4Kids.org - Week of November 9, 2008

Week of November 9, 2008

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How do you say “I'm home” in Japanese?

tadaima
adiosu
ki

What does “Dao” translate into?

Day
Sun
The way

How many barrels of gasoline do Americans use each day?

9 thousand barrels
9 million barrels
9 billion barrels

Say ‘Please’ in Japanese

Start to learn a new language today at Kids Web Japan, http://webjapan.org/
kidsweb/language. This site features eight different lessons for you to work through on your way to reading, writing and speaking some commonly used phrases in Japanese. Lesson 2 will help you make new friends, and Lesson 5 can teach you how to find out when their birthdays are. Each lesson includes a different Vocabulary, Grammar and Exercise section so that you can practice your new skills. Good luck and sayonara!

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4Kids.org/nominations

A Secret Chinese Garden

Take a tour of a Classical Chinese Garden at www.virtualmuseum.ca/
Exhibitions/ScholarGarden. Enter the Garden of Ease, where you can mouse around and click on the red symbols to highlight the area you want to enter. To understand more about Chinese gardens, visit Garden Meanings for an explanation of the hidden symbols and to see pictures of a variety of gorgeous gardens. For more history and information on the construction of Chinese gardens, browse through About the Garden for details.

By the Light of the Moon

Fight global warming in a new, creative way at Motoring on Moonshine, http://whyfiles.
org/253ethanol. As the Earth's temperature rises, carbon dioxide in the atmosphere increases and vice versa. This is not good! Check out Variations of the Earth's Surface Temperature Chart to see how things have changed over the years as the carbon dioxide levels have fluctuated. Next, learn all about ethanol and discover the pros and cons of this “Earth friendly” fuel. This site provides a big picture look at global warming, how we are responding to it and the facts about alternative fuels.

What do you do to be “green”?

Speak Out Here!

Dear Amy: Who invented CtrlAltDelete? — Anand, Thiruvananthapuram, India

Dear Anand: This popular keyboard shortcut can be credited to David Bradley, who helped create the IBM PC. The shortcut started out as a way to restart a computer if it fails. Microsoft made CtrlAltDelete famous by using it in its Windows operating system. In Windows, the shortcut opens up the Task Manager rather than rebooting the computer. If you want to find out more about David Bradley, check out www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/ptech/01/
29/ctrlaltdelete.man.ap.

Each different operating system uses its own set of keyboard shortcuts. With some practice, you can be a whiz at using computer shortcuts. It can even come in handy as a backup if your computer mouse is having problems. For a list of Windows shortcuts, visit its help page at http://support.microsoft.com/
kb/126449. You can find a list of shortcuts for Mac OS X at http://support.
apple.com/kb/HT1343. For Linux shortcuts, check out www.tuxfiles.org/
linuxhelp/shortcuts.html. Good luck!

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—Amy

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