Get ready

Get ready for your Interhouse Touch Typing Competition. These sites will help you improve your speed. Hope you enjoy them!

Practice

More practice

Whack Attack

This is a game from the BBC that tests knowledge on Math, English or Science. The questions are good, though the game is a little weird. You’re given three answer choices. Each answer is color-coded, and in order to choose an answer, you have to “whack” the correctly-colored figure that keeps popping up.

Game

Thank you, Mr Ferlazzo for sharing this game with us

An anonymous comment

An anonymous person left the following comment in our blog in the post

http://yearsixale.blogspot.com/2009/10/reflection-of-week_29.html

Thank you whoever you are. Please read the comment below and see what you have understood. Thank you!

Hi,

A favorite quotation of mine~being a former teacher myself. Obviously, in order to have learning take place you need a teacher(at times) and a student(learner). Teachers open the door~explain, describe, model, and show you how to get the answers. Students must walk through the door by themselves~by focusing, listening, understanding and trying what they have been shown. Teachers teach you how to teach yourself. My goal was to make my students "self-taught" lifetime learners.

04 November 2009 20:23

Exams and the importance of sleeping well.

Sleep must be important because we spend 1/3 of our lives doing it! Loss of sleep hurts attention, working memory, mood, quantitative skills, logical reasoning, and even motor dexterity.

But is sleep really doing nothing? It looks like it...our eyes are closed, our muscles are relaxed, our breathing is regular, and we do not respond to sound or light. If you take a look at what is happening inside of your brain, however, you will find quite a different situation - the brain is very active. You are doing something!

It’s possible that the reason we need to sleep is so that we can learn better. Everything we have learnt is cemented while sleeping.

Therefore, now that your are having your final exams, it is very important for you to SLEEP WELL!

Cyberbullying

Kids are spending more and more time on computers and cell phones.
For most kids, these devices offer a fun and fast way to stay in touch with friends and family. Some, however, use e-mail and text messages to bully their peers.
This is the video we watched in class and we reflected upon it altogether.
Now I would like you to watch it with your parents and reflect with them on this issue which is affecting society more and more.

Have a look!

Have a look at these images painted by Giusseppe Archimboldo, who was an Italian painter from the sixteenth century best known for creating imaginative portrait heads. What do you think? What do you feel when looking at them?

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Reading Comprehension Practice

If you are willing to practise your reading comprehension skills for your final exam, try these two links.

Reading Comprehension1
Reading Comprehension 2

How to Write a Persuasive Essay

Thank you Mr Willward from Canada for sharing this video with us on Persuasive Essay. This is just another guide to write this type of essays. Hope you enjoy it!

More Fun Theory

Turning a recycling Bottle Bank into an Arcade Game, Watch this video and leave a good comment. Have a nice Sunday!

Persuasive Essay

Have a look at this presentation to go over what we talked about in class. Thank you!Persuasive Essay

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