February and the blog world has gone mad for Valentines Day!!! We are going to have a Bit of a South African flavor on our blog this week in honor of the anniversary of Nelson Mandela’s release on 11 February 1990. Visit our Fabulous Friday Fun Post This weekend for a great GiveAway!!! Here are the calendars for a new month:
Here is our weekly picture celebrating Hood #8. He is about to take off, it is his new “auto-pilot” thing and it may well have replaced the “arm-wave” thing, but that might be because he only assumes the tummy down position right now – so much better for flying!!!
And here are a few links for this week:
- 8 February 2010: Clean out Your Computer Day.
- With only se7en bazillion photographs, not to mention millions of emails on my computer I was happy to allow this day to pass totally uncelebrated.
- 8 February 2010: Jules Verne (1828 – 1905).
- 9 February 2010: Hershey Chocolate Founded (1894).
- 11 February 2010: Nelson Mandela Released (1990).
- 11 February 2010: Thomas Edison (1847).
- As usual you cannot beat the Garden of Praise.
- Time for Kids have Thomas Edison Fun.
- Very cool book with activities from Laurie Carlson.
- Nice kiddable biography with links from kidcyber.
- Scroll down for lots of lovely links from Sciencenetlinks.com.
- The Edison Mental Fitness Test.
- Play Edison Invents…
- 12 February 2010: Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865).
- 12 February 2010: Charles Darwin (1809 – 1882).
- 12 February 2010: Winter Olympics Begin.
- 14 February 2010: Valentines Day.
- 14 February 2010: Chinese New Year.
- 14 February 2010: Ferris Wheel Day.
That’s Us!!! Have a Great Week and don’t forget our Fabulous Fun Friday GiveAway coming at the end of this week!!!
Look at #8!!!!!!! OH my delight!
And your lists of inspiration— so much to learn and do… and so little time. I love your focus on Mandela—
Hay KM!!! Look at #8 isn’t he darling!!! Your sleeping Texan in her red blanket is too terribly sweet!!! And luckily my children don’t even know about gumboots because if my girls saw those pretty little boots there would be a major public outcry!!!
i use your links every week as part of my home schooling mostly get them here on a wednesday buts its all good …. just dont know what one to pick for the 11th now you have given me to many great ideas to do in 1 day hee hee thanks for the great post
Hi T, Sorry – I am always lagging at least a day behind!!! But thrilled to hear that someone is actually using it – besides me!!! Good luck with the 11th!!!! Have a fun day!!!