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Such a great story about why NORAD tracks Santa. I love this story. What a great story to share with adults. (Shhhh.)

09 DECEMBER, 2010 How Music Works by Maria Popova "What Stanley Kubrick has to do with Medieval harmonies and universal lullabies. Music. It's hard to imagine life without it. How flat would a world be where films have no scores, birthdays no 'Happy Birthday,' Christmas no carols, gym workouts no playlists? Music is so ubiquitous and affects us so deeply, so powerfully. But how much do we really know about it? How well do we understand its emotional hold on our brains? How Music Works, a fascinating program from BBC4 (the same folks who brought us The End of God?: A Horizon Guide to Science and Religion), explores just that. Composer Howard Goodall takes us on a journey into music's underbelly, examining the four basic elements that make it work: Melody, rhythm, harmony and bass."

I plan to convert my cassette tapes from growing up this summer - we made tons of interviews each Christmas.

n his memoir Dreams from My Father, Obama describes an incident in which he, as a young boy, "came across the picture in Life magazine of the black man who had tried to peel off his skin" (51). Seeing the devastating effect negative messages about being African American had on this man, Obama "began to notice that [Bill] Cosby never got the girl on I Spy, that the black man on Mission Impossible spent all his time underground. [He] noticed that there was nobody like [him] in the Sears, Roebuck Christmas catalog ... and that Santa was a white man" (52).

Get a new teaching resource every day up to Christmas.

"I happened to be very ill for almost the entirety of the three weeks that I was off school for Christmas. Bad luck I guess, but I still managed to squeeze in a 3-day trip to Jeju Island, South Korea (highly recommended). I didn't get everything done on my list that I wanted too, but I did manage to get a few items checked off (including writing a reference for a former colleague - so pleased I could that done)."

Ice Breaker is a superb logic game that will provide hours of frustration and delight in equal measure.

Advent calendar with activities on each door.

Crosswords, scramblers, work to do in pairs or together. If you need just one more thing just in case, go here. Created by a teacher.

A pile of activities, downloadables, and IWB activities to use during the holidays.

Unidad didáctica digital interactiva diseñada con la herramienta de autor MALTED. Dirigida a inglés de 5º de Primaria. Esta unidad trata principalmente sobre las tradiciones navideñas en el Reino Unido, y además las compara con las españolas, con lo cual nos puede dar mucho juego en el aula cuando lleguen las fiestas de Navidad. Pero además, trabaja el presente simple, el imperativo, el orden de las palabras en las oraciones y enseña cómo hacer una receta de pavo, practica fechas, instrucciones, escribir un correo electrónico informal, o comprender y dar información personal. Cuenta con un cuaderno del profesor en formato imprimible que incluye claves de respuestas y transcripciones de audios, así como un cuaderno de actividades extra de consolidación también en formato imprimible. No olvides que para visualizar cualquier recurso TIC Malted, debes tener instalados en tu equipo Java y el plugin Malted Web 2.0.

If you discuss cyber safety and digital citizenship, this is an article tor read and share.

Carl Heine's brilliant blog on Internet Search skills. A must read.

"A game where players guide Santa's sleigh through obstacles and to collect presents."

"A game where players must iceskate around monsters to cut the ice and drop them into the water."