The Blog » Sessions http://corunablog.com learn English and have fun! Mon, 26 Jul 2010 17:58:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 Our Recycled Art http://corunablog.com/2010/05/25/our-recycled-art/ http://corunablog.com/2010/05/25/our-recycled-art/#comments Tue, 25 May 2010 14:26:48 +0000 Conchi http://theblog.coruna.es/?p=736 In our last The Blog Workshop we created our own works of art from recycled material. Here  is a show of our work.

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This week’s The Blog Workshop is about Creative Recycling.

We want you to bring recycled material which we will use to make something new.

You can bring:

  • old newspapers and magazines / periodicos y revistas viejas
  • old birthday cards and postcards/ tarjetas de felicitación o viajes
  • scraps of fabric /retales de tela
  • scraps of wrapping paper / restos de papel de regalo
  • ribbons / lazos o cintas
  • glitter / purpurina
  • photos / fotos
  • images / imagenes
  • leaflets / material publicitario

*Remember: Bring flat material / Traer material plano

Click here to play the Recycling Game

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Here are some pictures of the last session.
The Blog Workshop on PhotoPeach

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Click on the images to enlarge.

]]> http://corunablog.com/2010/03/28/your-inventions/feed/ 1 Great Inventions http://corunablog.com/2010/03/17/great-inventions/ http://corunablog.com/2010/03/17/great-inventions/#comments Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:31:23 +0000 Conchi http://corunablog.edublogs.org/?p=630 The next Blog Workshop session is going to be about “Inventions”.  Some of the great inventions in history make our lives much easier. What would we do without electricity? Medicines? The telephone? Computers?

Send in a comment to tell us which inventions are the greatest or if you have any inventions of your own…

Wallace and Grommit are a dynamic duo of  inventors. You have probably seen their films which are very funny, they are full of crazy inventions. You can help them in this game!

quiz

If you want to test your knowledge about inventions, then try this quiz. Just click on the image and answer the questions.

Don’t forget to get your invitations for the Blog Workshop and get thinking about inventing something new yourself!!

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Remember to send your photos to corunablog@gmail.com to enter The Blog Photo Competition.


All photos will be displayed on The Blog for you to vote and the winner will receive a prize.

]]> http://corunablog.com/2010/02/25/photo-tricks/feed/ 1 The Blog Photo Competition http://corunablog.com/2010/02/16/518/ http://corunablog.com/2010/02/16/518/#comments Tue, 16 Feb 2010 22:43:44 +0000 Conchi http://theblog.coruna.es/?p=518 The Blog Phtoto Comp galego2 The next Blog Workshop Session will be about photography and we will be working with phtographs to create different effects. It is going to be interesting and fun!

Also we will be holding The Blog Photo Competition for 9 to 12 year olds. To enter all you have to do is present a photograph that you have taken. It can be of people (with their permission, of course), animals, objects or places…you could enter a carnival photo! The only condition is that you create the photo yourself. Then send your photo to corunablog@gmail.com or bring it to the next session.

The photos will be displayed in your local library. If you need some inspiration, take a look at these websites.

http://www.chemamadoz.com

http://catchycolors.blogspot.com

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The Blog Workshop this week was really interesting. We had great fun learning about Ancient Egyptian mummies and we also made our own mummies online which was a bit disgusting! (Extracting brains and organs!!)

Birmingham MuseumMake a Mummyhieroglyphicsegyptians

*Don’t forget to colour your Pharaoah Mask and hand it in at your library so that we can include it here!

See you at the next Blog Workshop on the 25th and 26th February.

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It’s going to be fun!

Click here to find out more about Christmas.

]]> http://corunablog.com/2009/12/16/that-christmas-feeling/feed/ 4 Around The World With The Blog! http://corunablog.com/2009/10/22/around-the-world-with-the-blog/ http://corunablog.com/2009/10/22/around-the-world-with-the-blog/#comments Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:18:05 +0000 Conchi http://corunablog.edublogs.org/?p=239 Earth-12-juneThe Blog Workshop is back after a long holiday. The session is today at 7.00p.m. at Monte Alto library and tomorrow at Castrillón Library and we are going to travel around the world… but don’t worry we will not take 80 days like Phileas Fogg!!!

With new technology we can travel the world very quickly and without leaving the library. So get your invitation and come with us to explore the world!

Google Maps

Google Earth

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