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 !

Daytime fireworks

Do you think this is art or Art ,
It seems funny and the rainbow must have been hard to make

How to reply to a mail and attach a file on epals

Here is to show you how to reply to an email and attach a file on epals.