Posts Tagged ‘Good Stuff for Special Days’
National Robotics Week Is Here! Good Stuff for Special Days by Becky Rupp
National Robotics Week is here! Good Stuff for Special Days by Becky Rupp This weekend marked the beginning of National Robotics Week (April 10-18), which aims to publicize the role that robots play in everything from agriculture and medicine to warfare, manufacturing, transportation, and space exploration. And of course robots are just [...]
Good Stuff for Special Days by Becky Rupp
Good Stuff for Special Days by Becky Rupp Coming up this month on April 14th: a brand new moon! For thousands of years, various cultures have used the first sighting of the new crescent moon as the basis for their calendars. Moslems today, for example, depend on the naked-eye sighting of the first waxing crescent moon as the starting [...]
Grandma Linda’s Weekly Words of Wisdom
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) A BIT OF ADDITIONAL WISDOM THIS MORNING... Don't forget to register for the April [...]
Good Stuff for Special Days By Becky Rupp
Good Stuff for Special Days by Becky Rupp Hans Christian Andersen's Birthday April 2 April 2 is Hans Christian Andersen’s birthday. Andersen, born on this day in 1805 in Odense, Denmark, is the author of over 100 classic fairy tales, among them “The Little Mermaid,” “The Snow Queen,” “Thumbelina,” “The Little Match Girl,” [...]
Good Stuff for Special Days: Van Gogh By Becky Rupp
Good Stuff for Special Days By Becky Rupp NOTE FROM GRANDMA LINDA: In typical Becky Rupp style, the following post contains oodles of resources, so many that I figured I'd best get this into your hands now so you can be ready by March 30 to enjoy celebrating and learning about Vincent Van Gogh with your family! Celebrate March 30! It’s the [...]
