Lunar(Rhymes with sooner)Involving, caused by, or affecting the moon.Leslie got a telescope for her birthday. She aimed it at the Moon and looked at craters on the lunar surface.

A New Year’s Reunion By Yu Li-Qiong  Illustrated by Zhu Cheng-Liang This realistic fiction picture books illustrates a contemporary lifestyle that is supposedly nontraditional yet common for many families in China where family members live apart due to job conditions and meet one or two times a year during national holidays. New Year’s Day, as […]

For many people, the Chinese, for example, January 22 of this year is New Year’s Day. Why? Because of the type of calendar they use.The calendar we use is based on the time it takes the Earth to circle the Sun. That time (365 days) is divided into 12 month. Sol is another name for […]

Slow Cooker Salsa Chicken Easy slow cooker Mexican chicken with salsa – this crockpot meal with only a few ingredients! Ingredients: (Serves 4) 2 chicken breasts 1 can black beans 1 can drained corn 1 jar salsa 1 can lowfat refried beans sour cream optional Instructions: In crock pot, add the chicken breast, black beans […]

Tactile(Rhymes with pack pile.)Our sense of touch or how things feel when we touch them.Sarah picked up the woolen blanket and liked its fuzzy tactile quality.

English:  tactileFrench:   tactileSpanish:  táctilGerman:  taktilItalian:    tattileArabic:   allams اللمسChinese:  Chù 触

A boy in France created a way for blind people to read and write. The boy’s name was Louis Braille (loo-ee brayl). He was blind, having lost his sight in a childhood accident.The system he created uses small raised bumps to represent letters of the alphabet, numbers, and punctuation marks. By feeling the bumps with […]

No milk pancakes Perfect for anyone with a dairy allergy or who wants to make a classic a new way! Ingredients: Yield: 8 pancakes 1/4 cup orange juice (The orange juice adds great flavor and a little extra boost to the leavening, but if you don’t have any, you can use water instead) 4 tablespoons […]