January is National Celebration of Life Month.  If you care about someone or appreciate what they do or how special they are, tell them now.  Don't wait until they've gone---let someone know the impact they have had upon your life today...celebrate them!

                    January 7 at 12:00 noon:  ATAO annual meeting, election of officers and gift exchange.  Best Western in Stroud (right off the highway).  The theme for gift exchange is "Unfinished Projects".  We will have a private room and we can order food and they will bring it up to us and serve us like the queens (and king) that we are.


                    February 2007 is National African-American History Month.  Celebrating Black History began in 1926, when Dr. Carter G. Woodson, a Harvard Ph.D., initiated "Negro History Week." Dr. Woodson, a historian, chose the second week in February because it included the birthdays of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln. In 1976, the Bicentennial (200th birthday) of the U.S.A., the week-long observance was extended to the entire month of February in order to have enough time for celebratory programs and activities.

                    Here are some links from EnchantedLearning.com with some fun activities (quizzes and activity books, etc.) to heighten our awareness of black history and perhaps share some information with the kids with which we work.

Biographies of Great African-Americans: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/history/us/aframer/bios/

Quiz on Great African-Americans: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/history/us/aframer/quiz/bioquiz.shtml

Cloze Activities on African-Americans: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/cloze/aframer.shtml

 March 2007 is National Women's History Month and Youth Art Month!  Here's a link to a site describing major milestones achieved by women throughout history: http://www.infoplease.com/spot/womensfirsts1.html

Here are some samples:

1707... Henrietta Johnston begins to work as a portrait artist in Charles Town (now Charleston), South Carolina, making her the first known professional woman artist in America.

1849... Elizabeth Blackwell receives her M.D. degree from the Medical Institution of Geneva, N.Y., becoming the first woman in the U.S. with a medical degree.

1864... Rebecca Lee Crumpler becomes the first black woman to receive an M.D. degree. She graduated from the New England Female Medical College.

1901... On October 24, 1901, Annie Edson Taylor, a schoolteacher from Michigan, becomes the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel.

And there's more!!  You go, girls...
 

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