The Kids News: April 2013

Monday, April 29, 2013

GAME OF THE WEEK

POU

POU is a nice virtual pet that will accompany you anywhere through your Android device.

In this application, you are responsible for taking care of a friendly alien who loves to eat and play.

In addition, you will take care of all the processes to keep your friend healthy and happy. You will need to take care of his feeding, bathing, administering medication and play with your partner.

See Pou grow

When you open the game, your first mission is to feed your Pou. For this, all you need to do is choose an item and drag it to the mouth of the pet. The same works for the other actions, if you need to bathe him, just drag the character on the soap until it is clean.

Likewise, the application has minigames, which are the games for you to enjoy your virtual buddy. Market game you can purchase a number of items to let your enjoyment even further. There, you will find various food products, new wallpapers to decorate the background, clothes for your Pou, among other elements.

If you want to download it in your cel phone, here is how:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=me.pou.app

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

EARTH DAY MAZE

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

CURIOSITIES ABOUT ENGLISH LANGUAGE

English is an official language in 53 countries
Surprisingly, English is not an official language in the United Kingdom, United States or Australia (these countries don’t have any official language)
Approximately 375 million people speak English as their first language
English today is the third largest language by number of native speakers (after Mandarin Chinese and Spanish)
Estimates that include second language speakers vary greatly from 470 million to over a billion
Non-native speakers outnumber native speakers by a ratio of 3 to 1
In December 2010 a joint Harvard/Google study found the language to contain 1,022,000 words and was expanding at the rate of 8,500 words per year.
Of all the words in English language, the word “set” has the most definitions
In English, the most commonly used letter of the alphabet is “E”
And “Q” is the least used
The letter used most frequently at the beginning of words is “S”
The letter used most frequently at the end of words is also “S”

WHERE ENGLISH LANGUAGE CAME FROM???

English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now the most widely used language in the world.^[4] It is spoken as a first language by the majority populations of several sovereign states, including the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Australia, Ireland,New Zealand and a number of Caribbean nations. It is the third-most-common native language in the world, after Mandarin Chinese and Spanish.^[5] It is widely learned as a second language and is an official language of the European Union, many Commonwealth countries and the United Nations, as well as in many world organisations.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language

Countries where English is an official or de facto official language, or national language, and is spoken natively by the majority of the population

Countries where it is an official but not primary language

English as a global language

Because English is so widely spoken, it has often been referred to as a "world language", the lingua franca of the modern era, and while it is not an official language in most countries, it is currently the language most often taught as a foreign language. It is, by international treaty, the official language for aeronautical and maritime communications. English is an official language of the United Nations and many other international organizations, including the International Olympic Committee.

HOW CAN WE SAVE OUR WORLD?

RRR

RECYCLE

REUSE

REDUCE

Monday, April 22, 2013

EARTH DAY! 22nd of April!

LET´S SAVE THE EARTH!!!

Today is Earth Day! Over one billion people in 192 countries are participating from London to Sao Paolo, Seoul to Babylon City, New Delhi to New York, Rome to Cairo; people everywhere are taking action in their communities and helping depict The Face of Climate Change.

How can you get involved? Attend an Earth Day event in your community, start doing something to lower your carbon footprint, and take a photo of yourself being part of the solution and upload it to The Face of Climate Change Wall. (http://www.earthday.org/blog/2013/04/22/its-earth-day)

APRIL 22nd, BRAZILIAN DISCOVERY DAY!

In Brazil, Discovery Day is observed on April 22 each year. This date commemorates the day when Pedro Álvares Cabral became the first European to land in Brazil in 1500.

CONGRATULATIONS FOR ITS 513 YEARS! :)