WEBSITE CREDITS & REFERENCES

Graphics used throughout my website came from below.  Some of the titles aren't linked because the websites have either changed addresses without informing me or they no longer exist.  Nevertheless, I want to give them due credit so I've left the titles. 

Many of my website graphics came from Cat Stuff (special credit goes to Glenda Moore)

Elated    The Mining Company    A Touch Of Country    Barry's Clip Art Server    Kids Domain UK
 
Over the Rainbow    Icon Bazaar    Linda's Graphics    Just Jane's Graphics    Billy Bear Clipart
 
BeckyJ's Lines, Signs, 'n' More    Lori's Original Graphics    Iconz    Free Graphics: Star of David
 
Graphics: World Flag Collection    Flags and Maps of the World    Absolute Web Graphics    EduPuppy
 
The Kidz Page.com    Top Icons    All Free Icons    Chibicreations    Cat Gif Animations    Kathie's Graphics

Backgrounds Etc    Maria's Graphics    Anne's Place    Jewish Graphics    Buju's Homepage of Beautiful Things

This little kitty:  >^..^< came from Andrea, one of my internet friends.

Some of my graphics are from clipart packages I have at home, put out by Broderbund, Rom Tech, and Media Graphics International.

I have stated in disclaimer boxes on this website that activities on my webpages and in my booklets come from memory, my rather large index card collection, and from notes/hand-outs I've kept over the years.  But, as someone who strongly believes in giving credit where credit is due, I have tried in earnest to locate the resources of as many of my activities as possible.  I've done this by contacting former co-workers who have given me ideas, and by looking through my old term papers, projects, and other items from school (way back when) that have resources listed, especially since I remember using many of those same resources when compiling ideas for my index card files.  I remember, as a student, being required to hand in a reference list with my set of cards, but I must have thrown it away after school --thinking I'd never need it--foolish!  So, this is an on-going process as I try to remember as far back as 1976 (actually, it's been fun looking back--I remember more than I thought I would).  The following list is in no way complete and I have no idea which activities came from which books.  This is simply my way of giving proper credit as best I can recall:

HERE'S MY "PEOPLE" REFERENCE LIST AS BEST I CAN RECALL:
STUDENTS, TEACHERS, ASSISTANTS, AND DIRECTORS FROM:
1976-1987:
*JOINT VOCATIONAL SCHOOL, CHILD CARE MANAGEMENT CERTIFICATION PROGRAM, SPRINGFIELD, OHIO (ESPECIALLY KATHLEEN)
*CLARK TECHNICAL COLLEGE, CHILD CARE MANAGEMENT DEGREE PROGRAM, SPRINGFIELD, OHIO
*OHIO DOMINICAN COLLEGE (now known as Ohio Dominican University) EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION (Prekindergarten) DEGREE PROGRAM, COLUMBUS, OHIO (ESPECIALLY KAREN ROHR)
*BEXLEY METHODIST PRESCHOOL, AND OTHER PRESCHOOLS IN COLUMBUS, OHIO (during my student teaching)
*TEMPLE ISRAEL PRESCHOOL, COLUMBUS, OHIO (where the bulk of my teaching experience took place)  
FROM 1987 ON:
*BREVARD COMMUNITY COLLEGE CHILD CARE CENTER, COCOA, FLORIDA (ESPECIALLY RUTH ANN)
*FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH PRESCHOOL, COCOA BEACH, FLORIDA (ESPECIALLY VALERIE)
*CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION SCHOOLS, BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA
*DR. JANE HODGES, FRIEND/NEIGHBOR, ECE EXPERT, EDUCATION EXPERT FOR THE KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLORIDA
 
*Special Tribute:
I was so lucky growing up.  There were 8 children in my family -- I am second to the oldest (and the oldest girl).  As the first-born girl, I had the pleasure of becoming real buddies with my maternal grandmother!  She was a former teacher, in a one-room schoolhouse, believe it or not.  As such, she was a master at improvisation.  She always had something for us grandkids to do whether it was placing clothespins around the edge of a box, making paste from flour and water, sorting her quilt squares, or going to see and smell the flowers in her "magazine worthy" garden.  As I got older, I remember loving to hear tales from her teaching days.  She always used to tell me about how she "made do" with what she had available.  She taught me how to do the same, and she shared so many good adaptable ideas with me -- many of which are on this website and in my booklets.  I'm so thankful to have had her in my life.

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