Avery-Parsons Elementary

Worthwhile Websites for Research

If you are trying to help your child at home with Internet issues, this is a great place to find any questions you or your child may have. I have found a great amount of relevant and up to date information at this site.

Taken from the KidsClick website:

 

KidsClick! was created by a group of librarians at the Ramapo Catskill Library System, as a logical step in addressing concerns about the role of public libraries in guiding their young users to valuable and age appropriate web sites.

Remember to have your child keep a running list of the sites and sources he/she has used in research. This will make it easier when they are creating a bibliography or a credits page. To find out more information about how to cite Internet sources check out  the picture below.

Fun Facts About Thanksgiving, and Turkeys

 

Americans feast on 535 million pounds of turkey on Thanksgiving. 

 

Turkeys have heart attacks. When the Air Force was conducting test runs and breaking the sound barrier, fields of turkeys would drop dead.

 

Turkeys can drown if they look up when it is raining.

 

Benjamin Franklin wanted the national bird to be a turkey.

 

There was no milk, cheese, bread, butter or pumpkin pie at the original Thanksgiving Day feast

 

President Abraham Lincoln established the original date for our National Thanksgiving Day celebration in 1863

 

Congress did not declare Thanksgiving a national holiday until 1941.

 

The average person consumes 4,500 calories on Thanksgiving Day. (Now that's a lot of turkey!)

 

 

 

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