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Crafts, Card Making Projects, Card Making Downloads - Crafts Beautiful Magazine. Dorling Kindersley: Clip Art home. Themes at Activity Village. Scroll down for kids themes for home and school. We've got thousands of crafts, printable activities, colouring pages and puzzles sorted by kid-friendly themes. You'll find over 50 "themes" at Activity Village, and we are adding more all the time! We hope you will find lots here that will help you keep your kids busy - just scroll down to explore our themes for kids below... Featured Themes Monsters Theme Lots NEW! Moles Lots NEW! Animal Themes Animals Theme African Animals Australian Animals British Wildlife Farm Animals Minibeasts Individual Animals Themes Butterfly theme Elephant theme Frog theme Panda theme Peacock theme Rat theme Squirrel theme Tiger theme General Categories Back to School Birthdays British Royal Family Costumes for Kids Daffodil Theme Dinosaurs Dragons Magic Tricks for Kids Monsters Theme Recycling for Kids Robots Scarecrows Teacher Appreciation World Book Day Around The World Themes Australia Day Australia Burns Night (Scotland) China India Flags Japan and Children's Day (Japan) London History Themes.

Free Folding Paper Sheets, Origami Papers, Tea Bag Folding Papers, Irish Fold Printables. Craft Site Directory - Tea Bag Folding. Www.craftsitedirectory.com/classic/teabagfolding/ - Remember to Click [Ctrl + D] to bookmark this page!! Tea bag folding is a paper folding technique, with Dutch origins, using tea bags or small printed pieces of paper to form a geometric design. It is also known as kaleidoscope folding or miniature kaleidoscope origami. Tea bag folding originated in Holland. Credit for its origin is given to a woman named Tiny van der Plaas.

Sitting at her table, worrying about a birthday card for her sister that she had forgotten to pick up, Tiny van der Plaas began folding the envelope that enclosed her tea bag. In Holland, tea bag envelopes are colorful and decorated with fruit, etc. This gave her an idea and, also, gave birth to tea bag folding. Modern tea bag folders have their own preferred folding techniques. HobbyCraft | The Arts & Crafts Superstore | HobbyCraft. Librarian. Library confusion in Australia, 1952 A librarian is a person who works professionally in a library, and may hold a degree in librarianship (known either as library science or library and information science). Duties and functions[edit] History[edit] The Sumerians[edit] The Sumerians were the first to train clerks to keep records of accounts.[1] "Masters of the books" or "Keepers of the Tablets" were scribes or priests who were trained to handle the vast amount and complexity of these records. The Assyrians, Greeks and Egyptians[edit] Sometime in the 8th century BC Ashurbanipal, King of Assyria, created a library at his palace in Nineveh in Mesopotamia.

The Romans[edit] Middle Ages[edit] Christian monasteries in Europe are credited with keeping the institution of libraries alive after the fall of the Roman Empire. In the 14th century, universities began to reemerge which had libraries and employed librarians. Renaissance[edit] 16th and 17th centuries[edit] 18th century – France[edit] Home. Learning Resource Centre. Learning Resource Centre (LRC) is a term which is used in the United Kingdom to describe a type of library that exists within an educational setting such as Secondary Schools, Further Education Colleges and Universities.

LRC can also stand for Library Resource Centre and in some cases Learning Resource Centre has been shortened to Learning Centre. Learning Resource Centres are similar to Hybrid library. Overview[edit] These centres contain traditional educational resources such as books, journals, software and audio/visual materials, but they also exist to promote electronic information resources. Examples of these are subscription electronic journals, databases, free websites and other web based resources. The traditional Librarian role has been replaced with the LRC Manager who is an Information Professional with qualifications recognised by CILIP. LRCs usually have a responsibility for the teaching of Information Literacy and/or Study Skills within the institution they are in. Resource centre « High Storrs School. Hinde House School Library. School library. School / College library. Researchers have demonstrated that school libraries have a positive impact on student achievement.

More than 60 studies have been conducted in 19 U.S. states and one Canadian province. The major finding of these studies is that students with access to a well-supported school library media program with a qualified school library media specialist, scored higher on reading assessments regardless of their socio-economic statuses. In addition, a study conducted in Ohio[4] revealed that 99.4% of students surveyed believed that their school librarians and school library media programs helped them succeed in school. A report that reported similar conclusions was compiled by Michele Lonsdale in Australia in 2003.[5] History of school libraries[edit] The later part of the 19th century marked the beginning of the modern American library movement with the creation of the American Library Association (ALA) in 1876 by a group of librarians led by Melvil Dewey.

See also[edit] Library catalog. Another view of the SML card catalog The card catalog was a familiar sight to library users for generations[vague], but it has been[when?] Effectively replaced by the online public access catalog (OPAC). Some still refer to the online catalog as a "card catalog". Some libraries with OPAC access still have card catalogs on site, but these are now strictly a secondary resource and are seldom updated. Many of the libraries that have retained their physical card catalog post a sign advising the last year that the card catalog was updated. Some libraries have eliminated their card catalog in favour of the OPAC for the purpose of saving space for other use, such as additional shelving.

Goal[edit] Charles Ammi Cutter made the first explicit statement regarding the objectives of a bibliographic system in his Rules for a Printed Dictionary Catalog in 1876. 1. to enable a person to find a book of which either (Identifying objective) the authorthe titlethe subjectthe category is known. Types[edit] c. Dewey Decimal Classification. "Dewey Decimal" redirects here. It is not to be confused with duodecimal. The Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC), or Dewey Decimal System, is a proprietary library classification system first published in the United States by Melvil Dewey in 1876.[1] It has been revised and expanded through 23 major editions, the latest issued in 2011, and has grown from a four-page pamphlet in 1876 with fewer than 1,000 classes to a four volume set. It is also available in an abridged version suitable for smaller libraries. It is currently maintained by the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC), a library research center.

OCLC licenses access to an online version, WebDewey, for catalogers, and has an experimental linked data version on the Web with open access. The Decimal Classification introduced the concepts of relative location and relative index which allow new books to be added to a library in their appropriate location based on subject. History[edit] Early development (1873–1885)[edit] Design[edit] TeacherNet. LRC SEF guidelines. Teaching resources, teaching ideas. 1971. 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar, the 1971st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 971st year of the 2nd millennium, the 71st year of the 20th century, and the 2nd year of the 1970s decade. The world population increased by 2.1% this year; the highest it ever did in history.[1] Events[edit] January[edit] February[edit] March[edit]

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Help. Flickr. Classroom displays. Tagxedo - Tag Cloud with Styles. Classroom Displays and Bulletin Boards. Beautiful Word Clouds. Crochet groups on Flickr. Amigurumi. Two amigurumi animals Amigurumi (編みぐるみ? , lit. crocheted or knitted stuffed toy) is the Japanese art of knitting or crocheting small stuffed animals and anthropomorphic creatures. The word is derived from a combination of the Japanese words ami, meaning crocheted or knitted, and nuigurumi, meaning stuffed doll.[1] Amigurumi are typically animals, but can include artistic renderings or inanimate objects endowed with anthropomorphic features,[2] as is typical in Japanese culture.

Amigurumi first started appealing to the masses in 2003.[3] By 2006, amigurumi were reported to be the most popular items on Etsy, an online craft marketplace, where they typically sold for $10 to $100.[3] Since then popularity has continued to increase.[4] Aesthetic[edit] Technique[edit] Amigurumi are usually crocheted out of yarn using the single crochet stitch (double crochet in UK crochet terminology). External links[edit] Notes[edit] Crochet tutorial - Amigurumi (Part 1) Crochet tutorial - Amigurumi (Part 2) Homepage. Doctor Who. How to Crochet the Basic Stitches. The Basic Stitches The foundation chain (or base chain)Almost all crochet starts with a foundation (or base) chain. This is the equivalent of ‘casting on’ in knitting. The base chain is a series of chain stitches, which normally begin with a loop secured by a slipknot. Making a slip knotFollow instructions given for ‘Making a Slip Knot’.

Chain stitch (ch)1. 2. Note: Unless otherwise specified, always wrap the yarn this way round. Slip stitch (sl st)1. 2. Double crochet (dc)1. 2. Half treble (htr)1. 2. 3. Treble (tr)1. 2. 3. 4. Double treble (dtr)1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Triple treble (ttr)1. 2. 3. 4. Longer Basic StitchesLonger basic stitches - usually called Quadruple Treble (quad tr), Quintuple Treble (quin tr), Sextuple Treble (sext tr), etc - are made by wrapping the yarn 4, 5, 6, etc, times over the hook at the beginning and by wrapping and drawing through 2 loops more times to complete the stitch.

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The Reading Agency | Children | Schools. Summer Reading Schemes. Children's reading can 'dip' during the long summer holidays. The annual Summer Reading Challenge helps gets three quarters of a million children into libraries to keep up their reading skills and confidence. Because everything changes when we read. The Summer Reading Challenge encourages children aged 4 to 11 to read six books during the long summer holiday. There is a different theme each year. Children can read whatever they like - fact books, joke books, picture books, audio books - just as long as they are borrowed from the library. Every time children finish a book they get stickers and rewards and there's a certificate for everyone who finishes.

The Summer Reading Challenge is open to all school children and is designed for all reading abilities. The theme for the 2014 Summer Reading Challenge is Mythical Maze. We produce super-sized materials for children who are visually impaired, or have visually impaired parents/carers. Get involved Summer Reading Challenge facts.

Children's literature. A mother reads to her children, depicted by Jessie Willcox Smith in a cover illustration of a volume of fairy tales written in the mid to late 19th century. Children's literature or juvenile literature includes stories, books, magazines, and poems that are enjoyed by children. Modern children's literature is classified in two different ways: genre or the intended age of the reader. Children's literature can be traced to stories and songs, part of a wider oral tradition, that adults shared with children before publishing existed. The development of early children's literature, before printing was invented, is difficult to trace.

Even after printing became widespread, many classic "children's" tales were originally created for adults and later adapted for a younger audience. Since the 1400s, a large quantity of literature, often with a moral or religious message, has been aimed specifically at children. Introduction[edit] History[edit] Antiquity and the Middle Ages[edit] E. Nesbit. Edith Nesbit (married name Edith Bland; 15 August 1858 – 4 May 1924) was an English author and poet; she published her books for children under the name of E.

Nesbit. Biography[edit] Nesbit was born in 1858 at 38 Lower Kennington Lane in Kennington, Surrey (now part of Greater London), the daughter of an agricultural chemist, John Collis Nesbit, who died in March 1862, before her fourth birthday. Her sister Mary's ill health meant that the family travelled around for some years, living variously in Brighton, Buckinghamshire, France (Dieppe, Rouen, Paris, Tours, Poitiers, Angoulême, Bordeaux, Arcachon, Pau, Bagnères-de-Bigorre, and Dinan in Brittany), Spain and Germany, before settling for three years at Halstead Hall in Halstead in north-west Kent, a location which later inspired The Railway Children (this distinction has also been claimed by the Derbyshire town of New Mills).[2] At eighteen, Nesbit met the bank clerk Hubert Bland in 1877.

E. Writer[edit] Works[edit] Bastable series[edit] The Phoenix and the Carpet. Plot summary[edit] This middle volume of the trilogy that begins with Five Children and It and concludes with The Story of the Amulet deviates somewhat from the other two because the Psammead is mentioned only briefly, and because in this volume the five children live with both their parents in the family home in London. In both the other volumes circumstances have forced the children to spend protracted periods away from their home and their father. It develops that this is a magic carpet that can transport the children anywhere they wish in the present time, although it is capable of satisfying only three wishes a day. Accompanied by the Phoenix, the children have exotic adventures. There is one moment of terror when the youngest, the baby known as the Lamb, crawls onto the carpet, babbles incoherently and vanishes, but fortunately, it turns out that the Lamb only desires to be with his mother.

A special edition published by the "Phoenix Assurance Company" of London in 1956. Five Children and It. Five Children and It is a children's novel by English author Edith Nesbit, first published in 1902; it was expanded from a series of stories published in the Strand Magazine in 1900 under the general title The Psammead, or the Gifts. It is the first of a trilogy which includes The Phoenix and the Carpet (1904) and The Story of the Amulet (1906). The book has never been out of print since its initial publication. Plot summary[edit] Like Nesbit's Railway Children, the story begins when a group of children move from London to the countryside of Kent. While playing in a gravel pit, the five children—Robert, Anthea, Cyril, Jane, and their baby brother, the Lamb—uncover a rather grumpy, ugly and occasionally malevolent sand-fairy known as the Psammead, who has the ability to grant wishes.

However, the Psammead has been buried for so long, he is no longer able to grant individual wishes. Even the children's infant brother, the Lamb, is the victim of two wishes gone awry. Characters[edit] The Enchanted Castle. The Railway Children. Leon Garfield. The Gruffalo. Alan Garner. Enid Blyton. The Famous Five. Shirley Hughes. Fairy tale. Andrew Lang. Charles Perrault. Hans Christian Andersen. Brothers Grimm. Teenreads.com. Carnegie & Kate Greenaway Children's Book Awards. UK Children's Books - Directory of authors, illustrators, publis. Alan Gibbons, children's author. Alan Gibbons School Author Visits | Authors Abroad. Malcolm Rose. Chris Mould (author and illustrator) Something Wickedly Weird. Michael Rosen. Michael Rosen - We're Going On A Bear Hunt. Roald Dahl - The Official Web Site. Revolting Rhymes. Rhyme Stew. Dirty Beasts. Martin Naylor - Secrets of Hightower.

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