This Week (12 July 2010) At Se7en…

Here comes your calendar post for this week… enjoy!!!

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 clambering has begun!!!

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

• 12 July 1960: Etch a Sketch Introduced.
  • Etch A Sketch – The Official Site.
  • The whole history and scroll down for a heap of good links from IdeaFinder.
• 13 July: National French Fry Day (U.S.A).
  • All you need to know about French Fries from Chemistry Daily.com
  • Belgian Fries official site – follow the links along the top for the most amazing information!
  • French Fry Toppings from Family Fun



• 13 July: Bon fest and Feast of Lanterns (Japan).
  • All things Japan from Crayola.com
  • Se7en Crafty Lamps: Most of these lamps work out great for summer evenings out doors… Candles, Lava Lamps, Paper Lanterns, Tin Can Lamps, Paper Box Lamps, Mini Pinata Lamps.
  • The Feast of Lanterns and The Legend of the Blue Willow.



• 13 July: Puzzle Day.
  • Activity Village has a heap – of course!!!
  • Online Puzzles from Kidrocket.org
  • A heap of online puzzle, by theme, from DLTK.
  • Another heap of online puzzles from thekidspage.com



• 14 July: Bastille Day.
  • Bastille Day.com has it all
  • Discover France has a great readable story of the entire event.
  • What’s it all about by Social Studies for Kids.com
  • Just about everything Bastille Day from Social Studies for Kids.
  • Celebration Ideas from About.com
  • How to celebrate from eHow
  • Bastille Day from About.com
  • Bastille Day from Crayola.com



• 15 July 1954: First Boeing 707.
  • History Facts for the 707.
  • Free Printable Paper Airplane Models from Airplane Collectable Net Resource



• 15 July 1606: Rembrandt Van Rijn’s Birthday (1606 – 1928).
  • Bio from Fact Monster.
  • Bio from My Hero.
  • Art Works and Links from Kids Connect.
  • Art Lesson Ideas from Examiner.com
  • Lesson Plans Discovery Education.
  • Click on the green Rembrandt button for an interactive timeline – from Rembrandt House.
  • Great Lesson Idea from Crayola.



• 16 July 1969: Apollo 11 lifts off.
  • Apollo 11 news from Space.com
  • The Apollo 11 crew from NASA.
  • Great worksheet Lesson from usmint.gov
  • The Hitchhikers Guide to the Moon for moonlovers from shallowsky.com



• 16 July 1872: Roald Amundsen born (1872 – 1928).
  • A biography from Enchanted Learning.
  • Bio with heaps of Lesson Plan ideas from HomeSchoollearning.com.
  • A short bio from kids.net.au.
  • Bio from PBS.
  • Heaps of goodies from Cool Antarctica.
  • Fabulous links to worksheets and activities from homeschool blogger.
• 17 July 1955: Disneyland opened.
  • Interesting history of DisneyLand from About.com
  • DisneyLand – of course!!!



• 18 July 1918: Nelson Mandela’s Birthday.
  • Se7en’s Madiba Silk Shirts.
  • Happy Birthday Madiba from Se7en.
  • Se7en’s Sunny South African.



• 18 July: Cow Appreciation Day.
  • Cow Crafts from About.com
  • Cow Cake from Family Fun.
  • Milk cow craft from crayola.com
• 18 July: Nadia Comaneci scored the first perfect 10 in the Olympic Games (1976).
  • Bio from Wikipedia.
  • Bio from My Hero.com



• 18 July: National Ice-Cream Day (U.S.A.).
  • Ice-Cream in a Ziplock Bag in Se7en Steps!
  • Home-Made Ice-Cream in Se7en Steps.
  • Ice-Cream Cookies in Se7en Steps.



• 20 July: Chess Day.
  • My kids have enjoyed Chesskids.com
  • A brief history of Chess from Pitara.



• 20 July: Ice Cream Soda Day.
  • Crazy Chemical Chaos Party in Se7en Steps.
  • Timeline history from google.
  • Basic recipe and a bit of history.
  • Happy ice-cream soda day from Slashfood.com
  • Ice-cream soda from Wikipedia.
  • 7-Up Cake from Se7en

That’s us!!! Have a good week!!!