This Week (23 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…

If you live in Cape Town and you are planning on doing a shoebox for Operation Christmas Box, then follow the link to get the drop off details. This is the last week to hand in a box!!!

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

• 24 November 2009: Darwin’s Origin of the Species Published in 1859.
  • Great links and lesson plans from Se7en.
  • Great looking resource for kids from Christs.com
• 25 November 2009: Woody Woodpecker’s birthday (1940).
  • Who was Woody Woodpecker form wikipedia.
  • Scroll down to the Woody coloring pages from coloring-kids.
• 25 November 2009: Jo DiMaggio’s Birthday (1914-1999).
  • Who was joe Di Maggio from wikipedia




• 26 November 2009: Charles Schultz’s Birthday (1922)
  • There is a Schulz Museum and here is the link.
• 26 November 2009: National Cake Day (U.S.A.)
  • I will do a cake round-up on the day…

• 26 November 2009: Thanksgiving.
  • Everything you need from Family Fun.
  • More of Everything Thanksgiving from Kaboose.
  • A heap of crafts from One Pretty Thing.
  • Millions of Thanksgiving Crafts for Kids at the Crafty Crow.
  • The first Thanksgiving from National Geographic.
• 27 November 2009: Anders Celcius birthday (1701-1744).
  • Biography from Wikipedia.




• 28 November 2009: Mark Twain’s Birthday (1835).
  • Mark Twain from PBS… brilliant!
  • Mark Twain Museum, from MarkwainHouse.
  • Mark Twain biography from Geocities.
  • The Official Mark Twain Website.



• 28 November 2009: Ferdinand Magellan passed through the Magellan Straights (1520).
  • Quick report from Kidspast.com
  • Trip report from Social Studies for Kids.
  • Fun unit study with or without the reading material, from Justmommies.
• 28 November 2009: Louis May Alcotts Birthday (1832-1888)
  • Biography from Wikipedia,
  • Brief Biography from lkwdpl.
  • Lesson plans and activities.

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!!!