Other Blogs

Hi, everyone! I just wanted to recommend some other blogs to you that are written by my friends:

• Michaela: http://www.blowandpop101.blogspot.com/ 
• Zehra: http://www.spreadingpeacetogether.blogspot.com/
• Leela: http://www.blackcoatgirl.blogspot.com/

I hope all you Little Miss Fun readers enjoy their blogs as much as you like mine! 

Thanks,

Lauren

BrainPOP

I just wanted to tell everyone about one of the websites we often use at school. It's a great education website for practically anything: math, English, science, technology, health, social studies and art/music. www.brainpop.com is a website that has thousands of all educational videos for any topic you can think of. Tim and Moby can teach you about stocks to bruises or Albert Einstein to pi. There's even a BrainPOp Junior which is recommended for kindergarteners through 3rd graders. I think BrainPOP is the funnest way there is to learn about everything in life.

Text Art

One of my friends just told me about a really cool website: www.chris.com. He is an artist, a different type of artist. Chris makes what he calls 'text art' from real characters on a keyboard. I suggest you check out the link that is on this post. This is one of my favorites, a Snoopy dog writing a story:

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Free Rice

Play and feed hungry people! I just discovered an amazing website called: www.freerice.com. It's a site where you put another definition for the word that pops up. When you answer a question correctly, the website automatically donates 10 grains of rice to starving people in poor countries. Just think how fortunate we are to have enough food and a home with heat and beds. Many people can't support their families and I think it's very important to help out around the world. In 2008, Free Rice raised 43,942,622,700 grains of rice! How would you feel if your developing country got that much rice from many supportive people?

Type Racer

I just found another really cool website called TypeRacer.com! It's a really fun place where you can race with other live people on the site and you type quotes from books, movies, songs, or even plays. It's really addicting and the website even gives you a MPH score and it tells you which place you came in. You can even make an account, if you'd like that better than being a guest. Type Racer is so much fun!