered a video I watched last week on YouTube.
Let me explain: There's a singer called Gladys Knight, who sings with three men, they sing the choruses of her songs. The band is called Gladys Knight and The Pips and one of their most famous songs is "Midnight train to Georgia".
In the final show of American Idol, Jack Black and two other actors pretended to be the singers of this band, and they danced and sang on the show!!!

I think that the way they dance is really funny! What do you think?

Awesome paintings!!!

Today some kids and I went to computing before lining up to go home, and I showed them this website: http://www.loriearley.com/home/
It belongs to an artist named Lori Earley, who makes amazing paintings!!!
Check these ones out, for example:


If you click on "gallery", you can explore her different paintings.
In "prints" you'll quickly find two of her paintings called "Denise" and "Anabelle"!
And in "F.A.Q.s" (Frequently Asked Questions) she explains how she creates such incredible art!!!
I hope you like her creations!

Will an asteroid hit the Earth?

While working on the astronomy project, some of the children told the rest of the class that they had read about an asteroid that's going to hit the Earth. Scary idea, isn't it?

Well, check this page:
Is the Earth targeted for an impact?

I feel relieved now!

Our very own artist!

Three weeks ago, David started making one of his great drawings on the blackboard while we were all getting ready for the hajana. And Marie had an idea: why not have a new picture each Friday?
So, for your viewing pleasure, here are the 3 awesome pictures David has made so far:

On August 22nd:



Last Friday:


And today!

Welcome!

Hi kids! Welcome to the long-awaited 5th form blog!
I've been thinking about how to begin... Why not by sharing things that make us smile?
I invite you to write in the "comments" section about something we did that you liked, a memory that makes you smile, anything that makes you feel happy!
I'll start:
Something that brings an instant smile to my face is to imagine Dylan grabbing his head when he realizes he's forgot something! :)

I know that having teachers tell you this may be kind of embarrassing, but anyway:
I LOVE YOU!