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#1. October 27, 2010
Dear Reader,
After releasing last week’s Day of the Dead topic I decided that a few coloring pages would be fun. So here goes.
Day of the Dead Coloring Pages
https://www.surfnetkids.com/coloring/holiday/day_of_the_dead/
And, of course, we have printable Halloween Coloring Pages too:
https://www.surfnetkids.com/coloring/holiday/halloween/
Enjoy this spooky time of year. Boo!
See ya on the Net,
Barbara J. Feldman
"Surfing the Net with Kids"
https://www.surfnetkids.com
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#2. Mummies
by Barbara J. Feldman
https://www.surfnetkids.com/mummies.htm
Mummies Printable (** for premium members only)
https://www.surfnetkids.com/printables/files/printables-club/mummies.pdf
Although mummies share the big screen and Halloween streets with make-believe monsters such as werewolves and vampires, they are real! A mummy is a corpse with preserved skin and internal organs. Although often associated with Ancient Egypt, mummies have been found in a variety of cultures around the world. The Egyptians mummified their dead for religious reasons, but some mummies are preserved accidentally in ice or soggy bogs.
Mummy Tombs
Retired college professor James M. Deem shares his fascination with mummies to encourage learners of all ages to discard their mistaken ideas about mummies (popularized by classic, scary movies) and learn about the science and history of mummies. His site includes sections on science, museum exhibits, and mummy sites such as Egypt, Pompeii and the bogs of Ireland, Scotland, Germany and other European locales. “Bog mummies are accidental mummies, made only by nature. In northern Europe, the people who became bog mummies usually died from 2000-2500 years ago, though some are even older and others much more recent.”
NOVA Online: Mummies 101
This PBS webpage is part of the Mummies of China site. It provides an introduction to mummies from all over the world, including Ancient Egypt, the Chinchoros of Chile, and the Aleuts of Alaska. To explore more of the Mummies of China site, follow the links in the left-hand navigation menu. “Not to put too fine a point on it, a mummy is an old dead body. But unlike a skeleton or a fossil, a mummy still retains some of the soft tissue it had when it was alive ? most often skin, but sometimes organs and muscles, as well.”
The Teacher’s Corner: Chicken Mummies
Teacher Carla Detter shares her instructions for making mummies in the classroom from whole, fresh, grocery-store chickens. She explains, “The original idea for this activity came from the book Theme Series- Egypt by Creative Teaching Press. I modified the process. So far, our mummies have survived and so have we. We unwrapped one of the chickens from last year. You could see some red meat and the bones were still hard. It did not smell! The students were excited to see what had happened over a year’s time and yet leery of getting too close!”
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#3. Printables Club Members Also Get …
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Mummies Printable
Mummies Wikipedia Printable
Egyptian Pyramids Printable
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#4. Related Games
Go Go Mummy
https://www.surfnetkids.com/games/go_go_mummy.htm
Go Go Mummy 2
https://www.surfnetkids.com/games/go_go_mummy_2.htm
Ancient Egypt Coloring Pages
https://www.surfnetkids.com/coloring/around_the_world/ancient_egypt/
Mummy Tombs
https://www.surfnetkids.com/games/mummy_tombs.htm
Mummy Tombs 2
https://www.surfnetkids.com/games/mummy_tombs_2.htm
#5. Surfing the Calendar
Jonas Salk’s Birthday
Oct 28, 1914
Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998
Signed Into Law
Oct 28, 1998
Statue of Liberty Dedicated
Oct 28, 1886
First Internet Transmission
Oct 29, 1969
Stock Market Crash
Oct 29, 1929
Captain Thomas Preston Acquitted in Boston Massacre Trial
Oct 30, 1770
John Adams’ Birthday
Oct 30, 1735
Harry Houdini’s Death
Oct 31, 1926
Halloween Recipes
Oct 31, 2010
Halloween Costumes
Oct 31, 2010
Halloween Pumpkin Carving
Oct 31, 2010
Fun Halloween
Oct 31, 2010
National Magic Day
Oct 31, 2010
American Indian Heritage Month
November
Aviation History Month
November
Alfred Wegener’s (the Father
of Plate Tectonics) Birthday
Nov 1, 1880
President First Occupies the White House
Nov 1, 1800
National Authors Day
Nov 1, 2010
Marie Antoinette’s Birthday
Nov 2, 1755
Daniel Boone’s Birthday
Nov 2, 1734
First Scheduled Radio Broadcast
Nov 2, 1920
Over 8 Million American Women Vote for
the First Time in History
Nov 2, 1920
International Space Station Inhabited
Nov 2, 2000
Panama Independence Day
Nov 3, 1903
#6. Quote of the Week
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” ~~ Mahatma Gandhi ~~ (October 2, 1869-January 30, 1948) Indian political and spiritual leader. Click here for more belief quotes.
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