Tuesday, March 31, 2009

CREATE SUPERHERO PICTURES

Do you want to be a heroine like me for one day? HeroMachine lets you create your own superhero/heroine. You can customise the looks of every facial feature, change the colour of the skin and costumes, add accessories, etc.
Create the hero/heroine you always wanted to be!

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Sunday, March 29, 2009

VIDEO STORIES

Speakaboos is a fun online children´s storybook video library. You have to choose a category to watch one story such as: fables, fairy tales, folk tales, nursery rhymes or lullabies.
Come on, kids! What are you waiting for?

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Saturday, March 28, 2009

EASTER ACTIVITIES

Decorate Easter eggs.

Send animated Easter eCards.

Listen to the Easter Bunny Rap.
HAVE A VERY HAPPY EASTER, KIDS!

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Wednesday, March 25, 2009

BUILD YOUR OWN NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MOVIE

This is a really cool site for you, kids! You can produce your own wildlife films. National Geographic Wildlife Filmmaker lets you make custom nature films with animal video clips, sounds, music and text captions. The site is easy to use and films can be saved on the site or shared through email to your friends or family.
Check it out soon and have fun creating videos!

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Tuesday, March 24, 2009

IN, ON, UNDER... VIDEO

This song introduces the prepositions: in, on, under, in front of, beside, next to and between. It´s catchy and great for conversation practice.
You can watch more videos of this funny beaver on You Tube page: www.youtube.com/wearebusybeavers
You will learn English vocabulary easily!

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Sunday, March 22, 2009

COMIC STRIP GENERATOR

On this site, Comic Strip Generator, you can create customized cartoon comic strips. There are hundreds of cartoons and famous people images to choose from.
All you have to do is fill in the speech balloons with your own words and change the tittle if you want.
Finally save the image to your computer. Try it!

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Wednesday, March 18, 2009

SPELLING WORDS: SPIN & SPELL

Spin & Spell is a fun game for learning to spell. There are five categories of words that you can choose: "what we eat", "what we wear", "in and around home", "how we get there" and "the animal kingdom". Click on the picture you want to spell and spin the wheel to spell the words.
I hope you practise a lot!

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Monday, March 16, 2009

EASY ART WITH ARTPAD

This is a fun way to create your own "artwork". You can scribble, paint, draw and play around with art and when you have finished your painting you have a choise of frames and finally you can hang it in the gallery to admire!

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Saturday, March 14, 2009

SOUTH PARK STUDIOS AVATAR

Create your own South Park alter-ego or make one of your family and friends. When you´re done, save it to your computer, print it out or send it to a friend!

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Friday, March 13, 2009

TEXT TO SPEECH TRANSLATOR

Oddcast Text to Speech Translator is an interesting language tool. Simply type in the box the word or phrase you want to listen, select the language (from Spanish to English or from English to Spanish) and click on "SAY IT".
Try it now and improve your English!

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Wednesday, March 11, 2009

ST. PATRICK´S DAY ACTIVITIES

Saint Patrick is the patron saint of Ireland. It´s on Tuesday, March 17th. Saint Patrick is traditionally associatted with the Shamrock plant, which he used to explain the concept of the Trinity.
A lot of people celebrate this holiday all around the world. Some of the thousands that celebrate St. Patrick´s Day go to the church, having parties or just wearing GREEN in memory of Ireland.
It´s time to give you some ideas and activities to celebrate this special day (leprechauns, shamrocks...)
St. Patrick´s Day is coming soon!

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Tuesday, March 10, 2009

READ DIGITAL STORIES

StoryPlace is a great source of digital stories that you can use to introduce reading in English. The stories contain audio and text. Choose one from the library and pay attention!

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Monday, March 9, 2009

LEMON TREE VIDEO

You can review the Present Continuous with this funny video of the beautiful song "Lemon Tree" by Fool´s Garden. This story is about a really sad man with a broken heart. Don´t miss it!

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Sunday, March 8, 2009

SIMPSONIZE YOURSELF

If you visit the Simpsonize Me site you can build an avatar for yourself as a character from the Simpson´s from any personal image stored on your computer.
Also you can place your new avatar in a Simpson´s landscape.
Look at me at Springfield Elementary School!
A fun project for you, kids. Try it!

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Wednesday, March 4, 2009

WORLD ATLAS & MAP LIBRARY

earth Pictures, Images and Photos

This website (Fact Monster World) is about Geography with detailed maps and information of every country in the wold. It gives you information about flags, cities, population... and includes two useful tools: a distance calculator and latitude-longitude finder.
Enjoy your trip!

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Monday, March 2, 2009

BUILD YOUR WILD SELF

Create a funny avatar of yourself half human and half animal on this nice website: Build your Wild Self
There are plenty of selection from hairstyle, eyes, mouths, clothes... and also parts of wild animals (horns, tails, legs, etc)
Finally, when you are done, the image will be available for download. You will be a new species in the animal world!

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GARFIELD´S COMIC CREATOR

Create your own Garfield´s comic strip. Choose the characters, the background and add text. You can design 3 panels. Enjoy it!

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