CHRISTMAS BLOG HOP EVENT

 
With the holiday shopping season upon us, zuuzs introduces their holiday shopping page. We all have price points in mind while shopping for our friends and family, so zuuzs has made it easier for you to find the best deals according to your budget. Make sure to check it out! And as always, you get cash back on everything you buy through zuuzs.com.

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To help with your Holiday Shopping for your kids, zuuzs is offering the Grand Prize of a KidKraft Grand Espresso Corner Kitchen. Go over to Makobi Scribe and enter to win the Grand Prize! Then hop around all the other blogs participating in the Christmas Gifts Hop for kids below. *the grand prize may be substituted to a similar item to suit the winner's child

I am so very happy to participate in the Christmas Gifts for Kids Hop. My sponsor,XenonProject.com is offering one lucky MARIE AND HER FRIEND THE SEA TURTLE reader a giveaway of this Remote Controlled Helicopter! The winner will pick one from the pictures below, retailed for $29.99.  Good Luck!

 Features
 • Miniature helicopter
 • Fun for all ages
 • Gyro system for precision movement and flight
 • Gyro system also provides stable hovering
 • Trim Control
 • Great for indoor play
 • Travel-friendly (charge from transmitter)
 • Also called the S107G
 In the Box
 • S107 Helicopter
 • 3 Channel Radio Controller
 • USB Charger
 • Extra Tail Blade

Head on over to XenonProject.com to browse their entire selection of R/C products and more!

 You must enter through the rafflecopter below for a chance to win . This will make a great Christmas gift ! Please follow me through GFC or LINKY and become a fan of my Facebook page. a Rafflecopter giveaway

Join the Biggest Facebook Fan Like Event of the Century

Are you ready to get more Facebook fans and enter to win some great prizes too?  Wow! I am so excited to participate in this great opportunity to win some awesome prizes.  What are you waiting for?  Go ahead  take a chance and enter!  Good Luck!

I cannot beleive the Event is finally here!!!

          Hitting a milestone like this could only be accomplished by wonderful and awesome Fans and Followers like all of you. I want to thank each and everyone of you for helping me to achieve this.

     Enough said....Let's get on with the Event!!!!
           I have found some awesome sponsors that are providing some terrific prizes!!!

Is providing a $25 Gift Card
RewardIt is a web site where they offer sweepstakes and contest. I really like the site and it appears your chances are better for winning a prize.

imusa is providing a Bristro 4 cup electric espresso maker with white cups as pictured above( the machine)
imusa is a company that offers products to make your world easier.  They offer a wide arrange of products from cooking to others.

is supplying a Gift Basket filled with cat and dog toys and some cat food too!

PetSmart is the place i go to shop for my 2 little furbabies.  They have everything and anything you may be looking for.  They never disappoint and always are sure to please you.

  is supplying a code for $42 to use on their site and it comes with FREE shipping on what ever you order!!!

Oh how i simply love this company/site!  They offer so much in the way of stationary, scapbooking to just about anything you may be looking for to make your life easier and more organized!!!

Some of the most wonderful and terrific Bloggers have come together to help me promote this Event.  I do not know where I would be without them.  So without further ado....LET'S GET THIS THING ROLLING!!!

The Event will be live from 10/1 at 9 p.m. to 10/22 at 9 p.m.!

Open to U.S. and Canada!

The Giveaway Tools widget is very easy to use, just follow as it prompts you....It will not let you enter an entry if you did not do what it is asking for.  If you have any problems or need to ask a question...just email me at pankuch1605@hotmail.com and I will get right back to you.

     Do not forget to let the page fully load.

Good Luck To Everyone And Thank You For Entering!!!

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... Disclosure~ Tammie's Reviews, Giveaways and More along with the bloggers helping to promote this Event are not responsible for prize fulfillment. The first winner chosen has 1st choice and 48 hrs to respond to the sent email. Once the 1st winner is done then a 2nd winner will be picked and the procedure repeats from there and so one and so forth. Tammie's Reviews, Giveaways and More has final decision, should there be a problem in this procedure.

If you wish, i love love any new followers and you can do that as GFC(right hand side of blog), Facebook and/or  Twitter

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SUMMER 2012 EXPOSE YOUR CHILD TO A FOREIGN LANGUAGE

Would you like to challenge your child academically?  Are you interested in helping your child learn how to learn?  Exposing your child to a foreign language early on will set him/her for later academic success in other disciplines.  I have written all of my children’s picture books to make it easier for parents to introduce a foreign language to their young children.  Feel free to read some of the articles I have written on the subject of foreign language acquisition:HERE  and HERE

If you decide to purchase my trilingual book : MARIE AND HER FRIEND THE SEA TURTLE

Here’s some activities that will help make reading the book more meaningful.

TO THE READER:

Did you know something mysterious happens as you read?

As you read this story written in English/French/Spanish you will encounter
many knew words.  Do the pre and post reading activities, these will help you understand and

learn some new French and Spanish words.

ACTIVITY ONE:   FINE ARTS TIE IN :   RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ART AND TEXT IN PICTURE BOOKS/ PRE- READING-   Before reading the story look over the pictures on the following pages and see if you can guess what is going on.

Page 2- What is the girl doing?

Page 6- What is the girl staring at?

Page12- Why do you think the girl is pushing the turtle?

Page16- Can you guess why the girl is so surprised?

Page 20- What are the adults talking about?

Page 22- Why is the girl crying?

Page 26- Why do you suppose the girl is now smiling and happy?

Page 28- What are the adults doing with the turtle?

Now go back and read the story, compare your answers to what really happened in the story.

ACTIVITY TWO :   LANGUAGE ARTS TIE IN : IDENTIFYING WORDS  AND COMPARING MEANING OF  WORDS/ POST READING-   After you  are done reading the story, see if you can find the English meaning for the following Spanish words.

Muchacha, nombre,  mañana, tareas, isla, sol, brillar, Nuevo, tortuga, descubrimiento, mar, enorme, suavemente, noche, estómago, brazos, guisado, ojos, diamantes.   Now compare the Spanish meaning to the French.

ACTIVITY THREE:  GEOGRAPHY/ HISTORY:  LEARNING ABOUT PEOPLE FROM OTHER COUNTRIES/POST READING- 

1. What is the name of the first black republic?
2. What year did that country become independent?
3. Who is Toussaint L’Ouverture?
4.  Where is Hispaniola located?
5. Can you name the two countries that make up Hispanoila?
6. Which part of Hispanoila speaks French and Creole?
7.  Which part of Hispaniola speaks Spanish?
8. What is the weather like? Is it hot or cold?

Here's a free coloring page of the cover of  Marie and Her Friend the Sea Turtle.

SEA TURTLE SEASON -MAY 1st-OCTOBER 31st

SEA TURTLE SEASON

Did you know May 1^st- October 31^st is sea turtle season?   Here are a few links that provide great information for about what to do should you come across a sea turtle. 

http://www.turtletime.org/

http://www.daytonabeach.com/whattosee.cfm/mode/seaturtle

http://www.cityofcapecanaveral.org/index.asp?Type=B_BASIC&SEC=%7BC664E413-61BE-465C-AFB1-F77E58DD3250%7D

http://marieandherfriendtheseaturtle.blogspot.com/2011/10/interesting-life-of-sea-turtle.html

FRIENDSHIP FRIDAY-MAKE A WISH

My wish would be to end all the hunger in my native land of Haiti. I t breaks my heart that millions of dollars has been donated, yet the Haitian people are still poverty stricken.  Why are people still living in shacks?  My wish would be to built safe homes for the poor , schools for every school aged child  and to return Haiti's tourism back to a lucrative state.  I do not understand why  there is not an international intervention and outcry to what is happening in Haiti.  It is truly  a tragedy.  In the meantime, all that I can do is to continue to donate my book proceeds to help provide food and shelter for the needy.  After the 2010 earthquake, I wrote the poem below.  I want to thank Ramona for hosting Friendship Friday.  Check out her link here 

 Feel free to stop by and leave a comment.

        MY

My Haiti was once a beautiful place
now all is left is a people devastated
with more hunger and despair

I will pray for you, I will share my abundance with you
know that I love you, know that I will keep you in my heart always, know that the world will come to your aid
The world over heard your cries my beautiful Haiti, your despair will turn into hope, your tears will be wiped away
do not give up, after the many deluges, the time has come for many colorful rainbows!

HAITI