Cultus Lake WATERSLIDES!!!!!
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Monday, July 27, 2009
Sunday, July 26, 2009
Interactive Greek and Latin Roots
This is a site that I use to practice Greek and Latin Roots. There are Matching Flashcards (Java/non-Java)Concentration and Word Search exercises.
This is better than working on paper and it's playing and learning at the same time.
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Friday, July 24, 2009
VocabSushi
Memorizing new words is easier when you see them used in a real world context. VocabSushi lets you do just that. It is a free interactive vocabulary builder, which lets build your vocabulary by seeing word usage in the daily news.
You can practice words by filling out the sentence completion questions and learn the correct word pronunciations by playing the MP3 files. Words have been compiled from the actual word sets used in ISEE, ACT, GRE and other standardized tests that feature vocabulary sections.
System tracks progress of your overall vocabulary, skips the words you know and suggests words that are most challenging for you based on your learning curve. The service is free, and you need to sign up to get started.
Features:
- Interactive vocabulary builder.
- Learn new words by their usage in daily news.
- Words are taken from actual word sets used in GRE, ISEE, ACT, SAT and other standardized tests.
- System tracks progress of every word and suggests the most challenging words based on your learning curve.
- Practice new words by filling out sentence completion quizzes.
- Download printouts, MP3s and podcasts to learn words while you are offline.
- Similar website: WordAhead.
Check out VocabSushi @ www.vocabsushi.com
Learning vocabulary on the Internet
WordSift is a new tool which can help you get more information about a word or a sentence by displaying the related images from Google, visual thesaurus showing word relationships and more information about the text, all on one page. The tool was created primarily for teachers so that they can visualize text vocabulary structure and share it with their students.
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Career Suggestion for Me = )
I had a look at this site to explore some possibilities for a career.
I answered 39 questions about what I like or dislike about my interests and abilities. This programme calculated my results and gave me a suggestion of suitable careers.
The suggestions were interesting because I don’t know what I w ant to do for my career. I looked at 6 careers and I looked at the general Arts programme at The University of Quebec in Montreal.
1. Environmental Consultants are scientists or engineers. When someone wants to buy, sell, develop, or restore land that may have been polluted, consultants are contracted to assess the area. It’s also their job to plan and oversee the cleanup, or “remediation,” of the site.
2. Art Directors are responsible for the overall “look" of films, television shows, stage productions, magazines, newspapers, advertisements, and multimedia products. They have a strong sense of design, vision, and style.
3. Historians examine records of the world's political, economic, religious, and cultural past, trying to find out how and why things happened the way they did, as well as what impact they had. They try to reconstruct the course of events based on various kinds of factual records, but the facts are always incomplete, and the whys of history are a matter of interpretation. There is a lot of guesswork involved, and historians are well-known for arguing with each other.
4. Ecologists study how living things interact with each other and with their environments. For instance, they may look at how a forest recovers after a fire, or how a rise in the population of rodents can influence the population of the owls and foxes that eat them.
5. Physical, or biological Anthropologists, focus on human physical characteristics, trying to understand how they are shaped by heredity and environment. Some concentrate on the fossil remains of ancient humans and closely related primates such as apes. Others specialize in primatology, studying the behaviour of living primate populations, usually in the wild. Cultural and social anthropologists compare historical and contemporary human cultures from all around the world, looking at religion, mythology, art, customs, and political, legal, and economic systems. In studying and documenting the amazing diversity of human life they also try to understand what we all have in common.
6. Landscape Architects design and create outdoor environments, from the gardens of single residences to whole streetscapes of entire new communities. They also do environmental assessments of development projects and monitor projects once they are built. To do their job well, they need a wide variety of scientific and artistic skills.
When I go home I will have a better idea of how to plan my future !!!!
Harry Potter in English!!! A review by Marjorie.T
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince is playing in cinemas around the world. It’s my luck to see in English in
After seeing all five Harry Potter movies in French, I was surprised by the sixth movie in English.
The Half Blood Prince begins with scenes of Harry and Dumbledore. Sadly, the movie ends with Dumbledore’s death at the hands of Snape.
We learn about Dumbledore’s sacrifice when he drinks the poisoned water, but we don’t learn more about his character.
We see Tom Riddle when he is young but as the adult Voldemort his story doesn’t really advance and his character does not really develop.
The atmosphere of the film is dark and gloomy, but we don’t have a conclusion to the struggle between good and evil. For this we must wait until the final two movies: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010) and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011)
The quality of the set design, costuming and special effects were amazing. Every scene looked like a painting.
The relationship between the characters of Hermione, Harry, and Ron is developing with their maturing. It’s entertaining to watch the dynamics of their interaction with each other and their love interests.
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
It's cheaper to dance in France :-)
This is the only academy in
It is located in
I went to this site because I wanted to see a Canadian ballet school.
I saw the activities of this school. The program ‘On the road’ for children is very enriching. I saw the video ‘Hip-Hop Moves’. We understand that ballet is very important for learning other dance forms.
Finally I compared the price of ballet shoes. In
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Learn About Salmon
Did you know there are five species of Pacific salmon? They are Chum, Sockeye, Chinook, Coho and Pink.
At the Water Center, you can view Coho salmon on display, part of the statewide “Salmon in the Classroom” program. The Water Center receives eggs from the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife’s Lewis River Hatchery. The Coho salmon eggs hatch in late February or early March. When the eggs hatch, the hatchling is call an alevin. The egg is still attached to the belly of the fish. The alevin will absorb the egg to gain strength so it can start to swim. Once it is swimming and has absorbed all of its egg, it is call a “fry.” In the river or stream, the fry will eat bugs.
On occasion, you may even see the Coho fry at the Water Center eating a bug!
Coho salmon fry will live in fresh water for more than a year, then become smolts and head out to the ocean in April or May, the year after they were hatched. The Coho will stay in the ocean for two years eating krill and fish. After two years, they return to fresh water to spawn. Female Coho use their fins to create a nest in the gravel that is called a redd. Then after the eggs have been fertilized by the male, both the male and the female salmon die.
Salmon Facts:
- Salmon are anadromous fish, which means they live in salt water but return to fresh water to spawn.
- Salmon live the majority of their lives in the ocean.
- Adult salmon return to their “natal” stream, where they were hatched, to spawn.
- Salmon find their natal stream by following chemical mapping imprinted within them as they go to sea.
- Salmon like to lay their eggs in shaded gravel beds.
- Salmon female use their fins to clear out a depression in the gravel.
- Salmon female will lay about 4,000 eggs, while the male emits milt to fertilize them.
- After the adult salmon spawn, they swim far upstream and die.
- When salmon die, their bodies help rejuvenate the nutrients in the stream as they decompose.
Excerpted on July 22 2009
http://www.cityofvancouver.us/watercenter.asp?waterID=24980&waterSubID=27445
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
July 21- Buddhist Temple in Richmond
Buddhism
Buddhism is a belief from Asia.
The people who practice that think they must live every day like it is the last, they practice peace and being calm. They believe in reincarnation. They are born and they die many times before they become a Buddha and reach Nirvana.
Ling Yan Mountain Buddhist Temple on Nr. 6 Road (the Highway to Heaven )
This temple has nuns but no monks. The nuns are bald and some of them have tattoos on their heads. They wear uniforms that are black with a brown cape. They look melancholic and they pray all the time.
They eat the main meal at 11 o’clock. Visitors are welcome to eat with them. We sat quietly in the dinning room in rows. The nuns chanted a prayer and we chanted too. The chant was awful; the meal was worse. Helpers served us from aluminums pails. We had small bowls and chopsticks. The food was strange. One dish was grey. It was seaweed. The pancakes were disgusting. We had ½ a napkin. We escaped quickly!!!!
The Steveston Highway Buddhist Temple
After the Ling Yan Temple we went to Steveston Highway Buddhist Temple, the biggest Buddhist temple in North America. In the entrance there was a fat happy Buddha. Inside there was a Buddha with 100 arms and each hand has an eye. Inside was an enormous gold Buddha just like the other temple. We bought incense, lit it, and put it in front of the fat happy Buddha.
The antidote to so much strange food was very good strawberry and raspberry ice cream. We ate it on the Steveston dock.
ARTICLE REVIEW Snoopin’ around Snoop’s world
Tuesday, July 21 2009 Vancouver Sun
Summary:
Snoop dog is a singer who is called the Hip-hop legend. He is coming to Vancouver for his concert. He calls Vancouver his home away from home. In an interview he describes his music, and his life. He speaks in an African American English dialect. He uses words like ‘hood’, ‘give you ass sum hits, ya dig?!?’
Opinion:
I don’t like his music. I think he is a little bit crazy and he gives a violent image with his personage.
Monday, July 20, 2009
Itinerary
July 23 - The Number 14 Play
July 28 - Cultus Lake Waterslides Trip
July 29 - Shopping trip to Robson St
July 30 - Paddle Surfing at Jericho Beach
August 2 - Gay Parade
August 6 - Grouse Grind Hike
MAYBE I WILL
go kayaking
pick raspberries
go to Victoria
go to the beach
go to Metrotown
July 28 - Cultus Lake Waterslides Trip
July 29 - Shopping trip to Robson St
July 30 - Paddle Surfing at Jericho Beach
August 2 - Gay Parade
August 6 - Grouse Grind Hike
MAYBE I WILL
go kayaking
pick raspberries
go to Victoria
go to the beach
go to Metrotown
First Test
Diagnostic Online Reading Assessment
Time: 45minutes
Level of difficulty: a little difficult
Result: I need to build vocabulary and learn reading skills
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