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As férias começaram. E muitos alunos partem de férias com família ou em grupo de amigos.
Praia e costa são dos destinos mais procurados para usufruir do mar. Eis um livro que pode levar à descoberta de faróis.
O livro pareceu-nos uma bela homenagem a todos os que, de forma bem solitária, durante anos, dedicaram e dedicam a vida a guardar e a assegurar o funcionamento daquelas casas de luz no meio do mar.
Hello Lighthouse é um livro ilustrado escrito e ilustrado pela autora e ilustradora australiana, radicada nos Estados Unidos, Sophie Blackall. Sophie Blackall já ilustrou mais de 30 livros para crianças e adolescentes.
Podem conhecer um pouco mais sobre Sophie Blackall, biografia e bibliografia aqui
Hello LightHouse
Sophie Blackall
créditos: Matt Carr
O livro parece-nos uma bela homenagem a todos os que, de forma bem solitária, durante anos, dedicaram a vida a guardar e a assegurar o funcionamento daquelas "casas de luz".
O livro conta a história de um farol e seu último faroleiro. Foi galardoado Janeiro, com a Medalha Caldecott 2019 pelas ilustrações.
"Children will delight in immersing themselves in the captivating discoveries each new look at Hello Lighthouse will bring."
Caldecott Medal Committee Chair Mary Fellows
Finding Winnie : The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear
Visitar um farol por dentro significa viajar no tempo e imaginar a vida daqueles que viveram confinados a espaços tão pequenos e isolados. Entendemos as rotinas dos seus guardiões, conhecemos os espaços onde passavam os dias e as noites, onde dividiam a vida com as famílias. Uma vida contada ao pormenor no diário de bordo de cada faroleiro.
Temos assim, uma visita guiada por Sophie Blackall, magnificamente ilustrada e bem documentada.
As rotinas e os factos relatados revelam a dimensão da abnegação destes guardiões e das suas famílias, não deixando ninguém indiferente.
A chegada de um novo faroleiro, os alterações e ajustes que fazem, a solidão de um tempo que custa a passar, a chegada da mulher, o nascimento do filho, as estações do ano...são detalhes descritos primorosamente por Blackall, que nos faz viver cada um deles de forma singular.
In this beautifully illustrated picture book you will learn all about the life of a lighthouse keeper whose job was to keep ships safe at sea.
📘📗Actividades férias:
Ler nas férias, é uma belíssima actividade para os estudantes. Desta vez, em Inglês, língua estrangeira I. Desenvolverá as suas capacidades de compreensão da língua estrangeira, neste caso Inglês, e alargamento de vocabulário,
"Hello Lighthouse is a beautifully rendered story about a lighthouse keeper and the ins and outs of his daily life. The illustrations truly lift the story to another level, allowing readers to gather information from both the words and images to make meaning. It is sure to be a book that children return to again and again!"
Watch the days and seasons pass as the wind blows, the fog rolls in, and icebergs drift by. Outside, there is water all around. Inside, the daily life of a lighthouse keeper and his family unfolds as the keeper boils water for tea, lights the lamp's wick, and writes every detail in his logbook.
Step back in time and through the door of this iconic lighthouse into a cozy dollhouse-like interior with the extraordinary award-winning artist Sophie Blackall
Today, 9 January. The day of national mourning is being held in Switzerland on this Friday, following a fire which killed 40 young people, mostly teenagers, in a bar in the Crans-Montana ski resort on New Year's Eve and 113 injured.
Church bells rang across the country for five minutes, and people stood for a minute's silence in their memory.
Firefighters in the resort were applauded as they joined an audience watching the tribute ceremony, which was live-streamed to Crans-Montana from the Swiss city of Martigny.
The ceremony saw the leaders of neighbouring countries, including France's Emmanuel Macron, join an audience while speakers, including the Valais canton's president, paid tribute to those who died.
Church bells rang across Switzerland in a moment of remembrance for the victims of the deadly fire in the ski resort of Crans-Montana, as the country observed a national day of mourning.
"The solemn tribute came as communities paused to honor those who lost their lives in one of the worst tragedies in modern Swiss history. Bells tolled in towns and cities nationwide, symbolizing collective grief and solidarity with the families affected by the disaster."
credits : Copyright 2026 The Associated Press
The fire, which broke out during New Year’s Eve celebrations at a bar in the popular Alpine resort, claimed multiple lives and left the nation and the world in shock.
Swiss officials, religious leaders, and citizens alike joined the commemoration, reflecting on the human cost of the tragedy and offering condolences.
credits : AFP/ Maxine Schmid
The fire at the bar Le Constellation the 1st January 2026 in the Swiss ski resort Crans-Montana appears to have been caused by sparklers placed on bottles of champagne that came "too close to the ceiling", authorities said.
Many victims were teenagers. Investigators say sparklers likely ignited flammable acoustic foam on the ceiling, and witnesses described flames racing overhead before many patrons understood the danger.
Forty four people died, the most part young people between 13 to 17 years, after the blaze in the early hours of New Year's Day in Crans-Montana, while 113 were injured very bad.
credits: Maxime Schmid
The president of the Valais, Reynard said around 50 injured people "have been transferred or will be transferred soon to European countries in specialised centres for severe burns".
"Everything leads us to think that the fire started from sparkling candles - or sparklers - which were put on bottles of champagne [that were] moved too close to the ceiling. From that, a blaze began very quickly",
Valais Attorney General Beatrice Pilloud
credits: Antonio CALANNI, ASSOCIATED PRESS
Many of those injured in the fire remain in a critical condition and "are still fighting to live", Mathias Reynard, president of the Valais region, said.
Of those injured, 113 have been formally identified. This figure includes 71 Swiss citizens, 14 French, and 11 Italians, as well as four Serbs, one Portuguese young teacher among others.
credits: Maxime Schmid / AFP
WMO Secretary-General Celeste Saulo, in consultation with the Host Country Authorities, ordered the WMO flag to be flown at half-mast on Friday, 9 January 2026. Church bells throughout Switzerland have toll at 1400 CET and there was a minute's silence.
“Many of the victims were young, full of projects, hopes and dreams. Their life must be honoured for what it was: for their promise, energy and part of our common future,”
wrote Swiss President Guy Parmelin in the book of condolences.
“To all the mourning families and victims … we share your pain.”
credits: AFP/ Maxime Schmid
A survivor of the fire that broke out in the early hours of New Year's Day in the Swiss ski resort of Crans-Montana. The 19-year-old hero risked his life twice to save friends during the deadly New Year fire at Le Constellation bar in Crans-Montana, Switzerland.
Ferdinand Du Beaudiez, from France, described the horrifying moments inside the blaze, saying: “I felt this fireball over my head… I couldn’t breathe!”
He rescued severely burned friends, while his brother remains in a coma.
Another survivor of the fire that broke out in the early hours of New Year's Day in the Swiss ski resort of Crans-Montana described how she lost sight of a friend while escaping the flames.
"I held my friend's arm, but... I climbed up the stairs and let go of his arm. He's not answering me anymore," the young woman said in tears.
Around 40 young people died in the fire and 115 others were left injured.
Forty people were killed at the bar where the fire began, as we hnow while 116 others were very injured.
Swiss prosecutors have opened a criminal investigation into the managers of Le Constellation bar.
credits:DENIS BALIBOUSE / REUTERS
Education :
How to explain this tragedy to our kids at school ? Perhaps let the students start to talk, to follow the thinking of the children or adolescents and not to impose our adult words.
Back on their understanding is important because it has to be spoken, not to leave the children with what it will come up with some information that they had to correct because they had not quite understand and after answer to their questions.
More than ever, we must have the right word to express our and their emotion, our and their tears, our and their sorrow.
"We tend to want to protect the children in our sorrow concerning the tragedy, but in toddlers 3 or 4 years, it can lead them to imagine terrible things, says an analyst."
Be careful ! It does not mean give details. This is the time to reaffirm that nothing can replace the word.
via Google Images Archive
Important !
Tell and demonstrate with photos or Reels young students the danger of sparkling candles or sparklers, now used often on birthday cakes. Never onbottles to the oldest. Don't use it anymore !
credits: partyplanet.net.au
The oldest, Secondary education and High schools will be sad about the tragedy at Le Constellation and can well understand the danger of the use of sparklers when they don't know very well the place where they are celebrating a birthday or enjoying a New Year's Eve with friends as the young people who died at the bar Le Constellation in Crans-Montana whenthey just wanted to enjoy with friends the New Year's Eve, and they didn't think about the danger.
Our students will thinking about it in their head and in their heart the sadness of those who died, or could escape but injured, and all parents who lost their children.
Some thoughts:
Teachers and parents! Talk and share thoughts with your students or kids, no matter their age. But be caredful with your words. Students have a lot of questions, not just today, but still tomorrow, and in the coming days.
"In talking with them is also to protect them from danger by respecting their life."
On this day, 9 January, Swiss national mourning, pay our respect to the 44 young dead from different countries and to their families.
"No truth can cure the sorrow we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness can cure that sorrow. All we can do is see it through to the end and learn something from it, but what we learn will be no help in facing the next sorrow that comes to us without warning.”
