Move Over Pumpkins!

Here is a new way to play with your food.  Which one is your favorite?

9 Ways to Get a Hub Cap on the Airplane

Holidays are suppose to be joyous and happy times. Unfortunately, Thanksgiving is a holiday that can be hard on our family - because our oldest is 3000 miles away.  For the past two years Brittney has had to find friends who will take her in so she wouldn't be alone for the holiday.  This year was to be no diffferent, until this past Saturday night when I found an airplane ticket that we could afford (well, kind of).  Within 24 hours, Brittney was home!

While Brittney was at school this fall, she lost one hub cap on her car.  Not a big deal, but annoying.  As it turned out, we have an extra one here at home, but never got around to mailing it off to her.  So, now that she is home we have been trying to figure out different ways for her to take the hub cap back on the plane to Utah.

The following are 9 Ways to Get a Hub Cap on the Airplane...

#9. Tell security it is your hard hat.

#8. Tell security you're a Gladiator.



#7. Tell security it's part of your ethnic attire.




#6. Tell Security you are the Chiquita Banana Lady.



#5. Explain to security that it is your "bling", man. I mean, doesn't everyone have a necklace like this???

#4. Tell security you're tired of airplane food (or rather no food at all on a cross country flight) and you are bringing your own.

#3. Tell security that you are a transformer.

#2. Explain to security that you are in an "Ultimate Frisbe Contest".

 And finally, the Number 1 way to bring a hub cap on the plane....

Just Tell the truth!

Wow, it sure is fun to have Brittney home!

I say Plymouth you say Plimouth

Here is a link to a great site from Scholastic about the first Thanksgiving.  It includes videos of the "passengers" of the Mayflower.

http://www.scholastic.com/scholastic_thanksgiving/voyage/

My First YouTube

This is an assignment I made for my Master's class.  It is a book trailer for "Night Wings" by Joseph Bruchac.  The book is one of the Great Stone Face contenders for 2010-2011. 

iPad Anyone?

I just got back from a 4 hour class on using an iPad.  My head is swimming and trying to make sense of it all.

One disappointment with it already is that you can't hook it up to an overhead projector.  Hopefully that is the only disappointment - in the mean time, here is a college student's point of view...
http://gigaom.com/apple/pros-cons-ipad-education/

3 New Students

Our little school of 150 just grew by 3 today! 
Here is a link on how to make new students feel welcome.

http://www.howtodothings.com/education/how-to-welcome-a-new-student-in-your-class

Pumpkin Post

I know that Halloween is over, but I’m intrigued with a couple of pumpkins we bought from the Knights of Columbus pumpkin stand.  I picked out the grey-blue pumpkins because they had character.  I was delighted when I started carving into one to find that the flesh is almost a florescent orange.  I was also amazed to find out that the skin was thin (but waxy hard) and the flesh was very thick.  This lent itself to carving a different way than I am use to.  Actually, my way of carving is using a power drill and making lots of holes all over…but that is a different pumpkin post.

Here are some sites to see real pumpkin art:

http://www.pumpkingutter.com/

http://inventorspot.com/articles/pumpkin_art

My favorite… http://www.extremepumpkins.com/