“Things to do Instead of Watching TV” Book

Jo - Saturday, October 18, 2008, 12:07 am
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This is a very simple book for a child to make. Just type the phrases below (one per page) and print them out. Ask your child to fill in the blanks and do what he/she wrote on the page. Take pictures of your child being productive, or ask your child to draw a picture.

Things to Do Instead of TV Book

Cover: Things to do Instead of Watching TV

Arrange _________

Befriend _________

Count _________

Dance to _________

Enjoy _________

Figure out how to _________

Give _________

Have a _________

Imagine _________

Jump for joy because _________

Keep a journal of _________

Listen to _________

Make a _________

Narrate _________

Observe _________

Play _________

Question things that _________

Read _________

Sing a _________

Take a walk _________

Use _________

Visit _________

Write a _________

X out negative _________

Yearn to _________

Zip up your jacket and _________

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Encyclopedia of Explorers

My son is going to make his own encyclopedia of explorers. Before he begins, he is going to look at real encyclopedias and read the definition of an encyclopedia.

For each explorer, he will print out interesting facts along with their picture and write a summary.

The following explorers are going to be in our encyclopedia:

  1. Wikipedia: Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr.
  2. Wikipedia: Neil A. Armstrong
  3. Wikipedia: Lucas Vasquez de Ayllón
  4. Wikipedia: William Baffin
  5. Wikipedia: Vasco Núñez de Balboa
  6. Wikipedia: Robert Bartlett
  7. Wikipedia: Charles William Beebe
  8. Wikipedia: Vitus Bering
  9. Wikipedia: Daniel Boone
  10. Wikipedia: James Bowie
  11. Wikipedia: James Bridger
  12. Wikipedia: James Bruce
  13. Wikipedia: Robert O’Hara Burke
  14. Wikipedia: Sir Richard Francis Burton
  15. Wikipedia: Richard E. Byrd
  16. Wikipedia: John Cabot
  17. Wikipedia: Pedro Álvares Cabral
  18. San Diego Historical Society: Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo
  19. Wikipedia: René Auguste Caillié
  20. Wikipedia: Kit Carson
  21. Wikipedia: Jacques Cartier
  22. Wikipedia: Samuel de Champlain
  23. Wikipedia: Hugh Clapperton
  24. Wikipedia: Christopher Columbus (In 1492 Columbus Sailed the Ocean Blue)
  25. Wikipedia: James Cook
  26. Wikipedia: Francisco Vázquez de Coronado
  27. Wikipedia: Hernán Cortés
  28. Wikipedia: Jacques-Yves Cousteau
  29. Wikipedia: William Dampier
  30. Enchanted Learning: Hernando de Soto
  31. Wikipedia: Bartholomeu Dias
  32. Wikipedia: Sir Francis Drake
  33. HighBeam Encyclopedia: Daniel Greysolon Duluth, sieur
  34. Wikipedia: Leif Ericson
  35. Wikipedia: Edward John Eyre
  36. Wikipedia: Sir John Franklin
  37. Wikipedia: John C. Frémont
  38. Wikipedia: Sir Martin Frobisher
  39. Wikipedia: Yuri Gagarin
  40. Wikipedia: Vasco da Gama
  41. Wikipedia: Louis Hennepin
  42. Wikipedia: Sir Edmund Hillary
  43. Wikipedia: Henry Hudson
  44. Wikipedia: Louis Jolliet
  45. Wikipedia: Sieur de La Salle
  46. Wikipedia: Alexey Leonov
  47. Wikipedia: Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
  48. Wikipedia: David Livingstone
  49. Wikipedia: James A. Lovell, Jr.
  50. Wikipedia: Ferdinand Magellan
  51. Wikipedia: Jacques Marquette
  52. Zegrahm & Eco Expeditions: Shirley Metz
  53. BBC News: Victoria Murden
  54. Wikipedia: Tenzing Norgay
  55. Wikipedia: Mungo Park
  56. Wikipedia: Robert E. Peary
  57. Wikipedia: Zebulon Pike
  58. Wikipedia: Francisco Pizarro
  59. Wikipedia: John Wesley Powell
  60. Wikipedia: Sir Walter Raleigh
  61. Wikipedia: Robert Falcon Scott
  62. Wikipedia: Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton
  63. Wikipedia: Jedediah Strong Smith
  64. Wikipedia: Hernando de Soto
  65. Wikipedia: John Hanning Speke
  66. Wikipedia: Sir Henry Morton Stanley
  67. Wikipedia: John McDouall Stuart
  68. Wikipedia: Charles Sturt
  69. Wikipedia: Abel Janszoon Tasman
  70. Wikipedia: David Thompson
  71. Wikipedia: Henri de Tonti
  72. Wikipedia: Giovanni da Verrazzano
  73. Wikipedia: Amerigo Vespucci
  74. Wikipedia: Peter Egerton Warburton
  75. Wikipedia: Charles Wilkes
  76. Wikipedia: William John Wills

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