It is always difficult to decide what to read next…
I would suggest anything from Roald Dahl, Jacqueline Wilson, Philip Pullman, Dick King-Smith, Enid Blyton, Louis Sachar, Sharon Creech, Anne Fine, Michael Morpurgo, Cornelia Funke etcetcetc – all GREAT! Ask me if you want more specific suggestions…!
And if you need other student suggestions, go to the ‘Books’ tab of this blog to see what other G5 students are reading…
And here are some more resources that WILL help you!
ReadKiddoRead is an amazing place to find recommendations. Some really fun reads! SERIOUSLY!!!
‘WhatshouldIreadnext‘ is another excellent site (suggested by my teacher-friend from ISM, Adam Winton – thank you!) to find more cool books to read…
Glencoe is also good for suggestions of classics – study guides are also provided if you want related activities to fill your Summer…!
http://www.literature-map.com - this is a great place to find other authors similar to your favourites! Have a look below at what happened when I searched for Roald Dahl – the closer the authors, the more similar they are…:
Some of you are really getting into writing poetry – here are a few resources to help you! For more, check out the Delicious links on the right sidebar…
Here and here are two resources to help find rhyming words – thanks to Ms. Cynthia for sharing
Poetry Express has 15 poem ideas HERE that you can start writing yourself NOW!
Giggle Poetry is a great place to find ideas for – guess what – poetry to make you giggle!
30 Days of Poetry & Poetry 180 have some great poetry samples and templates to start you off – they are directed more to Middle & High Schoolers BUT are great nevertheless!
What things remind you of Dubai? Buildings? Transport? People? Lifestyle? Colours? Shapes?
Please add as much as you can to the wallwisher below – it would be best if you could include photos, videos, pictures BUT just text is fine – someone else could add a picture…!
Brainpop: basic overview of hundreds of topics explained by an animated Tim & Moby. Currently we are working with a free trial (check with teacher for username & password – although you probably can guess…!)
Mindmeister: an excellent collaborative online mind-mapping tool – perfect way to brainstorm on a topic over the internet
written reflections: I’m sorry – we had to! BUT this MAY be more fun than you think… we are trying to get them onto your own blog space on the GLG (GEMS Learning Gateway)
See a Tagul word cloud below – the great thing with this for YOU (something that wordle doesn’t let you do) is that it let’s YOU search the definition of the word in google by just clicking on the words below!
Can anyone find any other ways to use this ‘cool tool’? Send any examples to gwagrade5@gmail.com and we can share…
Some of you are already very knowledgeable about how to be safe, respectful & responsible on the ‘big wide web.’ I also know a few of you could do with a few reminders… Here are 2 FUN sites to learn about how to keep safe on the internet…!
While I was looking through some GREAT student blogs from Hong Kong Academy and Shanghai American School I came across Andrew’s Weebly site. It looks like he is doing an Exhibition right now too and had embedded this fun cartoon about wasting energy from youtube:
