National Cheese Day!

In honor of National Cheese Day, check out the following educational links about the wonderousness that is cheese!

http://somethingsoclever.typepad.com/good_things/2005/11/happy_cheese_da.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheese
http://www.cheese.com/
http://www.ilovecheese.com/
http://www.cheesesociety.org/
Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends

More Enjoyable Schtuff!

The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., has some great Shockwave games on their NGAkids site. My favorites are PixelFace the Collage Machine. You can manipulate photos and other graphics to create your own works of art...and you get to print them out when you're done! Enjoy...

http://www.nga.gov/kids/zone/zone.htm

Cool Site!

Check out this link to the Exploratorium in San Francisco. The "Hello Dahlia" slideshow gives some great info about the Aztecs, a civilization we will be covering soon. Also be sure to check out the rest of the website to see what other exhibits are at the museum.

http://www.exploratorium.edu/gardening/control/index.html

Vocabulary for "The Most Dangerous Game"

Both Core 1 and Core 2 have the same vocabulary list this time. Very spoooooky.

1. vitality
2. Cossack
3. incense
4. analytical
5. providence
6. inevitably
7. uncanny
8. repast
9. elude

End of the Semester

The final date for turning in any late/missing/makeup/extra credit work is Friday, January 13.
The final date for resubmitting any work is Friday, January 13.
The final date for retaking tests or making up quizzes/tests is Thursday, January 12.

Happy New Year!

Hope everyone had a wonderfully restful winter break. Below are some interesting history links related to new year celebrations. See you in class.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Year's_Day
http://webexhibits.org/calendars/year-history.html
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/aprilfools1.html
http://www.topics-mag.com/internatl/holidays/new-years-page1.htm
http://www.timessquarenyc.org/nye/nye_faq.html