Your tasks: BRITISH EMBASSY'S CHRISTMAS: E-card Christmas

Ainhoa G. and Patricia G., 1st A


Estefanya C. and Antonio G., 1st A


Rocío J., 1st A


José G., 1st A


Santiago S., José Tomás and Carla G., 1st A




Sandra M. and Celia S., 1st A




Rocío M., 1st B


Diego A., 1st B


Andrés P., 1st C, enlace

Christmas Card Competition

Design an interactive Christmas E-card for the British Embassy in Madrid, win 250 Euros for your school and get your design seen by hundreds of people in Spain and the UK.

Christmas E-card :

It is a Christmas made using ICT (computers) to be emailed. You can use PowerPoint, Glogster, Photoshop, Gimp, Paint, Photoscape... whatever software you are good at.

Competition

The competition is open to pupils aged 13-14 studying in the 1st – 2nd nd Year of the bilingual schools project of the Comunidad de Madrid.

Theme

We have chosen the theme of the London 2012 Olympic Games and would like your design to reflect what you consider best represents the attractions of the London Olympic Games. The card should include a suitable Christmas message and should be as interactive as possible.

How to Enter

Create your interactive Christmas card which must include a Christmas Message and the name of your school in the bottom left-hand corner. Don’t forget that the theme is “What’s so great about the London 2012 Olympic Games”. Send your entries to my E-mail address or give them to me with your pendrive.

Deadline for entries

All entries must be received by Tuesday 22 November, so you will have to send them to me before the deadline.

The winning E-card will be decided by a panel of British Embassy chosen judges.

Weekend is here

Enjoy,

Symmetry and polygons with ICT

• Symmetry of flat shapes:

• More symmetries:

Symmetry with ICT

Activities for the computer classroom

Line symmetry

• LINKS Learning. Line symmetry. Videos to firm up your knowledge and some easy activities.
• Symmetry haelmedia activity.
• SymFace. It lets you see how your face would look if it was perfectly symmetrical. You will need a picture of your face (better), or just use one provided for this software. Very funny!.
• How many lines of symmetry? Game.
• Reflected symmetry.

Multiple line symmetry

• Snowflake Creation. Multiple line symmetry.
• SymmeToy. You can download it (it's free). It is a program for creating paint patterns, symmetry roses, tessellated art and symmetrically decorated 3D polyhedron models.

Rotational symmetry

• Rotation.

Curiosities:

• Ambigrams (Images that can be viewed upside down or right side up):
  http://www.ambigram.com/matchbox. FlipScript, ambigram generator.

Symmetry

Lines of symmetry

Where we found symmetries

Mythological monsters

Let's see how creative you are.
First of all you have to find out the meaning of these words and add them to your vocabulary list:

• abominable snowman
• android
• dragon
• Martian
• mermaid
• nessie
• ogre
• phoenix
• robot
• snowman
• sphinx
• ghost
• unicorn
• vampire
• werewolf

Afterwards, you will have to choose two of them and create a drawing to be painted in a sheet of paper (A4). You can choose the techniques you feel are most appropriate for the task (free style techniques).

Last but not least, you will have to explain your drawing on the back page (of course, in English).

You will see your drawings published in this blog very soon.

• Create your own beast with Beast Blender:

 

Halloween BSO

Thanks to "Mangas Verdes" blog, 150 songs and noises for Halloween.

Halloween with ICT

Wanda Witch's House

If you want to learn about this celebration and practice its vocabulary, click on the pictures: (remember: right button of the mouse AND OPEN IN A NEW WINDOW, in order not to go out of this blog)

You should choose English, of course

About Halloween

Activities

Working in class

Dressing your Halloween

Jack O' Lantern Lab. Create your pumpkin and its face.

Bloompetals. Create your own pumpkin cutting it with a knife. -->Read carving instructions.

Squigly's Games. Puzzles, jigsaws...

JibJab videos. As always... terrific, in Halloween, too. Did you know it? You can do it as well but you will need to register (although it's free).

 Some Quizzes to practice your vocabulary: