This Week (28 June 2010) At Se7en…

Shew!!! We so needed a week off, I just didn’t recognize it!!! But now that we are having it I realize I should do this so much more… we are just doing school and lots of wide open time spaces – no outings, no visitors just a whole lot of hermiting!!! It is cold, it is wintry and the sun is tepid at best… but there is no panicing and dashing out the door and catching up with everything from behind… peaceful and lovely. I like it!!!

Firstly, here is our the Calendar Collection:

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

Here is our weekly picture celebrating Hood #8, and he just loves exploring…

And these are the days we will be looking at this week:

• 28 June: Paul Bunyan Day
  • A collection of Paul Bunyan stories.
  • Wikipedia entry on The Legend



• 28 June: Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640)
  • The Official Site and Virtual Gallery of Paintings.
  • Biography from the Web Museum in Paris.
  • A list of links from the Fact Monster.
  • Garden of Praise has great page with printables.
  • Fabulous worksheets with color photographs from Ringling Museum.
  • A Baroque Worksheet.



• 28 June: WWI Began (1914)
  • WWI timeline from the BBC.
  • Great stuff for kids from BBC schools.
  • A list of links from KidsKonnect.com.
  • Cybersleuth’s list of links.
  • Lots of Great Links and things to see and do from the BBC.



• 29 June: Camera Day
  • Se7en Do Photography – Camera Fun to have with your kids.
  • Printable Pinhole cameras – I always want to make these and never get round to it!
  • Camera coloring page.
  • How to make a paper camera.
  • 13 Lessons to Teach Your Children About Digital Photography from Digital Photography School, such a great article I found it so useful for myself!!!



• 30 June: Meteor Day
  • Definition of meteors from Enchanted Learning.
  • Meteorites from the Natural History Museum.
  • More about meteorites from the Australian kids Encyclopedia.
  • Meteorites from the World Almanac for kids.



• 1 July: Scarecrow Day
  • Love the Scarecrow cookies from Family Fun.
  • Heaps of scarecrow crafts from About.com
  • How to make a scarecrow from EHow.com
  • Here is an easy “How to Make a Scarecrow” from the Halloween-website.



• 1 July: Battle of Gettysburg (1-3 July 1863).
  • Battle of Gettysburg from American Civil War.
  • Civil War for Kids – from Gettysburg National Military Park.
  • A Personal Journal from Gettysburg.
  • The Battle of Gettysburg from Army.Mil.



• 1 July: International Joke Day
  • Kids Jokes from Activity Village.
  • Knock Knock Jokes and more.
• 2 July: First Zeppelin Flew (1900).
  • First Zeppelin FLight from the Zeppelin Library.
  • The Zeppelin from Wikipedia.
  • Zeppelin Raids from Spartacus Schools.
• 2 July: Amelia Earhart disappeared (1937).
  • Follow the Amelia Earhart links in this past calendar post.



• 4 July: American Day of Independence (1776).
  • You have to look at this from Katherine Marie Photography
  • Everything you need from Family Fun.
  • And Kaboose of course.
  • The Crafty Crow – for Crafts.
  • Don’t miss One Pretty Thing’s Round-ups.

That’s it – Have a Great Week!