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Undergraduate studies. Simmons University BA International Relations and Communications.
Graduate Studies, Lesley University MA. ED. Provisional Certification 1-6
Life Skills. Raising two daughters navigating the public education system Supplementing education with all available resources.
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Make your own goopy Face Masks from the Grocery Store, Costs of Make your own vs. Store Bought, French Language and Art, Musée D'Orsay, Patricia Polacco, The Keeping Quilt, and Dyslexia too. Cabin Fever Prompt
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“The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.”
– Malcolm X
SCIENCE, Chemistry
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All sources procured from the grocery store.
Chemistry for the family.
Research the properties of these healthy, simple and inexpensive health/skin care options. Unfortunately the ad connected to this is wine. Be aware.
wash hands and face well afterwards due to salmonella concerns.
At-home face mask recipe for dry skin:
1 egg yolk
1 teaspoon of olive oil
a little bit of honey
Mixing these three ingredients together “makes a fabulously rich and nourishing mask,” Lorencin told E! News. She added that the honey provides hydrating properties while the other two ingredients offer your skin biotin and essential fatty acids. At-home face mask recipe for oily or acne-prone skin:
1 egg white
2-3 drops of lemon juice
Beat an egg white with a fork and add a few drops of lemon juice for a face mask that will soothe oily or acne-prone skin (which might be acting up due to stress surrounding the coronavirus pandemic). Lorencin told E! News that this face mask is good for “pore-tightening, brightening, and congestion-relieving.”
the site's disclaimer. It has celebrities etc, but all you need is here. The WHO website below. As information about the coronavirus pandemic rapidly changes, HelloGiggles is committed to providing accurate and helpful coverage to our readers. As such, some of the information in this story may have changed after publication. For the latest on COVID-19, we encourage you to use online resources from CDC, WHO, and local public health departments, and visit our coronavirus hub.
Skin is our largest organ.
Skin protects our bodies from the outside elements
Use these grocery store staples to take care of your skin.
Talk about what “You are what you eat.”
Here is a recipe to make Hand sanitizer, there are 4 on the Wellness Mama site which I was told about from someone at our Health Food Store. For right now we researched formulations and it is important to use 90 percent alcohol in the formulation. Our recipe is from the WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION. I've included this one below on the pink sticky note. The Who site is above and you can go there to print out their version. We purchased grain alcohol at a liquor store because Walmart did not have any more 90 percent alcohol left. It was suggested we could do this. Be advised that this is something you need to be careful with and should not be left around or consumed.
Here is Wellness Mama’s recipe
Strongest Homemade Hand Sanitizer Recipe (5 Minute Recipe)
The CDC recommends at least 60% alcohol in hand sanitizer to effectively battle viruses. This formula follows this percentage and adds aloe vera for gentleness and essential oils for extra virus fighting. This is the one I am currently using after being in areas where viruses are more likely to be transmitted.
Mix all ingredients and combine in a spray bottle (these are the perfect size) or small bottle of any kind. Use as needed.
Keep in mind that you should adjust the recipe depending on the strength of the alcohol you’re using. For example, if you’re using 99% Isopropyl rubbing alcohol, you’ll need a different amount of aloe vera than if you were using 70% alcohol. Here are some quick guidelines?
note. Remember, alcohol is highly flammable. Be careful.
Here is a recipe to make your own Hand Sanitizer.
We made our own. It was quick and we put them in small spray bottles we got at Walmart in the Health department. We have used this to refresh our wet wipes canisters in our cars too, and paper towels, or washcloths can be substituted for the towels that ran out as there haven’t been any in the stores since the Covid19 Quarantine went into effect.
photo from our kitchen, w the immunity drink I've had on some days along with vitamin C and a few other supplements from our health food store, along with oranges and a healthy lifestyle and plenty of rest. this it the World Health Organization formulation we used to make our hand sanitizer. It is available on their website. Above, in the disclaimers text.
these are like the small refillable bottles we got for $1.00 at Walmart in the travel section area. <https://www.wish.com/product/5a470d4672e71f1a1557c59b?hide_login_modal=true&from_ad=goog_shopping&_display_country_code=US&_force_currency_code=USD&pid=googleadwords_int&c=%7BcampaignId%7D&ad_cid=5a470d4672e71f1a1557c59b&ad_cc=US&ad_curr=USD&ad_price=1.00&campaign_id=7203534630&gclid=Cj0KCQjw7qn1BRDqARIsAKMbHDY-6yxrZRQA1g91dMbDLljRiY7XnFYBy4kyLdc0rqqUgsKYa1gMC98aAkfqEALw_wcB&share=web>
MATH
How much is the difference in cost of the items you buy to take care of your skin/the cost of what you make to take care of your skin.
BOOK/ELA
PROLIFIC CHILDREN’S AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR
Patricia Polacco.
The Keeping Quilt
I have loved this author over the years for her Beautiful Illustrations, depth and well conceived stories.
MAKE A QUILT SQUARE. Have everyone in your Quarantined Household make one. - each should be the same size. use a piece of scrap paper, a piece of computer paper folded lengthwise up in a triangle, to make a square, and fold off or cut off the excess part.
One by one, the children put a hand over a small rock and made a wish. Author Patricia Polacco cupped her hands over theirs and said to each one, “There you go.”
These were very special wishes, for Polacco had told the second- and third-graders beforehand what they could not wish for: money, toys or changing other people.
“Books,” said Jon Rench. “A new puppy,” said Evan Lotz. “A baby brother,” said Samantha Mattson.
“I wish that I’m extremely lucky every day,” Alec Westenbarger said, explaining, “If, like, I see someone poor and I want them to have a new house, I’m lucky that they get a new house.”
Those were the kinds of wishes Polacco was hoping for, with this very special rock. It was a fragment of a meteorite that landed in her grandparents’ yard one night, long before she was born, and became a legendary wishing rock for their neighbors in Union City, Michigan.
see link above.
Patricia Polacco has written more than 100 Childrens book. She was an Author in residence at the Sandy Hook School, next door to the town I grew up in.
The Michigan author, who gives talks at schools around the country, experienced the kindness and hatred of human hearts in a most traumatic way: at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, where 20 children and six staff members were murdered six years ago this month.
Polacco had been an artist-in-residence there prior to the tragedy and knew some of those killed, including 6-year-old Jesse Lewis. The day before the shooting, she gave a talk there and Jesse touched the meteorite. He said he liked how her hair looked. Then he ran off in light-up tennis shoes, with his teacher, Victoria Soto, trailing behind him. A day later, they were both killed in her classroom.
Watching the news on TV, Polacco collapsed and soon underwent open-heart surgery. She later walked the school hallways, trying to understand. She took part in gun-control protests, but no longer believes gun regulations will solve the problem of continued mass school shootings.
“What we need to work on,” she said after her Rockford presentation, “is what you just saw here: making young people understand that there is difference (between students) and to be kind to each other. It’s their hearts we’ve got to work on.”
{the link below "Thank you, Mr. Falker" connects you to the Scholastic site with lesson plans on this book and Lifetimes too.}
Patricia Polacco tells Robbie Mouk he has the same color hair her brother did
‘Keep That in Your Hearts’
She worked on students’ hearts at Valley View. All of them had read “Thank You, Mr. Falker,” her award-winning book about a teacher who helped her overcome dyslexia and dysnomia, a disability in recalling words. Recounting how name-calling and bullying made her cry, Polacco urged students to help their neighbors, treat their classmates well, root out “murdering words” and feel good about themselves, disabilities included.
“If anyone in this room is being teased, I want you to know there is absolutely nothing wrong with you,” she told a couple hundred students stuffed into the library. “I believe every single one of you in this room is gifted. The problem is, we don’t all open our gifts at the same time.
“Keep that in your hearts,” she said emphatically. “Be kind, and know how brilliant each one of you is.”
Third-grade teacher Kristin Hubner arranged her visit, with $900 in grant funding from the Rockford Education Foundation and support from Valley View PTO. She said Polacco’s books are her favorites to teach, rich with language and lessons that resonate with students.
“Her stories about being kind and overcoming adversity … we can all relate to that,” Hubner said. After reading “Thank You, Mr. Falker,” students made puzzle pieces that lined the halls, each telling of their personal challenges. The puzzle pieces illustrated how the students are all connected, Hubner said.
“I could spend all day reading them,” Hubner said. “It was magnificent to see the way they reacted to the story.”
MAKE A PUZZLE PIECE, What makes you unique? Special? Have each of your family members make one. Share at dinner time. CONNECT
Rockford Education Foundation Patricia is Dyslexic and has dysnomia. She forgets words and learned differently. I did not know this until I started this blog page this morning. I am too. She thinks we can change the world by appreciating each person for their gifts and Loving those gifts we have. Thank you Mr. Falker is about a special teacher in her life and how he helped her. enjoy. Libraries are open on line currently. They have audible options my daughter is taking advantage of. If not these books are available on <Alibris.com> I have used this site since I lost a library book long ago. I replaced the book for $2.00, and eventually found the Library copy which I also returned, and they gained a book for their collections. Win/win.
Let’s take a field trip, along the Seine, and arriving at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris.
See here. A beautiful Salon of Statues, 3 floors of beautiful Objects de Arte, and an open and airy feel with a beautiful clock on one wall that makes me think of the Illustrated book Hugo Cabret.
excerpt from Outside Magazine. The original goal was to be the first to cross the Arctic Ocean in the summer. But a couple of weeks into their 2005 expedition, polar adventurers Eric Larsen and Lonnie Dupre found themselves trapped on a small chunk of ice, waiting for a helicopter rescue instead. For nine days, Larsen says, he had nothing to do but sit in a tent listening to an MP3 player with a handful of albums on it. He couldn’t sleep, partly because he was crushed with disappointment. To pass the time, he started to ski tiny loops around the ice floe, then would sit on a sled until he got cold before skiing another lap.
Mentally, that time in limbo was much like what he’s experiencing now, sheltering in place in Crested Butte, Colorado, with his wife and two kids, the result of worldwide lockdowns to slow the spread of COVID-19. With no clear sign of when stay-at-home orders will end, his time in that tent—stuck, unsure of when a helicopter would arrive—echoes what Larsen’s going through in quarantine. “It’s just uncanny, the similarities and the emotional peaks and troughs that you go through,” he says.
Write a Story. or a page a day... and write a book.
PROMPTS.
You are walking across America. Following the Wagon trains of the people driving Westward.
Who is with you?
What are you taking? What do you have to be careful of? How do you protect yourself? What clothes and shoes do you have with you? Do you have a coat? How do you keep warm at night when you are camping out?
Why are you walking across America?
Who are you traveling with?
Who did you leave behind?
Where is your Journey taking you?
When you get there, How do you unpack and start to build your home?
How do you go about finding the materials to build your Homestead?
What arrived with you from your journey?
There are no stores, and possibly no neighbors. How do you eat?
Heat your home?
What things things do you have to protect yourself from?
Once you are living life in the cabin, adobe hut, stone house, what is life like?
Do you have music?
Your own space?
Look at historical non fiction sources to include facts and photographs, Google images likely has historical Photographs also.
ILLUSTRATED BOOK FOR ALL ON LIFETIMES.
A way to explain death to children I began using when my children were young.
Black are my steps on silver sod; Thick blows my frosty breath abroad; And tree and house, and hill and lake, Are frosted like a wedding cake. –Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–94) "Every day of your life is a special occasion." -Thomas S. Morison National Parks are free today to Honor Dr. Martin Luther King The Booker T. Washington Park in Virginia has a living museum within the well preserver Tobacco Plantations acreage. https://www.nps.gov/bowa/index.htm These Build-It-Yourself Paper Toy Kits Will Make You Feel Like a Kid Again by JESSICA WANG published YESTERDAY https://www.apartmenttherapy.com/cardkits-build-it-yourself-paper-toys-36867612 May we raise children who love the unloved things- the dandelion, the worms & spiderlings. Children who sense the rose needs the thorn & run into rainswept days the same way they turn towards the sun... And when they're grown & someone has to speak for those Who have no voice May they draw upon ...
Wednesday 5/20 The Buddha said, “Better to live one day seeing the rise and fall of things than to live a hundred years without ever seeing the rise and fall of things.” https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2018/02/22/how-buddha-became-popular-christian-saint MUSIC Boston Symphony Orchestra, home school among these, Berlioz - Roman Carnival Overture many to watch on you tube. https://www.bso.org/brands/bso/at-home/bso-homeschool/bso-homeschool-lessons-week-7.aspx Every instrument, from the piano to the guitar to the erhu sounds different. Each has a different tonal colour, or “timbre”, which gives them their own unique characteristic sound. This is how we can naturally tell them apart when listening to music. As you develop as a singer, it is important to listen more analytically to the timbres, and therefore the pitches of different instruments, and how to tune your voice to each of them. https://www.musical-u.com/learn/...
"I would like to be remembered as someone who used whatever talent she had to do her work to the very best of her ability." -Ruth Bader Ginsburg A cute October craft using toilet paper rolls and black paper. Health Warning, Hand Sanitizer https://www.marthastewart.com/syndication/fda-warns-nine-hand-sanitizer-brands-toxic-methanol?did=556057-20200902&utm_campaign=martha-stewart-living_newsletter&utm_source=marthastewart.com&utm_medium=email&utm_content=090220&cid=556057&mid=40030919707 On their website , the FDA listed nine different hand sanitizer products all from the Mexican manufacturer Eskbiochem SA de CV that should not be used under any circumstances. The products are: All-Clean Hand Sanitizer, Esk Biochem Hand Sanitizer, CleanCare NoGerm Advanced Hand Sanitizer 75% Alcohol, Lavar 70 Gel Hand Sanitizer, The Good Gel Antibacterial Gel Hand Sanitizer, CleanCare NoGerm Advanced Hand Sanitizer 80% Alcohol, CleanCare NoGerm Advanced...
Tuesday Perspective on this time from a New York Times Journalist ….”Whiplash. Going cold turkey. Zero to 60 except reversed. I have relied on a host of metaphors to think about my transition from perpetual motion to stillness, my world the size of a city block in many ways. It feels trivial to bemoan a temporary end to travel, but there’s more at stake than joy rides to a distant beach. We risk losing the connections we have spent centuries building with the world around us. With airplane fleets grounded and hotels shuttered, when travel resumes, there is no doubt it will look different.” https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/13/travel/missives-from-my-locked-down-friends-from-siberia-to-samarkand.html?campaign_id=24&emc=edit_tl_20200418&instance_id=17756&nl=travel-dispatch®i_id=67240182&segment_id=25461&te=1&user_id=c54a3d3ff457b80d10f0624ed5bccb9d This link of interest below for negotiating in any situation, with kids especially. This is on how ...
Now summer is in flower and nature's hum Is never silent r'ound her sultry bloom Insects as small as dust are never done Wi' glittering dance and reeling in the sun And green wood fly and blossom haunting bee Are never weary of their melody. –John Clare (1793–1864) https://www.popsci.com/story/diy/natural-shelters-save-life-wild/?utm_source=internal&utm_medium=email&tp=i-1NGB-Et-PB1-12AdgJ-1c-k0dJ-1c-12AKfx-l4orlSE35E-1vnDK4 There is something we have been in love with all our lives ~ can not name, have not forgotten... all we know is that it fills us. ~Ingrid Goff-Maidoff France. Important Artworks to see at the Louve, the largest Museum in the World, that are not the Mona Lisa. https://news.artnet.com/exhibitions/beyond-mona-lisa-at-the-louvre-1891279?utm_content=from_artnetnewsmodal&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=US%20News%20Afternoon%204%3A30%20p.m.%20for%207%2F3%2F20&utm_term=US%20Da...
Thursday. 6/18 Friday 6/19 Rais’d are the dripping oars— Silent the boat: the lake, Lovely and soft as a dream, Swims in the sheen of the moon. –Matthew Arnold (1822–88) https://www.almanac.com/content/two-fishermen-who-rowed-europe# HISTORY Here’s the true story of two oyster dredgers from New Jersey, George Harbo and Frank Samuelson, who voyaged in a tiny open rowboat across the Atlantic. Legend says that early in 1896, wealthy Police Gazette publisher Richard Fox offered a $10,000 prize to anyone who could cross the ocean without sails or steam. No contemporary accounts confirm this reward, but there is no doubt that Harbo, 30, and Samuelsen, 26, who dredged oysters and clams off the New Jersey coast for a living, were the first to row across the Atlantic, setting a speed record that stood for 114 years. Of medium stature, both men had spent their lives at sea and were lean and muscular. Both were Norwegi...
Tuesday 6/8 Biking the Mount Washington Railway, NH https://www.outsideonline.com/2411952/carson-storch-bikes-mt-washington-railway How to Mountain Bike Train at Home https://www.outsideonline.com/2411340/video-mountain-bike-training-home https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_bike Some Different types of Bikes https://www.bicycling.com/bikes-gear/a23067076/types-of-bikes/?source=nl&utm_source=nl_byc&utm_medium=email&date=060720&utm_campaign=nl20504037 Road Bikes – Lightweight, efficient bikes with drop handlebars and narrow tires for recreational riding on pavement. Styles include race and endurance. Think Tour de France etc, see earlier Post about Bike races and Movistar Team. Mountain Bikes – Rugged machines with flat handlebars and wide, knobby tires for riding narrow dirt trails. Styles include hardtail, full-suspension cross country, full-suspension trail, and full-suspension enduro. Gravel / Adventure Bikes – D...
“I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to better.” — Frida Kahlo https://www.moma.org/collection/works/78333 IMPORTANT NEWS HERE. To up your Blood serum levels for Covid19 prevention. Covid D3 vitamin deficiency. Adults of normal weight need at least 2,000 to 3,000 IU each day of vitamin D3 to prevent insufficiency, children need 1000 IU each day. New COVID-19 Study Reveals Major Vitamin D Deficiency Problem: There's a Solution <img alt="Ashley Jordan Ferira, Ph.D., R.D.N." title="Ashley Jordan Ferira, Ph.D., R.D.N." class="editor-info__image" src="https://mindbodygreen-res.cloudinary.com/images/w_767,q_auto:eco,f_auto,fl_lossy/usr/SEeG8lh/ashley-jordan-ferira-phd-rdn.jpg"> mbg Director of Scientific Affairs By Ashley Jordan Ferira, Ph.D., R.D.N. New COVID-19 Study Reveals Major Vitamin D Deficiency Problem: There's a Solution https://www.mindbodygreen.com/articles/new-study-reveals-major-vitamin-d-defi-...
Wednesday, Earth Day. The Earth Day Song, has been Translated into all the 102 languages spoken at the United Nations. https://youtu.be/kQz8jxJLNOA 10 Facts about Earth Day. https://www.realsimple.com/holidays-entertaining/earth-day-facts?did=515657-20200422&utm_campaign=rs-daily-finds_newsletter&utm_source=realsimple.com&utm_medium=email&utm_content=042220&cid=515657&mid=32685132761 The granddaddy of Earth Day events is a coalition of hundreds of activist organizations convening for Earth Day Live 2020 . Originally planned to be the largest climate strike in history, organizers are now hosting three days of programming sunup to sundown and an extremely long list of celebrity participants. I don’t often use this word, but if you care about climate change, this event is gonna be lit. Take a look at the programming yourself and RSVP. Earth Day , the organization that originally created the event, will host a 24-hour live event on Wed...
Whether You Think You Can Or Think You Can’t, You’re Right. ~ Henry Ford Today is my Partner's Birthday, He is a Triathlon Coach and Inspires me every Day. I dedicate this post to him, For His Birthday. To his adoptive parents who adopted him in Canada 54+ years ago. To his parents and Birth Mother who gave Birth to him. To his creation.To his incredible resilience, and to his dedication to our Family. I love his depth of being beyond the Universe. His love for life and his people is incredible. To Dr. Ted Geddis, your organization, grit, perseverance and kindness is unfathomable. Something to think about…. I just read and am sharing this because of the breadth of this woman’s soul. CTS. The Audio Version. PODCAST HERE. https://trainright.com/rebecca-rusch-finding-comfort-in-discomfort/? utm_source=ctsnewsletter&utm_medium=email&inf_contact_key=bcf6172c84936c38e9d03884a31211b7680f8914173f9191b1c0223e68310bb1 on Rebecca Rusch:...
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