Sandra Dodd

-=-Also, both the 2yo and the 5yo are *very* into maps, which seems
to be
something that came from watching Dora.-=-



Let's talk about maps.

When my kids were little I had a couple of very favorite books
involving maps. One's American and one's Australian.

Rose Sorooshian has gotten interested in maps, and I think "a map
guy" spoke at the HSC conference last year.

I thought about giving or throwing our globe away just before
Christmas. I had to move it to make room for Christmas stuff. It
has tape on it, and is outdated, but I thought of how sad I've always
been that I gave my own childhood globe away, that had Tanganyika.
So I stuck it in the storage room thinking I really should give it
away and not be such a packrat.

Less than a week later, Lillian Jones was here, we were talking about
Alaska and northern Canada (because of a Canadian map I had out on
the table, which used to be in the bathroom) and she said, "Do you
have a globe?"

I brought it in, and it's been on the kitchen table or the counter
for the past week and a half, and my nephew came and used it (talking
about Iceland and Norway), and Holly asked one day where New Zealand
was, and then where Hawaii was, and there was that globe, and she
asked what that jaggedy line was by Alaska, and so I told her about
New Zealand having had Christmas before anyone else and we talked
about time zones and the international date line.

Those books I like are

My Place

and

Me on the Map



Looking to see whether those are still available, I found

Map My India http://mapmyindia.com/

Tagzania http://www.tagzania.com/ (I couldn't get it to save my
house, but might try again later)

My Place is $20 nearly in hardbound re-print at Amazon . Libraries
might have it. My Place (Hardcover) by Nadia Wheatley, Donna Rawlins

Me on the Map (Dragonfly Books) (Paperback)
by Joan Sweeney, Annette Cable is less expensive (under $4 used, $7
new) and has a girl in Kansas, who finds her place at different
mapping levels, down to mapping her bedroom.

Sandra










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Robyn L Coburn

Currently we have a world map with lots of topographical detail on the wall
which has been repeatedly referred to, and a diabolically difficult Earth
globe puzzle awaiting our attention.

Boy did we have fun at the newly reopened Griffith Observatory, where they
have scale models of all the planets and a really big and detailed earth
globe with the ocean floor modeled on it as well as the mountains. The only
trouble with it is that it is hard to see the northern latitudes because of
the tilt and then the barrier.

We love Google Earth.
http://earth.google.com/

Robyn L. Coburn


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11:11 AM

Robyn L Coburn

Speaking of Tanzania, I was just looking at Google Earth download page and
noticed they have a link to Jane Goodall's Gorilla sanctuary in Gombe,
Tanzania.

http://earth.google.com/tour/thanks-win4.html
Scroll down a little bit.

Robyn L. Coburn

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11:11 AM

Cally Brown

Well, really Sandra.....

>Holly asked one day where New Zealand
>was, and then where Hawaii was, and there was that globe, and she
>asked what that jaggedy line was by Alaska, and so I told her about
>New Zealand having had Christmas before anyone else and we talked
>about time zones and the international date line.
>
I don't think that's good enough - just talking to Holly and showing her
an out of date globe! I think you should......

.....take her on a field trip!

And while you are here in New Zealand, You could talk at a conference -
I'd organise one especially!!

If only!!

Cally
who always listens longingly to talk of L & L conferences

Nancy Wooton

On Jan 7, 2007, at 8:40 AM, Robyn L Coburn wrote:

> Speaking of Tanzania,

I think it was Tanganyika. Lots of the countries of Africa that I
learned in school no longer exist, and there are many more to learn
now.

I had a globe that belonged to my grandmother; it was a metal piggy
bank given out by her "real" bank. I'm not sure its exact age, but a
friend who knows history better than I said it was colored to indicate
that Japan "owned" Korea at the time. We have an inflatable one that
came with the Calvert School geography course which shows the USSR --
even though it was already dissolved. And the relief globe we still
use started life as an Easy Bake Oven; Laura exchanged her Christmas
present at Toys R Us for it. I used it recently when a character on
"Standoff" said something about "crossing from Portugal into France."
I just had to double-check! She clearly did not mean getting on a
plane or into a boat, and the person she said it to didn't seem to
notice this booboo. (These are FBI agents, btw!)

Nancy

Sandra Dodd

-=-I don't think that's good enough - just talking to Holly and
showing her
an out of date globe! I think you should......

.....take her on a field trip!

And while you are here in New Zealand, You could talk at a conference -
I'd organise one especially!!

If only!!-=-

That would be so cool.
Part of staying home with my kids was living on one income.
eeeeeh.... occasional wistfulness.

Sandra

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Sandra Dodd

-=-
> Speaking of Tanzania,

I think it was Tanganyika.-=-

Yeah it was. <g>

And Zanzibar. Both together became Tanzania, and thereby messed up
my globe and my 8th grade geographical memorizations.

Sandra

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Nancy Wooton

On Jan 7, 2007, at 11:18 AM, Sandra Dodd wrote:

> -=-
>> Speaking of Tanzania,
>
> I think it was Tanganyika.-=-
>
> Yeah it was. <g>
>
> And Zanzibar. Both together became Tanzania, and thereby messed up
> my globe and my 8th grade geographical memorizations.
>
> Sandra
>

Wasn't one of the lines in the theme song for "The Patty Duke Show"
"from Zanzibar to Barkley Square"? (But Patty's only seen the sights a
girl can see from Brooklyn Heights...)

Nancy (thinking just how fracking old I'm getting to be... and
realizing how much of that song I still remember!)

Sandra Dodd

-=-Wasn't one of the lines in the theme song for "The Patty Duke Show"
"from Zanzibar to Barkley Square"? (But Patty's only seen the sights a
girl can see from Brooklyn Heights...)

Nancy (thinking just how fracking old I'm getting to be... and
realizing how much of that song I still remember!)-=-

That was a good song.
Lots of old TV theme songs were good songs. <g>

I LOVE the internet. Here:



THE PATTY DUKE SHOW THEME
(Sid Ramin / Bob Wells)


Meet Cathy, who's lived most everywhere,
From Zanzibar to Barclay Square.
But Patty's only seen the sights
A girl can see from Brooklyn Heights � What a crazy pair!

But they're cousins,
Identical cousins all the way.
One pair of matching bookends,
Different as night and day.

Where Cathy adores a minuet,
The Ballet Russes, and crepe suzette,
Our Patty loves to rock and roll,
A hot dog makes her lose control � What a wild duet!

Still, they're cousins,
Identical cousins and you'll find,
They laugh alike, they walk alike,
At times they even talk alike �
You can lose your mind,
When cousins are two of a kind.

http://www.sitcomsonline.com/sounds/thepattydukeshow.wav
There. You can sing along.

How wonderful that people are filling the internet up with everything
in the whole wide world and we can find it so easily.

Sandra

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[email protected]

Yeah! That's a great idea! Then we can all have pictures of the two of you at
the Riff-Raff statue!!!
~diana :)

Quoting Cally Brown <mjcmbrwn@...>:

> Well, really Sandra.....
>
> >Holly asked one day where New Zealand
> >was, and then where Hawaii was, and there was that globe, and she
> >asked what that jaggedy line was by Alaska, and so I told her about
> >New Zealand having had Christmas before anyone else and we talked
> >about time zones and the international date line.
> >
> I don't think that's good enough - just talking to Holly and showing her
> an out of date globe! I think you should......
>
> .....take her on a field trip!
>
> And while you are here in New Zealand, You could talk at a conference -
> I'd organise one especially!!
>
> If only!!
>
> Cally
> who always listens longingly to talk of L & L conferences
>
>

[email protected]

Quoting Sandra Dodd <Sandra@...>:

> THE PATTY DUKE SHOW THEME
> (Sid Ramin / Bob Wells)

> How wonderful that people are filling the internet up with everything
> in the whole wide world and we can find it so easily.
>

In the spirit of connections, it's so cool to see her show and then the Addam's
Family and imagine the two of them creating Samwise Gamgee!! (eeek! the vision
of Patty Duke and Gomez makin' babies!!) That connection itself brings
incredible opportunities for conversation and 3 million (at least!) other
connections..

~diana ;)

Sandra Dodd

-=-
> Yeah! That's a great idea! Then we can all have pictures of the two
> of you at
> the Riff-Raff statue!!!
> ~diana :)
> -=-

AH!!!!

One HOUR ago I found the Riff-Raff statue photos. I knew they were
in this room. I have them right next to the computer. I'm not in
them, but they can be scanned and uploaded, if I don't lose them in
piles again.

Sandra

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Sandra Dodd

-=-(eeek! the vision
of Patty Duke and Gomez makin' babies!!) -=-

Ah, Cherie... we shall save Middle Earth... together! Do you think
your cousin would like to join us?

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[email protected]

Quick! Scan them now - I know it's *right* there :) Then Holly can play around
and maybe photoshop you in :)
~d

Quoting Sandra Dodd <Sandra@...>:

> -=-
> > Yeah! That's a great idea! Then we can all have pictures of the two
> > of you at
> > the Riff-Raff statue!!!
> > ~diana :)
> > -=-
>
> AH!!!!
>
> One HOUR ago I found the Riff-Raff statue photos. I knew they were
> in this room. I have them right next to the computer. I'm not in
> them, but they can be scanned and uploaded, if I don't lose them in
> piles again.
>
> Sandra
>
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>
>

finnaland

This morning when I turned on the internet, my Google start page said
there was a volcano spewing ash into the air in Montserrat.

So I read the headline out loud and asked my mom (who stays at our
house 2 days a week) where Montserrat is. She didn't know, and Fin
was very anxious to see the volcano. (Lots of volcanos in Dora, don't
you know?!?)
The link from the google page didn't have a good picture :( or a map,
so I zipped over to the BBC site and found an article on it there. I
really love BBC news because they have a map for each article!
So then we could see where it was, and Fin grabbed her new mini-globe
(from Discovery channel store, it also lights up!) and we found it on
there (well, the Caribbean area), and had a discussion about where we
were relative to it, would we be affected by the ash, did we know
anyone near that area, what is ash and what does it do, what about the
people who live on the island, how the wind would blow it... led to
weather maps... and then back to more pictures of the volcano, but
they weren't exciting enough, so we searched for other volcano
pictures, preferably with lots and lots of lava... ("just search for
laaa-vaa Mom!")

I learnt a lot, I promise. Please don't quiz me on it.

:P

--sk, Fin (dd 3.75)



--- In [email protected], Sandra Dodd <Sandra@...> wrote:

> Let's talk about maps.

sgaissert_hsn

--- In [email protected], hahamommy@... wrote:

> In the spirit of connections, it's so cool to see her show and then
the Addam's
> Family and imagine the two of them creating Samwise Gamgee


Actually, I believe that Sean Astin's father was Michael Bell, the man
Patty Duke married for 2 weeks during a raging manic period before her
bipolar disease was diagnosed.

from Susan, a big Patty Duke fan.
By the way, Sandra, I loved your line, "Would your cousin care to join
us?"