Poetry Speaks to Children -- Book Review

Check out my review of Poetry Speaks to Children posted here on my Web site. You'll find it informative.

Monday Meme

Monday Meme 36 : 2006-01-23 : List Three 2

1. List 3 things you see when you look to your left:

Filing Cabinets

Piles of Books waiting to be reviewed

pictures waiting to be scrapbooked

2. List 3 things you see when you look to your right:

Calendar

Pictures my children have drawn for me over the years

Mark Twain paper weight from Hannibal, Missouri which quotes Twain, "Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been."

3. List the last 3 places you ate out at:

Subway

Taco Bell

Frisch's

4. List the last 3 things you bought:

Printer cartridges for computer printer

Computer paper

Milk

5. List the last 3 songs you listened to:

"Cornerstone" by Day of Fire

"Forsaken" by Skillet

"Lifesong" by Casting Crowns

I was the 78th person to take this week's Monday Meme!

Until we meet in the teachers' lounge again,

Linda W. Kelley

www.Christian-Parenting-Source.com

Sunday Meme

I'm enjoying a lazy Sunday afternoon. Relaxing and reading. Kids are all doing homework. Roaring fire is ablaze, cup of tea by my side. It made me think of this old meme. Anybody feel like playing. Here are the rules:

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 23.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your blog along with these instructions.

Here's the sentence from the book at the top of the nearest stack:

She arranged glass, bowl, and book on the window sill and climbed out on the fire-escape. (fifth sentence if you count the first partial sentence on the page) Once out there, she was living in a tree. (fifth if you don't count the partial sentence)

--------A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

Until we meet in the teachers' lounge again,

Linda W. Kelley

www.Christian-Parenting-Source.com

Thursday Challenge

The theme for the this week is HIGH--(Skyscraper, Stilts, Bridge, Tower, Chimney, Aircraft, Tall Person, Mountains, Loud, High-Pitched, High-Priced, Exuberant, Euphoric,...)

Our cat loves to climb trees -- the higher, the better.





Until we meet in the teachers' lounge again,

Linda W. Kelley

www.Christian-Parenting-Source.com

Bride and Prejudice -- A Movie Review

My sixteen-year-old wrote this review today for a movie he watched as part of his online Advanced Placement World History class. Thought you might enjoy it.

Bride and Prejudice -- A Movie Review
by Sean Kelley

Bride and Prejudice is modeled on Jane Austin’s Pride and Prejudice but set in modern-day India. It is a musical, something my mother enjoyed more than I did, and full of lighthearted humor. The movie begins at a wedding in India where William Darcy, an wealthy American businessman, meets Lalita, the daughter of semi-wealthy Indian parents, and becomes infatuated with her. At their first encounter, Darcy shares some of his prejudices about India and Lalita in turn develops several prejudices about Darcy and Americans as elitist Imperialists. Throughout the film, Lalita and Darcy realize their prejudices are misguided and fall in love.

Bride and Prejudice had several worthwhile parts such as the extensive view of Indian culture and the comic character Kholi Sahib. The film also explored the prejudices of all the characters against people of different nationality and class. Altogether Bride and Prejudice is a pretty good movie and made me interested in reading Pride and Prejudice.

Until we meet in the teachers' lounge again,

Linda W. Kelley

www.Christian-Parenting-Source.com

Help Wanted!

I was contacted recently by a young lady who is doing her Masters Thesis on home schooling. She needs help with a short survey she's conducting. Here's what she needs:
"I am looking for students who have graduated after spending all or some of their time in high school in a home based learning program. Do you know any that have graduated that would be willing to fill out a short survey (anonymously) about their experiences?"

If you qualify and are interested in helping out with this survey, please contact Janis Soule at JANID731 at aol dot com.

Until we meet in the teachers' lounge again,

Linda W. Kelley

www.Christian-Parenting-Source.com

P.S. FYI--I really miss doing the . My scanner quit on me. Got a new one for Christmas. I'm getting it set up today and will definitely have a picture posted next Thursday.