This Week (14 December) at Se7en…

So this is December and we are busy doing all sorts of Christmas preparations and having a lot of Advent Fun…

Here are the Calendars:

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

Here is our weekly picture celebrating Hood #8…

And here are a few links for this week:

• 14 December 2009: South Pole First Reached (1911).
  • Se7en travels to Antarctica – seriously!
  • An Antarctic Timeline from south-pole.com
  • Newspaper Article on the Discovery from The Age. Dated 1912.
  • Race to the South Pole from the BBC.

• 14 December 2009: Tycho Brahe (1546-1601).
  • Biography from The Galileo Project.
  • His life from Wikipedia.
  • A brief biography from Startchild.
  • Some good facts in this biography from kids.net.au
  • Lesson plans from Oklahoma Home School.

• 16 December 2009: Boston Tea Party (1773).
  • All about it from Social Studies for kids.
  • Paragraph from Kids Past.com
  • This is great from PBS.
  • And fun from Liberty’s Kids
  • Lesson plans and worksheets from Teacher Planet.
  • Lap Book from HomeschoolHelperOnline.

• 16 December 2009: Ludwig Von Beethoven’s Birthday (1770).
  • Everything from All About Beethoven.
  • Bio and music from Making Music Fun.
  • List of Links at Kids Connect.

• 16 December 2009: Chocolate Coated Anything Day.
  • All about the day from Holiday Insights.
  • Se7en do a mini-fondue, scroll down in our science party.
  • Se7en Dip Leaves…

• 17 December 2009: Maple Syrup Day.
  • From HolidayInsights.
  • Maple Syrup harvesting from Yankee Grocery
  • How to celebrate from Wikihow.
  • Printables from About.com
  • Wonderful Waffles in Se7en Steps.
  • Se7en Do Pancakes Too.

• 17 December 2009: Wright Brothers Day.
  • Brief bio from PBS kids.
  • More about them from Kids.Dicovery.com
  • More history from social studies for kids.
  • Heaps of links from KidsKonnect.
  • Great information form Centenial of Flight.
  • The Wright Brothers Memorial from nps.gov

• 17 December 2009: A Christmas Carol first published in 1843.
  • Links to everything you could possibly need about “A Christmas Carol” from Mr. Donn.
  • Kaboose has “A Christmas Carol.”

• 18 December 2009: The Nutcracker Suite Premiered in 1892.
  • Links to everything you could possibly need on “the Nutcracker.”
• 18 December 2009: Steven Spielberg’s Birthday (1946).
  • Biography from Wikipedia.
  • Biography from IMDB.

• 19 December 2009: Poor Richards Almanac first published 1732.
  • Poor Richard’s Almanac from Liberty Kids.
  • A Quiz from thinkQuest.

That’s us! Have a Great Week!!!