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Thursday, June 18, 2009

FSP Passion Flower

FSP PASSION FLOWER (Courtesy of Scott Peterman)

Posted by Kimberly Simmons at 8:40 AM

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7/8 - Kathy Pipkin & Helen Muther

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Children's Resource Guide from Curtis Memorial Library
Children's Theater of Maine
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Maine Audubon
Portland Ice Skating
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Puppet Showplace - Boston
Seacoast Rep in Portsmouth
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Wheelock Family Theater - Boston
Writing Center/ Writing Workshops @ The Telling Room

School Songs (links to lyrics)

A Place in the Choir
As we leave this friendly place
Baby Ducks by Tom Hall
Grace : Johnny Appleseed (with Spanish lyrics too)
Home on the Range
Land of the Silver Birch / My Paddle -- sung as a round
Little Road and a Stone to Roll
Magic Penny
Make New Friends -- with many lyrics!
Ode to Joy
River
Simple Gifts
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
The Garden Song
This Land is Your Land
This Little Light of Mine
Video of Baby Ducks by Tom Hall
Walk in the Light (George Fox song)
Windmill by Alan Bell

Outing Club 2012-2013

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Bradbury Mountain
Maine Huts and Trails

Summer Fun

Bates Dance Festival
Circus Smirkus in Maine, Aug 6&7 and 9&10
Coastal Botanical Garden
Falmouth Library - Summer Reading : Dream Big READ!
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Mainestage Shakespeare in Park (Kennebunk - free)
Mt. Vernan Animal Kingdom
Ogunquit Theater Children's Shows
Pineland Farm Programs
Portland - Summer in the Parks Concerts
Portland Performing Arts Festival!
Portland Public Library Summer Reading Program (June Calendar)
SeaDogs schedule
Stories by the Garden - At Friends
Yarmouth - Summer Arts Series

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Parenting for Peace - Fall 2011 - Race - October 18th

Reserve a Seat At Books As Bridges : Children's Literature in Anti-Racism Education (Free)
Register for Educators' Workshop
Anne Sibley O'Brien will design and faciliate the program
Read Anne's blog
Born to Read - Maine Humanities Council Programs
The Brown Bookshelf (book blog)
Children's and YA books with interracial families
Blog : Diversity in YA literature (and middle grade too)
Lee & Low Publishers
Mitali Perkins blog
Pirate Tree - Chidlren's Literature & Social Justice
Race : Are We So Different?
Reading in Color
Social Justice Literature Elementary School
Tilbury House Maine publisher
Understanding Multiracial America

Alfie Kohn's coming, May 3

Register for the Educator's Workshop HERE
Alfie Kohn's homepage
Kohn on Huffington Post
Race To No Where - a documentary about the pressures teens face in our "high achievement culture"
Rethinking Homework - an article, reprinted on TeachersNet
The Homework Myth - Google Books
Unconditional Parenting - one of his major works

Environmental Health Links

Campaign for Safe Cosmetics
Environmental Health Strategy Center - Maine Based Action & Info
Kim's giant list of resources :-)
Living Downstream : The Film
Ms. Magazine article by Steingraber, linking breast cancer and pollution
Sandra Steingraber's bio
Skin Deep - what's in your soap anyway?
Talking to Children about Climate Change (by Steingraber)
Teaching Kids about Toxins -an article in Rethinking Schools
The Falling Age of Puberty in U.S. Girls
The Toxic SandBox - a book about this topic

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