The Creation of Adam is a fresco on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, painted by Michelangelo Buonarroti circa 1511. It illustrates the Biblical story from the Book of Genesis in which God the Father breathes life into Adam, the first man.
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Taken from the Jigzone.com.

Here are many helpful stress reducers from Women’s Texas University.
52 Proven Stress Reducers
Get up fifteen minutes earlier in the morning. The inevitable morning mishaps will be less stressful.
Prepare for the morning the evening before. Set the breakfast table, make lunches, put out the clothes you plan to wear, etc.
Don’t rely on your memory. Write down appointment times, when to pick up the laundry, when library books are due, etc.

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1. __________ (noun) the special attraction that one person has for another
2. __________ (noun) regard with awe; great love and respect, as for something holy
3. __________ (adjective) living alone; living in seclusion
4. __________ (adjective) ability to sense or perceive that which is not apparent– (noun) a person who seems to have clairvoyance
5. __________ (verb) to look at very carefully; examine closely
6. __________ (adjective) of or on the surface; not deep
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This lesson is a review of the five kinds of pronouns.
Find each pronoun and tell what kind it is. It is either personal, relative, demonstrative, indefinite, or interrogative.
1. From whom did you get that?
2. Neither of my brothers would read me the story.
3. You need someone who will be kind to others.
4. What does this have to do with me?
5. I liked the play that you hated.
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John William Waterhouse’s The Lady of Shalott, 1888 (Tate Gallery, London) from JigZone.com.

This is one of Waterhouse’s most famous paintings. A study of Elaine of Astolat, who dies of grief when Lancelot will not love her.
The Lady of Shalott is a Victorian poem by the English poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson. The Lady of Shalott floats down the Shalott, chanting a “a carol, mournful, holy,” dying as she sings.
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Here’s the poem:

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I was excited to find this site made by National Geographic.com. It has a GeoBee daily 10 question quiz to sharpen your children’s geographic skills 🙂
If you have any questions that you don’t know, have no fear!, you can find some real good answers on the CIA World Factbook site.

Education Place has a list of unlabled outline maps that can be printed out from a PDF.

Vincent van Gogh (1853-90), Self-Portrait With a Straw Hat and Artist’s Smock, 1887. Oil on cardboard, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Stichting).

@ Maps.com you can find a geography Super Quiz which asks a variety of questions in world geography.

@ RHLSchool.com you can find many math word problems with different themes and their answers.