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Halloween Story
The Sugar Sprite
Halloween is just around the corner and it's best to avoid the sugary
sweets which are always a part of "modernized Halloween". At our
house, we tell this story and exchange our sweets for much better and
nicer gifts:
As the weather becomes colder, the Sugar Sprite requires more sugar
to keep warm than she needs in the summer months. So, on Halloween,
children dress up in costumes and go to their friends' and neighbors'
houses to collect candy for the needy sprite. Although they do sample
some candy along the way while walking around in the cold night air,
Sugar Sprite children place their candy at the foot of their beds (or
outside the front door, etc.) before going to sleep. During the
night, the friendly Sugar Sprite comes in, takes the candy and leaves
a gift of thanks. The Sugar Sprite knows what all children like, but
sometimes the children write letters or make pictures for the sprite
about a week before Halloween so she doesn't get confused (she has to
visit a lot of children to collect enough sugar for the coming
winter!)
This comes from Ask Kytka of Waldorf Homeschoolers:
http://www.waldorfhomeschoolers.com/autumnverse.htm
[From the Yahoo! Group C-A-T-C-H] [This text taken from the website]
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Free Pumpkin Carving Patterns
http://www.spookmaster.com/pumpkin-carving-patterns-freebies.htm
Free pumpkin carving templates including our Mix n' Match stencils for
creating your own jack o' lantern designs.
http://www.pumpkinmasters.com/freepatterns.html
That=92s right, it=92s your lucky day! Get a jump on all that Halloween fu=
n now
by downloading a free pattern. Three great designs are available to you.
http://www.fabulousfoods.com/holidays/halloween/pumpplans2.html
Free Jack O' Lantern Patterns!
The Rock N' Roll Heaven Collection
[This text taken from the website]
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Bad Email Examples
http://www.michaelhorowitz.com/bademails.html
These examples are from my class on Protecting Your Computer. On the
theory that a picture is worth a thousand words, the following are some
examples of "bad" email messages. It's a dangerous email world on the
Internet.
[This text taken from the website]
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CSS Creator
http://www.csscreator.com/
CSS Creator site is a place for you to learn about and create CSS, Cascading
Style Sheets.
[This text taken from the website]
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Che Guevara
[Note: Recently, Che Guevara (whose name I *still* can't pronounce) came =
up
in conversation, and the person I was talking to drew a blank. "Y'know," =
I
said, "the Marxist guy in Cuba, with the beret? Famous iconic image?" St=
ill
a blank. Hence this post.]
http://www.time.com/time/time100/heroes/profile/guevara01.html
By the time Ernesto Guevara, known to us as Che, was murdered in the jungl=
es
of Bolivia in October 1967, he was already a legend to my generation, not
only in Latin America but also around the world.
http://www.marxists.org/archive/guevara/
Che Guevara Internet Archive from Marxists.org
http://www.che-lives.com/home/
Welcome to the all new Che-Lives, compa=F1ero! Che-Lives is a leftist Inte=
rnet
project dedicated to the memory of the communist revolutionary Ernesto "Ch=
e"
Guevara.
[This text taken from the website]
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Electoral Vote Predictor
[Steve's note: Yes, it's a second mention, but there's a lot of good
additional information on this site, as the webmaster notes below.]
http://www.electoral-vote.com/
Many teachers have sent me mail telling me how they use the site to
discuss the election in their classes. There is material for history
classes (why is there an electoral college?), geography (why are some
states red and some states blue?), math (how can you predict a whole
state by asking 800 people?) and more. If you are a teacher looking for
more material about the election to use in your classes, take a look at
the Lesson Plans Page.
[This text taken from the website]
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