The Last Days of Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle? Say it ain’t so!
Oh, what a lovely, lovely website. Daniel Immerwahr’s Books of the Century lists the bestsellers and the influential and critically acclaimed books for each year of the twentieth century. I really want to join this Books of the Century Challenge, but I already have so much on my plate. I wasn’t planning to start my twentieth century project until next year —or maybe even 2012. So many books, so little time, and such temptation. I think I’ll join up and concentrate on the first decade of the twentieth century. Thanks to Sam at Book Chase for cluing me in to this irresistible challenge.
Ideas for Educational Uses for Post-It Notes. A lot of these ideas could be adapted and used in a homeschool.
National Geographic wants you to design a beautiful, colorful flag to symbolize our Ocean Now expeditions. If you win, your design will be made into a flag and fly on our National Geographic Ocean Now expedition ship in 2010. Sponsor is National Geographic Society, 1145 17th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036-4688. Contest deadline: February 20, 2010.
Internet4Classrooms links to a multitude of resources for teachers and students, indexed by subject and by grade level.
An excellent prayer for writers and researchers.
Pervaiz Masih: a saver of lives. “As a Christian, a person of minority, he stood in front of the Taliban to protect the university.”
Tracy Kidder has a new book about a survivor of the Rwandan Holocaust. The book is called Strength in What Remains.
From the NY TImes review of Steven Curtis Chapman’s new album, Beauty WIll Rise: “The aching candor that suffuses the album, paired with Mr. Chapman’s unmistakable gift for melodic uplift, exerts a deep emotional pull.. . . Mr. Chapman, repeating his assurances, sounds anything but glib.”
Steven Curtis Chapman wrote most of the songs on the new album in the aftermath of the May 2008 accident in which his 5-year-old daughter, Maria, was struck and killed in the driveway of their home by a vehicle driven by one of her older brothers.
Sherry, Have you seen Stixy? It is a virtual Post-it board that offers infinite ways for visual education or planning. I owe it to The Book Chook for the intro!