In light of the
upcoming festivities, I have chosen a few fun and kid friendly websites for you
this week.
The first one is
NORAD Tracks Santa (http://www.noradsanta.org/en/ also available as an app on the iPhone and
iPad). The North American Aerospace Defense Command has set up Santa’s sleigh
with a radar system so they are able to track him as he travels around the
world making his deliveries. This is
great fun for students to watch as he travels all the countries of the world
and there are even some videos of him visiting important landmarks. Until he begins his journey, the website lets
you play some games and learn more about Santa.
p.s. this is a
great tool for parents too – ‘Oh look he’s in Finland…you better get to bed
quickly. He will be here soon.’
The second website
is New Year’s Traditions Around the World (http://www.fathertimes.net/traditions.htm). This website contains brief descriptions
of New Year’s traditions from countries around the world as well as how to say
‘Happy New Year’ in many different languages.
What a great way to remember that the world is a much larger space that
what we interact with on a day-to-day basis.
Finally, here is a
fun website to keep the kids entertained during the break. Make –a-Flake (http://snowflakes.barkleyus.com/) is a virtual snowflake making
website. You use the track pad and
buttons or a mouse to control your scissors and create your flake. When you are done, click ‘preview flake’ and
it unfolds to show you what you have created.
You can e-mail it to yourself, view it as a JPEG file and save or print
it, or you can download it to use in a graphics file. It’s just as creative and fun as making
traditional snowflakes, but no messy paper bits to clean up after!
I hope you have a
relaxing and quiet break.
Cheers,
S
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