A fun activity for your child to do is to use the virtual pumpkin carving application at Better Homes and Gardens website.  Here is a link:

Virtual Pumpkin

After you have registered for the site, your child can carve a pumpkin and send it to Mrs. Stoltenberg or Mr. Boris by email.  Send Mrs. Stoltenberg an email using  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it  .  Send Mr. Boris an email using This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .  Better Homes and Gardens also has a snowflake cutter application that your child can do also.  We will post a link to this in the winter.

Here are some links to various websites we used during our imagination unit.  We pretended our boxes were roller coasters and off road dune buggys. 

Here is the link of the roller coaster videos:

Roller coaster

Jurassic Park the ride (we liked to see the dinosaurs)

Buzz Lightyear Ride

Star Tours (Star Wars ride)

Here is the link of the dune buggy races videos:

Race #1

Race #2

Crash

Water Slides

Here is the Hermit crab video link.  Watch how 3 hermit crabs fight over a new shell before the conch snail is done eating the snail.

Simple Satellite Finder

If you would like to see what satellites are flying over at night to view them, the website below is a great resource.  Just put in your zipcode and it will tell you where to look, at what time, what you are viewing and how bright it will be.  Please click on the link below:

Satellite Finder