Want to play the drums until the cows come home? What’s the matter? Don’t have your own drum kit? Who needs reality when everything is now virtual? Check out this virtual drum kit and get rocking!
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Category: Bowl Of Noses
Sniffing out the stuff that kids really get best
We’ve started ice skating over in our bowl. Lessons have been going well, but somehow we don’t think we will ever reach the level of these chimps.
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Stargazing: WikiSky and beyond!
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Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown
Better late than never!
Come March 28th maybe we should all go to bed a little earlier…
Earth Hour is a great idea. Everyone everywhere on the planet turns off their lights at exactly the same time. More and more people have been participating in this event each year. It started in Sydney, Australia in 2007. 370 cities did it last year. It’s estimated that 50 MILLION people participated in this last year. 377 cities have already signed up for this year.
Now it’s time for you and your family to do the same! Talk to them and see if we can all shut off our lights together. Maybe you can even get your city to do the same. They should have something to get schools to jump into their bowl too.
Check it out. What a great idea. It’s brought to you by the World Wildlife Fund.
Carbonrally is a website that provides simple actions you and your family (or class) can take to save energy and slow global warming. They’ve got them set up so you work as a team with people from all over the world. And each action is a challenge that you can track and see how people working together can make a really big impact. Everyone wins!
One of the many great things about being young is that we live in a time of many great challenges. Working together, every day you can do something to make the world a better place in the future!
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Read Before You Buy
Lookybook is a great website that allows you to look at a whole picture book before you buy. Okay, okay: we know most of you think you are too big for picture books, but let me tell you something: as old as a nose grows, good work still smells just as sweet as the day the first nostril fell off the vine (can you put two colons in the same sentence? isn’t that like having four nostrils?).
And what if you want to find a good new book — one that is not a hand-me-down to your four year old brother or that five year old girl who lives next door? How are you going to do that if your parents don’t want to take you to a book store? You have to give the little ones something fresh now and then don’t you?
Or maybe you need to get some ideas for the kids’ book you are going to draw or write this weekend? Didn’t know you were going to do that? Do you know how much college costs these days? Better start to earn some money — be you a parent or a kid.
Anyway, one of the neat things about Lookybook is you can build your own bookshelf and place all the good ones on it — which will help that girl and your brother know what’s good to read. Here’s just one of their books. It’s much bigger on their website, but if you click on the eyes here, it will grow like Pinocchio‘s nose — but not for the same reasons!
