Peter Pan

February is the month. We are starting to figure out choreography for our Peter Pan which will probably be called I'll Fly Away. Josh gets to be a bad guy this time... Captain Hook


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groundhog sing & dance

Sing to the tune of Ba Ba Blacksheep:
Groundhog, Groundhog, popping up today.

Groundhog, Groundhog, can you play?

If you see your shadow, hide away.

If there is no shadow, you can stay.

Groundhog, Groundhog, popping up today.

Groundhog, Groundhog, can you play?




Sing to: "Baa Baa Black sheep"

Groundhog, Groundhog

Will you come out?

Yes Sir, Yes Sir

If the sun is not about

Groundhog, Groundhog

The sun is shining Bright

Then I'll hop back in and curl up tight



more groundhog songs http://www.preschooleducation.com/sgroundhog.shtml

It's dance time...

The Greatest Gift Of All

A biblical adaptation of the Nutcracker with an entirely new twist

Saturday, December 11, 2010

Riggs HS Theatre

Pierre

3 p.m.

&

7 p.m.

Admission: free will offering

Oh My




angels costume

  Can it be? Only 8 weeks until Christmas dance recital - The Greatest Gift of All (a variation of the Nutcracker ballet). Lots of choreography to learn still.

It's kinda neat having a site for the studio now... can post newsletters, pics, schedules & even links to dancewear. http://mainstdance.blogspot.com/
name change & new site to match: hosannadance.blogspot.com

Pointe:

Eventually I may even show a picture of me wearing my new pointe shoes. Maybe. Had a good class last night. My feet got pretty tired but they didn't hurt at all. 

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Fort Pierre, SD

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The Visitor

While kennel sitting I had an uninvited visitor...

It was going to be very hot Saturday and by 10:00 I had already taken each set of dogs (3 sets of 2) on a walk. (It's a lot easier walking up a hill when you have two hardy young labs walking you... hardly takes any effort at all... just pick up your feet and you'll find yourself moving forward.)

Well, back inside I heard a meadowlark singing outside and thought I'd try for a picture, but looking out the window to see where it was, my eye caught what looked like a rope lying on the ground.

The rope didn't want its picture taken...

It decided to hang out with some rakes (it does rhyme with snakes)...

...but as soon as some snake tongs arrived on the premises it promptly decided to head for cover... a nice big pile of old paint cans on the other side of that fence. (There has been a lot of cleaning up of piles and there's still more to come... at least that's not something I have to worry about... the owners are working hard to make this a great kennel (and home).)

I never did get to use those tongs... our friend left them in my care... just in case it came back out.

This guy did give a demo of his latest song The Sound of the Rattle... very nice

I'm kennel sitting again in a week and a half, but the outside portion will be completely different by then. No more scooping poo out of gravel... welcome to hosing down nicely slanted cement... and will eventually have some sort of drainage channel to a kind of doggie septic tank system. And putting gates at the end of each kennel/run will be nice too... no more weird going through one run to get to the next.

PAWS

Had fun my first day of kennel sitting... playing with the dogs & kittens, enjoying the country. I'm watching 4 dogs (2 are the owners, 2 are boarders) and 3 kittens. There'll be another 2 dogs over the weekend. All is going great! We'll see how the first day of poo scooping goes...

Calculus & Origami

WatchKnow has indexed and organized 18,485 online educational videos as of today. Site organizers aim to increase that total to 50,000 (into a directory of over 3,000 categories) by the end of 2010. All videos have been organized by category and sub-category. For example, the 2,512 videos listed under mathematics have been sub-divided into 16 categories that range from “Number Sense” to “Calculus” and “Math in the Real World”. The some of the categroies under literature include "Authors'/Poets' Biographical Information" and children's and young adult literature, authors & illustrators. There's even a Life Skills section ( sub-category Library Skills has 2 videos and the 1st one looks a little dated).

From the Hobbies Crafts section
origami book


"Suppose, instead of the dull, solemn letters on a board or a card you have a little play going on that the smallest youngster can understand." - Thomas Edison, 1911, on the film projector

old library days musings

Sometimes I sure miss "my" old library,

what with all their online resources...  tons of databases (should see all the databases just for music, art and dance), and website guides, tons of cool programing, and of course the tons and tons of books, videos and such so handy. (I say tons is the word of the day.) And, a lot has changed since I lived and worked there.

Now there's this neat looking Library-To-Go setup (an automated system away from the library branches), ...

...library by mail, downloadable audiobooks and videos....

They even have an author's podcast now... (though my branch's manager had started with newspaper topic articles and had even began radio interviews while I was still there)

Wow, they have even taken the summer reading program online with links, lists, reading log and the kids can write book reviews to share. ...

Every once in a while I have to check out their website just to see what might be new.

Aw, and I never got to see the new genealogy center...

 maybe someday if I make it back to Independence/KCMO for a visit.

It's only been, what... 6 years.

MCPL The Mid-Continent Public Library consists of 30 branches serving Clay, Jackson, and Platte Counties in Western Missouri. It was established in 1965 (though its roots go back further to 1892) and is now one of the largest library systems in the United States.

Hmmm... I wonder how the old libraries in Illinois are doing? Elgin's Gail Borden (that I barely remember since I was so young) and Springfield's Lincoln Library.

Flag Day

50-Star Flag Designs

In 1958 two U.S. territories, Alaska and Hawaii, were poised to become America's 49th and 50th states. A federal law dating from 1818 required that a star be added to the U.S. flag on the Fourth of July following a new state's admission. However, the law failed to describe how a new pattern for the stars should be configured. As the probability of Alaska's and Hawaii's admission to the Union increased, thousands of citizens, especially school children, sent their suggestions for a new flag design to the White House. In response to this interest, President Dwight Eisenhower appointed a committee to advise on the new design. After examining many creative and fanciful submissions, the committee recommended a design similar to the existing 48-star flag.

It would contain seven rows of seven stars in a slightly staggered arrangement. On January 3, 1959, President Eisenhower issued an Executive order changing the design of the flag. When, a few months later, Hawaii became a state, the committee recommended a similar layout, and President Eisenhower issued another order describing that design. This exhibit contains two flag designs selected from the many designs submitted for consideration.

 

http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/designs_for_democracy/designs_for_a_new_century/articles/american_flag_with_50_stars_2.html