Friday, December 21st

We played today and you liked the games. I am glad, you can play again.

Click here for silk. 

Here for draw a stickman.

If you want to give rice to the people who are hungry you must click here.

If you want to play with NASA you must click here.

Photofiltre

Cliquez ici pour  voir les différents types de format de fichiers et à quoi ils correspondent.

Prise en main Photofiltre de Mme Herment ici.

Vous pourrez telecharger  photofiltre7 ici il s'agit de la dernière version. Elle est plus performante et elle vous permettra d'avoir des calques et de nombreuses applications. 

Voici les tutoriaux pour Photofiltre 

-  Vous trouverez comment supprimer du texte dans une image à fond foncé ici.

-  Vous trouverez comment supprimer du texte dans une image à fond blanc ici.

-  Vous trouverez comment agrandir une image, choisir une couleur de l'image et la manipuler ici.

-  Vous trouverez comment superposer deux images et faire un montage avec Photofiltre ici.

-  Vous trouverez comment  coller une image dans une autre image ici.

-  Vous trouverez un tutoriel pour faire des photos, des cartes artistiques avec photofiltre ici.

Autres 

Cliquez ici pour vous inscrire et faire des glogs sur glogster.edu

Cliquer ici pour voir le site de Voicethread. Il est payant malheureusement.

Gratuit, dropbox qui est trés utile. Cliquez ici.

Un site pour trouver des photos creative commons. foter.com, cliquez ici.

Un site fantastique pour faire des présentations prezi.com cliquez ici.

The most beautiful images of Earth from NASA. 

Click here and choose your topic

Formation adresses utiles

Voici les adresses des sites mentionnés lors du stage :

http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/activities/phonemic-chart

http://www.voki.com/

http://text-to-speech.imtranslator.net/

http://www.englishcentral.com/videos#!/index

Pour convertir les fichiers cliquez ici

Pour enregistrer des tutoriaux cliquez ici

Pour enregistrer une vidéo, cliquez ici.

Tuesday, November 20th


Alexandre thinks that Van Gogh liked to transcript sad moments of people lives.
Camille thinks that he liked this painting because of the contrast between the blue and the red.
Elisa says that he liked this painting because he painted the doctor as his vision and he was sick.

a plant, flowers,  leaning,  different shades.
On the first painting I think the background is the sea and in the second picture the background is a mountain.

 Homework :
Lesson
Ex Finish comparing the two images.

 

US Presidential elections

Looks complicated doesn't it ?

Click here to get the ineractive board. To sum up
Obama has 431 ways to win and Romney has 76 ways to win
Blue for the Democrats and red for the Republicans

The person who predicted hurricane Sandy

Halloween

Halloween is soon, we will not be at school but you can look up these websites to learn and enjoy different activities.

Just to look at





Bizarre Halloween JackO' lantern a slide show here.

Games with words :

- unscramble the words that the computer has chosen for you here 

- A spooky spelling game from the British Council here.


















- For the more advanced students a word quiz on Halloween and Edgar Alan Poe here

- Reading activity with exercises afterward  here.

- You can draw your own monster here

GAMES :

Great and spooky you can choose English, maths or science. I chose English and won !

- Gut instinct here

- Mia's cadaver tombstone timeout here

Do you like candies ? 

Here is an ifnographic for you then :

Comparatives regular and irregular

Here is a work sheet on comparatives. Click here.

Voki a tutorial

Here is a tutorial for the text to speech tool Voki

Superstitious ? Here are lucky numbers for you

Some numbers are lucky and some are not, some are both lucky and unlucky...
It depends where you live, the world is definitely a funny place.
Hers is the link to the original post.

Source

Do you like comics ?

Do you like comics ?
I am sure you do, if you click on the link you will see that comics are very different according to the country or continent you live in. Click here
The pciture below shows you an extract from the article by the BBC

Voyager's journey to the unknown

Voyager's journey to the unknown but at 20 km per second !!!!!!

by michaelagar. Browse more infographics.

If you cannot remember irregular verbs then try this website it is great to play at the "pendu" but be careful it is very difficult !
Click here to find out .

This or that

The US elections explained in a video. You liked it so here it is :

AWESOME
How did awesome come to be so popular.
Read here
This article from The Economist is just  ...awesome :-)

http://www.classtools.net/fb/home/page

View Fullscreen | Create your own

If you wish to see how the American flag changed over the years, click here.

A time line for Forrest gump :

World Water Day March 22nd

World Water Day problems and some solutions...


 

Today is world Water Day. If you wish to learn more about water on Earth, read here, and here.

There is very little frexh wate, and it never changes we drink the same water as the dinosuar. Click here to learn.

Do you want to see where you can save water in your house then click here.

In this game oyu can decide who gets the water in California ( a State where fresh water is rare) and learn about the consequences ! Click here.

If you wish to play and learn at the same time click here.

Here.

Here.

To learn how to save water at home you can click here too.

Massive Solar flare

Huge solar flare heading toward Earth, may disrupt satellites, power grids, airplanes

Super Bowl

Super Bowl Sunday will be on Sunday February 5th Here are a few website to learn about the Super Bowl and laugh at the images and commercials !

First the basics about the game on this YouTube video


Here is a photo from NBC slide show about Super Bowl you can find online by clicking here   and here 

A presentation from Time magazine that shows the top 10 best commercials broadcasted during the Super Bowl in previous periods  if you click here.
Super Bowl is a great time for advertisement because it is the greatest TV audience in the year.

Flashmob

The ultimate flashmob ? quite impressive !

PANCAKE TUESDAY

Do you wish to know what is Chandeleur in English ?
Well there are two words for it one for the religious day : candlemas, the other for the pancake day and it is then called Pancake Tuesday.
If you wish to explore the subject and to know how Pancake Tuesday is seen from the UK here is the link you must open. Click here .

You will discover new words Click here, and funny ways to check if you remember the words click here and here and here

You can also read about pancakes here  and have the best pancake recipe ever click here.

Enjoy it !

Climate change : Arctic warming pushes winter weather south

Valentine Day

It will be Valentine day soon you must get ready with
- all the vocabulary you need Click here first 

a picture quiz to make sure you know the words Click here.

Alphabetical order word search (easy). Click here.

Easy word search on the same topic. Click here.

More difficult word search Click here.

Jumbled words. Click here 

Easy crossword. Click here.

More interesting and difficult :
You can watch the history of Valentine day,scroll down to do the listening quiz after.
Click here

Read a text and do the reading comprehension exercises, click here.

Easy gap fill exercise. Click here.

Last but not least Amy Winehouse song Cupid, do not forget the listening quiz !

Click here.

Chinese New Year and horoscope

All about Chinese New Year;

First vocabulary :
http://www.esolcourses.com/content/topics/chinese-new-year/picture-vocabulary.html

Check if you know it here :
http://www.esolcourses.com/content/topics/190109/wordsearch.html

Learn about Chinese zodiac signs :
http://www.esolcourses.com/content/topics/chinese-new-year/chinese-horoscopes-vocabulary.html

Check if you know them here :
http://www.esolcourses.com/content/topics/chinese-new-year/chinese-horoscopes-picture-match.html

and here :
http://www.esolcourses.com/content/topics/190109/crossword.html

Then you can find out what is your Chinese zodiac sign and read about your character and good or bad qualities. It is a little difficult but I am sure you will enjoy it.
http://www.esolcourses.com/content/topics/190109/1901094.html

MUSIC

This is something really different, you can compose music and send it :

Here for classical music with the New York Philarmonic you can learn and compose in the workshop
it is both a game and a composition you can record and send to a friend or...enemy !

http://www.nyphilkids.org/composition/main.phtml?

learn about instruments
http://www.nyphilkids.org/lockerroom/main.phtml?

You can invent you own instrument
http://www.nyphilkids.org/lab/main.phtml?

and then try to play like this :


Classical music still a beautiful website very cleverly done :
http://contrapunctus.thirdangle.org/

This is to create your own personal sound badge, hurry to answer the questions it determines
the music :
http://soundbadge.net

You can just create hand symphonies with clapping hands here and help the American Heart Association as well.
Just click on the hands to turn them on and off :
http://handsonlycpr.org/symphony/

You will create music by creating a town here :
http://www.isleoftune.com/

This one is a little surprising at first but turns out to be very easy :
http://www.glitchscape.com/

Just explore and enjoy.

Easy grammar exercises for the 6th and 5th graders
Click here and do them all. let me know if you like them comment please !

I am sure you wish to improve your winter vocabulary here are some exercises you can do :
- on winter sports click here
- on winter clothing and weather, click here

If you do not want to print your newspaper and wish to keep it as a pdf file here is the tutorial that will explain how to do it.

Here is a tutorial to help you write your newspaper :

Thursday, january 12th

COMPUTER LAB:

Number 1
First connect on edmodo and comment on the posts from your American penfriends. ( Hammond in particular)

Number 2
ONLY after you are finished with edmodo :

- You will have to speak about music and illustrate what kind of music you like, what it means to you, if you practice an instrument ...

You will create a virtual poster on http://edu.glogster.com/

A family of otters chasing...butterflies !