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shellie wilson

As CraftGossip’s head editor and co-founder AND as a Work-At-Home mum, finding time to work on CraftGossip & Craftbits is very hard limited.

So when I find myself spending endless hours reading through our social media networks like Facebook & Twitter I have to justify my addiction time.

So I am inviting all our readers to come along and follow me on Pinterest (see, now its a work thing).

I have been busy playing working with pinterest over the past few months and pinning my CraftGossip Top Picks as well as some other random boards I created.  I often pin stuff I want to cook for my husband (The Tech guy) or pinning activities I want to do with my children (The Distractors).

If you would like to join me in my new social media  addiction outlet, then come and follow me. The thought of people “Following” me is a little scary so I feel I should include a warning.

Warning: All followers are responsible for their own addictions and directions that pinterest will take them. Proceed with Caution.

Note: To follow just the top picks from CraftGossip, click here (this board will only get the top picks as chosen by me). If you want to follow everything that I pin (really?), then click here.

Comments

  1. Your post really made me chuckle while I was nodding my head in agreement in several places. While I do not currently have a DH or young ones around, I have a middle-aged nephew and a senior-citizen kitty (both Distractors). I loved this! Thanks for the way you made me smile and enjoy being part of the crafting community.

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Celebrating Terry Fox Day

In our continuing exploration of lesser known holidays, let’s take a look at Terry Fox Day, which is probably one you know if you’re Canadian. 

Terry Fox was a Canadian athlete who had a leg amputated at age 18 because of cancer and then did a cross-country run to raise awareness and funding for cancer research. He was born July 28, 1958, and the first Monday in August is celebrated as Terry Fox Day in Manitoba. 

Fox is considered a kind of folk hero in Canada despite the difficulties of traveling across Canada on foot (no one on his team spoke French, for example, the weather was often bad and cars would force him off the road) and the low number of donations at the beginning of his run. He ultimately had to end his run after 143 days and 3,339 miles, or 5,373 km, because his cancer had returned and spread to his lungs, but he raised $1.7 million, and a telethon a week after he ended his run raised $10.5 million. 

Check out some Terry Fox quotes collected by My Little Desire. You can learn more in this video from CBC Kids, and listen to the Terry Fox song illustrated by a first grade class. 

 Twinkl has a bunch of Terry Fox related activities in both English and French, including an activity pack with a maze and word search, a coring challenge, a fact sheet and coloring page.

Most of the resources I could find were at Teachers Pay Teachers, but you can learn more about the activity pack for grades 1-3 that Mrs. Bremer’s Class has made, which tells his story and has kids write things they learned and discuss why they think he is a hero. 

Creative Classroom Core has a few paid resources include writing activities, reading comprehension and a Terry Fox fact book. 

That Fun Reading Teacher has a K-2 singalong with a differentiated reader and activity to teach kids about him. 

You can also celebrate Terry Fox Day by talking about what makes a person a hero and who the kids in your home or classroom think of as heroes. And if you’re Canadian, there are Terry Fox runs in more than 650 communities in September, so you can make plans to participate or cheer on the runners to remember his legacy.