From: Kathy Martinez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 10:42 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [EFSNewsletter] EFS Newsletter Vol. 2 No. 17
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We now have over 1300 FREE articles and lesson ideas to share. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ =New on EFS= >>>State Unit Studies Michigan: http://www.easyfunschool.com/Michigan.html Texas: http://www.easyfunschool.com/Texas.html Iowa: http://www.easyfunschool.com/Iowa.html >>>Unit Studies and Theme Fun: 20,000 Leagues Unit part 2: http://www.easyfunschool.com/20000Leagues2.html 20,000 Leagues Unit part 3: http://www.easyfunschool.com/20000Leagues3.html >>>Fun Food /Home Ec Ideas: Properly Setting a Buffet Table: http://www.easyfunschool.com/HomeEcBuffetTable.html Baboon Butter: http://www.easyfunschool.com/FunFoodBaboonButter.html Fruit-Flavored Basic White Bread: http://www.easyfunschool.com/BreadMachine1.html >>>Celebrate the season with Fall Fun: Stained Glass Leaves: http://www.easyfunschool.com/FFStainedGlassLeaves.html Homemade Pumpkin Pie Spice: http://www.easyfunschool.com/FFPumpkinPieSpice.html Pumpkin Doughnut Drops: http://www.easyfunschool.com/PumpkinDoughnutDrops.html >>>Unit Studies and Theme Fun: Pumpkins: http://www.easyfunschool.com/ThemeFunPumpkins.html American Heritage: http://www.easyfunschool.com/article2134.html Arts & Crafts: http://www.easyfunschool.com/article2184.html Eating Healthy: http://www.easyfunschool.com/article1551.html >>>Arts and Crafts: Designer Crayon Cloth: http://www.easyfunschool.com/article1286.html Glue-Shampoo Dough: http://www.easyfunschool.com/article1568.html >>>Science Fun and Nature Studies: Bird Watching with Children: http://www.easyfunschool.com/article1975.html Homemade Thermometer: http://www.easyfunschool.com/article2287.html >>>Native Americans: Folk Tales: http://www.easyfunschool.com/NAFolktales.html >>>Kathryn Stout's column: When the Gifted Don't Seem Like Such a Gift: http://www.easyfunschool.com/KSGiftedNotAGift.html If you have any questions regarding the EasyFunSchool website, please feel free to contact me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ =What's Coming Soon?= >A continuation of all the regular columns . state units, president units, Learning with Little House, science fun, fun food, home ec lessons, literature units, etc. >Update of the major indexes for EasyFunSchool lessons and activities. >Literature unit on "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea." And expansion of existing unit studies on "A Christmas Carol" and "A Blessed Christmas." >Theme Fun on holiday-related stuff: harvest festivals, corn, cornucopia, pilgrims, turkeys, etc. >A FREE "Gifts in a Jar" cook book for EFSNewsletter subscribers ONLY! It will be in Adobe Acrobat format and you will be able to download it directly from a special section of the EFS website. >Incorporating the Holiday lessons for both Thanksgiving and December. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ =Interesting URLs= These are for those of you already making lesson plans for Thanksgiving, cut and paste long URLs where necessary. [Disclaimer: these are URLs that I have found interesting and useful, that doesn't mean that I don't occasionally find incorrect information on the URLs that I forward. It also does not mean that I necessarily endorse all of the opinions or advertisements on these URLs. Also, given the nature of the internet, please check all URLs before allowing children to explore them as websites can change rapidly and often in their content.] EFS Thanksgiving Index (more to be added soon) http://www.easyfunschool.com/IndexThanksgiving.html Turkey themes http://www.fastq.com/%7Ejbpratt/education/theme/turkey.html http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/lesson036.shtml http://www.first-school.ws/theme/animals/birds/turkey.htm http://www.kidsdomain.com/craft/_animal.html Thanksgiving themes http://www.fastq.com/~jbpratt/education/theme/thanksgiving.html http://teachers.teach-nology.com/themes/holidays/thanks/ http://abcteach.com/directory/theme_units/month_to_month/k_november/th anksgiving/ http://www.atozteacherstuff.com/themes/thanks.shtml http://www.suzyred.com/thanksgiving.html Native American themes http://www.fastq.com/%7Ejbpratt/education/theme/namericans.html http://atozteacherstuff.com/lessons/NativeAmericanPictographs.shtml Colonial America theme http://atozteacherstuff.com/themes/ColonialAmerica.shtml First Thanksgiving themed party: http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/3076/52618 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ =Fun Freebies= Build a model of the Mayflower http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hmr/3/5/model.html Literature Units for K through 12 http://members.aol.com/sskufca/bookunits.htm Longevity Game to play during a health lesson http://www.northwesternmutual.com/corporate/newsmedia/longevitygame.ht ml Directions for a Hershey Kiss holiday lights necklace http://www.scoutingweb.com/scoutingweb/SubPages/HerKiss.htm Topics in High school Math that won't put them to sleep http://www.mathed.org/ Global Study Hall (note: some mature topics on occasion) http://www.globalstudyhall.com/ Thrifty Activities with Kids http://www.bcpl.net/~owl/homeschool/HomeschoolingOnTheCheap- ThriftyActivities.html CIDER BUGS Oranges -- halved; pulp removed Brown sugar Cinnamon sticks Whole nutmeg 2 Whole clove Tissue paper <<<OR>>> Colored plastic wrap Cut oranges in half and remove the pulp as best you can. Dry the oranges in a 250 degree oven for abut 2 hours on warm. Allow to cool thoroughly. Mound brown sugar into the empty half shell. Use cinnamon sticks for legs along the sides (6 to 8 depending on the size of the orange). Just push into the sugar. A whole nutmeg is pushed into the sugar as the head with 2 whole cloves for eyes. Wrap in tissue paper or colored plastic wrap with instruction to just drop into two quarts of cider and heat through. ************************************************************************* NOTE: Gleason Sackmann is the owner and host of this list. All inquiries regarding this list and its contents should be directed to Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. If you want to unsubscribe, click and send (no body or subject: required) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives for K12 Newsletters can be found at: http://www.classroom.com/community/email/archives.jhtml?A0=K12NEWSLETTERS
