March 2012 Calendar

May the luck of the Irish be with you…. on your desktop… right click and save!

Happy March!

….. and please feel free to comment!!!

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It’s Pig Day!

Sooo weee …. pig, pig, pig!   It’s National Pig day……. No really it is!

Started by Ellen Stanley, a Texas art teacher who created National Pig Day in 1972.

Her intent was to to recognize and be thankful for pigs as intelligent domestic animals.

There’s no evidence to suggest that this is truly a “National” day, which requires an act of congress. But you can celebrate it anyway!

A few suggestions…

  • Make pig tails by cutting a pink circle around and around toward the middle and then taping it onto the back of your pants…. so much fun for everyone at the office!
  • Make a pig ear head band…. getting the idea!
  • Make pig snouts to wear out of empty toilet tissue rolls…..  to complete the ensemble, of course!

Then once everyone has a costume you could:

  • Have a pig parade…. don’t forget to wave at the nonconformists in the lunch room!
  • Have Pigs in a Blanket for lunch….. and of course eat like piggies….. oink , oink, oink!
  • Roll on the floor likes pigs rolling in mud….. this is the best part!
  • Sing the This Little Piggy song…. flourished with pig squeals of course!!!

Why should preschoolers have all the fun??  Oink, Oink, Oink….

Capable

Just what makes that little old ant
Think he’ll move that rubber tree plant
Anyone knows an ant, can’t
Move a rubber tree plant

But he’s got high hopes
He’s got high hopes
He’s got high apple pie
In the sky hopes.

So any time your feelin’ low stead of lettin’ go
Just remember that ant
Oops there goes another rubber tree plant

                                           ~Sammy Cahn

The Jester

THE FOOL’S PRAYER

by: Edward Rowland Sill (1841-1887)

HE royal feast was done; the King
Sought some new sport to banish care,
And to his jester cried: “Sir Fool,
Kneel now, and make for us a prayer!”
 

Happy Groundhog Day!

Once a year the eyes of the nation turn to this tiny hamlet in western Pennsylvania, to watch a master at work. The master, Punxsutawney Phil, the world’s most famous weatherman, the groundhog. Who, as legend has it, can predict the coming of an early spring. So I guess the question we have to ask ourselves today is, does Phil feel lucky?    ~Ground Hog Day

Polar Bear

 

 

“There’s a Polar Bear
In our Frigidaire–
He likes it ’cause it’s cold in there.
With his seat in the meat
And his face in the fish
And his big hairy paws
In the buttery dish,
He’s nibbling the noodles,
And munching the rice,
He’s slurping the soda,
He’s licking the ice.
And he lets out a roar
If you open the door.
And it gives me a scare
To know he’s in there–
That Polary Bear
In our Fridgitydaire.”
― Shel Silverstein, A Light in the Attic