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#1. May 29, 2013
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#2. Aesop’s Fables
by Barbara J. Feldman
https://www.surfnetkids.com/aesops_fables.htm
Aesop’s Fables Printable (** for premium members only)
https://www.surfnetkids.com/printables/files/printables-club/aesops_fables.pdf
Aesop (620 – 560 BCE) was a Greek slave and storyteller. His fables, also known as the Aesopica, have been translated and retold for twenty-five centuries. Each one ends with a moral, or a lesson to be learned, and from them we learn the original of adages such as “sour grapes,” “add insult to injury,” and “look before you leap.”
The Aesop for Children
Based on the 1919 book “The Aesop for Children: with Pictures by Milo Winters,” these interactive stories are published by the Library of Congress. The original drawings “have been transformed for this interactive book, and now readers can interact with the charming illustrations to see and hear them move: a choosy heron eyes the fish swimming at his feet, a fox swishes his tail, a mouse chews a rope and frees a lion.”
Aesop’s Fables
Although not as pretty or as well organized as some of the other sites, AesopFables.com does have the entire text of 655 of Aesop’s fables and 127 fairy tales from Hans Christian Andersen. Best click for students is Selected Fables which includes eighty-six Aesop fables “selected for their ease of reading and concise moral understanding.” Look for the Real Audio logo in the lower right-hand corner of some of the story pages to hear Long’s ten year old daughter read the fable.
The Color: Aesop’s Fables
This collection of seventeen Aesop’s Fables coloring pages can be either colored online or printed on paper for old-fashioned coloring fun. Some of the fables represented are Goose with Gold Eggs, The Fox and the Ox, The Milkmaid and Her Pail, and the Ant and the Grasshopper. If you register for a free account, you’ll be able to save your colored pictures, and might even see your masterpiece featured on The Color’s homepage.
… Click to continue Aesop’s Fables .
#3. Printables Club Members Also Get …
Surfnetkids Printables Club Members also get the following printables to use in the classroom, the computer lab, the school library, or to send home with students:
Aesop’s Fables Printable
Aesop’s Fables Wikipedia Printable
Greek Mythology Printable
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#4. Related Games
Literature Games
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#5. Surfing the Calendar
John F. Kennedy’s Birthday
May 29, 1917
First Daily American Newspaper Published
May 30, 1783
President Woodrow Wilson Proclaims June 14 Flag Day
May 30, 1916
First US copryight law passed
May 31, 1790
Walt Whitman’s Birthday
May 31, 1819
Mark Felt Reveals Himself as Watergate’s Deep Throat
May 31, 2005
Dairy Month
June
National Fireworks Safety Month
June
Zoos: Zoo and Aquarium Month
June
Aquariums: Zoo and Aquarium Month
June
National Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Month
June
Isabella Baumfree Chooses the Name Sojourner Truth
Jun 1, 1843
Helen Keller Dies
Jun 1, 1968
Start of Hurricane Season
Jun 1, 2013
Italy Republic Day
Jun 2, 1946
Queen Elizabeth Crowned
Jun 2, 1953
Aesop’s Birthday
Jun 4, 620 BC
Tiananmen Square Massacre
Jun 4, 1989
Partial Lunar Eclipse
Jun 4, 2012
#6. Quote of the Week
“After all is said and done, more is said than done.” ~~ Aesop ~~ (550 BCE) ancient Greek philosopher and fable author. Read similar observations about life at Lightafire.com.
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