69. Margaret Mead

Margaret Mead(1901-1978) was an anthropoligst who studied families and tribes and how they lived together.

68. Rosa Parks

Rosa Parks(1913-2005) refused to give up her seat to a white man during a bus boycott.

67. Margaret Bourke-White

The first woman to be an official war correspondent for the U.S. Army was Margaret Bourke-White(1906-1971). When U.S. Tanks invaded Germany, she was there.

Hard Rock Cafe- Part 4

The Hard Rock Cafe- Part 3

The Hard Rock Cafe- Part 2

The Hard Rock Cafe- Part 1

Still waiting...

Waiting at the train station

Here are some pictures of the students waiting at the train station for our trip to The Hard Rock Cafe.

Cutting Hair Suggestions...

For a while we have been talking about cutting Mrs. S's hair. One of our students is battling Leukemia and we thought it would be a great way to honor her by cutting Mrs. S's hair and donating it to Locks of Love. We are trying to come up with a creative contest to help us.
Any suggestions?

Field Trip

Today we are going on a trip to The Hard Rock Cafe. Pictures will be posted later:) Special thanks to our Home and School for helping to fund the trip:)

66. Georgia O'Keefe

Georgia O'Keefe(1887-1986)was a famous artist who admired flowers, and bones, and bright bleak new Mexican landscapes and then painted them.

65. "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias

People cheered women's baseball and followed the exploits of champion golfer Babe Didrikson Zaharias (1914-1956). She was great at every other sport, too.

64. Katherine Dunham

Katherine Dunham (1910-2006) was an importnat dancer and choreographer.

Today's Quote

"Mrs. Scholl, I really like your room." "It's cute and I feel like I am at home."- M

63. Eleanor Roosevelt

Eleanor Roosevelt(1884-1962) had long since changed from a shy young woman to the most active First Lady ever. From 1933 to 1945, she traveled all over the world for FDR, her wheelchair bound husband. She worked hard for human rights all her life.

62. Jacqueline Cochrane

Flier Jacqueline Cochran(1910?-1980) organized 1,000 WASPs- Women's Airforce Service Pilots. She earned the Distinguised Service Medal, and in 1953 was the first woman to fly faster than the speed of sound.

61. Ameila Earhart

Another person captured the people's imagination in the Thirties. Amelia Earhart(1897-1937?), the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, in 1932, flew even farther in 1935. She'd almost flown clear around the world when her plane was lost at sea in 1937 and never found.

Today's Quote

"If what hearing what you said made you embarrassed you shouldn't have said it."

Mr. G

60. Shirley Temple

And it cheered them to sit in the dark and watch a smiling, curly-headed little girl tap-dancing across a silvery screen. That's why Shirley Temple Black(1928-_ was the most popular movie star in Hollywood. She became the U.S. Ambassador to Ghana and the first woman to be chief of protocol in the State Department.

59. Laura Ingalls Wilder

The same year FDR was elected, 1932, people read the first of the "Little House" books. Lauran Ingalls Wilder (1867-1957) wrote about her pioneer girldhood. It heartened folks going through tough times to read about the loving Ingalls family surviving on the frontier.

58. Marian Anderson

Mrs. Roosevelt saw to it that Marian Anderson(1902-1993) could lift her pure voice in song at the Lincoln Memorial on Easter Sunday in 1939. Because she was black, she had been shut out of a Washington concert hall. She went on to be the first black woman to sing at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City, in 1955.

Crazy Hair Today

Today we had Crazy Hair. Here is K with her Crazy Hair.

57. Mary McLeod Bethune

Mary McLeod Bethune(1875-1955), a teacher who had built an outstanding school in Florida, became director of the Division of Negro Affairs of the National Youth Administration: the first black woman to head a federal agency. The First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt, a hard worker, in her own for civil rights, had championed Mrs. Bethune.

56. Frances Perkins

FDR's secretary of labor, Frances Perkins(1882-1965), the first woman to be a member of the presidential cabinet, helped get it going.

55. Annie Jump Cannon

Annie Jump Cannon(1863-1941) had no interest in flapping. She followed in the footsteps of astronomer Maria Mitchell. Miss Cannon, "census taker of the sky", recorded and studied thousands of stars. She received an honorary doctorate from Oxford University in 1925, a first for women.

"Players In Pigtails"

Today T read "Players in Pigtails".