INTERACTIVE SPELLING BEE

Hi kids! Do you want you practise your spelling skills?

Christy Carlson Romano gives you 100 words from 20 different categories and you have to click one among three choices on the screen.

This interactive spelling bee game is really fun. Enjoy!

INTERACTIVE SPELLING BEE

CHESTER´S FEED GAMES

Chester´s Voice Modulator

Type in a message in the box and Chester the character will speak that out. Then you can send the message to your friends.

Giant Cheetos Pet

Create a funny pet by adding facial features, accessories, hair and background. When you have finished your creation, you can play with him to make him feel happy.

CHESTER´S FEED GAMES

CREATE A BAG PUPPET

Create your own Fandango Bag Puppet with customized hair, eyes, nose, mouth, clothing and accessories. After creating your bag puppet, enter a name and click on "Preview" button to put your puppet into action.

You can email it to your friends and upload to a gallery where other site visitors vote on the best of the best!

CREATE A BAG PUPPET

CREATE A CHEESTRING CHARACTER

Hi again, kids!
Have you enjoyed your holidays? Tomorrow we´ll begin a new term. Do you want to start with a funny activity?

Well, then you can try creating a Cheestring character. First, choose a body shape (round, square or triangular) and then drag over and adjust eight simple moves on it to develop your own unique character.
At the end, enter a truly colourful world, meet other user´s characters and begin looking for four hidden clues to discover a special surprise!

CREATE A CHEESTRING CHARACTER

CREATE AN ONLINE RECYCLED PUPPET

Make do and Mend is a game created by artist Alison Stockmarr where you can create a cute puppet using recycled materials. It´s very easy:
- Pick up a puppet from the suitcase.
- Choose utensils and clothes you will need to make your puppet.
- Click and drag them into the frame.
- Name your puppet and write about what kind of recycler you are.
Have fun!

CREATE AN ONLINE RECYCLED PUPPET

PUMPKINS FUN STUFF

1- Pumpkin Patch: Become a talking pumpkin at American Greetings (upload your photo and add audio)

2- Carve your very own Jack-O-Lantern at Halloween Builder.
3- Decorate a pumpkin at Decorate your Pumpkin Game

4-Create a message at Caption.iT - Pumpkin Photo Frame Text Generator.

5- Play Halloween Pumpkins (online flash game)

6- Play with a skeleton falling down through pumpkins at Hall-O-Ween Games

Watch How To Carve a Pumpkin on Howcast

PUMPKINS FUN STUFF

CREATE YOUR OWN BAND AND MIX YOUR TUNES

At Nat Geo Music Mixer you can become a star! Create your band, mix your tunes, and put on a show:
1-Click on a musician's name or their instrument and select "Edit" to change the musician's appearance, name and outfit or the look of their instrument.
2-Pick a musical style by clicking on the blue button and your band members will automatically have the instruments they need to play the song.

3-Select a loop for each instrument and you've got a song playing.
4-When you're ready to record a mix for the ages, hit the Record button.

Enjoy!

CREATE YOUR OWN BAND AND MIX YOUR TUNES

MAKE YOURSELF A TOY!

At Toy Story 3 Toy Creator you can make a virtual toy of yourself easily. Choose your hairstyle, facial features, skin colour and clothes. To save your toy you have to register and you will get wallpapers with your creation.

This is me with the toys Woody and Buzz.

Check out Disney- Pixar´s official Toy Story site, watch the Toy Story 3 trailer and meet new characters at the bottom of the page. The film will be in cinemas soon!

MAKE YOURSELF A TOY!

WORLD CUP ACTIVITIES

1- Play World Cup online games and test your knowledge about countries, flags, football words, World Cup places ... at Teacher Planet.

3- Create your custom football T-shirt at ImageChef.

4- Design your own superflag with your favourite teams and discover the meanings of flags at We are multicolored.

4- Create your World Cup dancing at Univision: upload your own photos and join in on the fun!

5- Listen to "Waving Flag", the World Cup 2010 anthem by K´naan and do the activity at Quia (created by Reneé Maufroid)

Come on kids! World Cup 2010 in South Africa is coming soon. Have fun!

WORLD CUP ACTIVITIES

DESIGN YOUR OWN CREATURE

Create your very own Underland creature in this activity based on the fantasy book series The Underland Chronicles by Suzanne Collins.

1- Design a body and choose a scene.

2- Choose the gender and a name.

3- Answer some questions to give it a personality. For example: How does it live?, What does it like to eat?, What does it do? ...

Finally you will get a short biography with the main features of your creature. Enjoy!

DESIGN YOUR OWN CREATURE

PLAY WARHOL´S WORLD

Andy Warhol was an American painter, printmaker and filmaker who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as "Pop Art".

Learn about his life at Warhol´s World website. You have to complete four capsules:

1- Andy at Home.

2- Andy´s Commercial Art Career.

3- Andy´s Silver Factory.

4- Andy the Superstar.

If you complete the game successfully, you will get a certificate like this. Try it yourself!

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When you ´ve finished with the game, create your Pop Art Poster with your photo or avatar or any image you like following Warhol style.

Enjoy!

PLAY WARHOL´S WORLD

INTERNATIONAL BOOK DAY

Do you know what happened on April 23, 1616?

It was a symbolic date for world literature because two great writers died: Cervantes and Shakespeare.

To celebrate this date, choose a game at Shakespeare for kids and have fun solving crosswords, mazes, jigsaw puzzles and more. It´s all about Shakespeare!

INTERNATIONAL BOOK DAY

INANIMATE ALICE: AN AWESOME AND INTERACTIVE DIGITAL BOOK

Inanimate Alice is an interactive tale of Alice, a young girl who seems to be always losing her parents, and her imaginary digital friend called Brad.

There are 4 available episodes: China, Italy, Russia and Hometown. The stories are told through a mix of text, sounds and images with some interaction because you need to perform actions to continue the story.

Don´t miss this great interactive narrative experience. It´s really amazing!

INANIMATE ALICE: AN AWESOME AND INTERACTIVE DIGITAL BOOK

GRAMMAR IS FUN AT GRAMMAROPOLIS

Hi again my dear pupils!

Easter holidays are ending and we will begin reviewing grammar on Tuesday.

Grammaropolis uses animated parts of speech to teach you English grammar (prepositions, nouns, adjectives, actions verbs, conjunctions...) with funny characters.
Check out the website for videos, books, songs and interactive games.

Watch this music video first and listen to the song "Welcome to Grammaropolis". It´s very catchy!

GRAMMAR IS FUN AT GRAMMAROPOLIS

LEARN TO COOK SOME TASTY MEALS

Do you want to prepare some recipes like Spaguetti Carbonara, Mushroom Rissotto or Salmon with Chips?

Play What´s for Dinner at Candystand.

Choose a recipe and follow the instructions on the screens to prepare the meal:

- Pick all the listed items as fast you can.

- Peel, cut, squeeze, measure, mix, grate, fry, boil or bake the ingredients.

- When the meal is ready, serve it on a plate and enjoy!

LEARN TO COOK SOME TASTY MEALS

EVERYTHING ABOUT YU-GI-OH!

Read up on everything you always wanted to know about Yu-Gi-Oh at 4Kids TV website. Get character bios, play games, watch free episodes ... and more!

This activity is specially dedicated to Carlos Fondo (Class 5C). He asked me to publish something about these characters.

Have fun!

EVERYTHING ABOUT YU-GI-OH!

TELLING TIME ACTIVITIES

Hi kids!
Practise telling time with different online activities:

- TIME -Interactive Book (by Mrs Behengaray)

- Bang on Time (Teaching Time)
- What´s the Time? (British Council)
- Telling Time (Harcourt School)
- Everyday Activities (Recursos Digitales- Junta de Extremadura)
- Colummns of Time (Quia Corporation)
- Telling Time with Word Problems (by Mr Goldberg - Quia Corporation)
- What time is it? (Primary Games)
- What time is it? (Funschool)

Which one do you like more?

TELLING TIME ACTIVITIES

BIG BEN VIRTUAL TOUR

The Clock Tower is the name of the famous tower of Parliament in London, more popularly known as Big Ben.
Do you want to climb to the top of this tower, kids?
Make an interactive online tour that takes you behind the clock face and inside the Clock Tower:
- First, find the Clock Tower entrance and follow the blue arrows to move to another room.
- Click on the blue circles to find out information about things.
- Look for the stairs to go up or down to the next level.

There are seven floors:
- On the first and second floor: Exhibitions Rooms.
- On the third floor: Mechanism Room.
- On the fourth floor: The Clock Dial.
- On the fifth floor: The Belfry. You can see here the huge bell called Big Ben and the four quarter bells hang.
- On the sixth floor: Bell Support Platform.
- On the seventh floor: Ayrton Light.

You will finally be at the top of the Clock Tower! Enjoy the views!

BIG BEN VIRTUAL TOUR

OPTICAL ILLUSIONS

What are "illusions"? Illusions trick us into perceiving something differently than it actually exists, so what we see does not correspond to physical reality.
Here is a fun game with 50 Optical Illusions.

Read the explanations below each one and try to understand them.

Have fun, kids!

OPTICAL ILLUSIONS

VALENTINE´S DAY FUN STUFF

1- Decorate your virtual Valentine´s Day cake and send it to your sweetheart!

2- Generate your own Candy Hearts.

3- Listen and read "Punny Valentine" at Mighty Book.

4- Read the Story of Valentine, play games and send an e-card at KIDOONS.
5- Play online games and do puzzles at The Kidz Page.

VALENTINE´S DAY FUN STUFF