This Week (4 January) At Se7en…

New year, New calendars, What Fun!!!

Here are the Calendars for January:

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

Here is our weekly picture celebrating Hood #8… Goodness but those light fittings are so soporific!!!

And remember that postcard swap of ours – well your postcards are rolling in from all over the world!!! Finally!!! And it’s fabulous – thank you all for all the trouble you went to – I think we will definitely do a postcard swap again this was really fun!!!

And here are a few links for this week:

• 4 January 2010: Isaac Newton (1643 – 1727).
  • Google Apples are Falling.
  • Great site and articles from PBS.
  • A List of Newton Links from Edquest.
  • Short bio for kids.
  • And you can’t beat the Garden of Praise!!!



• 4 January 2010: Jacob Grimm (1785 – 1863).
  • Brief biography of the brothers and link to their stories.
  • Links and other goodies from Today in Literature.

• 4 January 2010: Louis Braille (1809 – 1852).
  • All you need on Braille from first school years.
  • Really fun site from the American Association for the Blind.
  • 200 years if Braille from National Braille Press.




• 4 January 2010: National Trivia Day (U.S.A)
  • I like these amazing facts from Indian Child.
  • Fun 2 minute challenges for kids from Brainquest.
  • Triviaplaza – Heaps of quizzes.
  • Funology – a bit of everything!!!

• 5 January 2010: X-ray Discovered (1896).
  • How Xrays Work from How Stuff Works.
  • X-Rays fro kids from Uhrad.com
  • History of the X-Ray from About.com.

• 6 January 2010: Dia De Reyes / Epiphany / Three Kings Day.
  • Epiphany around the world from Annie’s Home Page.
  • What is Three Kings Day from Inside-Mexico.
  • Crayola Crafts.
  • Epiphany resources from Kings Kids Stuff.

• 6 January 2010: Sherlock Holmes Birthday (1854).
  • The Sherlock Holmes Museum, with lots of links and information.
  • Free MP3’s from Stories Now.
  • Everything you need to know from Wikipedia.




• 6 January 2010: Joan of Arc (1412 – 1431)
  • Biography from My Hero.
  • Heaps and heaps of links from the St. Joan Center.
  • Mini-Unit from Learning Through History – love this magazine!!!
  • And the Garden of Praise, with worksheets and links and goodies.

• 8 January 2010: National Bubble Bath Day
  • Would you believe this from Holiday insights.
  • The Body Shop – what can I say, I should open a franchise.
  • Skip to My Lou’s Bubble Bath Recipe.
• 8 January 2010: Elvis Presley (1935 – 1977)
  • You only need the Official site!!!




• 8 January 2010: Stephen Hawkins (1942)
  • His Official Website.
  • Interesting Facts from extremeintellect.com
  • Brief Bio from Science Heroes.

• 9 January 2010: Nixon’s Birthday (1913 – 1994 )
  • Quick facts from the Nixon Library.
  • Heaps of links from Apples4theteacher.
  • Biography from the Whitehouse.

That’s Us!!! Have a Great Week!!!