December 04 Cforum

You can find the minutes for this meeting at
http://cforum.wikispaces.com/December+2009

All of the links listed here are on that page.

Here are a few of the highlights that I would like to share with you.

First some christmas activities (and Others) that I thought were worth while.

Lower Grade Snowman Creation
http://www.kenttrustweb.org.uk/kentict/content/games/snowman_v4.html

On this one you squeeze the noses to create a song.
http://dingo.care2.com/cards/new/0422/Do-a-rain-deer.swf

Form Jibjab. (I do not know how to create these but I would like to learn, if anyone knows how.)
http://elfyourself.jibjab.com/view/JByVvmwvBW6m3zaH9MZ3

and payback
http://elfyourself.jibjab.com/view/8I49W6p9tuJcEEIl

Elementary Activities. I haven't done any of these so I can tell you anything about them.
http://www.northpole.com/

And another that contains Advent calendars, and Christmas ClipArt and others
http://ngfl.northumberland.gov.uk/christmas/

An excellent page for economics calculating the cost of the Twelve Days of Christmas.
There is a games page that carries this concept a little farther.
http://www.pncchristmaspriceindex.com/CPI/index.html

There were other sites that were good but not so much Christmas related.

Pyramid creation, an interactive that allow you to create a pyramid.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/egyptians/launch_gms_pyramid_builder.shtml

City Creator, maybe like Sim City
http://www.citycreator.com/

An excellent vocabulary activity. They claim they will send rice to the World Food Program for each correct answer.
http://www.freerice.com/index.php

Medical Mysteries I didn't try. You may like this kind of thing.
http://medmyst.rice.edu/

Excellent problem solving skills involving Lego Blocks.
http://www.lego.com/eng/create/activities/junkbot/