new year = new sites

Happy New Year and welcome to 2005 - almost! Here's a site for background information on how the New Year is celebrated around the world. New Year's Traditions at http://mn.essortment.com/newyearsevetr_rllr.htm

Recycle all those Christmas cards while giving your students authentic work with math skills. Careful measuring and folding (and following written directions) will produce the niftiest little boxes - lids and all. Bet they can't make just one! Greeting Card Boxes with directions in .pdf format will automatically download in Adobe Acrobat from http://www.exploratorium.com/math_explorer/greeting_card.pdf.

This might make an interesting reason to reflect and write: have your students compose a Ten Year Letter, to be opened and read in ten years! Content of the letter could be customized according to your own or your students' criteria. And you wouldn't necessarily have to mail them out in ten years - parents could hold them for their children. Details of this project can be found at this very long URL - http://familyfun.go.com/parties/holiday/feature/famf129newyear/famf129newyear2.html