DEAR STUDENTS,

Remember that I always stressed that you should have a good breakfast.  If you cannot eat breakfast,then prepare something nutritious to eat before arriving to school or while you´re waiting in the patio for school to start.   Below you will find Links to places that give you recipes for lunch or some others.  For example:

www.mrlucky.com.mx   --  para ensaladas y frutas y verduras combinadas para lunch quizas
www.mangomexicano.com.mx
www.hongoseldorado.com.mx
www.comesanamente.com.mx

¿ Por qué desayunar?   El desayuno es la primera comida de dí y la más importante, ya que rompe el estado de ayuno después de las horas de sueño y recarga el cuerpo de energía para ayudarlo a inicir las actividades cotidianas.   ¿Qué desayunar?  El desayuno debe de representar aproximadamente el 25% de la energía total del día.  Muchos nutriólogos coinciden en decir que un buen desayuno tiene que ser compuesto por elementos básicos:

Un lácteo:  Fuente de calcio, valioso para los huesos.  Fuente de proteína y vitaminas, importantes para el buen funcionamiento del organismo.  La leche contribuye a la rehidratación el cuerpo en el desayuno.

Un cereal:  De preferencia integral--son fuente de carbohidratos y tabi én de fibra, que tiene efectos benéficos como producir sensación de saciedad y facilitar el tránsito intestinal.

Una fruta fresca:  Por la fibra, las vitaminas y los minerales.
Desayuno con nutella (1 cucharada) crema de avellanas con cacao combinado con una rebanada de pan integral, una fruta y un vaso de leche parcialmente descremada, aporta una cantidad razonable de energía sin colorates ni conservadores.   CHICOS, si aprenden a desayunar, se van a acordar de mi.  Hasta luego!

Complete these jokes by putting my or mine, your or yours, his, her or hers, its, our orours, their or theirs in the gaps (blank spaces) provided:

1  A: John and George, is thisyour football?    B:  Did it break anything, sir?
    A: No, not that I know of.                 B:  Then yes, sir, it´s ours_____.

2  A: That´s a nice dog you have.  What´s  its_name?   B:  I don´t know.  It won´t tell me.

3  A: Is that Susan´s brother? B: Yes A:  He´s very small, isn´t he? B:  Well, he´s only her_half-brother.

4  Two boys went into a café and began to eat their_sandwiches.    "You can´t eat  your_
    own food here!", shouted the waiter. The boys smiled at each other, then they swapped* sandwiches.

5  A:  Miss, I can´t find __my_ shoes anywhere.     B:  There´s one pair left outside the classroom.  Are                you sure they aren´t yours__?   A:  Yes, I´m sure, mine_ had snow on them.

6  A:  Mary and I want to get married but we can´t find anywhere to live.   B:  Why don´t you stay with
    Mary´s parents?     A: Because they´re still living with their__parents!

7  A:  My husband puts his money in the bank.  What does your husband do with  his?
    B:  He puts it in oil.     A: What a strange thing to do!  Who wants oily money?

8  A:  Last week a man stole a pair of boots from my aunt´s shop.   B:  Did she chase the thief?
    A:  No, they were her_ boots.    OR    A:  No, they were_hers____.

* Intercambiaron     YA CON ESTO PODRÁN CHECAR SU TRABAJO EN CLASD

Hi Kids,
Congratulations on today´s festivities...all of you performed or danced really well!  And the "Calaveritas" in English were excellent.

My contribution to BF´s Radio program while you have your lunch is...guess what.....????
THE IMPORTANCE OF NUTRITION!!!!!!!
I am positively sure that many of you eat,  at least,  one balanced meal every day.   However, many do not have a good breakfast and THAT IS a PROBLEM.

If you don´t know, OATS is Avena in Spanish. The genus Avena of the grass family, Gramineae. The scientific name of the common oat is Avena sativa .  "A grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people" -- this is the definition of oats given in the dictionary written in the 18th century by Dr. Samuel Johnson.  "True enough," was a Scotsman´s reply, "and where will you find such fine horses as in England, or such fine men as in Scotland?"

First let me give you the HOTCAKES recipe which you, yourselves can make at home, then freeze...and have for breakfast or bring for lunch any time of the week.  Ingredients are:

1  90gm butter bar Gloria brand without salt or your favorite brand
1  cup of wheat flour (preferably Harina de Trigo INTEGRAL 3 Estrellas)
1 to 1.5 cup of whole Oats ( Avena )
1  cup Amaranto
1/2 to 1 cup Germen de Trigo
Sugar to your liking
Small quantity of milk  or  fruit juice any flavour, or even water
1 squirt of vanilla (chorrito)
1 medium sized apple (red or yellow, sliced very fine)
Raisins, cranberries or blueberries, any nuts, semillas de linaza and/or sesame seeds are OPTIONAL

Procedure:  First, melt the butter and immediately add the Oats and the rest of the dry ingredients and then the liquids.  Then blend the rest of the ingredients.  If you need more liquid just add it little by little until you
see that it is pourable.  Heat your pan first and start making your Hot-cakes...the size and form is up to you...let them cool and then freeze.  If you do them on the weekend, you will be ready to start a good week anywhere!  Bon Apetit! (that is Buen apetito or provecho in french, but the English took it from the french)

Later I´ll give you links to places where you can find other recipes which you can choose from.

TAREA DE JUEVES PARA ENTREGAR LUNES 29 de Oct /  Thursday´s homework due next Monday:
Favor de imprimir el siguiente ejercicio, llenarlo con lo que practicamos ayer y hoy, escriban su nombre
en la parte superior derecha y me lo entregan el lunes, posteriormente lo pegarán en su cuaderno.



POSSESSIVES

Complete these jokes by putting my or mine, your or yours, his, her or hers, its, our or ours, their or theirs in the gaps (blank spaces) provided:

1  A: John and George, is this ______________ football?    B:  Did it break anything, sir?
    A: No, not that I know of.                 B:  Then yes, sir, it´s _______________.

2  A: That´s a nice dog you have.  What´s ______name?   B:  I don´t know.  It won´t tell me.

3  A: Is that Susan´s brother? B: Yes A:  He´s very small, isn´t he? B:  Well, he´s only ____half-brother.

4  Two boys went into a café and began to eat ________sandwiches.    "You can´t eat ___________
    own food here!", shouted the waiter. The boys smiled at each other, then they swapped* sandwiches.

5  A:  Miss, I can´t find _______ shoes anywhere.     B:  There´s one pair left outside the classroom.  Are                you sure they aren´t ___________?   A:  Yes, I´m sure, ___________ had snow on them.

6  A:  Mary and I want to get married but we can´t find anywhere to live.   B:  Why don´t you stay with
    Mary´s parents?     A: Because they´re still living with _______________parents!

7  A:  My husband puts his money in the bank.  What does your husband do with _________?
    B:  He puts it in oil.     A: What a strange thing to do!  Who wants oily money?

8  A:  Last week a man stole a pair of boots from my aunt´s shop.   B:  Did she chase the thief?
    A:  No, they were ___________ boots.    OR    A:  No, they were ______________.

* Intercambiaron

Dear Students and Parents,
Although I wanted all of you to see the games from Lumosity to make exercises designed for the brain,
only 3rd graders got a chance to see some of them.

WARNING:  PLEASE MAKE SURE YOUR PARENTS AGREE - TRY THE FREE GAMES ONLY
BECAUSE SOME GAMES YOU HAVE TO PAY FOR IN  U.S. DOLLARS !!!!!!!   SO BE
CAREFUL AND TELL YOUR PARENTS OR ASK THEM TO SUPERVISE YOU.

AVISO DE PRECAUCIÓN:  Asegúrense de que sus padres estén de acuerdo - intenten los juegos gratuitos solamente porque algunos juegos son de paga y en dólares!!!!!  Tengan cuidado y digánle a sus padres o pidan que les supervisen  a la hora de entrar.****  Esta compañía Lumosity con frecuencia tiene opciones para probar sus juegos durante 3 días sin costo alguno. *****************

Here is another interesting article from LUMOSITY that I received ... consider it if you like DIET SODAS.

Diet Sodas: Changing Your Brain And Your Waistline

Diet sodas may not be helping you lose weight—in fact, these and other artificially sweetened foods may sabotage your diet by confusing and rewiring your brain’s reward centers. This study from the journal Physiology & Behavior is yet another example of how lifestyle choices can alter your brain—negatively or positively.

Scanning diet soda drinkers' brains

The University of San Diego study followed 24 young adults: half the group drank at least one serving of diet soda every day, while the other half avoided the artificially sweetened drinks. These adults were then hooked up to brain scanning equipmentwhile scientists fed them water alternately flavored by natural and artificial sweeteners—then the researchers sat back and watched what unfolded in the brain.
The results, according to University of California San Diego researchers Green and Murphy, were pronounced: “[Diet soda drinkers] who consumed a greater number of diet sodas had reduced caudate head activation. These findings may provide some insight into the link between diet soda consumption and obesity.”

Artificial sweeteners confuse reward

A little bit of background: the caudate head is a part of the brain involved in signaling reward and controlling food intake—and its decreased activity in the brains of diet soda drinkers has substantial implications.
Researchers posit that consumption of diet soda had confused the reward loops normally processed by the caudate head: because sweetness was no longer a reliable indicator of incoming calories, the brain had trained itself to respond less in the face of sweet flavors. Unreliable sweet tastes threw off normal predictions about calories and energy in the changed brains of diet soda drinkers—making it more likely that these people would consume additional calories later in the day.

Small choices can affect your brain

This newest study is pretty preliminary; it’s difficult to say how drastically diet sodas can affect bigger questions of lifestyle and health based on such short-term brain activation patterns. Still, this recent investigation provides an interesting reflection on how choices and actions made in everyday life can powerfully influence the way your brain is wired—in other words, the concept of neuroplasticity.
We can’t always foresee the unintended negative responses our brain makes—who would have thought diet coke might do quite the opposite of what its name suggests?—but there are positive ways to harness your brain’s ability to change. Just a little Lumosity training every day, for example, can change your brain for the better: instead of confused reward signals, you could experience faster processing speed, quicker flexibility, and improved problem solving. Unlock full access today and harness that power to change!

Learn more on the Lumosity blog.

I received this information which you may find interesting, although, it´s not too close to go there.
I´m talking about The Benjamin Franklin Library, located in Liverpool 31, Colonia Juarez, tel. 5592-3483
Tell your parents about it and perhaps they can take you.

Te tenemos 2 sorpresas:

-         La primera es que ahora contamos con revistas para niños y las podrás consultar en la Biblioteca.

-         La segunda es que el 26 de octubre a las 15:30 te esperamos con tu disfraz para escuchar historias de misterio y

      después pedir calaverita or “trick or treat”

¡Te esperamos!

 Encuéntranos en facebook http://www.usembassy-mexico.gov/bbf/bffacebook.htm

HI KIDS,

I KNOW YOU NEED TO STUDY FOR OTHER EXAMS...THAT´S WHY I TRY TO KEEP YOUR HOMEWORK SIMPLE.  BUT PLEASE DO IT!  FOR SOME STRANGE REASON, AND BELIEVE ME, THERE ARE VARIOUS REASONS...MOST OF YOU, YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE, ARE NOT , I SAY N O T....DOING YOUR HOMEWORK??? WHAT´S HAPPENING??????

We haven´t been able to advance and homework adds up...tomorrow you´ll have MORE, so hurry and do it.  By the way, tomorrow I hope we can use the IPAD to play some interesting games to help the BRAIN!!!
See you tomorrow!    The link is as follows:

http://www.lumosity.com/app/v4/dashboard

http://www.lumosity.com/app/v4/personalization/report

DEAR STUDENTS,

The exam results were not as good as I would have liked, therefore, to continue practicing, today´s double
HOMEWORK   (to turn in by Wednesday)   will be:

5 sets of  Affirmative, Negative & Interrogative ( question ) for easy sentences using 3rd Person, Present
Simple ONLY.  Just like we did in class today.   NOTE:  Third graders will make 10 sets.
DO NOT use the verb TO BE because that is different.  We´ll practice that later this week.

Also write one sentence of your choice (keep it simple) for each of the 14 VOCABULARY WORDS that
we saw for October.  Many of you did the homework in class but DID NOT STUDY the words and so the results were evident on the exam.    Don´t Forget!

Lumosity Link

GUYS, I want to congratulate you on the Internet practice this week since most of you did well on the Countable & Non-Countable exercise.  However, you must DO YOUR HOMEWORK and STUDY

because I can see from the exam results that many of you had bad results on both this and the vocabulary words.

Now I want you to read the following link because we will use part of it on the IPAD this coming week.

But this article talks about SOFT DRINKS / Diet drinks.

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KIDS, THIS IS A REMINDER THAT THIS WEEK WE´LL BE HAVING INTERNET EARLY IN THE MORNING.

THE URL IS THE FOLLOWING:

http://www.myenglishpages.com/site_php_files/grammar-exercise-countable-uncountable-nouns.php


1.  FIRST we will read the lesson.

2.  THEN we´ll do the  20 exercises and you can check how you did.

3.  AFTER we will see Much, many and a lot

4.  THEN   A little or a few

5.  Afterwards a few JOKES  about school

6.  And then I hope we have time for some Lyrics

                 Alphaville´s    Forever Young       or
           The Eagles´s        Hotel California      or
      Michael Jackson´s    This is it

Don´t forget tomorrow´s homework.   See you!

KIDS, as I told you in class today -- next THURSDAY 18th will be your English Test for October,
covering what we´ve practiced the latest weeks, which is:

October´s Vocabulary,  3rd Person Present Simple, Superlatives & Comparatives and Count & non-
Count which we´ll go over tomorrow and on the Internet classes next week.  Go over your notebooks,
homework and words you don´t know -- 6 days should give you plenty of time to review.

ANIMO CHICOS, con la práctica y repetición aprendemos...como les comenté en clase,  el Examen de Inglés de Octubre será el jueves 18.  Tienen unos buenos 6 días para seguir practicando y repasando sus cuadernos para aquellos que aun se les ha dificultado la gramática.

ESTIMADOS PADRES DE FAMILIA Y ALUMNOS:

Disculpen la confusión ocasionada por la no publicación a tiempo de la tarea del jueves pasado -- sin embargo en clase fui explícita.  Por consideración y excepción, en clase lo hemos estado trabajando,
la mayoría de los alumnos han cumplido bien, hay otros que no lo han logrado.

TAREA DE MAÑANA, (jueves 11 para entregar lunes 15):
1) Aprender el vocabulario de 14 palabras anotadas en su cuaderno (16 palabras para primeros años).
2) Elaborar una frase sencilla con cada palabra.

Cualquier duda que tengan, estoy a sus ordenes.

I TRUST YOU HAD A GREAT WEEKEND AND THAT YOU´RE READY TO START A NEW WEEK...

ALONG WITH THE DRILLING I HOPE WE CAN ADD SOME LISTENING AND READING PRACTICE OF A BOOK THAT WON A PULITZER PRICE BACK IN 1940.  THIS STORY REMINDS ME OF THINGS THAT ARE HAPPENING IN MEXICO BECAUSE OF THE ECONOMY.

JUST A REMINDER THAT YOUR HOMEWORK IS DUE ON MONDAYS ( from last Thursday) AND WEDNESDAYS ( from the one I´ll give on Mondays)

Congratulations on your written paragraphs concerning your preference of  exploring the Ocean or Space...some of them were quite original and perhaps we can include them in the Blog one of these days.

Now, concerning class:  I still think you can do some drilling in UNISON about how the English language is structured, so please participate and let me hear you.  We need to cover the basic aspects before the books arrive.

****TAKE NOTE: ****
I will be giving you homework on MONDAYS to hand in on WEDNESDAYS and on Thursdays, to hand in on Mondays.  It will be written exercises on what was seen that day in class--mainly 5 positive sentences,
5 negative ones and 5 questions BEFORE USING THE BOOK.