This Week (16 November) At Se7en…

So another week in November. These are the calendars for November:

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

Here is our weekly picture celebrating Hood #8…

And don’t faint but your postcards are posted and finally on their way to you… and we are ready to mark up our map.

It may have been a bit ambitious to set that up at the same time as having a new baby… but never fear the task is done and now we are relying on postal services around the world. When your postcard finally arrives, one for each family that entered, could you please send one back to us… if you cannot read our address (written in the very early hours of the morning) then feel free to email and ask for it!

I thought I would pop some Photographs in from the Remembrance Service, in the Remembrance Garden near our house, held this past weekend for Remembrance Day.

Finally, here are a couple of links for this week:

• 17 November 2009: Suez canal opened in 1869.
  • History of the Suez Canal from History.com
  • Easy to read history with lots of diagrams from touregypt.net.
  

• 17 November 2009: National HomeMade Bread Day.
  • Homemade Bread Day from About.com.
  • Basic Bread from Se7en.
  • Banana bread from Se7en.
  • Irish Soda Bread from Se7en.
  • Traditional Jewish Festival Bread from Se7en.
  • Justin Bonello’s Roosterkoek from Se7en.

• 18 November 2009: William Tell Shot the Apple (1307).
  • The history of William Tell from New World Encyclopedia.
  • William Tell fun from Classics for kids.
• 18 November 2009: Mickey Mouse Debut 1928.
  • Mickey Mouse history from the Disney Archives.
  • Mickey Mouse history and links galore from angelfire.com

• 19 November 2009: Gettysburg Address 1863.
  • The actual address from Apples for the Teacher.
  • How the Gettysburg address worked from How Stuff Works.
  • More Getty’sburg Address and Abraham Lincoln resources with lots of books to look at, from AmericanCivilWar.com
  • Worksheets and Lesson Plan from ExplorePAhistory
• 20 November 2009: Universal Children’s Day.
  • International Children’s Day from UNICEF.

• 20 November 2009: Edwin Hubbles Birthday (1889 – 1953).
  • The Official Edwin Hubble Website.
  • Quick facts from sciencekids.co.nz.
  • Brief Bio from infoplease.com
  • Another brief bio from amazing-space.stsci.edu.

• 21 November 2009: First Hot Air Balloon Flight (1763).
  • The History of Hot Air Balloons from eballoon.org.
  • Love this: History of ballooning in stamps. (From Wydera.de)
• 22 November 2009: Vasco Da Gama sailed around the Cape (1497).
  • Brief Bio and facts galore from elizabethan-era.org
  • Great list of links from SocialStudiesforkids.
  • Read about great explorers at kidspast.com.

That’s us – Have a great week…

And if you are celebrating something fun, that would be of interest to home-schoolers around the world, then feel free to leave a comment!!!