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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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Thursday
“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 ...
Wed. 6/17 Hold on to your divine blush, your innate rosy magic, or end up brown.” – Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Planning to go Camping. Here is a great Guide. https://www.outsideonline.com/2413821/how-to-plan-first-car-camping-trip?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Dispatch-05262020&utm_term=dispatch https://www.nps.gov/subjects/camping/index.htm https://www.tripsavvy.com/essential-tips-for-first-time-campers-504011 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camping There has been a lot of talk about camping recently with our daughters, my partner just bought his daughter a Kelty 4 person, entry level tent, 2 sleeping bags, and 2 sleep pads for about $240, from Rei.com. This is a very good price and value. They looked at llbean.com too, backcountry.com, campmor.com, thenorthface.com, ems.com also has good sales too. https://koa.com/blog/tips-for-your-first-solo-camping-trip/ Book a site or go off on your own. G...
Thursday 5/28 The glittering leaves of the rhododendrons Balance and vibrate in the cool air; While in the sky above them White clouds chase each other. –John Gould Fletcher (1886–1950) Edmund C. Tarbell, portrait, Mary Van Ness Hyde May 28 is a special Day. My Grandmother Nessie was born on this day. She passed away when I was 2. Breast Cancer took her life, but her zest for life, love of animals, and incredible spirit lives on. People who knew her tell me I'm like her, I believe she is still a part of my life because I see her in mourning doves, roses, and horses, dairy cows, especially Jerseys, Collie dogs, Persian cats, and exploration too. She was an individual and I am too. I see her in my daughters and my Mom. I miss her, but I try to live life like she did, without complaint, simply, and with good intention. A dear friend who was a Farmer in Vermont, (Henry Stromaier, who passed last Fall), like she was at the end of her life, told m...
Hi, Looking for ways to transition learning to Home? I have comprised list of all the educational offerings showing up in my mailbox over the past weeks as our educational systems have ground to a halt and each person collectively has reorganized their lives to accommodate for the shift from normal to a new normal. Change is inevitable. We weren't prepared for this. How do I start to educate my kids when I am also reorganizing my life? This is something we are all trying to be resilient through. I am consistently awed by the way people are coming together to help each other right now. I have been waiting for my moment to contribute. Today I am starting this blog to bring what I know to the table, share, and ask you to share your triumphs along the way. I will load content that I come across that applies to anyone wishing to use these readily available tools online. I will organize them here, along with activities and places to view, engage, or otherwise educate yours...
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...
__________________________________________________________________________________________________ Wednesday 5/6 Dare The Wind, Flying Cloud and the Clipper ship who set the world record with a woman Navigator in the 1860's AMERICA”S HISTORY, Written in Stories of Adventurers and Entrepreneurs READ Flying Cloud, Written by David W. Shaw https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Horn LEARN PACIFIC MAIL STEAMSHIP COMPANY also ran some of the earliest steamboats on the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers , between San Francisco , Sacramento , and Stockton . Domingo Marcucci who came from Philadelphia in the Pacific Mail steamship OREGON with a knocked-down steamboat in its hold, started a shipyard in San Francisco on September 18, 1849. It was located on the beach at Happy Valley , at the foot of Folsom Street, east of Beale Street. Marcucci's company assembled the CAPTAIN SUTTER in s...
It's rainy morning here. Grey with bright colors of spring flowers blooming, punctuating the browns and greens of spring. image available on Google Images. many options there for your Zoom Background Today began at 5:45 for us. As a family we usually go to a sunrise service at a local tree farm where my family lives. I can only remember a handful of years in my life that I haven't gone to this. So, because we couldn't be with my parents at home. We decided to do our own sunrise service at a beach we can walk to from our house. We tested FaceTime outside with my parents the day before while I was working in the garden, continuing to plant as I feel we need the food security of seeds pushing up through dirt in containers and in the ground we have available to us. Sunrise service went well, and gave me something new to cherish with my parents. sunrise service picking daffodils as the sun hits the first places on our local turning earth Annabelle our Easte...
Tuesday 5/26 Memorial Day has passed. Thank you to all who have served and given the Ultimate debt of their lives for our Freedom. Thank you to All who have contributed to the Mission of Front Line for the Covid19 Pandemic. Thank you. The beginnings of openings and Summer Adventures took place here on Cape Cod this weekend. More people ventured out and took advantage of the incremental openings happening around town. Hope is palpable. pal·pa·ble | ˈpalpəb(ə)l | adjective 1 (of a feeling or atmosphere) so intense as to seem almost tangible: a palpable sense of loss . • plain to see or comprehend: to talk of dawn raids in the circumstances is palpable nonsense . 2 able to be touched or felt: the palpable bump at the bridge of the nose . DERIVATIVES palpability | ˌpalpəˈbilədē | noun ORIGIN late Middle English: from late Latin palpabilis , from Latin palpare ‘feel, touch gently’. QUARANTINE RESTRICTIONS ARE STARTING TO EASE AND PHASES OF REOPENI...
Monday Bring me the Sunset in a cup. -Emily Dickinson DRAW Your Impressionistic ( See Impressionist Painters Below and find out how they changed ART in our World and History ) rendition of A SUNSET IN A CUP. Share with a trusted family member and tell them about your painting/drawing. SCIENCE in 15 Seconds or More: 10 science projects you can do with your kids https://www.popsci.com/story/diy/grocery-store-science-projects/ Wiggly Water. https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/explore/science/all-charged-up-wiggly-water/?cmpid=org=ngp::mc=crm-email::src=ngp::cmp=editorial::add=FFG_Special_20200428&rid=C54A3D3FF457B80D10F0624ED5BCCB9D Audio BOOKS for teens https://www.audiobooksync.com/2020-sync-titles/ Free audio books all summer https://www.audiobooksync.com/2020-sync-titles/ What are the Interests you gravitate towards/go to when choosing a book? The Artist Van Gogh, Cut off his Ear According to Recorded History. Have any other...
Wednesday 5/13 ''When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news my mother would say to me, 'Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping..' To this day especially in times of 'disaster', I remember my mother's words, and I am always comforted by realizing that there are still so many helpers- so many caring people in this world.'' - Mr Fred Rogers https://www.biography.com/performer/fred-rogers Fred Rogers was the much-loved host of the public television show 'Mister Rogers' Neighborhood,' which ran on PBS from 1968 to 2001. HISTORY Who Was Fred Rogers? Fred Rogers was a puppeteer and ordained minister who became the host of the TV program Mister Rogers' Neighborhood . With a degree in music composition, he wrote 200 songs for the show, including the theme, "Won't You Be My Neighbor?" He was honored with numerous awards and accolades for his dedication to c...
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