Educational Book Reviews - Reviews of books used in the National Curriculum Literacy Strategy at Key Stage 1, for attainment levels 1 to 3.
Educate the Children - Provides lesson plans and resources for teachers and advice for parents of children aged 5 to 11.
The Veggie - Developed to help encourage and educate children of all ages to eat and be more aware of vegetables in a fun and interesting way. Information and educational fact sheets for use by teachers in the school resource packs.
BBC - Starship - Activities in Maths and English. Includes online games, print and do sheets, lesson plans and TV and radio resources.
I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Key Stage 1 What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Key Stage 1
"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Key Stage 1 "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Key Stage 1
If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson May you never leave your marriage alive. For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Key Stage 1 Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Key Stage 1
"Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Key Stage 1 Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Key Stage 1
"A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Key Stage 1 Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Key Stage 1
Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Key Stage 1 "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Key Stage 1
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Key Stage 1 Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Key Stage 1
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Key Stage 1 If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Key Stage 1
Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Key Stage 1 To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Key Stage 1
An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Key Stage 1 He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Key Stage 1
This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Key Stage 1 Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Key Stage 1
