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Fran & Patty

Isn`t gorgeous?

I really want to live in Finland. It’s a beautiful place to live. Also the members of my favourite band are from there. The only problem is the snow (it’s so cool), although I’ve never been in a place with that, because one of my dreams is to have a Christmas’s snow. Apart from that, they have a very beautiful nature; lakes, mountains, in which you can easily relaxed.

When I really don’t want to live is in a country located in Asia…any guess? Yes, India. I don’t like their costumes, maybe because of their religion. Even though their house’s furniture is gorgeous (variety of colours) it is the second country with over population, and I would not feel comfortable living in a place with so many people.

Low- risk activities`s article

After reading the article about "Low- risk activities" the author makes a very good point, not only about the activities for the school but also in our lives. It is a fact that we all have to risk important things such as decisions to create others, that is why he shows and explains us some different activities that many teachers consider as "normal ones".

But, it is important to considered that without support; some materials of class. The student`s learing is not going to move one, it is neccesary for the teacher itself to based his activities according to what he knows.

The author says that the first thing we have to do is to identify the real risk that take place in the classroom, he refers to the "language" a very important issue that many teachers are wondering how to deal with it in a better way for the student`s learning. There are some historical actitivies such as dictacion, group works and so on.

The author give us the challenge to be innovatives with our studens, in that way they would engange with whatever concept we want to achieve immediately.

*This is the first part..
as Sabrina says, this is our brainstorm

The speedy shrimp

I saw this very interesting video, is about Sheila Patek, she is a biologist reasearcher who try to explain us the measure of the movement that the mantis shrimp can make while he feed by himself.

She show us that also each animal has different characteristics in terms of speed when the mother nature act.

It is amazing that there are certain animals that we ussualy said that the speedy one is the jaguar. Allthough we forgot that the faster animal in the world is not the one who run fast, Sheila Patek explains that we can figure out that through the animal who can cath his prey as fast as it can.

Those movements we cannot see at simple view, a basic camera does not show exactly how -in this case the mantis shrimp- can made that move. Surely each of them emit different sounds according to the mesure but certainly it is because they have different levels of speed.

If you want more information, there is the page

I hope you like it ;-)

http://www.ted.com/index.php/speakers/sheila_patek.html

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/sheila_patek_clocks_the_fastest_animals.html

We can make it!

We already know that in third year we have to use different kind of words in terms of gramma, although there are some of them that we still writing. To be honest, even when I speack I use to say the same words, and as Barbara said in her blogger we have to use more vocabulary; new information, new conectors and so on.
I know that is hard, because some of us even if we have to write thousand words and we still writing "childrens", "people is", etc.
If I have to chose some of us to criticize her or his writing...that will be me, sometimes I write like spanish speakers for example when I have to write a sentence I use to repeat words or when I have many ideas to write a paragraph I do not put them in orden and maybe that is the reason of why people do not understand me.
In general I figure out that we have problems on speling and gramma, but I know that if we pratice more and more by our own we can make it.

Regards for all of you

Better understanding

Hello guys I could`not saw the videos from the page that Sabrina give us but..I found the same ones in youtube.
This is what I saw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hzrPNULYYQ a very interesting video. It`s a about a teacher who tries to make a difference while she is speaking, she asked to the children why she spoke faster or slow, the children`s answered suprised me, they know what the difficult to understad is if the teacher speaks in other way that children are not used to hear, or another posbility is the tone, if she spoke more exciting or not.
That called my atention because in our laboral experience generaly when we speak with children we use differents kind tones to speak to them, or expresions that represent more fun or better understanding.
I think when our speech is clear children pay attention, but what about if our speech is clear and at the same time we used expressions to show interest and fun, that would make them feel a connexion with us.
See you in class !

When is going to stop?

Hello, my name is Patricia, I`m writing this letter to show you my concern about how our society take the crime as an issue, that most of us are get use to look this, like something that ussualy happend, in other words, we show that it is not our concern because we can`t do nothing.

I realize that our laws are not equal for all of us, and most of them are unfair. If we want to stop the crime, you as Goverment should put in orden this law, to make severes punishments for those crimes that affects in all sense our society.

Nowadays are free criminals around us, most of them are young people even kids of 12 or 13 years old are in jail, and after one week and less they are free. Is there any security for us?. In my opinion, I don`t think so, just because they are young doesn`t mean that they are not going to commint the same crime.

Honestly there are many reassons proving that I`m right. If you create a law saying that the punishment for young criminals is going to be severe, for exalmple 5 years in jail if the person already commint the same crime, no days, allthough years. Criminals in general would think this twice before do something illegal, and all this not only for young people but for adults as well.

To sum up. Crime in Chile it is not longer in the Govermet hands, it is in our hands too, to teach and see what is right, maybe it is not enoght, but we must do something, I put an example about punishment, but it is not the only solution to fix all this, alltough there is another big issue called "education"....