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I Spy Bird Shapes

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I Spy Bird Shapes features birds whose bodies are shaped like a variety of shapes. Children will have fun learning about shapes and finding them on the pages. While both pages feature the same shapes, they do not display the same number of each shape. The set also includes shape flashcards. There are B/W and color versions of the cards. While many of your children may know all the shapes displayed, others may not. Some may need to have flashcards beside them while they work. They can look at the bigger version on the card and then look for the...

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Why Does Getting a Passport Have to Be So Hard?

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Shh, be very, very quiet. We are trying to file paperwork so that my daughter can get her passport. If you’re too loud, it will spook the governmental paperwork and it will go back down it’s hole for six weeks. That means we will have more winter and my daughter won’t have her passport. She won’t be able to go to France and a plague will descend upon my house. Which means that all I’ll write about the whole summer is how everyone was too loud and now my daughter throws forks at my head. This is my third time...

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Science as Vocation and Life

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By Dimitry Zakharov Gerhard Herzberg was a man of science. His life revolved around his office, where he spent countless hours, often working six days a week going over spectrograms, interpreting and writing results, and familiarizing himself with the latest research in his own field and quantum physics in general. Spectroscopy and the scientists involved in this field were his first family. In his short 1985 memoir, published in the Annual Review of Physical Chemistry, Herzberg recollects the moment in 1929 when he married Luise Oettinger, who co-authored several papers with him, and mentions the birth of his two children, Paul and...

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60 Earth Day Crafts, Activities & Food Ideas for Kids

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Click here to read 60 Earth Day Crafts, Activities & Food Ideas for Kids on Hands On As We Grow® Mark your calendar this April 22nd for a day filled with Earth Day crafts, activities, and food! Springtime is filled with flowers blooming, birds building nests, and animals being born. It’s a perfect time to celebrate Earth Day! Have fun this Spring and Download a FREE Week of Spring Activities! Choose from 15 Earth Day foods, 15 Earth Day crafts, 15 upcycled crafts, and 16 Earth Day activities. (So, there are technically 61 different Earth Day crafts, activities, and food...

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HP 11.6″ Chromebook – Only $98! BETTER THAN BLACK FRIDAY!

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Perfect for the kids to use with distance learning! Head over to Walmart where you can get this HP 11.6″ Chromebook for only $98.00! (Reg. $225) Here are some additional details: Intel Celeron HP Google Chrome OS Chromebook is a computer for the way the modern world works, with thousands of apps, built-in virus protection and cloud backups. It is secure, fast, up-to-date, versatile and simple. 11.6″ display Typical 1366 x 768 HD resolution. Energy-efficient WLED backlight. Intel® Celeron® processor N3350 Enjoy a computer with an Intel® Celeron® processor. Experience Intel performance with entertainment features and fast connectivity. The Intel...

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