My current find is Animal Upon Animal Balancing Bridge. Here is the description:
Flamingo, giraffe, panther, bat and iguana start the adventure of their life and together set off on a big journey. But there is only a wobbly hanging bridge leading over the four valleys. Fortunately the strong crocodile helps. Each player gets three secret piling assignments. Your task is to pile the animals shown on your assignment cards on the hanging bridge. Whoever proves to be the most skillful will accomplish the assignments first and win the game. A stacking game with animals for 2-4 players ages 5-99.
The game play is fun, filled with laughs, but has the occasional frustration when everything collapses.
Nellie Doneva/Reporter-News Sara Olvera (front left) and Kyleigh Clark (right) hang out before going out of town to see a Texas Rangers game with Amanda Butler (center), Mary Clark (back left) and special education teacher April Obosky. Olvera and Clark are the Southern Region winners of the Lovin Compassion Award, which they received for their work with intellectually disabled peers.
Sara Olvera (left) and Kyleigh Clark (right) load their luggage before going out of town to see a Texas Rangers game.
Colleges and universities have been holding summer programs for high school students for years—classes and activities that give ambitious teenagers the chance to pursue hobbies, interests and potential college majors while giving them a taste of campus life.
As colleges struggle with budget cuts and declining enrollment numbers, more and more schools are offering summer programs for younger kids as well as high schoolers. Who needs camp or day care when you can send your kids to college?
Prices Vary for College Summer Programs
Sending your elementary and middle school-aged children to various math and science pre-college summer programs sounds impressive, and some of the programs carry rather “impressive” price tags in conjunction with the bragging rights.
Prices can vary widely from school to school, but anywhere from less than $200 to more than $2000 per week is considered normal, according to The Wall Street Journal’s Smart Money. Day pro
Hot off the decline-of-American civilization presses: Some school districts are now attempting to remediate their deplorable budget problems with a less-is-more equation.
It’s called a four-day school week and it’s not simply a distinct possibility (as in Marion County, Florida) but in some 120 very small school districts in 17 states, it’s already the solution. (The longest running program, Cimarron School district in New Mexico has been doing the four-day song and dance since 1973!) Back in the 1970s and 2008s high gas prices often drove the decision in rural school districts – now it’s more the high price of, well, education.
If you’re like me – who assumes that no matter how many lame furlough days a district might use to bandage a temporary financial crisis, that we should still manage to offer students five days of substantial in-class schooling – this may need a little translation. The idea is tha
Abhinav Sangisetti, 14, competes in the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Maryland last week. Photo courtesy Mark Bowen/Scripps National Spelling Bee.
Abhinav Sangisetti, 14, of Northside ISD’s Rawlinson Middle School, said he’s ready to retire from orthographizing after competing in the Scripps National Spelling Bee with 274 other spelling prodigies last week.
The eighth grader, sponsored by the San Antonio Express-News, represented the area in the competition in National Harbor, Md.
Like all contestants, Sangisetti completed a 25-word written test during round one and two verbal rounds. Tho
Before we begin, let’s pause for a moment of self-reflection. Take a quick look at the below video and see if you can relate to this man:
An extreme example, of course, but sometimes working from home as a Virtual Assistant or online professional can become lonely and isolating, and we need to find opportunities to get out of the house. F
