If your child's teacher had students plant seeds in the spring or is planning to talk about Harvest, Halloween pumpkins, Thanksgiving - there is an entrance point for you to talk about Mid-Autumn Festival! You can "plant a seed" in spring yourself by mentioning it to the teacher - even if your child will be in a different class the next year. Maybe your child could visit the "old" class in the fall and help you present something to them? Few schools would have trouble with this - as long as you coordinate the time with both teachers.
The Pumpkin Circle by George Levenson is a lovely picture book that could be used to discuss planting, growing or harvest. Suggested pumpkin seed classroom activities, educational standards, pictures from the book, and clip from the video (narrated by Danny Glover) are on The Pumpkin Circle website. Spring is coming - and they have a $1 pumpkin seed offer for educators on their site too.
Filmmaker, George Levenson won awards for his Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes. You can see clips of that and of his companion video, How to Fold A Paper Crane at the Sadako Film Project. To complete a crane, read the full directions for how to fold a paper crane.
See Musical Mandarin for more information on Paper-folding.
Friday, January 26, 2007
Monday, January 01, 2007
Tools: Moon Phase & Cloudy Skies
Chris Cobb has a moon phases calculator that you can get from Tuft's Wright Center. This is not the same as the BlueMarmot calculator I previously mentioned in See "today's moon phase".
I have not used it but present it as an option for you. I am also excited about the Clear Sky Clock using data from Canada that I learned about from the Wright Center. There have been far too many cloudy Autumn Moon Festival nights here. To learn more, and see how to set it for your location visit http://www.cleardarksky.com/csk/
I have not used it but present it as an option for you. I am also excited about the Clear Sky Clock using data from Canada that I learned about from the Wright Center. There have been far too many cloudy Autumn Moon Festival nights here. To learn more, and see how to set it for your location visit http://www.cleardarksky.com/csk/
Woman in the Moon pictures
George Leonberger has created a Woman in the Moon page for the Wright Center! I have never seen her picture so clearly. I have no idea whether this Chang Er that the Chinese have seen for years.
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