This song has a similar sound to That’s What I Like About You. It was the first song I heard by The Cars. It was on The American Top 40 Countdown with Kasey Kasem in the ’80’s.

Here’s a fun fast song

When the Twin Towers were destroyed on 9.11.01, the air traffic controllers all over America had to as quickly and as safely as possible land all in-air flights. It was an amazing feat. There could have been crashes and accidents but they did their job well and there were none. An air traffic controller’s job is a stressful one. Here is a ATC similator program from the website called ATC-SIM.com

Here’s a site called Instructables.com that gives you a recipe for making Alka-seltzer for a small amount of change.

@ AAASpell.com you have access to 30 spelling and vocabulary lessons for grades 1 through 8. The lessons are set up as
1. learn
2. practice
3. play

Activities and Lesson Plans
Making Measurement Simple: The Metric System~found at Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute
~this site contains basic info and simple lesson plans to apply metric system to real life.
Encyclopedia.com~gives an overall definition of the metric system
Infoplease.com~defines the units of measurement
National Institute Of Standards and Technology~This site has 3 good sources for ideas and info
Capsule History
Metric Chocolate Chip Cookies
Metric for Everyday Life
Metric Mania Lesson Plans~Taken from ScienceSpot.net *Be sure to return to this site for other science topics that are taught in the classroom.
Gamequarium Metric System Games~has 11 fun online games to reinforce metric system concepts (these games can be turned into handheld classrooms games
LessonPlanet.com~teacher proven lesson plans, *offers a 10 day free trial
Teachers.net~provides teacher-proven lesson plans, gives basic info about metric system, provides basic questions for class
EdHelper.com~several worksheets including number crossword puzzles that can be printed out, *You may need to sign up with EdHelper to get access to the worksheets
EduRef.org~has a lesson plan in which you use a recipe and a newspaper to convert from the English measurement system to metric.
AAAMath.com~student can learn, practice and then play a game over a large variety of math topics (This is a good website for a refresher course)
Metric Conversions Sites
Metric-conversions.org
ScienceMadeSimple.com
OnlineConversion.com~convert anything on this site
WorldWideMetric.com~simple site, just type in measurement you want converted
History
A Chronology of the Metric System~timeline of the metric system, important dates highlighted

This site Rubikssolver.com yields the secret, step by step, to solve the Rubik’s cube.

Taken from the HolidayZone.com.
The Christmas Guest
~Helen Steiner Rice
It happened one day at the year’s white end,
Two neighbors called on an old-time friend.
And they found his shop so meager and mean,
Made gay with a thousand boughs of green.

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Here are the traditional wedding vows written out. The “I will” parts for the groom and bride get to the core of the promise that was made before God and the audience:
Exchange of Vows
MINISTER TO GROOM:
Do you GROOM’S NAME take BRIDE’S NAME to be your wife –
to live together after God’s ordinance –
in the holy estate of matrimony?
Will you love her,
comfort her, honor and keep her,
in sickness and in health,
for richer, for poorer,
for better, for worse,
in sadness and in joy,
to cherish and continually bestow upon her your heart’s deepest devotion,
forsaking all others,
keep yourself only unto her as long as you both shall live?
GROOM:
I will.
MINISTER TO BRIDE:
Do you BRIDE’S NAME) take GROOM’S NAME to be your husband –
to live together after God’s ordinance –
in the holy estate of matrimony?
Will you love him,
comfort him,
honor and keep him,
in sickness and in health,
for richer, for poorer,
for better, for worse,
in sadness and in joy,
to cherish and continually bestow upon him your heart’s deepest devotion,
forsaking all others,
keep yourself only unto him as long as you both shall live?
BRIDE:
I will.

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