SPANISH FOURTH GAME: LA BALDUFA

How to play with the Spinning top toy

There are different games you can play with your spinning top toy.On of them is the one is called:"How long?"

This is a game that you can play by yourself or with a group. When you play by yourself, make sure that you have a stopwatch handy. Clear a flat place where your top can spin freely, and then use your thumb and forefinger to start a spin. Once the spin has started, quickly start your stopwatch and time the length of your spin. When the top falls over, stop the stopwatch and note on a piece of paper how long it was before the top fell over. Try it again, looking to beat your previous time. If you are playing with a friend, you simply need to start spinning at the same time, and whoever has the longest spin wins the round.

ART FROM FINLAND: The human figure in the Romantic nationalism

We first searched for information on Pekka Halonen’s life and art by reviewing a few of his works of art. I also had some art books to show the pupils in the classroom. I asked them what they thought Pekka Halonen wanted to depict in his works. The pupils said that in their opinion he depicted nature and ordinary people doing their everyday chores. In the next phase the pupils took digital pictures of themselves alone or with a friend in which both these elements were supposed to be visible. Then we drew a human body to scale. After that each pupil made a water colour painting based on the digital pictures (Pekka Halonen used mainly oil painting techniques, but we cannot use oil colours in school). The pupils focused on painting very intensely.

ART FROM ITALY: The human figure in the Futurism

IL FUTURISMO
Il Futurismo, corrente artistica e culturale, nacque in Italia agli inizi del XX secolo.
Esso esaltava tutti gli aspetti legati al concetto di futuro, alla tecnologia e al progresso come la velocità, le macchine, le metropoli , le città industriali, le automobili, gli aeroplani, il culto per il coraggio, la giovinezza e la violenza.
Nella pittura e nella scultura, la figura umana viene rappresentata in movimento nello spazio e nel tempo o in forme meccaniche.
Abbiamo proposto agli alunni più artisti per far loro comprendere i diversi stili creativi per dare alla figura umana movimento e dinamismo.

THE FUTURISM
The Futurism, artistic and cultural movement, originated in Italy in the early 20th century.
It exalted all the themes associated with the concept of future, technology and progress, including speed, machines, metropolis, industrial cities, cars, airplanes, the cult of courage, youth and violence.
In painting and sculptur the human figure is represented in motion in space and time or in mechanical forms.
We have proposed to our chidren more artists to make them understand the different creative styles to give motion and dynamism to the human figure.

Frederic Godàs students productions to print

Human figure productions

Some more productions

Pablo Picasso and the human figure

Introduction to the children's productions round cubism

SPAIN:THE HUMAN FIGURE (CUBISM)

Frederic Godàs students' productions inspired in Pablo Picasso paintings

Between the two fires

Pupils are divided into two groups of equal size.

One pupil is chosen to be the Captain in both groups.

A rectangular area is split into two parts.

Both teams go to stand on their respective areas.

The Captains go behind their opponents’ team.  They also hit out the opponents.

The game starts when the players toss a soft ball  (like in basketball).

The opponents try to hit out each other on the body by throwing the ball.

The players, who get hit, go to stand next to their Captain behind the opponents and they, too, can try to hit the opponents, if they catch the ball.

The players are allowed to catch the ball.

The winner is the team that has the last player on the playground. 

Certificat de participació en la Setmana Comenius 2011

Recentment hem rebut el diploma que acredita la participació de la nostra escola en la Setmana Comenius que es va celebrar al mes de maig passat i que ens va permetre compartir experiències amb més d’ un miler d’ escoles europees i així celebrar l’ impacte que el programa Comenius te als centres escolars del nostre continent.

Sweden - Come visit us!

Click on the link down under for the coúntry dossier:
https://navet.boden.se/LotusQuickr/prastholmskolan/Main.nsf/h_Toc/888f058a3b7b5ecfc12571cc00469123/?OpenDocument#{type=0&unid=4CA9FD618C0CA388C1257941004F0AA2}

A swedish painter: Carl Larsson

We have chosen to work with:

Carl Larsson, 1853 – 1919,
He is one of Sweden’s most famous painters.
He is mostly known as an aquarellist.
He studied and worked for several years in Paris and in Grez,
where he made many of his most important paintings.

More information:
http://www.clg.se/enstart.aspx

ITALY

Dossier ITALY

http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B1pfCblsYUyVOWZiMjNjN2MtYTM2MC00NWFhLWJlMGUtZDQwM2IyYzI2MWIy&hl=en_US

Italian traditional game: "I quattru cantuneri"

Il gioco, adatto sia per le femminucce che per i maschietti, si svolge all’aperto in uno spazio di forma quadrata.
4 giocatori si posizionano negli angoli (cantoni) di un quadrivio e un giocatore si pone al centro in un punto equidistante ai quattro cantoni.
Al via i quattro giocatori si scambiano velocemente il posto muovendosi in diverse direzioni.
Il giocatore che sta in centro deve cercare di occupare un cantone lasciato libero dai compagni mentre si spostano.
Se ci riesce si posiziona nel cantone, mentre chi rimane senza cantone sta in centro.
I cantoni possono essere gli alberi, i pilastri, i pali oppure gli spigoli di una casa, che insieme formano un quadrato.

It is an outdoor game, suitable for boys and girls, played in a square area.
Four players take place in the corners of the square area and one player stays in the middle place equidistant from the corners.
When the game starts the four corner players exchange each other their place moving in different directions. The player who stays in the middle has to gain a free corner left by the players when moving.
If he succeeds he takes place in the corner, while the one without a corner goes in the middle.
The corners can be trees, pillars, poles or house corners forming a square.