Update and MUST SEE links!

The kids have finished all their bookwork this morning and we will head to the park in a few minutes for some nice sunshine. The weatherman said it was to hit 83 today! I am so happy! I am cold all the time so I am looking forward to our 100 degree weather we have in the summers! 83 will do for me today:) ..

The children put faces on their dodecohedrons and I am hoping to get them put together today. Yesterday I spent a hour or so searching the net for information about India. I have a few links I will be showing the kids today and plan to have them make some bracelets like they make in India.

For Valentines yesterday the kids made sugar cookies. (I have pictures I will post later).. We ran out of time so they will have to do thier Valentines Day Play today. That should be cute!

I am so happy to share with you some links I found this past weekend. My sweet friend Tracy has told me several times how to link words to sites on my blogs but I dont seem to have the tool bars that I need to do that. SO.. I will just copy and past the links here and you will have to copy and paste as well.. but these sites are well worth the effort!

One site is called Internet Archive and it is where I found the rest of the links. The Archive(http://www.archive.org/index.php) has a way back machine where you can put in a web address and see what it looked like 10 years ago.. really fun! .. It also has movies, still photos, audio and text archive. I did see that on the audio section you can listen to past presidential speeches! ..

The others I LOVE are listed below.. check them out!

http://www.icdlbooks.org/
above link is to the International Childrens Digital Library-you can read books in lots of different languages.. its so cool! This is done so well.. you just have to see it!

http://www.gutenberg.org/
this site is GREAT.. I looked up Thomas Jefferson and read some letters he wrote as well as a digital image of the Declaration of Indepence with his edits all over it.. WOW!

http://palmm.fcla.edu/juv/
"Literature for Children is a collection of the treasures of children's literature published largely in the United States and Great Britain from before 1850 to beyond 1950." WOW! .. This site I could spend all day at! It has books stains and all--digital pictures/scans.. so it is like you are actually looking at THE book! .. so neat.. esp when some I looked at were dated 1851! AMAZING! I think today at lunch time I will read a story or to from this book from this site:
The apple dumpling, and other stories: for young boys and girls. 1852 by Fanny, Aunt, 1822-1894.

so .. stop reading my blog and go see the great links.. let me know what you think!
We are off to play at the park!