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In the previous post, we read about optical illusions. Sometimes we see, hear or read something and we interpret it in our own way, but if you don’t have all the information you can get the wrong idea. It’s like looking at a picture though a little hole. You need to see the complete picture to understand it properly.

In this TV commercial for a daily newspaper from the 1980′s, this is expressed very clearly.

Our eyes can play tricks on our brain when we look at something. The brain perceives something differently to what it really is. These are called optical illusions.

If you look at this image, it looks like the circles are moving, but they are not – they are static!

Click here to see more optical illusions.

January is a time for sales, this is when shops reduce the prices to sell the winter stock to make space for the new spring stock. Sometimes you can find real bargains. A bargain is something that has been reduced to a much lower price.
Click here for some activities that you can do to practice shopping vocabulary.

The year 2012 is here and in London the New Year celebrations were extra special because this year London will be hosting the 2012 Olympics.

The fireworks were amazing! Watch the video and see for yourself.

Where did you celebrate the start of the New Year?

Leave a comment and tell us.

The Science Museum in London is an amazing place. It is full of interesting things and there are many interactive activities. It really is fascinating. If you haven’t had the chance to visit it, then you can go to their website and play some of their online games. Click here or on the image.

Today is International Diabetes Day. Diabetes is an illness that affects many adults and children but it doesn’t have to be a problem if you know how to control it.

A healthy diet is very important for diabetics because the body can’t control the way it processes the nutrients as normal. So some diabetics can control ther illness by what they eat and others have to take special medication to help the body function properly. There are two types of Diabetes: Type 1 and Type 2.

To learn more about Diabetes, click here

Today is Remembrance Day and we remember those who have died or have been injured in wars around the world.

People in the UK and some other countries wear red poppies as a symbol of remembrance. The reason they wear them is because after World War I ended in 1918, red poppies started growing in the field where the battles had taken place.

This week red poppies made of paper and plastic are distributed to collect money for injured and disabled soldiers. On Sunday the Queen will lead the Remembrance Sunday procession and lay a wreath of red poppies at the Centoaph War Memorial, in London.

Healthy eating is a very important part of our lives. We all love to eat sweets and chocolates but remember to maintain a balanced diet by eating foods from the 5 main food groups. In Science, we are learning about nutrition and healthy eating. Here are some games for you to play and have fun while you learn about food! Click here

Here are the results of our TV Survey. It’s quite interesting, click on the images to enlarge.

Television (TV): meaning: “far sight”: Greek tele (τῆλε), far, and Latin visio, sight  Images are usually accompanied by sound. TV is a very good way to learn a language and I recommend to all of you who are learning English to put the american/english programmes in its original language so you can learn perfectly well the pronounciation. Whenever I can I put my TV in English because it is better.

I love TV but I don’t watch it too often. Please comment if you liked my post!!!

Television is a part of our life, it brings the world into our home but we can choose what we watch and how much we let it become a part of our life. Here you can complete our survey to help us get a general idea of TV habits.

When you complete the survey, click on FINISH SURVEY to send your results, but DON’T CREATE A NEW SURVEY. This is NOT necessary and obliges you to create an account.

After you can leave comments about your TV habits or preferences.

Halloween is here again and we love to dress up and have fun!

When you blog you should use a nickname or username that identifies you but keeps your personal details private. (This is something that we must always remember when we use the Internet) When you leave a comment on a blog you can also have an avatar (this is a symbol or image that also identifies you) but it is best not to use a real photo of yourself.

Instead you can create your own avatar, either by customizing a photo or image, or designing your own logo. Some people use cartoon images, animals or photos with special effects, another idea is to use an image of a part of your face or your foot, or hand. It’s fun to create your own avatar, and when you do it  you should make it something that relates to you in some way.

Picnik is a good website that lets you upload your own image or photo and then add special effects.

Shrink Pictures is a website that lets you make pictures smaller for avatars.

We love to watch videos about animals, they are so interesting and there are some fascinating documentaries that show us how animals live. But what is funny is to see animals doing things that we don’t expect. Watch this video of a panda and see what happens…

If you want to watch pandas live in action, then click here to go to the San Diego Zoo webcam. (But remember that in San Diego it’s 9 hours earlier than Spanish time)

Blogging is a great way to share news, opinions and ideas and the best thing about blogs is that we can all contribute them by leaving comments on posts.

Comments make blogging fun and encourage a form of communication that is safe and easy, but there are some important points to remember when you leave a comment.

•    Don’t include personal information in your comment.
•    Make your comments positve and relevant to the post.
•    Be polite and respectful.
•    Take care with your spelling and vocabulary.
•    Include the link to your school blog.

Look at these adorable mini-pig piglets. They are so cute!

Can you imagine having one of these as a pet?

Adult mini-pigs can reach a weight of up to 70 kgs and a height of 50cm.

For more interesting pictures and news, go to the Newsround website.

Look at these songs and tell me if you like them.

Hello everybody,

I can see that 5th year primary is on the blog and at some time you will be doing posts.

Welcome to the blog and I hope you like it ,there are a lot of interesting things, some more than others but really it doesn’t matter because you learn a lot of English and Science.

I hope you read my post .

Welcome to the blog!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Do you know how to make funny faces???????

I am going to show you

1.Press shift:

2.Keep it pressed and now press   (dos puntos)

3.Again you press shift and later  brackets (parentesis).

If you go to vote for the best football team and if you go to rebe you willl see.

Please write comments!!!!!!!!!!!!

Last year, we were in 6th grade and we were the oldest of Primary but now, even though we are the youngest of Secondary, we are very big now!!

I love our new teachers and our new subjects and everything although on the first day of school I was very nervous. We all got lockers and got really confused when the time to open our lockers finally came. Nobody knew how to open those lockers. Everyone was very nervous because it couldn’t open. Now I can open my locker really fast, but I still get confused with the classes.

Please comment!!

In our 5th Year Arts & Crafts class we have been looking at the work of Piet Mondrian. Piet Mondrian was born in the Netherlands in 1872. He died in 1944, and created about 250 paintings in his lifetime.

The paintings that Piet Mondrian is most famous for are rectangles of white and primary colors, dissected by black lines. However, he did not always paint this way. Mondrian’s first paintings showed scenes found in real life. They were done in a style similar to impressionism. As his style grew and changed, he began to use only the three primaries: red, yellow, and blue.

During World War I (1914-1919), he became friends with some other artists and together they began the new movement,De Stijl. The movement was called De Stijl because that was the name of the journal that Mondrian and his friends started. They called the movement neoplasticism and today both names are correct.