This Week (19 July) at Se7en…

Here comes your calendar post for this week… enjoy!!!

Firstly, here is our the Calendar Collection:

• Scholastic.
• KinderArt.
• About.com’s Calendar.
• Crayola.com
• Enchanted Learning.
• Reading Activity Calendar.
• Teacher Vision.

Here is our weekly picture celebrating Hood #8.

And these are the days we will be looking at this week:

• 20 July: Chess Day.
  • My kids have enjoyed Chesskids.com
  • A brief history of Chess from Pitara.



• 20 July: Ice Cream Soda Day.
  • Crazy Chemical Chaos Party in Se7en Steps.
  • Timeline history from google.
  • Basic recipe and a bit of history.
  • Happy ice-cream soda day from Slashfood.com
  • Ice-cream soda from Wikipedia.
  • 7-Up Cake from Se7en

  

• 20 July 1969: First Moon Landing.
  • The moon landing fro kids from Nixon Library.
  • The Apollo Astronauts.
  • 40th Anniversary – from National Geographic for Kids.
  • Nice links for the anniversary from kids.aol.com
  • Fantastic Links from Usborne Books.
  • Review of the event from review journal.com
  • The Magic of Apollo from BBC.



• 21 July 1899: Ernest Hemingway Birthday (1899 – 1961).
  • Michael Palin’s Hemingway Adventure, from PBS – Fabulous!!!
  • Biography from teenreads.com
  • Review of Hemmingway Home from Family Fun.
  • Official Museum Page.
  • Lots of Links at the Web English Teacher.
  • Timeless Hemingway is a great resource, packed with links.



• 21 July: National Junk Food Day (U.S.A.).
  • Junk Food Images from Google.
  • What is Junk food from Wikipedia.
  • Celebrity Chef’s Hamburgers.



• 22 July 1264: Pied Piper Arrived in Hamelin.
  • The Pied Piper of Hamelin from StoryNory.
  • Robert Browning’s Pied Piper Poem.
  • Download worksheets from Penguin Readers.
  • Lots of printable goodies from Based on Books.



• 22 July 1898: Alexander Calder’s Birthday (1898 – 1976).
  • Biography from Artsmart4kids.
  • The Calder Home Page.
  • A story about Alexander Calder: Sandy’s Circus by Tanya Lee Stone. The Lesson Plan and the wonderful results.
  • Images of his art work from the Virtual Art Museum.
  • Great bio and heaps of links.



• 23 July 1888: Pneumatic Tyres Invented.
  • History of tires from About.com.
  • Uses for Old Tires.
  • How to Grow Potatoes in Old Tyres – we have to try this (scroll down) from Global-garden.au!!!
  • Old Tyre Swing from Family Fun.
  • Inner Tube games from YouthWork Practice.



• 23 July 1904: Ice Cream Cones Introduced.
  • Ice-cream cone cupcakes from Family Fun.
  • Everything Ice-cream from Family Fun.
  • Everything Ice-cream from Se7en.
  • Frozen treats from Family Fun…
  • Ice Cream Fun and Links from kennesaw.edu.



• 23 July: Mosquito Day.
  • Mosquito coloring page from About.com.
  • Cool printable workbook all about Mosquito’s from Mosquito.org.
  • Mosquito Fact Sheet – really worth a look from Mosquito.org.
  • Mosquito Crafts and Links from About.com.
  • The Buzz about mosquito’s from Science for Kids.



• 24 July 2005: Lance Armstrong won the 7th Tour De France.
  • Se7en’s Brilliant Batik Bikes.
  • A Triathlon Party in Se7en Steps…
  • A Bike Party in Se7en Steps…
  • Lance Armstrong from My Hero.com.
  • The Official Tour Page.
  • Family Fun has a heap of bike fun!!!



• 24 July 1783: Simon Bolivar’s Birthday.
  • A biography from Embavenez-us.org.
• 24 July: Amelia Earheart Day
  • Look for all our links for her on the 20th of May.
• 25 July: F.B.I. Created.
  • FBI for kids from the FBI.
  • FBI for kids grade k through 5th from the FBI.

That’s us!!! Have a good week!!!