How To Spice Up Your Blog Posts

When I first started to blog a couple of years ago, my posts would look quite boring. I never could figure out where other bloggers got all those great pictures from to dress up their blogs.

I knew there had to be somewhere to go and get photos. But I was too afraid of stealing someone else's photo that I would not use anything.

Since then I have learned a few things about blogging. The first thing I was determined to figure out was where to get all those great photos from and how I could also get some.

There are several sources for photos which are available free of charge to any blogger who can use them. And adding photos to your posts will cetainly make for a nicer looking post. I personally love to see a visual when I stop at someones blog.

I recently registered at acobox.com as a blogger. Now I can have access to tons of blog pictures that I can be sure are properly licensed. Now I do not have to be concered about copywright and things like that. All I have to do now is choose a picture that I like and copy and past the image code. No downloading anything.

It couldn't be easier.

Veterans Day Activities

Tomorrow is Veterans Day.

I think that it is very important to teach our kids about the men and women who have daily sacrificed their lives in order for us to live ours.

To help you with this I have gathered what I consider to be some of the greatest free internet resources available.

The United States Department of Veterans Affairs has a Veterans Day Teachers resource guide that is full of activities for teaching children the history of the day. It also has lots of other valuable ideas and an activity book for kids.

Enchanted Learning has a ton of Veterans Day activities.

Veterans Day Unit Study by Amanda Bennett can be found here.

This link will take you to an online Veterans Day quiz.

This is a good activity for older high school aged children.

VA Kids has some teaching resources available.
They also have a section especially for 6-12 grade and also for K-5 grade.

Military.com offer 7 ways to celebrate Veterans Day with your children.

So go ahead and enjoy this special day.

Buck Fever

If you have got a hunter in the family, then you know the big opening day is fast approaching. This is the time of year that not only the deer get crazy. The hunters get a terrible case of Buck Fever. This is also the time of year that men will spend obsene amounts of time, energy, and money to sit in the freezing cold for that one chance to see their deer, and shoot it.

There is a pretty neat promotion going on now through December 31st on Nikon ATB Binoculars. When you purchase any of these binoculars you receive either a $25 0r $50 gift card. You know what that adds up to? More Free ATB Pro Gear.

Science Songs

Shelly found a wonderful site called Singing Science that has lots of old time science songs that you can listen to. Some of the titles are:

What are the Parts of a Flower?

How Does a Frog Become a Frog?

What Makes a Rainbow?

Why Do Leaves Change Their Color?

Warm Fronts, Cold Fronts

What Makes the Lightening?

Rocks and Gems and Minerals

How Do We Measure Energy?

E-lec-tri-city

Ballad of Sir Isaac Newton

These are just a few of the science songs that are offered for free on their site. They have space songs, energy and motion songs, experiment songs, weather songs, and lots of nature songs.

*Kristie*