Our Astronomy night with the kids

Unfortunately our weather report is calling for lots of rain this evening. So with that being said we switched Astronomy Day to last night.

The kids went on the computer to this website http://nightsky.jpl.nasa.gov/planner.cfm

 and found what phase of the moon we are in.

Then they found http://homepage.mac.com/graphicad1/theFWAS/Charts/AllConstellation.pdf

 to compare and look at:

• The Circumpolar Constellations
• Winter Constellations
• Spring Constellations
• Summer Constellations
• Fall Constellations
  

HAPPY EARTH DAY!

Happy Earth Day! 

Wow did we ever accomplish a lot of stuff. The day before Earth Day the kids worked diligently on presentations on Land, Water and Air pollution that they planned to present to the whole family after dinner. This was an absolutely impressive project that they accomplished. We also took a walk to collect bottles and cans found around our neighborhood.

Matthew found old round buttons in my craft box and turned them all into replicas of our Earth. He then used pipe cleaners and created bracelets for both Kristen and myself to wear today. What an awesome piece of jewelry and both of us proudly wore these masterpieces all day long.

Some Earth Day FREEBIE's!

Found this great website that did a terrific job in finding some of the many free giveaways during Earth Week.  The site is called Frugal Fairhope - Click HERE to check them out and you will also find other helpful things. 

For those who are into Digital Scrapbooking or even computer art you can find some of these Earth Day graphics very useful!

This site has free Blog stuff for Earth Day including the Background that we are using on this blog!  Click on link to below to find many cool things:

http://freedomtobark.blogspot.com/search/label/earth%20Day

These above Adorable Recycling Labels you can download HERE.  You can easily print them out on Sticker Paper and place anywhere you need them.

Monday April 26th is National Pretzel Day!

Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, who doesn’t love pretzels? We have a lot of really fabulous pretzel places where we live and will purchase them to have for lunch. The kids will learn a little about the history of the pretzels. We may even attempt to make our own pretzels. It will definitely take a lot of occupational skills to twist and roll these creations.

They could also try to make different flavors of pretzels like Auntie Anne’s Cinnamon & Sugar pretzels. We found this website with the directions: http://www.monkeysee.com/play/9617-how-to-make-an-auntie-anne-s-pretzel You could also make Hot Dog Pretzels

The kids are sure to really enjoy this day.

We unfortunetly don't have this store in our area but thought others may! 
They are giving free Pretzels out at local Pretzelmaker:

http://www.pretzelmaker.com/pretzelday.php

Update:  Just found a FREE Pretzel Font and you can find it HERE

We will be using it tomorrow when we make our Pretzel Twist Diagram Placemats!! This will allow the kids to follow the diagram when attempting to learn the twist techniques.

Free Pretzels!!! 

You can look for any local stores in the following two company and recieve a free pretzel today:

Philly Pretzel Factory has shops in Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, Pennsylvania and Virginia. No purchase is necessary. - visit there website HERE

Pretzel Maker has many locations and you can visit their website HERE

Its Earth Week!

Here are a few more great sites we found to help kids out during Earth Week....

Interesting site about pollutants:

http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0004695.html

This is a great site for kids, lots of great information on topics from taking care of the earth to educational facts: http://www.factmonster.com/

Here is a great site to check out the air quality in your neck of the woods, just click on the map and get your daily air quality forecast: http://www.airnow.gov/

This is a great site for studying the earth and biomes with the kids: http://www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/msese/earthsysflr/biomes.html

Tax Day! April 15th has arrived and look who is giving away FREEBIES

Today is Tax Day - April 15th 2010.  My taxes are done, are yours?
                     Here are a few links I found on the internet.  You can bring your own travel mug into Starbucks to receive free coffee today.  Dunkin Donuts is giving away a free donut when you buy a cup of coffee.  P. F. Changs will cut 15% off your dinner bill tonight.  There are other several places doing something similiar that I provided in the links below:

Starbucks details click HERE 

P.F. Changs details click HERE

Free Tax Day Greeting Cards, click HERE

McCormick & Schmick's $10.40 Dinner Specials & Drink Specials  click HERE

Several other freebie details click HERE and HERE

Earth Day and kids - April 22nd

Earth Day is Always on April 22 in the United States. This Earth day the kids are going to learn some facts on recycling and the ecosystem in general. Last year the kids went to the movie theater to see Disney’s Earth Day that opened on Earth day 2009.

Gardening with Kids Layout Plan & Lesson

We sat down today with the kids to figured out a garden plan. We went over how some plants need something to grow on, some plants are fine standing alone and how some plants need to be contained such as tomatoes in cages. Then we found out which plants are going to be the tallest and which are the shortest when they are fully grown.
We reviewed how every plant is going to need to get the most sun when we design our plan and we need to have access to all the plants as they grow so we can pick the vegetables and weed our garden.

National Astronomy Day! 4-24-2010

April 24, 2010 Astronomy Day 2010

Ok, this year National Astronomy Day falls on April 24th. The date occurs on a Saturday between mid-April and mid-May, and is scheduled so as to occur at or just before the first quarter Moon. This means that the event happens on a different date each year, rather than a set calendar date.

Draw a picture of a bird day and FREEBIE!

Ok, can you guess what we will be doing today?? Yup, we will be drawing pictures of birds today. We are actually going to be using all kinds of craft supplies to create masterpiece birds and then I will have the children make up their own kind of bird and name it. This is going to be fun. I love when the kids really get into their imaginations and come up with a made up image.