The Pocket Mod

I am forwarding this link for the PocketMod. It is a little personalized notebook that you can make online with a single piece of paper. You can customize each page with a variety of templates in different categories such as calendars, to do lists, reference guides, games, etc. They even have sudoku puzzles that you can include. I just made David his very own Pocket Mod. I think he was impressed - especially with the conversion reference page that included things like the speed of light in a vacuum. -something you might need to know on any given day. Also, did you know that 1 cubic foot of water weighs 62.32 lbs? I had no idea.

The tricky part of this little book is in the folding. I have actually folded paper exactly like this for several kid projects at the Arts Center. It's great for making blank books and you can even add a separate cover to make it a bit fancier. In one case, we made Valentine Books and included "Things We Love" on each page. Another time, we hiked the Botany Trail and made leaf prints on the pages.

Let me know which template on PocketMod is your favorite.

Puzzles and Words

Another favorite activity of mine is puzzles. I don't mean jigsaw puzzles (even though I do like to do them on occasion), I mean word games and as my family and close friends know, I mean saduko, kakuro, killer saduko and all those variations. My husband is always commenting about how much more I could get done in a day if I didn't do my puzzles. -oh well, the cleaning will just have to wait. Our family plays a word game at dinner called "ghost" and we love to listen to the puzzlemaster, Will Shortz, on VPR.

Ok, so I was looking up the term "mirror image" on Google (don't ask why) and came across the term Palindrome. Maybe everyone else knows what that term is, and I'm sure I learned it in high school, but I didn't remember. A palindrome is any word, phrase, number combinations that is the same backwards and forwards. Mom is a palindrome. Dad is a palindrome. 3663 is a palindrome. "Was it a rat I saw?" is a palindrome. Wikipedia has more information and some really amazing historical examples. Here are several other sites about palindromes. This one has a fill in the blank story and this one has a palindrome for the day. I love researching and learning about this kind of stuff. I could literally spend the rest of the day finding out more and more.... but my to do list is getting rather long.