|
Sunday, September 30, 2012 by Shelley Miles
October activities, book lists, community service, October holidays
OCTOBER 14 –World sight day, Lois Lenski birthday
Lois Lenski is one of my favorite classic storytellers. She considered herself an artist first, and was the illustrator of the original The Little Engine That Could, pictures by Lois Lenski . Here are a few of my favorites:
Mr. and Mrs. Noah (Lois Lenski Books)
Now It's Fall (Lois Lenski Books)
World Sight Day brings attention to the problems of blindness and vision impairment in the world. According to WHO:
- 153 million people are visually impaired because of uncorrected refractive errors (uncorrected near-sightedness, far-sightedness or astigmatism). In most cases, normal vision could be restored with eye glasses.
- Up to 80% of blindness and 85% of moderate and severe visual impairment is avoidable by prevention, treatment or cure
- Almost 90% of blind people live in low-income countries
Kids can help by organizing a collection of old, still in good condition eyeglasses. This is a project, where kids can understand a tangible benefit to their generosity. There are a couple of charities that will pass them along. Unite for Sight will distribute glasses to kids in adults in Africa and One Sight helps in North America.
All Blog Entrys
|
Browse
By Page...
By Date...
April 2013
March 2013
February 2013
January 2013
December 2012
November 2012
October 2012
September 2012
August 2012
July 2012
June 2012
May 2012
April 2012
February 2012
January 2012
December 2011
November 2011
October 2011
September 2011
August 2011
By Tag...
June Activities
• December Activities
• Theme Parks
• Fire safety
• song
• January Activities
• Art
• Summer activities
• November holidays
• November activities
• Activities
• August Activities
• Summer Solstice
• Math concepts
• Yoga
• Recipes
• August Activities
• Junior League
• Parenting
• Cartoons
By Author...
Jeremy Tellier
Shelley Miles
|