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2019
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KINDERGARTEN IN A FIELD TRIP TO NATURE BY JÚLIA ALVES, MARIA CLARA CASTRO, SOPHIA ABREU, EDUARDO BARROS.
On September 28th, kindergarten students went on a field trip to “Fazenda
“It is extremely important, we got close to people, we went to a different place, we got out of our routine”, said Alana Turetta, kindergarten student’s mother. “I liked the animals, the cow and the pigs”, said Rafael, a K4 student. “The main objective was for students to go to a field trip to see
Água da Capoeira”, in Santo Antônio do
animals, interact with other kids, learn
Pinhal with their parents and school
how people in that region live and for the
staff. The school offered the opportunity
families to interact with other families and
to parents and kids to participate in a
school staff”, said Katia Castro, language
Natural Science study and enjoy nature.
coordinator.
They went there to know more about
Having
Natural Science, spend some time
important because people are living a time
together with family, friends and school
that no one leaves home, only keeps using
staff. There they went hiking, they had
their cellphones, don’t enjoy what nature
lunch, they listened to stories, they
has to offer and lose the opportunity to
enjoyed nature, they could play in the
talk face to face to people and their own
playground and they planted a tree.
family.
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YEAR 9: FINAL SURPRISE BY LANA TAKANO, MARIA EDUARDA MARUCHO, MIGUEL SILVEIRA, FRANCESCA AVELLA.
The end of the year is coming and TED is here! Are year 9 students
“Some of them surprises us, because they are so creative. They are very productive”, said Ms. Bruna, English teacher.
prepared for this? Students are also preparing themselves to leave Colégio ECCOS. TED is a presentation that “opens doors” to good schools, ENEM and Universities. TED is a nonprofit organization that spread ideas, usually in the form of short, powerful talks (18 minutes or less). They speak in more than 100 languages. Meanwhile, independently run TED X events help share ideas in communities around the world. ECCOS TED happened on November 6th, students prepared and presented TED presentations to school community. Year 9 students talked about different topics that they chose. Some of the topics that they have chosen is about Feminism, Life Choices, Diversity, Alcohol and Drugs. “I went to an educational fair in São Paulo and I saw a TED ED Club stand, I knew what TED was, but I wanted to know more about the club. I saw that was
an
interesting program to bring to schoo because it develops some skills which are essential for the 21st century education. Like public presentation, oral skills and to bring new knowledge.”, said Kátia Castro, English Coordinator. TED is a very famous program. People all around the world participate. Colégio ECCOS teachers always show some of TED videos to make students learn and discuss about different topics.
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BIOGRAPHY
BETINHA'S BIOGRAPHY BY ANDRÉ NAKAGAWA, MARIANA MORETTI, BRUNA WATANABE, MARIA EDUARDA CAPRONI.
For 10 years, Betinha has worked as a janitor at Colégio ECCOS, she is a really kind person that likes to help everyone and our school community.
“Betinha sings very well", said Pedro, History teacher.
Elizabeth Cristina Castrioto was born in 1965, in São José Dos Campos, São Paulo. Elizabeth started working at Colégio ECCOS in 2013, she works with cleaning and school organization. Her nickname is “Betinha” . She studied at Colégio Benedito Matarazzo Deputado until she was 16 and then she studied at Colégio Maria Dolores Veríssimo
Maria Clara, a year 7 student, said, “She does a really hard working."
Madureira Professora until she graduated. She has nine siblings, four are younger and five are older, all of them live in São José dos Campos. She is single, doesn't have any kids, but she has 11 nephews . Betinha was searching for a job, then she saw Colégio ECCOS and then she sent her resume to the school. Before working at ECCOS, Betinha worked at Colégio Anglo in Cassiano Ricardo Avenue. She didn’t go to College because she wasn’t interested in studying back then, so she started working
Marisa Amancio, ECCOS teacher, said: “Betinha is a really funny, dynamic person and she talks a lot”.
instead. Colégio ECCOS community is lucky to have her at school.
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CULTURE
THE BEST ATTRACTIONS IN SÃO JOSÉ DOS CAMPOS BY MARIA CLARA MOURA, FELIPE AGUIAR, PEDRO MARQUES, JÚLIA CAMILLO.
Our city has good news for citizens, such as a new cinema and literature and musical festival. The cinemas opened on September 16th, 2019, at Shibata supermarket, it is called “Cinépolis”. The literature and musical festival is called “Flim”, it happened in “Parque Vicentina Aranha”, from September 13th to 15th. It was sponsored by “Instituto EDP of São Paulo” and organized by “AFAC”. This new cinema was opened to start a new shopping mall, when the shopping mall opens, it will call more people to the market and to the shopping. At Flim there were lectures, book fair and people’s stories. This literature and musical festival happened for people know our culture better. Marisa, ECCOS teacher, said, “Cinépolis was funny, cool and organized. In the cinema there are armchairs and tables with lamp, and it was a little crowed because I went after the opening”. Priscilla, the Portuguese teacher, said, “I went to Flim, it was very crowed, organized, beautiful and interesting, I thought it is was going to be disorganized and boring, but it is wasn’t, it was very fun”. Mia Couto, a famous writer, spoke to people at Flim and they had some controversial questions, not just related to literature, but also politics. Cinépolis has made something innovative, a new room from kids that has a toboggan with 16 meters.
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ENVIRONMENT
BATTERY PROJECT BY ALINE DUARTE, ALICE NISHIZAWA, GUSTAVO LOPES.
In 2017, year 5 students started a project that encourages people to dispose batteries in the right places. They do this to stop meat and water contamination. They warn ECCOS community where they must throw the used batteries. Students made posters to help them to know more about it and know how bad it can be throwing them in the wrong places. This only happens because as humans we learn that everything we don’t use anymore we throw in the regular trash can. People do this without even thinking what could happen after it. Normally people don’t really care, no newspaper or TV news talk too much about it. Although it is not people’s fault, they must do the right thing. The process of contamination is really fast and destructive: “The batteries are thrown anywhere and they get to the soil, the soil absorbs the liquid that the battery expel what contaminates the “water tables” and the plants. The animals eat the plants and get contaminated. Farmers kill the animals for us to eat and then we get contaminated with those heavy metals and we coud get sick”, said Amanda Garcia, a year 6 student. It affects livestock, human life, water distribution and agriculture in that area causing a huge damage. Fortunately, we have a law that says that every place that sells batteries must have a place to throw them away. It is not that hard to find a place where it has collectors. You can find them in supermarkets, drugstores, stationaries and at Colégio ECCOS, you can find boxes in the classrooms.
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SPORTS
DIFFERENT SPORTS AT SCHOOL BY ANDÉA OSAKO, ERICK RIBEIRO, RAFAELA WATANABE
The P.E. teacher, Luciano Lopes and some other guest teachers are presenting different types of dance, like Capoeira and Hip-Hop, and new kind of sports too, for example Hockey for Middle School students. This possibility of knowing new hobbies happens during P.E classes, at ColĂŠgio ECCOS. "I believe that is important for students to learn about different hobbies.", said Luciano Lopes, the P.E. teacher. "I liked to learn athletics because it was the easiest sport to learn.", said Eduardo Barros, year 7 student. "I liked to learn hockey because I have never played and I think it was interesting.", said Mariana Moretti, year 7 student. Learning and practicing sports is important for our health. The P.E. teacher said that is very important to learn new types of sports and new kind of dance to have a motivation to start doing some exercise. Also he said that he will continue to do this. These different classes are not a P.E. project, it is something that makes part of the curricular planning.
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EVENTS
YOUNG WRITER: UNIVERSE OF WORDS BY MARIA FERNANDA FERNANDES, PAULA TAMAY, RAFAEL DAIKI, PEDRO MÁRCIO.
Young Writer “Jovem Escritor” is an event which Primary students and teachers write a book to develop writing skills. It is going to happen on November 30th at Colégio ECCOS. The project works with teachers giving a theme to write. They read a lot of texts about the theme and some books too, after that they create a text. Young Writer has the objective to help the development of students related to writing and reading. Teachers said that Young Writer helped a lot the development of students. Year 3 students said that they like to write, type, draw, and other things. All students said that they like the project because they learn more things and it is fun. Young Writer improves vocabulary, helps with writing and prepares students for Middle School, which they will have writing classes, they have to create a lot of texts, for example: opinion article, scientific pieces and other things. Writing is important, it doesn’t only improve the vocabulary or writing skills, it also improves comprehension, it helps you organize your ideas, helps on the communication and helps in your professional and personal life.
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INTERNATIONAL
HERA MISSION BY MIGUEL SEPULVEDA, HENRIQUE UCHIYAMA, MATHEUS DE MELO.
Hera mission is a mission to stop an asteroid to collide with Earth. Dart is a small spaceship from NASA and it is going to smash with Didymos, an asteroid that is in risk of colliding with Earth on summer 2021. When Dart collides with the asteroid it will create a hole. After that, a smaller spaceship is going to collect the Didymos DNA. Dart is going to hit into Didymos more than 6 kilometers a second, then Hera mission will map the impact crater left by Dart and measure the asteroid mass. Next, the briefcase sized CUBESATS will operate like drones and see if we can change its direction so it won’t hit Earth. Metro News, United Kingdom newspaper said that earlier this year, scientists warned that asteroids are stronger than predicted and said humanity could have a tough time destroying a doomsday space rock on a collision course with Earth. They think that is important, because if it works, Earth will be safe. This mission is very important for science community and the world itself. That is important, because we will stop asteroids from hitting Earth. And we can also find out more about asteroids and how they could affect us.
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CHEF GUI'S RECIPE
GREEN SALAD WITH SOY MUSTARD DRESSING BY GUILHERME SILVA, PATRICK THOMAS, MARIA LUIZA ROMANI
GREEN SALAD RECIPE WITH SOY MUSTARD DRESSING SALAD: Purple and American lettuce; pumpkin seed; sunflower
Guilherme made a recipe for year 7B students. It was a green salad with soy sauce and Dijon mustard, the importance of eating healthy food is not only important for our bodies, it is also important when you get older, so you don’t get many healthy problems. In general, year 7 students enjoyed Gui’s recipe, they said that is very important for you not to be obese and get health problems.
seed; sesame seed. SOY SAUCE DRESSING: 3 tablespoons of Dijon mustard; ½ teacup of olive oil; lemon juice as your preference; 1 tablespoon of soy sauce; salt; 1 desert spoon of dry oregano; black pepper as your preference. Method: Mix all the dressing ingredients and serve on the top of green salad leaves.
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ENTERTAINMENT
DID YOU KNOW... BY MARIA FERNANDA SOUZA, MANUELA SEIXAS, PEDRO RODRIGUES, MARIANA ALMEIDA.
Did you know that now Warner Bros will have a new system of streaming? The new “Netflix” will have a lot of exclusive movies and series that Netflix does not have. One of the series included is Friends. Series like Riverdale and The Flash will be in the catalog, but only until their last episode is on television. Until now, this system of streaming will have only in United States, brazilians will have to wait.
DID YOU KNOW...
Did you know that spider is one of thebiggest species in the world? Many people don't like this animal, because it can be dangerous orscary. However, some people love them. Black Widow is one of the most dangerous species of spiders in Brazil.It is Black with a red stain in the Dorsal part. Even though it is very small,it is very poisonous.
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