This Week (20 April) at Se7en?

This seems to be a new spot for us and I will try to get them out on our Monday mornings… I don’t know where it’s been all this time but last week was our first!

Here is the list of monthly calendars that I posted in The Week That Was – 41

• About.com’s April Days
• Crayola.com
• Enchanted Learning
• Reading Activity Calendar
• Teacher Vision

These are just a couple of things I thought might interest my kids – I know there are ten bazillion things we could choose from every day, but these are the ones that caught my eye!

I pop these on our calendar and mostly use them as ideas for our morning free writing session in our journals, unless the event calls for something bigger – a cake maybe, a puppet show, a crafty task!

20 April – Joan Miro’s Birthday:

This is one of my favorite artists, my grade 4 teacher stuck copies of his paintings up all over the classroom and I spent many happy hours daydreaming my way through them!

• Biography – and lesson ideas.
• Joan Miro art lesson.
• Miro Museum in Barcelona

22 April – Earth Day:

• The Whole Wide World in Se7en Steps.
• As usual you can’t beat Kaboose for great activities and links galore.
• This site has some great links for things like endangered species, and hogbusters, for energy hogs!
• DLTK crafts are great as usual.
• And Planet Pals looked like it has lots of good links as well

22 April 2009 – Election Day in South Africa:

• Madiba – Magic Silk Shirts
• Biblical Issues Voters’ Guide 2009

23 April – William Shakespeare’s Birthday:

• Se7en of the Best Shakespeare Goodies for Kids.
• Folger Shakespeare Library – heaps of fun stuff here!
• Shakespeare Games – Online or downloadable as pdf.
• Shakespeare Resources
• Shakespeare is Elementary This is a great site to see some kids work!
• Shakespeare for Kids This is from Squidoo and is full of homeschool resources… go there at your peril, you may never come back!

25 April – World Penguin Day:

• Here’s a “A Penguin Party in Se7en Steps” to give you some fun penguin games and crafty ideas!
• Kidzone – Penguin Page
• Emperor Penguin from National Geographic
• Kidskonnect have heaps of linkables.
• This is just a lot of fun!

That’s it for this week. Hope you have a good one!

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