Music, Mud, and Movement at Elim

The residents of Elim Nursing Home along with the daycare children enjoy singing, playing instruments, dancing, and gardening (weather providing) once a week. I enjoy volunteering my time to add music to others' lives, and when we can get dirty in the garden, it makes it even better.

We sing song about science, history, geography, and praise the Lord. It's great to share stories of past presidents, how to eat healthy, and review the countries in Central and South America to keep our brains sharp. We sing about the Titanic, Pompeii, and the Dirty Thirties, to name a few.

Eleanor and John are awesome at the maracas. Eleanor said she use to play the guitar and that her brother was in a rock band many years ago. You go, girl!

ND Farm Bureau ...Farm Tours

Visit a farm on line! Chickens, bison, horses,goats, sheep... you name it!

Check out the following on-line:

http://ndfb.org/promotion/default.asp?ID=447

Have A "Rice" Day

www.freerice.com
is an international, viral sensation. Folks from Thailand to Germany and India are just as enthusiastic . . . improving thousands of lives, all with a simple, collective, click of a mouse.”
- CBS Evening News

freerice.com is a website that students can go on and gain more knowledge with every answer they answer and help feed the world. In my class, I often ask, "Did anyone help save the world last night?" Children often respond by telling me how many grains of rice they donated.

This program, a United Nations World Food Program, donates 10 grains of rice for every answer they get right. Subject areas are art, chemistry, vocabulary, grammar, countries, world capitals, languages including French, Italian, German, and Spanish, along with basic math, and multiplication.

Some days we head the the computer lab and "save the world" as we learn in school. Measuring, estimating, and calculating small mounds, medium mounds, and huge mounds of rice would be a great math activity.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDWcuBygAUw

Agriculture and Food Scientists

By planting a seed of encouragement today, we will reap the benefit of having scientists in the ag world tomorrow.

The work of agricultural and food scientists plays an important part in maintaining the Nation’s food supply by ensuring agricultural productivity and food safety. Agricultural scientists study farm crops and animals and develop ways of improving their quantity and quality. They look for ways to improve crop yield with less labor, control pests and weeds more safely and effectively, and conserve soil and water. They research methods of converting raw agricultural commodities into attractive and healthy food products for consumers. Some agricultural scientists look for ways to use agricultural products for fuels.