Welcome to another edition of homeschooling resource of the day. As always, if you see something you want changed, you have something you would like added, or know of something that should be featured please feel free to leave me a comment.
Today’s website is Starfall. From learning the alphabet to beginning a reader, this website has something for them all. Stories, games, and mini learning movies. I love this site, and more importantly Jonathan LOVED this site when he was just learning alphabet and learning to read. Educational and entertaining.
Word of the day: diaphanous \dy-AF-uh-nuhs\, adjective:
1. Of such fine texture as to allow light to pass through; translucent or transparent.
2. Vague; insubstantial.
This Day in History: Sept. 30th
1399 : Henry IV proclaimed
1452 : 1st book published, Johann Gutenberg’s Bible
1659 : Robinson Crusoe is shipwrecked (according to Defoe)
1777 : Congress, flees to York Pa, as British forces advance
1846 : Anesthetic ether used for 1st time (Dr Wm Morton extracts a tooth)
1867 : Midway Islands formally declared a US possession
1868 : First volume of Little Women is published
1880 : Henry Draper takes that 1st photograph of the Orion Nebula
1889 : Wyoming legislators write the first state constitution to grant women the vote
1898 : City of NY established
1934 : FDR dedicates Boulder Dam (Hoover Dam)
1938 : Munich Agreement-forced Czechoslovakia to give territory to Germany
1950 : 1st congress of International Astronautical Federation opens in Paris
1954 : 1st atomic-powered vessel, submarine Nautilus launched
1966 : Botswana (Bechuanaland) gains independence from Britain (Nat’l Day)
1967 : Palace of Fine Arts reopens (1st time during 1915 exposition)
1968 : 1st Boeing 747 rolls out
Journal Prompt:
You are writing a letter to another person who lives in a desert. They rarely get rain, but have received rain for three days straight now. They want ideas of things to do on rainy days.
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