Merry Christmas!

We'll take a break from our Around the World Research today, and you are welcome to explore the following websites, watch the videos and play games...

First I'd like to show your this amazing video from the crew at Google, who have compiled a visual tour of the most searched issues of 2012:



Try this "Holidays Around the World" Crossword puzzle from the New York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/xwords/20071115.html


Watch portions of Christmas movies such as the Polar Express and the Chronicles of Narnia on the Literacy Shed website:

http://www.literacyshed.com/the-christmas-shed.html


Create your own holiday word cloud using Wordle:

http://www.wordle.net

You may try to name all the countries of the World on Sporcle:

http://www.sporcle.com/games/g/world

Or you may always play Mathletics, FreeRice, or CoolMath4Kids - links to the right :)

Merry Christmas 6th Grade - you rock!

Mrs. Morell