SIMPLE MACHINES (FOR KIDS) SCIENCE

SIMPLE MACHINES (FOR KIDS) SCIENCE

APRIL FOOL'S DAY

APRIL FOOL'S DAY

For hundreds of years, people had celebrated the New Year for eight days, beginning on March 25 and ending on April 1. In 1582, Pope Gregory changed all that. He introduced a new calendar, which all people in the Christian world were supposed to follow. On this new calendar, the year began on January 1.
Some people who hadn't heard about the new calendar or didn't really believe or care still celebrated on April 1. Other people called these people "April Fools" and played tricks on them.
This was the beginning of April Fool's Day.

HANDS ON

HANDS ON

 Ángeles me has preguntado por el significado de “HANDS ON”.

Se puede traducir como “ser práctico”, “tener un enfoque práctico”, “estar acostumbrados a trabajar en la práctica”

Un ejemplo puede ser:

Programm for disable people for hands-on work

Programa para que la la gente con discapacidad realice trabajos prácticos

Como siempre a tu disposición

SAINT PATRICK (LEPRECHAUN)

SAINT PATRICK (LEPRECHAUN)

ASH WEDNESDAY

PANCAKE DAY

PANCAKE DAY

Pancake Day or Shrove Tuesday is a special day celebrated in many countries around the world. It is celebrated in English-speaking countries like the UK, Ireland, Australia and Canada. Shrove Tuesday is at the end of Carnival. On this day many people eat pancakes, a thin, flat cake made in a pan.

Pancake Day is always on a Tuesday in February or March. It is the day before Ash Wednesday, the start of Lent. Lent is a period of 40 days before Easter. Traditionally, during Lent, people didn’t eat rich foods like butter and eggs, so they made pancakes from these ingredients on Shrove Tuesday.

Another tradition on Pancake Day in the UK is pancake racing. People run in a race with a pancake in a pan. As they run, they have to toss the pancake (throw the pancake in the air and catch it in the pan) several times. In some pancake races people dress up in fancy dress costumes. The most famous pancake race takes place in a town called Olney, in the middle of England. People say that Olney has been celebrating pancake races since 1445!

IT'S THE OTHER WAY ROUND

IT'S THE OTHER WAY ROUND

Esta frase se utiliza para indicar que algo está al revés, generalmente una prenda.

” CUT FROM THE SAME CLOTH"

This means that a person is very similar to another. When making suits, tailors use fabric from the same piece of cloth to make sure the pieces match perfectly.

HEADED

HEADED

La frase que se utiliza en inglés para indicar que vas a un determinando sitio es:

I am headed home
Voy a casa

Para preguntar a dónde vas:

Where are you headed right now?
¿A dónde vas ahora?

GERMINATION FOR KIDS

Read the sentences below.

Germination and Reproduction to find the missing words.

Write in the empty spaces.

1. All seeds need _________, oxygen and the right temperature to _________, or grow. 2. Some plants, like ferns, don’t produce _________. They make spores. 3. Some seeds need _________ to germinate. Others need darkness. 4. _________ often eat seeds. The seeds come out in the animal’s _________. They drop to the ground and make new _______. 5. Seeds don’t grow well if they land right underneath the _________ plant. 6. Many seeds are _________ and delicious. 7. Seeds can be as tiny as a grain of side or bigger than a _________. 8. When the soil is _________, seeds can’t get oxygen. They _________ and don’t grow.

RSS

RSS

RSS (Rich Site Summary) is a format for delivering regularly changing web content. Many news-related sites, weblogs and other online publishers syndicate their content as an RSS Feed to whoever wants it.

RSS es una forma muy sencilla para que puedas recibir, directamente en tu ordenador o en una página web online (a través de un lector RSS) información actualizada sobre tus páginas web favoritas, sin necesidad de que tengas que visitarlas una a una.

CLASSIFY ANIMALS

HUMAN SOUNDS

HUMAN SOUNDS

PUFF: SOPLAR
YAWN: BOSTEZAR
COUGH: TOSER
HICCUP: HIPO
SNEZZE: ESTORNUDAR
SNORE: RONCAR
STAMMER: TARTAMUDEAR
SIGH: SUPIRAR
PANT: JADEAR
WHISPER: SUSPIRAR

NEW YEAR'S CONCERT

NEW YEAR'S CONCERT FROM WIEN 

It has long been a Philharmonic tradition at the New Year to present a program consisting of the lively and at the same time nostalgic music from the vast repertoire of the family of Johann Strauss and its contemporaries. These concerts not only delight the audiences in the Musikverein in Vienna, but also enjoy great international popularity through the worldwide television broadcast, which now reaches over 90 countries.

Fascinating Music of the Strauss Dynasty

Originating during the darkest chapter in Austria's history, these concerts have continually grown in popularity in the decades since, which can be attributed to the verve and creative energy of the compositions of the Strauss dynasty, as well as their authoritative interpretations. Today millions of people throughout the world draw joy and optimism for the New Year ahead through the light-hearted yet subtly profound character of this music.

Masterpieces of the Genre

It is the desire of the Philharmonic not only to provide musically definitive interpretations of the masterworks of this genre, but at the same time, as musical ambassadors of Austria, to send people all over the world a New Year's greeting in the spirit of hope, friendship and peace.

AULD LANG SYNE

Auld Lang Syne

The most commonly sung song for English-speakers on New Year's eve, "Auld Lang Syne" is an old Scottish song that was first published by the poet Robert Burns in the 1796 edition of the book, Scots Musical Museum. Burns transcribed it (and made some refinements to the lyrics) after he heard it sung by an old man from the Ayrshire area of Scotland, Burns's homeland.

It is often remarked that "Auld Lang Syne" is one of the most popular songs that nobody knows the lyrics to. "Auld Lang Syne" literally translates as "old long since" and means "times gone by." The song asks whether old friends and times will be forgotten and promises to remember people of the past with fondness, "For auld lang syne, we'll tak a cup o' kindness yet."

Lyric

FIRST COUNTRIES IN WELCOMING 2017

Sat 10:00 - Tonga, Samoa and Christmas Island/Kiribati

• Sat 13:00 - Much of Australia 
• Sat 15:00 - Japan, South Korea, small parts of Russian and Indonesia
• Sat 18:30 - India and Sri Lanka
• Sat 20:00 - Azerbaijan and eight other countries including Armenia, UAE, Oman and the Seychelles
• Sat 22:00 - Greece and 30 other countries, including South Africa, Syria, Finland and Latvia
• Sat 23:00 - Germany and 43 other countries, including Norway, France, Italy and Tunisia
• Sun 00:00 - UK and 26 other countries, including Morocco, Ghana and Ireland
• Sun 04:00 - Small regions of Canada and 29 other countries including Bolivia, Venezuela and Barbados
• Sun 06:00 - Large parts of the U.S and Central America
• Sun 09:00 - Alaska/USA and regions of French Polynesia ​
• Sun 12:00 - Much of US Minor Outlying Islands

THE FIRST TO WELCOME THE NEW YEAR

THE FIRST COUNTRY TO WELCOME THE NEW YEAR

The first country in the world to welcome the New Year is the tiny pacific island of Tonga. It will ring in 2017 at 10am GMT on December 31st.

DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES

DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES

SUPERMOON

SUPERMOON

This year, the full moons of October, November and December all take place when the moon is at its closest point of approach in its orbit around Earth — a so-called supermoon. 
The next supermoon will be November's full Beaver Moon, which is expected to reach the peak of its full phase on the morning of Monday, Nov. 14, at 8:52 a.m. EST (1352 GMT), but it will appear full to the casual observer in the day before and after the main event. It is the second of three consecutive supermoon full moons for 2016. Live webcasts of this supermoon begin Sunday night (Nov. 13) and run through Monday. Read our Supermoon Webcast Guide for details.
This full moon will be not only the closest and brightest supermoon of 2016 but also the largest since 1948, Bob Berman, an astronomer at the Slooh Community Observatory, told Space.com. What's more, the full moon won't come this close to Earth again until Nov. 25, 2034, according to a statement from NASA. The Slooh Community Observatory will offer a live broadcast for November's full moon on Nov. 13 at 8 p.m. EST (0100 GMT on Nov. 14). You can also watch the supermoon live on Space.com, courtesy of Slooh. [Supermoon Science: NASA Explains the Extra-close Full Moon (Video)]

SUPERLUNA

 SUPERLUNA

Hoy  lunes 14 de noviembre podremos observar un fenómeno astronómico espectacular. La Luna se acercará al punto más próximo de su órbita con la Tierra, produciendo el efecto Superluna. Aquí os dejamos varias curiosidades sobre un acontecimiento que no te puedes perder ya que no se repetirá hasta 2033.
Apariencia de la luna
La Superluna se verá un 14 % más grande y un 30 % más brillante que una luna llena normal. Se apreciará más grande de lo habitual a la puesta y la salida del sol. Tendremos la luna más cercana en 70 años, a unos 356.512 km.
Cómo observarla
No hará falta ninguna herramienta especial para poder verla. Sin embargo, es aconsejable moverse a lugares oscuros, alejados de las grandes ciudades. Es recomendable observarla en su salida, ya que se aprecia más grande cerca del horizonte.
Frecuencia del fenómeno de la Superluna
Anualmente se pueden producir dos o cuatro Superlunas, pero no hay nada preestablecido. En ocasiones la Luna está más cerca de lo normal de la Tierra, pero no siempre coincide con la Luna llena.
Lugares con mayor efecto
Dependiendo de la posición de la Luna, puede parecer que su tamaño varía. La ilusión lunar es la falsa apreciación de observar la Luna mucho más grande que el horizonte.
Nombre
Actualmente, la Superluna se ha popularizado para referirse a las lunas llenas que pasan cerca del perigeo, por lo que suelen provocar mayores fuerzas de marea, un 37 % más intensas, y tienen un diametro mayor de lo normal. El termino Superluna fue acuñado por el astrólogo norteamericano Richard Nolle en 1979.