Painting the Walls for the Orphange

Dear Viewers, 

One of our girls, Anya is trying to raise money to help kids in Zambia. Please read the story that is further below and help her cause. Any amount helps. Thank you for taking the time. 🙂

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Thanks for taking the time to visit my JustGiving page.

The reason why we are raising money to paint the walls is to brighten the children’s world with beautiful artwork. Art is a part of life which brings a community together in many cases. The children would have a enjoyable time with this activity and it’s easy and fun!

Donating through JustGiving is simple, fast and totally secure. Your details are safe with JustGiving – they’ll never sell them on or send unwanted emails. Once you donate, they’ll send your money directly to the charity. So it’s the most efficient way to donate – saving time and cutting costs for the charity.

CLICK HERE – > SOA.

Serenje Orphans Appeal (SOA)

SOA seeks to relieve the suffering of orphans in Serenje, Zambia. SOA supports local Serenje orphanages which strive to maintain the natural bond between orphan and legal guardian – the ‘Serenje Orphans Childrens Home’ (SOCH) in Serenje, and the ‘HMP Orphanage at Chibobo’, 20km from the township.

GRADUATION 2016

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CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE GRADUATES, BUT ESPECIALLY TO FOUR OF OUR GIRLS. CELINE, ANNA-MONIKA, SEDA AND MONICA THANK YOU FOR BEING PART OF OUR HOUSE AND FOR ALL YOUR HELP IN THE HOUSE. WE WILL MISS YOU! 

Online Tools and Apps for Poetry

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April is National Poetry Month! ReadWriteThink.org! As you’re planning poetry activities during this month (and beyond!) consider using these poetry-focused ReadWriteThink.orginteractive tools and mobile apps.

The Acrostic Poems tool helps students learn about and write acrostic poems, a poetry form that uses the letters in a word to begin each line of the poem. All lines of the poem relate to or describe the main topic word. Also available as a Mobile App. In this lesson plan,  students create acrostic poems using their names and the names of things that are important to them.

In the Diamante Poems tool or Mobile App, users can learn about and write diamante poems, which are diamond-shaped poems that use nouns, adjectives, and gerunds to describe either one central topic or two opposing topics (for example, night/day or winter/spring). Writing, revising, and publishing are just a few of the tasks students will complete in this lesson plan in order to take their cause-and-effect diamante poems from an idea to a reality.

Students can learn about and write haiku using this interactive tool that guides them through the writing process. There is a corresponding Mobile App. Using the Haiku Poem App or the Haiku Poem Interactive, students summarize papers they have written using the traditional format of a haiku in this lesson plan.

The Letter Poem Creator provides an online model for the thought process involved in creating poems based upon a letter; then, students are invited to experiment with letter poems independently. In this lesson plan, students explore letter poems and experiment with writing letters as poems, using the placement of line breaks to enhance rhythm, sound, meaning, and appearance.

The Line Break Explorer explores the ways that poets choose line breaks in their writing. After viewing the demonstration, students are invited to experiment with line breaks themselves. They can learn more in “What Makes Poetry? Exploring Line Breaks“.

The Riddle Interactive outlines the characteristics of riddle poems and provides direct instruction on the prewriting and drafting process for writing original riddle poems. “What Am I? Teaching Poetry through Riddles” has students explore figurative language in poetry by reading and writing riddle poems.

Users learn about and write theme poems, a poem written within the shape of the subject of the poem using the Theme Poems tool or Mobile App. “Theme Poems: Writing Extraordinary Poems About Ordinary Objects” invites students to select a familiar object online, build a bank of words related to the object, and write theme poems that are printed and displayed in class.

Word Mover allows children and teens to create “found poetry” by choosing from word banks and existing famous works; additionally, users can add new words to create a piece of poetry by moving/manipulating the text. Additionally, there’s an App version. Use the Word Mover tool to play with word families and listen for rhyme, then sort real and nonsense words, alphabetize the words, and create a story or poem using the words in this activity.

 

Source: http://blogs.ncte.org/index.php/2016/04/online-tools-apps-poetry/

 

OPEN HOUSE – This Saturday!

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Open House

Register now for more information about our different programmes!

Programme
9.30 a.m. – 12 p.m. :

– Welcome and presentation of Collège du Léman
– Visit stands (admissions, bus and lunch, extracurricular activities, camps, learning support, college advisory, PFA etc.)
– Tours of the School
– Informal meetings with Principals
– Visits of extracurricular activities

 

Register HERE ->> http://www.cdl.ch/openhouse