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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.
My hope is to make your journey easier. Photo credits thanks to Google Images unless otherwise noted. My wish is to inspire you to look deeper and learn more each moment.
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.
Friday 5/8 INSPIRATION/CURRENT EVENTS, Text courtesy of Outside The 2019 Outsiders of the Year, According to Outside Magazine Outsiders of the Year list honors the most influential people changing our outdoor world. For 2019, our staff and contributors nominated an original list of 81 candidates, then got busy whittling them down to a select few. U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team Athletes Dominating the Pitch and Fighting for Equality They move across the field as one, shifting with the ball, actions precisely calibrated. A beautiful, brutally efficient machine. And an unbeatable one. CLIMBING, and other influential people. https://www.outsideonline.com/2406294/outside-magazine-most-influential-people-2019?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Dispatch-01292019%20copy&utm_content=Dispatch-01292019%20copy+Version+A+CID_86ce014927d3328b6fa2e768cb5b1ad4&utm_source=campaignmonitor%20outsidemagazine&utm_ter...
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...
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/...
Tuesday 6/15 My Background is in Communications, This piece is a beautiful story selling a tough old American Brand. And I relate because at the beginning of Quarantine, I bought a pair of Work pants and hiking shoes and have worn them almost everyday. They have stains, rips, a bleach spot, paint and my life displayed on them, and the story Jason tells is a beautiful. I didn't really know about Jason until I watched this. https://youtu.be/zL7SobTAnuQ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Momoa This sums up Quarantine in a profound way for me. He embraces life and family. Ohana. This movie is worth the time it takes to watch. American and authentic. You may like this one too. Surfing https://youtu.be/RB6gyOmVpLg Less than 2% of the clothing purchased in America is made somewhere else. Let’s Change that. https://youtu.be/JiLkfttHcfY Made in America. Good for All of America. Check out. Roadtrippers. this is about the Black Liv...
Friday 4/15 Scotland's Rail, Used in the Harry Potter Films. FIELDTRIP UK https://www.google.com/maps/place/United+Kingdom/@54.2313104,-13.4314985,5z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x25a3b1142c791a9:0xc4f8a0433288257a!8m2!3d55.378051!4d-3.435973 North To Scotland https://www.britannica.com/place/Scotland https://youtu.be/DDiq5C34KL4 SCOTLAND’s Wee Villages https://www.greatvaluevacations.com/travel-inspiration/the-cutest-wee-villages-of-scotland?utm_source=gvv&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NEWS20200514_scottish_villages Scotland from above https://youtu.be/kG1gLCcxBcY Edinburgh Scotland, United Kingdom/England History abounds in Edinburgh, the Capitol of Scotland Georgian Architecture and one ofd the Best planned cities in the world. Scotland's Flag https://edinburgh.org Edinburgh feels as if you are walking into J.K Rowling's Stories About Hogwarts and Harry Potter. It is easy to see how she was inspired...
POETRY In May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, I found the fresh Rhodora in the woods, Spreading its leafless blooms in a damp nook, To please the desert and the sluggish brook. –Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson Tuesday 5/5 It’s Cinco de Mayo! Mexico Celebrates! The History of Cinco de Mayo Mexico is the Country who originally celebrated Cinco de Mayo to celebrate the Battle of Puebla, May 5, 1862 https://www.history.com/topics/holidays/cinco-de-mayo Cinco de Mayo , (Spanish: “Fifth of May”), also called Anniversary of the Battle of Puebla, holiday celebrated in parts of Mexico and the United States in honour of a military victory in 1862 over the French forces of Napoleon III. From The Philippines, also have a large contingent of Spanish Speakers. Field TRIP SPAIN’s Prado Museum The Prado Is ‘Updating’ Its Most Cherished Masterpieces to Illustrate the Dystopian Chaos Unleashed by ...
Wednesday May 27 SPORT and MENTORSHIP https://www.singletracks.com/womens-mtb/little-bellas-mentoring-on-mountain-bikes-to-empower-girls-and-young-women/ https://mailchi.mp/littlebellas.com/happy-trails-1563004?e=5978f32250 About the founders. gives girls athletic opportunity. Founder Lea technical obstacles. Founder Sabra goals. tackling self-sufficiency during needed trailside bike reaping the intrinsic rewards of a hard ride resonates with my soul…me too. http://jjkwinninginlife.com http://www.movelivelearn.com Little Bellas Bike Bingo from Little Bellas. Mountain Bike Mentorship for girls ages 7-16 https://vimeo.com/415011162 For the Young and Hard working Mountain Biking Sensation, Kate Courtney, check out here. KATE COURTNEY CLAIMS 2019 UCI MTB WORLD CUP OVERALL TITLE - BECOMING THE FIRST AMERICAN TO DO SO IN 17 YEARS https://katecourtney.com https://katecourtney.com/rising-watch-the-series BIKE RACES, ...
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...
"Fight for the things you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you." - Ruth Bader Ginsburg This is a great article on a good companion and what they can provide in security and friendship over the years of a partnership. https://www.vogue.com/article/may-every-woman-find-her-marty-ginsburg-rbg?utm_source=nl&utm_brand=vogue&utm_mailing=VOG_Daily_092120&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_medium=email&bxid=5bd6757a3f92a41245ddab54&cndid=37204801&hasha=c54a3d3ff457b80d10f0624ed5bccb9d&hashb=3ec16b56c9b7765a0cda3f418584d73bc1604ff7&hashc=db29053611b3e075b2c458de21d443c2cc80a334b1a06ff992259dde72d272de&esrc=pop-up&utm_content=A&utm_term=VOG_Daily 6 free social justice webinars. https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/teachforjustice?utm_campaign=Core%257CTFJ%257CAdhoc%257C2020%257C09%257C21%257CAM%257CSeriesReminder%257CTeachers&utm_source=simon&utm_medium=email#professionallearning Sport Inspiration The...
Friday 5/29 Weighing in: Nutrition, body image, and finding balance as a female athlete https://cyclingtips.com/2018/04/weighing-in-nutrition-body-image-and-finding-balance-as-a-female-athlete/ As a Mom of Girls I have seen two healthy girls with healthy outlooks on body image struggle with body image occasionally. I also struggled with this as an athlete in High School and College. I kept a food diary and exercise log. Both excellent ways to tune into your wellness. This is good on Balance. Food is Fuel. I never weighed myself during high school and tried to maintain a diet very similar to before I became a serious cyclist. I stayed pretty healthy, but as I continued to make progress in my cycling career, I knew I wasn’t optimizing my diet for what I was asking my body to do. Becoming more engaged with my nutrition was initially driven by a desire to train harder. As my training load steadily increased, my diet hadn’t changed dramatically. I was still eating simil...
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