Comenzamos un nuevo trimestre y un nuevo proyecto. Queda muy poco para celebrar nuestra II Semana Cultural en el colegio y la temática de este año es: "La vuelta al mundo en 5 dias". Durante 5 días nos dedicaremos a conocer diferentes países de todo el mundo que irán trabajando los distintos cursos durante estas dos semanas.El ciclo de infantil representa a Asia: Rusia, India y China. Esta última, China, es el país que le ha tocado investigar a 5 años. Os muestro la presentación que ha elaborado nuestro compañero Sebastián sobre los objetivos, actividades y otros contenidos de la Semana Cultural de este año. Los alumnos/as de 5 años están investigando en casa, con ayuda de su familia, diferentes temáticas sobre China: monumentos, gastronomía, fiestas y costumbres, deportes... y las traen a clase para compartirlas con los compañeros y conocer cada día un poquito más sobre este exótico país. Los deportes, la fauna, el famoso trangram... son algunos de los temas que hemos empezado a conocer durante esta semana. Hemos conocido su bandera, su localización en el globo terráqueo, sus pagodas, el panda, la grulla, y hasta el delfín rosa, sus puzzles de 7 piezas nada sencillos, su gran muralla, y el famoso dragón chino.... Estas son algunas de las actividades que hemos realizado: Construimos nuestra propia pagoda. La decoramos y..... Estupendas chicos... os han quedado geniales. Construimos figuras con el tangram. Coloreamos las piezas, recortamos y elegimos la que más nos gusta. Ha sido un poco difícil para muchos, seguiremos practicando. En clase disponemos de tangram para que aquellos peques que se animen sigan practicando. Así de orgullosos posan con sus nuevas creaciones. Pero China y los demás países trabajados por los demás cursos no se van a quedar dentro de las aulas. Van a salir fuera y para ello necesitamos la ayuda de todas las familias que están colaborando con su tiempo, ideas, dedicación, trabajo y creaciones para transformar el Centro en un colegio internacional y poder dar así "La vuelta al mundo en 5 días". Os dejo un pequeño "avance" de como van los trabajos en China. En unos días podréis disfrutar del resultado final. CONTINUARÁ........
Villa Savoye(1929-1931) is situated in Poissy, outside Paris. Villa Savoye is a concrete representation of Le Corbusiers ideal living space, portrayed by the 5 principle of architecture (support, Free Plan, Horizontal windows, free facade, flat roof/ roof garden). The villa Savoye represent the essence of modern architecture, which simple colour, no bearing walls, as well as the flat roof. Structure · The main support in the villa is the use of concrete columns to raise the building of the ground and support the structure. · Le Corbusier believed "the building had to be raised 3-6 meters so that the Villa Savoye could be removed from soil therefore introducing it to light and air." The elevated rectangular structure make the building has a feel of lightness. · The uses of pilotis throughout the building allows the design having no bearing walls, creating an independent structural system that carries floors separate from the wall, meaning the placement of wall is wherever it desire. · No bearing wall considerations result in the ability to create open space without concern of changing in building structure. The idea of free plan also carried on in bringing the landscape under the outline of the building. · Creating unencumbered views was another advantage of piloti based construction, in which windows can run through the length of the building, framing the nature by the handmade structure windows, offering the direct link with the horizon. · Columns are the most important structural elements in Villa Savoye. · Although the building in part rests on the ground floor base, the first floor extends beyond the base which makes the structure seem to hover in mid air Circulation Green: Residents and Visitors Circulation Blue: Servant Circulation · Purpose of the pilotis: to free up a circulation zone underneath the building. · The staircase separates one floor to another while the ramp links them together. · The three levels are dictated by the continuing ramp as the main circulation for public. The ramp works as the main movement devices between spaces, also contributing as a device to control the natural lighting in the building. · The ramp is the most important element which allows people to experience the whole building by movement. By moving up the ramp, people can visually experience the spaces. Act as a camera filming the spaces. · According to Le Corbusier, the ramp provides "a gradual ascent from the pilotis, creating totally different sensations than those felt when climbing stairs. A staircase separates one floor from another; a ramp links them together" · The movement as you walk through the building will allow you to go through open and close spaces. The volume of space is constantly changing as if giving you to choice of going up the second floor, either by spiral staircase or by long the ramp. · The Le Corbusier designed Villa Savoye to have its own ability to direct visitors through the “restricted route” as to see the complete view of the location. · The progress from the terrace to the solarium is also by a ramp--an outdoor ramp now, with a guard rail on the last stage like those on ocean liners. Geometry (Formal Devices) · Ground floor was meant to be a services division, and the level above is suppose to be the main apartment, and the three levels are dictated by the continuing ramp as the main circulation for public. · The ideal living space is expressed by zoning, meaning there is a staging in the house, separating public and private, service and main living space. · There are no main spaces on the ground floor, as the ground floor only meant to be garage and maid rooms. · The flat roof was intended by Le Corbusier to create another functional space in the roof, so that roof become more accessible and liveable, and be used for the mean of playground. · The villa is partially symmetrical with the central column indicating the main axis which is continued inside by the central ramp. Only the curving walls on the, entrance, stairs and roof, which mask the solarium, disrupt this sense of symmetry. · The plan suggests a separation between rooms which function in the day and those used at night, for the living room, kitchen and pantry are along the northwest facade while bedrooms are placed on the northeast and southeast sides. · The glass wall of the living room makes the distinction between inside and outside less obvious. It creates an interpenetration of indoor/outdoor space just as the unglazed "windows" and roofless "walls" in the courtyard suggest a link to the interior spaces. The terrace is a kind of open-air living room. · The solarium is closed in from the winds by high walls both curved and straight. Model 1: Structure & Geometry Model 2: Circulation and Spaces
Our oldest son, who's in 3rd grade, brought home the classic "build a volcano and make it explode" class project. We started with several items that were essentially recycled: an empty soda bottle, a leftover piece of plywood for the base, a cardboard box and our old phone book. In class, the volcano was subjected to the classic baking soda and vinegar experiment to simulate an explosion. Our son told us that his volcano had the most powerful explosion in the class.
Manualidades para educación infantil de realización de marionetas / puppets en papel o cartulina, estas pueden ser realizadas como una actividad escolar.
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1) Take Celery or Napa Cabbage (largest you can find) and slice a stalk halfway up the middle. 2) Place two clear containers close together. Add a few drops of food coloring in two different colors to the jars. 3) Add water to the jars to fill to about 1.5 inches deep. 4) Wait about 8 hours and observe the difference! Plants use little tubes to transport water from where they have it (the ground, usually) to where they need it (in their leaves, where it is "breathed out" through little pores called stomata. These tubes are called xylem - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xylem. When we place the bottom of the cut stem in dyed water, the leaf continues to breathe out water through the stomata, and that acts like sucking pressure on the straw-like tubes of the xylem, so the dyed water is drawn up through the leaf. On the way, it colors the xylem tubes and you can see how they network through the leaf. Pretty! There is another set of tubes called phloem that carry sugars and other food from the leaves (where they are made from the energy of sunlight) to all other parts of the plant that need it. I made this for my K/1 class, to show the kids, and it was so pretty that we used it as a table centerpiece at home afterwards! :-)
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Hi..it is Marsha from coolquilting again...with a shorter post than last week!! So, if you want more detailed info on the stitching and dyeing processes, check out last Saturday's post. Most of my curved stitched shibori for this week is based on the traditional Japanese larch or Karamatsu design. This traditional design is stitched on single folds in the fabric to produce alternating rows of concentric circles. When doing the stitching for the larch design, the threads can be either tied off after each set of concentric semicircles, or the threads can be carried across the entire width. My first modified "larch" design was on a long and narrow piece of silk habotai with blue colorhue dye. For this design I added a single semi-circle in between for fun and only did 1 row of circles: Because of the extra semi-circle, I decided to tie off the threads separately for the 2 sets of concentric circles. An extra twist with my design is that I folded over the habotai many times so the stitching was being done through 8 layers of silk at once...this lead to large differences in dye penetration. The advantage of the 8 layer stitching was that it made for very easy stitching and fast results. The middle photo was taken when the dye was still wet and the scarf is still folded in 2 and the bottom photo shows the dried silk opened up. A few years ago I did a larch design on cotton with indigo dye(a pre-reduced indigo dye kit from Jacquard). This design was stitched through 4 layers of fabric. For some reason I just can't follow the traditional instructions and do the stitching just through a single fold!! The bottom photo in the collage shows the detail of one of the circles. I like the way the indigo is many shades. If I had done 2 separate stitchings on 2 separate folds there would have been much more even dyeing of the center areas of the fabric. In Janice Gunner's "Shibori for Textile Artists" book, she showed a slightly different larch design which I wanted to try. The design was in semi-circles instead of whole circles, so it had to be stitched on a single layer. I wasn't sure how I should stitch this... to do each semicircle independently or to carry the threads across the width of the fabric. So I tried it both ways: 18 short threads tied off on the top stitch set or just 3 long continuous threads tied off in the bottom set: You can see that the upper set with 18 threads did not tie up as tightly as the lower set with just 3 threads. There was much greater/nicer resisting in the lower set with 3 continuous threads and I am happy about that since it is way easier to do. This first attempt was done on silk habotai with colorhue dye and I want to continue practicing to make the design more consistent. I also tried some freehand doodling for curved stitches. However, I guessed that the rows were probably too far apart and wouldn't resist very well, so I decided to layer 2 fabrics. I used silk habotai and silk gauze...pinned together for stitching, but ultimately they would be 2 separate pieces: The design is a bit weird since my doodling skills are very minimal. But what I found most interesting was how differently the 2 fabrics dyed!The habotai dyed purple while the gauze dyed blue...I used a blend of blue and red colorhue dyes for this. I also wanted to try the curved stitching on raw silk. My first piece was a spiral doodle...simply stitched in 2 curved lines on a single layer of fabric and dyed with a very bright yellow/green colorhue dye: For my last piece I wanted to see what would happen if I did a tight series of concentric circles. This would essentially be a combination of mokume(which is traditionally done with a series of straight lines) and a larch design. I did some curved stitching on a single fold, each "semi-circle" being about 1/4 inch apart: This gave a result very similar to mokume wood grain, except the pattern radiates from the center. I really liked this effect! I can see myself doing a large piece with lots of these radiating mokume. That is it for me! See you next week with parallel stitching on a fold.
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Download this 9-page printable African Savanna Diorama. This printable is perfect to use for a backdrop in a shoebox to make a diorama. This printable is also perfect for a school shoe box project, School science project, Habitat Diorama Project, or even to use as African animal coloring pages. -Includes 2 Savanna backdrop pages to make a diorama box. -Cut out African Savanna Animals including a giraffe, an elephant, a lion, a zebra, and a hippopotamus. -Cut out grass for scenery. - Cut out Baobob Tree, rocks, and clouds. Print the Diorama on thick white paper or card stock for best use. You are purchasing a 9-page printable pdf. This printable is for personal use only. Please note, you are purchasing a digital PDF download, nothing will be shipped to you. You may print this product as many times are you need. Print at home or at your local copy shop. This listing is for a digital download product. ✅ SIZING US Letter Size (8.5” x 11”) -- to suit your home printer ✅RETURN POLICY/REFUNDS: Due to the digital nature of this item, all sales are final. We are unable to offer cancellations, refunds, or exchanges of any kind. ✅TERMS OF USE: All our files, images, journals, and printables are for personal use only. You may print as many of your items as you’d like for personal use, but you may not share, resell, reproduce, or distribute by electronic or physical means for personal gain, or in any way profit from our designs. By purchasing one of our listings, you are agreeing to our shop policies.
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The best dioramas at the International Toy Fair are always from Safari Ltd. Safari makes museum quality figures of many types. For the show they've created great environments for these figures; worlds you can imagine stepping right into. In this posting (part 1) you can see kings and queens, the African Savannah, and mythological figures from Greece. Enjoy. Photos by Tom Casesa. Click to enlarge.
