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Practise your tables and earn rice

September 13, 2008 @ 5:12 pm · Filed under Create online, Health, LOTE, Numeracy, Science, To do, have-a-go

Thanks again to Larry Ferlazzo for this note about the improvements to the free rice website.  I had been to this site a few times, earning rice to be donated. But now instead of just English vocabulary, you can practise your tables or learn the capital cities of countries around the world.  If you are into chemistry learn the periodic table or practise your French and other languages.  Many thanks for this recommendation Larry.

 

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Want to learn more languages?

August 30, 2008 @ 3:26 pm · Filed under LOTE, have-a-go

Well Larry Ferlazzo has done it again.  A great language site covering many languages of the world.  You need flash player to use it but try Japanese, French, German or many of the other dialects found around the world. The site is called Digital Dialects.

Photo from my collection travelling in Canada.

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Learning a new language

July 3, 2008 @ 7:07 pm · Filed under LOTE, Literacy, have-a-go

This year has been declared “The Year of Languages” by the United Nations.  While looking through the Education Network Australia website I found this great resource for students wanting to learn some basic words in many different languages.    

There is also another fantastic site that teaches you how to say “Hello” in many languages.  Can you find this website and learn some new words to add to our welcome window?

 Photo source  “It’s just a close-up of a poster of the 2000 usual kanji from japanese language. Long time ago I put it on a wall and gradually put in color the kanji I knew… ” by colodio  Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.0 Generic

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Essay competition about Japan

June 8, 2008 @ 9:50 pm · Filed under LOTE, Literacy, competitions, have-a-go

As we are studying Japan and its language and culture this year, I found this competition on the net, which I am sure some of you would enjoy entering. It is about after school activities.  You would have the whole of second term to write the essay so please look into it, especially if in grade 7.

When I was in Japan a few years ago, I visited a school during their school holidays but it wasn’t empty like our schools would be.  Instead, the band was rehearsing every day, the volley ball team and table tennis team were practising – the school was full of students during their holidays.

Should this happen in Aussie schools? 

Photo source:  “Afternoon activities” by MC MasterChef

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