Happy Lief Erikson Day!

October 9th is known as Lief Erickson day.  Interestingly, this date doesn't have any actual significance to Leif Erikson.  It marks the day that the ship Restauration landed on American shores to mark the Nordic organized immigration movement that started in 1825.  Lief Erickson, though, was though to be the first European to set foot on North American shores, not Christopher Columbus.  So please enjoy this video in his honor.

iEARN Project

If your teens haven't yet told you about this, I want to take this opportunity to explain about a project we are working on with an organization called iEARN.  This is a global collective of teachers and students that collaborate on projects in all academic areas.  From now until January we will be completing a project called Places and Perspectives.  The objective of this circle is not only to learn about our area of the world and share it with others, but to learn about their countries and cultures as well.  We are participating with schools in New York State, Pittsburg,PA, Tennessee, Moldova, Russia, Cameroon, and two schools in Morocco.  If you are interested in following the progress of our project, please click here