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Mrs. D

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Location: DC Metro Area, United States

I adore The Lord. I'm in my 40's. Completely in love with my husband, a mother of 3 girls ages 23, 21 and 18 and one little man that turned 3 in December. I don't own a gun but I believe in your right to own one, if you so choose. I vaccinate but I believe in your right not to, I don't homeschool but believe in your right to educate your child the way you see fit. I don't attend a "church" but I read the Bible everyday. I do not support our current administration and do not feel it is Biblical to "get behind" a man with such unGodly actions. If a child survives an abortion it is nothing short of Gods will that that child live. How ANYONE professing Christianity can support an administration that will use their will to override Gods and kill that child anyway is beyond my understanding. I'm not so convinced that we are in the End Times but I am sure our country is out of control and headed for disaster. You can call me nuts but I'll just call you part of the problem for being uninformed and asleep at the wheel.

Monday, August 31, 2009

Rules for Teachers from the 1800’s

This is from an old magazine. It is a set of rules for teachers from the 1800’s from an old magazine.

1. You will not marry during the term of your contract.
2. You are not to keep company with men.
3. You must be at home between the hours of 8pm and 6am unless attending school functions.
4. You must not loiter down town in any of the ice cream stores.
5. You may not travel beyond the city limits unless you have permission from the chairman of the board.
6. You may not ride in a carriage or automobile with any man unless he is your father or brother.
7. You may not smoke cigarettes.
8. You may not dress in bright colors.
9. You must wear at least two petticoats.
10. Dresses must not be more than 2 inches above the ankle.
11. To keep the school neat and clean, you must sweep the floor at least once daily; scrub the floor at least once a week with hot soapy water; clean the blackboards at least once a day; and start fire at 7am so the room will be warm by 8am.

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Thursday, August 27, 2009

Quotes

"Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience."— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else."Dianne Feinstein

"Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius." Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) Scottish writer and physician

"Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success."— Swami Sivananda

"My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us; the world is full of it, and you simply take as much as you require."— Edward Elgar

"Think not of yourself as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Expect to have to doa lot of hard hammering and chiseling and scraping and polishing." --B.C. Forbes (1880-1954)

"Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to." — Bill Vaughan

"We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us."— Joseph Campbell

"Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude." Colin L. Powell

"Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value." Albert Einstein

"The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it." General H. Norman Schwarzkopf

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Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Quotes

“Every morning in Africa a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle - when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.” Unknown

“Act swiftly and vigorously, without "buts" and "ifs"...” Napoleon Bonaparte

“The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.” Albert Einstein

"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries."—A.A. Milne

"If you do not even understand what words say, how can you expect to pass judgement on what words conceal?" - Hilda Doolittle

"Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver."—Ayn Rand

"If love is the answer, would you please rephrase the question?"—Lily Tomlin

“One's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.” Florence Nightingale

“I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.” Golda Meir

"Money isn't everything but it sure keeps you in touch with your children."—J. Paul Getty


"My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it."—Clarence B. Kelland

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Monday, August 17, 2009

Make a Leaf Silhouette Portrait

I have been raking our small front yard 3 times a week. It's wonderful exercise but oh the blisters. I'll have get looking for some good leaves to give this a shot. http://photojojo.com/content/diy/leaf-silhouette-portrait/

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Saturday, August 15, 2009

Nursery Rhyme Links Galore

I can't wait to work on some these. It should be a good time. All of these links come from a fabulous Yahoo Group I'm on. To Subscribe to the Lesson Theme of the Week use the link below. Lesson Theme of the Week http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lessonthemeoftheweek/



The Homeschool Network Internet Library News
http://www.homeschoolnetworklibrary.com

General Information
Mother Goose: Definition and Much More from Answers.com http://www.answers.com/topic/mother-goose
Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes
http://www.mothergoose.com/
Mother Goose Society
http://www.librarysupport.net/mothergoosesociety/

Lesson Plans
A Rhyme A Week
http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/wil/rimes_and_rhymes.htm
ASNE High School Journalism http://www.highschooljournalism.org/Teachers/Lesson_Plans/Detail.cfm?lessonplanid=294
Collection of Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes for Children
http://www.apples4theteacher.com/mother-goose-nursery-rhymes/
Discover Nursery Rhymes
http://www.teachervision.fen.com/poetry/activity/5521.html
Growing Readers and Writers with Help from Mother Goose
http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=83&&DI=6244&IG=05393d3b923d4a889dd09ac5f0ec9d54&POS=1&CM=WPU&CE=1&CS=AWP&SR=1&sample=0 Life Skill Nursery Rhymes and Literature
http://mrsjonesroom.com/teachers/lifeskillnurseryrhymes.html
Mother Goose
http://csmstu01.csm.edu/students/cfranks/new_page_10.htm
Mother Goose
http://www.alphabet-soup.net/goose/goose.html
Nursery Rhymes http://www.hummingbirded.com/nursery-rhymes.html
Nursery Rhymes at The Virtual Vine
http://www.thevirtualvine.com/nurseryrhymes.html
Nursery Rhyme Mania
http://www.eduref.org/cgibin/printlessons.cgi/Virtual/Lessons/Language_Arts/Whole_Language/WLG0004.html Nursery Rhyme Olympics
http://www.hubbardscupboard.org/nursery_rhyme_olympics.html
Nursery Rhymes Preschool Activities and Crafts
http://www.first-school.ws/theme/nurseryrhymes.htm
Nursery Rhymes with a Twist
http://k6educators.about.com/library/blnurse.htm
overview
http://www.thesolutionsite.com/lesson/9801/overview.html
Teach Skills With Nursery Rhymes!
http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/unitplan.jsp?id=145
We're Flipping for Nursery Rhymes
http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/lessonplan.jsp?id=350
Word Recognition Strategies Using Nursery Rhymes
http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=21

Crafts
Clock and Mouse Craft
http://www.dltk-teach.com/rhymes/hickory/clock.htm
DLTK's Pig Craft for Kids
http://www.dltk-kids.com/animals/mpig.html
Hey Diddle Diddle Mobile
http://www.dltk-teach.com/rhymes/heydiddle/mobile.htm
Humpty Dumpty Finger Puppets
http://www.dltk-teach.com/rhymes/humpty/fingerpuppets.html
Lamb Paper Plate Craft (Easy)
http://www.dltk-kids.com/animals/melamb.html
Little Miss Muffet Finger Puppets
http://www.dltk-teach.com/rhymes/missmuffet/fingerpuppets.html
Nursery Rhyme Fingerpainting Craft
http://www.crayola.com/crafts/detail/nursery-rhyme-fingerpainting-craft/
Preschool Education Arts & Crafts: Nursery Rhymes
http://www.preschooleducation.com/anursery.shtml
Wolf Toilet Paper Roll Craft
http://www.dltk-kids.com/animals/mwolf.html

Cooking
Humpty Dumpty Cake
http://www.alphabet-soup.net/goose/humptycake.html
Little Bo Peep's Sheep
http://www.alphabet-soup.net/goose/bopeepsheep.html
Little Boy Blue- Haystacks
http://www.alphabet-soup.net/goose/haystack.html
Miss Muffet's Spider Web Cake
http://www.alphabet-soup.net/goose/muffetcake.html
Nursery Rhyme Snacks
http://ediblecrafts.craftgossip.com/nursery-rhyme-snacks/2009/06/25/
Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe Cake
http://www.alphabet-soup.net/goose/oldwomancake.html
Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater Cake
http://www.alphabet-soup.net/goose/petercake.html

Multimedia
Nursery
http://www.snaithprimary.eril.net/rindex.htm
Nursery Rhymeshttp://www.smart-central.com/

Online Stories
A Mother Goose Nursery Rhyme book for children, and, parents
http://www.iyedo.com/
Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes, Walter Rufus Eagles reader Audio Books
http://www.eaglesweb.com/Mother_Goose.htm
Mother Goose on the Web
http://www.ipl.org/div/kidspace/storyhour/goose/
Nursery Rhymes
http://home.freeuk.com/elloughton13/rhymes.htm

Online Activities
Mother Goose Quiz
http://www.alphabet-soup.net/goose/goosequiz.html
Mother Goose Seek & Find
http://alphabet-soup.net/goose/gooseseek.html
Nursery Rhyme Quiz
http://www.squiglysplayhouse.com/Games/Quizzes/Literature/NurseryRhymes.html
Quia - Mother Goose Land
http://www.quia.com/hm/288892.html
Rebus Rhymes Painting pages
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/rhymes/painting/

Printouts
Hedgie's Surprise Mother Goose and her Goslings
http://www.janbrett.com/hedgies_surprise_mother_goose_coloring_page.htm
Hendersonville TN Police Dept Coloring Pages of Nursery Rhymes
http://www.niteowl.org/kids/hpdcolor.html
Nursery Rhyme Word Search Puzzle
http://www.kckpl.lib.ks.us/YS/puzzles/Nursery.htm
Nursery Rhyme Worksheets
http://www.teach-nology.com/worksheets/early_childhood/nurse/
The Mother Goose Coloring Book
http://www.classbrain.com/artteach/publish/article_31.shtml

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Friday, August 14, 2009

Kindergarten Printables

This site appears to be incomplete but still useful.
Kindergarten Printables

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Thursday, August 13, 2009

Flash Card Library

A web Flash Card library

Flashcards: The world's largest library of printable flash cards

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Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Summer Crafts for Kids

Fall is approaching but summer is NOT over yet.

thelongthread.com » 50 Summer Crafts for Kids

50 Ways to Get Children to Love Reading from Read-Aloud.
OUTDOOR PROJECTS & NATURE CRAFTS
Tie Dyed t-shirts from
Kaboose.
Bubble Mixture from
Suite 101.
Sunprint Tutorial from
The Light Garden.*
Seashell Garden from
Urban Organica.
Hammered Flower and Leaf Prints from
Build/Make/Craft/Bake.
Painted Rock Crafts from
Martha Stewart.
Milk Carton Bird Feeder from
Kaboose.
Make a Kite from
Storm the Castle.
Paper Bag Wind Sock from
Canadian Living.
Paper Boat that Floats from
wikiHow.
Mosaic Bird Bath from
The Seattle Times.
Footprint Garden Stepping Stones from
Make Baby Stuff.
Sidewalk Chalk from
Alpha Mom.
Sidewalk Chalk Paint from
ohdeedoh.*
Grass Head Monster from
Activity Village.
Stone Dolls from
Maya Made.
How to Play Hopscotch from
Quiet Fish.
Build a Fairy House from
Light-Beams Publishing.
ARTS & CRAFTS
Homemade Playdough from
The Long Thread.
Flower Pinwheels from
Alpha Mom.*
Recycled Crayons from
Make and Takes.
Fairy Wings from
Threadbanger (see our kid version here).
Kaleidoscopes from
Se7en.
Pressed Flower Art from
Mom in Madison.
God’s Eyes summer camp yarn craft from
Wise Craft.*
T-shirt weaving from
Alpha Mom.*
Tissue Paper Butterflies from
Marie for Design Mom.*
Make Your Own Fingerpaint from
The Australian Women’s Weekly.
Clothespin Dolls at
Going Sew Crazy.
Vacation Memory Jars from
Martha Stewart.
Cardboard Dollhouse from
Esprit Cabane.*
Scratch Foam Block Printing from
Glitter Goods.
Dr. Seuss inspired ooblek (like gooey liquid playdough) with
Skip to my Lou.
Watercolor Resist Painting from Bookhou Craft Projects
BloesemKids.
Recycled Newspaper Beads from
A Storybook Life.*
Tin Can Stilts from
Kaboose.
Rain Sticks from
Creative Kids at Home.
Party Poppers from
Little Birdie Secrets.
Tension Rod Puppet Theater from
Sycamore Stirrings.
Mexican Metal Tooling from
Restoration Place.
Colorful Bean Bag Balls from
Family Fun.
Canvas Checkerboard from
Martha Stewart.
Friendship Bracelets from
wikiHow.
Fabric Scrap Braided Necklace from
cakies.
SUMMER EATS
Make ice cream in a coffee can from
Homemade Ice Cream Makers.
Watermelon Carving Ideas from the
National Watermelon Promotion Board.
10 Frozen Treats for Summer
Family Fun.
Strawberry Rhubarb Jam from
Soule Mama.
Raspberry Lemonade from
Joy the Baker.*

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Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Free Kids Cookbook

Check out this Kids Cookbook download from Red Robin Red Robin Kids Cookbook RedRobin.com.

Enjoy.

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Monday, August 10, 2009

Death Drugs Cause Uproar in Oregon

The news from Barbara Wagner's doctor was bad, but the rejection letter from her insurance company was crushing.

The 64-year-old Oregon woman, whose lung cancer had been in remission, learned the disease had returned and would likely kill her. Her last hope was a $4,000-a-month drug that her doctor prescribed for her, but the insurance company refused to pay.

What the Oregon Health Plan did agree to cover, however, were drugs for a physician-assisted death. Those drugs would cost about $50.

"It was horrible," Wagner told ABCNews.com. "I got a letter in the mail that basically said if you want to take the pills, we will help you get that from the doctor and we will stand there and watch you die. But we won't give you the medication to live."

Critics of Oregon's decade-old Death With Dignity Law -- the only one of its kind in the nation -- have been up in arms over the indignity of her unsigned rejection letter. Even those who support Oregon's liberal law were upset.

The incident has spilled over the state border into Washington, where advocacy groups are pushing for enactment of Initiative 1000 in November, legalizing a similar assisted-death law.

Opponents say the law presents all involved with an "unacceptable conflict" and the impression that insurance companies see dying as a cost-saving measure. They say it steers those with limited finances toward assisted death.

"News of payment denial is tough enough for a terminally ill person to bear," said Steve Hopcraft, a spokesman for Compassion and Choices, a group that supports coverage of physician-assisted death.

Read more Continue reading at ABC News-Health

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Sunday, August 9, 2009

Hunger hits Detroit

Hunger hits Detroit - Yahoo! Finance
By Steve Hargreaves, CNNMoney.com staff writer
On Friday August 7, 2009, 12:38 pm EDT
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On a side street in an old industrial neighborhood, a delivery man stacks a dolly of goods outside a store. Ten feet away stands another man clad in military fatigues, combat boots and what appears to be a flak jacket. He looks straight out of Baghdad. But this isn't Iraq. It's southeast Detroit, and he's there to guard the groceries.

"No pictures, put the camera down," he yells. My companion and I, on a tour of how people in this city are using urban farms to grow their own food, speed off.

In this recession-racked town, the lack of food is a serious problem. It's a theme that comes up again and again in conversations in Detroit. There isn't a single major chain supermarket in the city, forcing residents to buy food from corner stores. Often less healthy and more expensive food.

As the area's economy worsens --unemployment was over 16% in July -- food stamp applications and pantry visits have surged.

Detroiters have responded to this crisis. Huge amounts of vacant land has led to a resurgence in urban farming. Volunteers at local food pantries have also increased.

But the food crunch is intensifying, and spreading to people not used to dealing with hunger. As middle class workers lose their jobs, the same folks that used to donate to soup kitchens and pantries have become their fastest growing set of recipients.

"We've seen about a third more people than before," said Jean Hagopian, a volunteer at the New Life food pantry, part of the New Life Assembly of God church in Roseville, a suburb some 20 miles northeast of Detroit. Hagopian said many of the new people seeking assistance are men, former breadwinners now in desperate need of a food basket.

Hagopian is an 83-year old retired school teacher. She works at the pantry four days a week, spending two of those days driving her own minivan around town collecting food from local distributors.

The pantry, housed in the church basement, gives away boxes of food that might feed a family of four for a week. It includes dry and packaged goods like cereals and pasta, peanut butter, canned fruits and vegetables, 7 or 8 pounds of frozen meat (usually chicken or hot dogs), and eight pan pizzas donated from a local Pizza Hut. Most of the other food is purchased from a distributor or donated by the county food program. Last month they gave out 519 boxes.

Hagopian hopes the demand for food doesn't get much worse.

"I hope we're at the top of it because we'll run out of food, and then we'll have to go out and find some more," she said.

She should brace for the worst. Across metro Detroit, social service agencies are reporting a huge spike in demand for food assistance.

Gleaners, an agency that distributes excess food donated from food processors, says their distribution is up 18% from last year. Michigan Department of Human Services, which handles federal food assistance like food stamps, WIC checks and such, has seen a 14% spike in applications since October. Calls to the United Way's help line have tripled in the last year.

"Given the resources, we could double our numbers," said Frank Kubik, food program manager for Focus:Hope, a Detroit aid organization that fed 41,000 mostly elderly people last year. Kubik said his program is restricted by charter and budget from serving more than its current number of clients. But if that were changed, he could certainly serve up more meals.

"There's no doubt about it, there's just so many out there that are really struggling right now," he said.

The changing face of hunger

There have been plenty of people struggling in Detroit for a long time. What makes this recession different is the type of people coming in. It's no longer just the homeless, or the really poor.

Now it's middle class folks who lost their $60,000-a-year auto job, or home owners who got caught on the wrong side of the real estate bubble.

Many of these people have never navigated the public assistance bureaucracy before, and that makes getting aid to them a challenge.

"They have no idea where the DHS office is," said DeWayne Wells, president of Gleaners, the food distributor.

To assist these newly hungry, Wells pointed to the United Way's 211 program, where people can call the hotline and speak to an operator that guides them through a wide range of available social services.

The Michigan Department of Human Services is going digital, rolling out a program where people can apply for food stamps via the Web.

That may help ease another challenge in getting aid to the middle class: pride. Many people feel so bad about having to ask for help that they just don't, or they have issues with it once they do.

"They'll say things like 'I've never had to do this before' and they feel a little uncomfortable," said Hagopian, the retired school teacher. But she says times have changed, the good union jobs are disappearing and it's harder and harder to find work.

"I just tell them society is not what it used to be," she said.

Detroit responds

Actually running out of food doesn't seem to be a problem, so far. In fact, because more people are being affected the response seems to be greater.

"A few years ago it was someone you saw a profile of on TV," said Wells. "Now it's your brother in-law, or the people your kid plays soccer with."

Wells said volunteers are up at Gleaners, as is general community awareness.

The Feds have helped too. Food stamp allowances were increased 14% nationwide under the stimulus plan.

Detroiters are also helping themselves in smaller ways. Thanks to the dearth of big supermarkets in Detroit proper - a phenomenon largely attributed to lack of people - and plenty of vacant land, community gardening has caught on big.

It's not so much that these gardens are going to feed the city, although they certainly help. It's more that they can be used to teach people, especially children, the value of eating right.

"I use vegetables every day," said one child at an after school gardening program run by Earthworks Urban Farm, near the heart of the city. "Last night, an onion I picked from here, I had in my potatoes."

Hearing that is good news to people like Dan Carmody, president of Eastern Market Corp., a century-old public market selling fresh produce and other foodstuffs near downtown Detroit.
Carmody is part of a group of people trying to bring healthy food to town. The efforts include setting up mobile produce stands around the city, working with convenience store owns to stock better produce, and trying to set up a program that allows food stamp recipients to spend twice as much money if they buy from a local farmer.

He says the food situation in Detroit is particularly depressing because the surrounding areas are chock full with some of the best eats around: Michigan grows some of the most varied crops in the nation, everything from apples and cantaloupes to peaches and watermelon. Windsor, just across the bridge, is the hydroponics capital of Canada. Artisan Amish farms are also close by in Ohio and Pennsylvania.

Getting this food to Detroit, and getting Detroiters to buy it is the challenge. That's where the urban farms come in.

"Once kids start seeing where their food comes from," he said, "it changes the whole approach to how they eat."

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