Did you know that Tibetan Losar, the Mongolian Tsagaan Sar, and the Vietnamese Tết occur at the same time as the Chinese and Korean Lunar New Year holidays? Janet Wong shares a book list and Lunar New Year traditions over at Read Your World Blog here: I grew up celebrating the lunar new year mainly…
“One of the most extraordinary and least understood aspects of Dr. Martin Luther King’s leadership was his incisive understanding of the power of visual images to alter public opinion,” says Maurice Berger, standing in front of an oversize silk-screen portrait of the slain civil rights leader. from Smithsonian Magazine In celebration of Martin Luther King,…
In honor of Martin Luther King, Junior Day, I wanted to share my son’s 4th grade Civil Rights Movement project. His teacher created a really great timeline that I hope will be helpful as well. p.s. Related posts: Civil Rights Movement Book Lists for Kids Civil Rights Movement Art #BlackLivesMatter Civil Rights for Kids…
My son and I watched dozens of videos from The Kid Should See This to find our four favorites: Watch how plants explode their seeds. If you play soccer or basketball, you’ll love this video on backspin called the Magnus Effect. I want a tree like this: a tree with forty kinds of fruit! It’s…
My husband learned this drawing game using numbers 1 to 11 in numerical order as a little boy growing up in Korea which is probably why I have never seen it before. He must have learned it really well because he whips it out whenever a restaurant that we are waiting at has brown paper and crayons on…
This we know; the earth does not belong to man; man belongs to the earth. This we know. All things are connected like the blood which unites one family. All things are connected. Chief Seattle’s Thoughts In honor of Native American Heritage Month, I rounded up some newly published books that speak to the speech made…
LGBT History Month is a month-long annual observance of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender history, and the history of the gay rights and related civil rights movements. It is observed during October in the United States, to include National Coming Out Day on October 11. My post today is a celebration of LGBT History Month!…