Se7en's December...

Se7en’s December…

Hello, we are back from a whole week off blogging… and loved every second of it!!! Our blog didn’t fade away as I thought it would, in fact it just kept on chugging!!! But I did miss all our on-line friends!!! I will post about our adventures next… Meanwhile… we’ve made a special calendar for you this month… we have a Christmas village and we have a very simple Nativity calendar too.

Click on the images, they will open in a new tab… and print them out (print them landscape it just works better!!!). If you live with a couple of inspired artists get them to decorate/colour the calendars. Then, the trick is while your children are busy on something else to whip a craft knife out and carefully cut along the dotted edges of the village windows… (Only part of three sides of each window have dotted lines). Pop them on the fridge with the village above the nativity scene. On the correct day open the window and your Nativity scene will appear as December rolls by…

Meanwhile here are our links and ideas to add to your calendars and explore during the busy month of December…

1 December: World Aids Day
- The Official Website.
- More on World Aids Day from World Vision.

1 December: Rosa Parks Day
- Rosa Parks Bio and worksheets from Garden of Praise.
- Worksheets from ABC teach.
- Worksheets from Enchanted Learning.

3 December 1967: First Human Heart Transplant (1967).
- Human Heart Transplant from Wikipedia.
- All about the Transplant from the Cape Gateway.
- Se7en Hearty Crafts and Then Some More…

4 December: National Cookie Day (U.S.A.)
- National cookie Day from Muppets.
- Theme of the Week {Cookie Monster}.
- Se7en of the Best Cookie Recipes.

4 December 1935: Game Of Monopoly Debuted (1935).
- The History of Monopoly.
- History and Fun Facts from Hasbro.
- History from Wikipedia.

5 December 1901: Walt Disney’s Birthday (1901 – 1966).
- All things Biographical from justdisney.com.
- Disney from Time 100.

7 December 1941: Pearl Harbor Day (1941).
- Lots of useful links from Social Studies for Kids.
- Lesson Plan from National Geographic.
- Expedition Pearl Harbor from National Geographic.

8 December: Hanukkah begins at Sundown.
- Se7en Learn About Hannukah: Dreidals, Menorahs and Latkes.
- This is a brilliant, fun resource from Chabad.org
- Everything you need to know from Aklah.com
- Activity village is packed with Hanukkah goodies.
- Did I mention Kaboose!!!
- And Don’t forget the Crafty Crow.
- Hanukah online from Billybearforkids.
- Hanukkah made simple from Simple Kids.

8 December 2010: National Brownie Day (U.S.A.).
- Oh my goodness, don’t click through if you want to survive!!! With love from CD kitchen.
- Chocolate Brownies to die for in Se7en Steps.

8 December 1765: Eli Whitney’s birthday (1765 – 1825).
- Eli whitney and the Cotton Gin from About.com
- the Cotton Gin from Academickids.com
- The Eli Whitney Museum.
- Brief bio from Ideafinder,com

9 December 1884: Roller Skates Patented (1884).
- History of Roller skates from About.com
- Their is a National Museum of Roller Skating in the States.
- Roller Skating from Wikipedia.

10 December 1830: Emily Dickinson Birthday (1830 – 1886).
- A Brief Biography from Emily Dickinson for Kids.
- Quotes from Emily Dickinson from Brainyquote.com
- Emily Dickinson read out loud from Wired for Books.
- Se7en Do Poetry, Packed with Poetry Resources.

11 December 1946: UNICEF Anniversary (1946).
- UNICEF history.

12 December 1955: Hovercraft Patented (1955).
- This is brilliant reading, A-Z Science, from Norfolk science.
- How to Make a Hovercraft with a balloon.
- How a Hovercraft works from DiscoverHover.

14 December 1911: South Pole First Reached (1911).
- Se7en travels to Antarctica – seriously!
- An Antarctic Timeline from south-pole.com
- Newspaper Article on the Discovery from The Age. Dated 1912.
- Race to the South Pole from the BBC.

14 December 1546: Tycho Brahe (1546-1601).
- Biography from The Galileo Project.
- His life from Wikipedia.
- A brief biography from Startchild.
- Some good facts in this biography from kids.net.au
- Lesson plans from Oklahoma Home School.

16 December 1773: Boston Tea Party (1773).
- All about it from Social Studies for kids.
- Paragraph from Kids Past.com
- This is great from PBS.
- And fun from Liberty’s Kids
- Lesson plans and worksheets from Teacher Planet.
- Lap Book from HomeschoolHelperOnline.

16 December 1770: Ludwig Von Beethoven’s Birthday (1770 – 1792).
- Everything from All About Beethoven.
- Bio and music from Making Music Fun.
- List of Links at Kids Connect.

16 December: Chocolate Coated Anything Day.
- All about the day from Holiday Insights.
- Se7en do a mini-fondue, scroll down in our science party.
- Se7en Dip Leaves…

17 December: Maple Syrup Day.
- From HolidayInsights.
- Maple Syrup harvesting from Yankee Grocery
- How to celebrate from Wikihow.
- Printables from About.com
- Wonderful Waffles in Se7en Steps.
- Se7en Do Pancakes Too.

17 December: Wright Brothers Day.
- Brief bio from PBS kids.
- More about them from Kids.Dicovery.com
- More history from social studies for kids.
- Heaps of links from KidsKonnect.
- Great information form Centenial of Flight.
- The Wright Brothers Memorial from nps.gov

17 December 1843: A Christmas Carol first published in 1843.
- Links to everything you could possibly need about “A Christmas Carol” from Mr. Donn.
- Kaboose has “A Christmas Carol.”

18 December 1892: The Nutcracker Suite Premiered in 1892.
- Links to everything you could possibly need on “the Nutcracker.”

18 December 1946: Steven Spielberg’s Birthday (1946).
- Biography from Wikipedia.
- Biography from IMDB.

19 December 1732: Poor Richards Almanac first published 1732.
- Poor Richard’s Almanac from Liberty Kids.
- A Quiz from thinkQuest.

21 December 1620: Pilgrims arrived at Plymouth (1620).
- Gotta love this Thanksgiving page from Hubbards Cupboard.
- Heaps of resources from TeacherVision.
- Have a look at the kids section of Pilgrims.

22 December 1938: A living coelacanth was discovered (1938).
- Everything you need to know on the dinofish page.
- Another great page from PBS.
- The Smithsonian has a summary.

25 December: Christmas.
- Se7en Do Christmas.
- Activity Village.
- Family Fun
- Kaboose.
- One Pretty Thing
- The Craft Crow.

26 December: Boxing Day.
- What is Boxing day from Kaboose.
- Quick Facts from the Fact Monster.

26 December: Kwanzaa starts.
- The Official Site.
- Kwanzaa from Kaboose.

26 December 1606: First performance of Aida (1606)
- Aida from Classics for Kids.
- All about Verdi from Classics for Kids.

27 December 1571: Johannes Kepler’s Birthday (1571 – 1630)
- A Biography from Kids Astronomy.
- Another biography from Astronomy for Kids Online.
- Cool Facts from Science Kids.

27 December 1822: Louis Pasteur’s Birthday (1822 – 1895).
- Biography from the BBC.
- Great printable Lesson Plan.

30 December 1865: Rudyard Kiplings Birthday (1865 – 1936).
- Biography and Works from Readprint.com
- The Biography and links to his works from online-literature.com
- His Biography from BiographyBase.com

31 December 1869: Henri Matisse’s Birthday (1869 – 1954).
- Biography at Art Smarts for Kids.
- Biography and great ideas at Making Art Fun.
- Loads of Matisse ideas and links at Incredible @rt.
- Matisse cut-out fun from PBS.

31 December: New Years Eve.

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1 Se7en Learn About Hanukkah with Dreidels, Menorahs and Latkes. » se7en // Dec 15, 2011 at 1:50 am

[...] have been asking all about Hanukkah, so we took a few days to take a look at this eight day holiday that begins next week… Hanukkah is called the Festival of the Lights and commemorates the Miracle of Oil. Long, long ago [...]