Merry Christmas!

For those who share the spirit of Xmas


http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/texte/xmas.htm
http://www.merry-christmas.com/

Decorative Candle Fair

8th through 21st of January

Buy gifts that do a world of good to children with disabilies!


We are waiting for you with items created by children at Special School No. 10.

What's more important: hard work or intelligence?

Both hard work and intelligence can contribute to a successful life, but the question that raises is which is more important.
While intelligence is an inborn ability and can discriminate people from each other, hard work is something developed and applicable to everyone. By looking at what it takes to mold a person, I would say that hard work plays a far more important role in achieving success than intelligence.
1. First hard work requires a lot of patience and commitment.
2. Second a hard working person gets used to challlenges.
3. Finally, a mind set on growth encourages a positive perspective on life. This will build on confidence and boost chances to success.
Reasearch showed that people who rely solely on intelligence are more vulnerable to failure, lack motivation to learn and fear challenges. It is true that in some fields success requires more intellectual talent, but this alone is not enough; one needs the perseverence not only to to complete a task but to go on with another that would come, and here is where commitment comes into place.
So what it pays off in the end is the commitment and hard work, not ranking high in IQ tests.

ThinkQuest: Competition 2012

This international competition challenges students to solve problems using technology. Participate in 3 exciting events:

1. ThinkQuest Projects: Students develop a website in ThinkQuest Projects.

2. Digital Media: Students produce an online journal/blog, a stand-alone website, photo essay, animation, public service announcement, video or some combination of these items.

2. Application Development: Students develop an interactive application or game.

Entry Deadline: April 25, 2012


Prizes


1. 1st and 2nd place team members receive a laptop computer and a trip to ThinkQuest Live, a once-in-a-lifetime educational experience in the San Francisco Bay Area, California.
2. 3rd place team members receive a laptop computer.


MORE ON

http://www.thinkquest.org/competition/

Blog Evaluation Coming

Get your blog ready to be evaluated by December 18th.

Grading scale:

1. Design (overall and for each posting) 1 point

2. Extra features (gadgets, members) 1 point

3. Postings: 7 points
5 compulsory:
1. Diary entry
2. Screencast: My experience...
3. Screencast: Comparing 2 photographs
4. Argumentative writing (mini-essay)on a given topic
5. Never again! (In more than 80 words describe something that you did once, but won't do it again.

2 of your choice (Suggestions: poems, game / book reviews)

A productivity blog to check

The Good Habits Blog covers good habits you can follow to help ensure your academic success.
http://www.goodhabitsgoodstudents.com/blog/

"Linguistic Kangaroo"Competition

The contest will take place on January 26th.
Deadline for enrollment: December 20th
Enrollment fee: 16 RON

The contest has 2 stages:
1. Mass stage for all students who enroll
2. National stage: only a number of selected students who performed excellent at the mass stage will participate.

Prizes: participation in trips and camps, books.

The objective is to motivate students to learn and master European languages.
The competition has a form of a multiple choice test with 50 questions.
The test duration is 60 minutes.
Each participant will receive a certificate of participation.

More on www.cangurul.ro

New competition

Evaluation in Education, School year 2011-2012

Check this site for enrollment conditions and evaluation centres.
Deadline: November 19th

http://www.evaluareineducatie.ro/disciplina-engleza/start/

My experience in...

BEWARE! HALLOWEEN IS APPROACHING!

Your wish is finally granted!
We'll throw you a Halloween party this year and it will be the Monster event everyone will be talking about (hope that not during my classes!!!).
We need your Wicked minds pop up with ideas on what to get ready for the party to keep the Madness out (contests, costumes, music, etc.)

Competition: Shakespeare School

Answer the question, "What's your favourite word in English?"and you can win a module in the bimonthly conversation club, Ënglish over a cup of tea".

Read more at http://www.prokid.ro/concurs/concurs_shakespeare_school_-110/

Good Essays

I have just got into an interesting essay on family written by Melissa Jackson (no clue who she is, but she has a clear talent for writing). The classic writing on family is re-thought into a 'shot-story' kind of writing both descriptive and entertaining.
Click here to read it.

COMPETITION: Super Blog 2011

PCNews, one of the most popular blogs in techology in Romania has lauched the annual contest for bloggers and blogs. Today is the last day to enter your blog in the competition, so go here, read the terms and participate. Do not worry if your blog is not quite ready, you'll have a couple of weeks to make it work the way you like.
Enter competition http://superblog.pcnews.ro/join.php
Terms and conditions http://pcnews.ro/superblog2011/Regulament%20SuperBlog%202011.pdf

GOOD LUCK!

Open Libraries

"Night of the Libraries" is waiting for you on 2nd to 3rd October with concerts, exhibitions and many more. Here's the link to the program.
http://www.noapteabibliotecilor.ro/bucuresti/

Essays on today and tommorow's libraries (Worth reading!)
On interest http://apage.ro/a-project/on-interest/
Gutenberg is dead. long live the print. http://apage.ro/a-project/200/
Thoughts on reshaping the public library concept in Romania! http://apage.ro/a-project/thoughts-on-reshaping-the-public-library-concept-in-romania/

Build up a positive way of thinking!

The Positive Thinking Training project aims to encourage positive thinking about the events that occur every day throughout the world.
http://www.positivenews.gr./
Check the above site where you can read positive news, vote for the ones you like and add your own positive stories.
If you want to vote and add your own news, create a username and a password with the site (check with the teacher).

Copyright

What is your opinion about copyright? Do you agree with it or not? Give reasons for your opinion.

Join a cause!

Most bloggers have a cause they support. Search various causes and promote them through your blog (Say what / who is the cause for, what organization carries it, etc). Add a picture reprezentative for the cause. Add a link to its website, or add a banner on your blog (go to Design, then click Add HTML/Java and paste the code provided by the cause). You may also support the cause on Facebook.

To do this you must have your own blogger account. After you have created the account (use the google account), create your own blog. Look at the link to a tutorial posted in September.

English, My Love!

A new contest for those who love English, competition, and prizes.
Talk to your teacher about how to entry.
Deadline: October 10th

Read more here
http://www.eurojunior.ro/Concursul-ENGLISH-MY-LOVE.php

KLS center

Join the KLS center and you'll find a treasure of books and other materials to help learn more English.

BritTeen, the Club for You

British Council has started registration for BritTeen.
You can choose from the following clubs:
1. Talk! Make yourself heard! Loudlier than ever!
2. Win-Win strategy
3. Publicity
4. Careers under magnifying glass
5. Make yourself known on the internet
6. Masks

Follow this link and find more details about registration and workshops.
http://www.britishcouncil.org/ro/romania-support-young-leaders-britteen-club.htm

Parents' Comments

Pentru parinti: comentarii, sugestii si intrebari.

How to set up a Blogger account

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vs5tfoe-dCA

Let's Do It, Romania!

Join my group of 6th graders on the 24th of September (Saturday) and be part of a community of volunteers ready to make Romania a clean place to live in.

http://www.letsdoitromania.ro/

European Day of Languages

On September 26th we celebrate the European Day of Languages.
Follow this link to find more
http://edl.ecml.at/
Bring a postcard with you at school; we'll write and send messages to schools in various countries in Europe.

WELCOME

This is our class blog. Feel welcome to contribute with ideas, suggestions or to reflect on the activities we do in class.