Counting rhymes, poems and song on the sorceresses (for Halloween or not!)

I am not fan of the holiday of Halloween, however, it generates at the children's a particular interest for all what is frightening, or supernatural.

The October is therefore the ideal instant to take out, in nursery school and cycle 2, books and poems on monsters, ghosts, hirsute ogres and other nightmares and to offer them cuttings up and collages of sorceresses or other frightening characters …

But, to begin this series devoted to the fantastic, I offer you counting rhymes and poems on the sorceresses, some today to laugh, others to play to make the disgusted, or others else, to make fright …

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Sleepless night in Metz: musical creation and modern Art - on Friday, October 3rd, 2008

While Metz waits impatiently for the end of jobs and for the opening of the Centre Pompidou-Metz, the city institutes this year a first sleepless, big Night celebrate messine artistic and cultural, to discover in all city.

Visual and choreographic, sound performances, concerts, exhibitions, ephemeral installations, conferences it is an artistic kaléïdoscope and a night of surprises which will be offered to the public of Friday, October 2nd, 18 h, to following morning 7 h, in around thirty places unusually opened for this unusual night.

This first Sleepless night will therefore invite the public to discover creations accomplished and offered by a group of artists of the plastic, choreographic and musical stage of the Big East (Metz, Nancy, Strasbourg, Luxembourg, Sarrebruck). So much appointment to be joined on foot, in bus, in bike where on board of a small train. (Read continuation …) (Lire la suite…)

Ideas of original present: useful and sound or luminous T-shirts!

I have seen this morning the local team of Pont-à-Mousson installing the first Christmas decorations in the roundabouts of the city (some perches furthermore for the storks!;-)). He is therefore time for me to begin my listing of marks-pages with the aim of Christmas presents …

I begin with presents for the fanatics of new technologies and other geeks, found on a site discovered thanks to ClaudeQ. See rather: (Read continuation …) (Lire la suite…)

Japanese ephemeral garden, place Stanislas in Nancy (September 27th - November 2nd, 2008)

the ile-de-l' friendship - ephemeral Gardens - Nancy 2008

(Update: My report photos is online!) est en ligne !)

Every year, place Stanislas is bedecked during some weeks of greenery and of plants, drawing an ephemeral garden, a nice place of promenade and of change of scenery.

In this year of 2008, decoration draws its inspiration of the Japanese gardens fine to pay tribute to 150 years of French-Japanese friendship. In the programme, bonsais and flowers, of course, but also sunshades, sand and pebbles, or, more unexpected, vases Daum. (Read continuation …) (Lire la suite…)

Storks' migration via Pont-à-Mousson

For some weeks, it is not rare to be able to notice storks stuck on one reflect, on the axle which crosses the Moselle close to Pont-à-Mousson.

They give an unusual view to the motorists who borrow this road, in rising or in the sun (at about 7 h or 19 h 30 currently).

The whole was to have the camera It was case yesterday, while we take in of day in family in Moselle (kisses, the cousins;-)). (Read continuation …)

Poem to play with letters and sounds - Poems to discover the pleasure of words

I offer you first of all a poem (blown by my nephew of CE1) to play with the associations of letters and the combinatory.

With In The country of Alphabet, of Jacques Lafont, more question to forget that "E-a-u" makes [o], nor that “c and r” makes [KR].

(Of course, this poem will then be able to act as "model" of creation for other poems, in which the children will imagine other meetings of letters) (read continuation …)

Desperate Housewives plays pine-up to announce the fifth season

The fifth season of series Desperate Housewives will be broadcast in the United States from Sunday, the occasion to make a sales campaign.

It is for it that six female stars (Eva Longoria Parker, Teri Hatcher, Nicollette Sheridan, Marcia Cross, Felicity Huffman and Dana Delany) submitted, in August, to a session photo worthy of making the cover of a domestic textbook imitating the styles of an earlier period, indeed coming to light in pine-ups of the years 50s on the cover of TV Guide (USA) of next week! (Read continuation …)

The Effect Butterfly, seen by Bénabar - extracted from Infréquentable (in tour in 2009)

After Resumption of company”, taken out in 2005, Bénabar gets ready to introduce us the last album, "Infréquentable" (envisaged by October 13th). In the meantime the first single, “Effect Butterfly“, passes for some days on radios.

I love this title, for its music and its tempo first, but also, as in the songs of the previous album, for the text, which speaks about the daily on a smiling or ironic tone.

This title of Bénabar is too recent to be able to accomplish a karaoké; I will therefore content myself with offering you words of “Effect Butterfly(to Read continuation …)