pickIt brings me joy to this audiobook around Christmas. I just love the thought of the whole world watching something amazing. I prefer the audiobook for this one because the ending has recordings from the mission including the astronauts reading from Genesis on Christmas Day.
I have one hour and 5 minutes left in my audiobook and my wish is to be done wrapping and I bed with my jolabokaflood by then.
pickit is an inspiring story that shows how Katherine Johnson used her love of math to help NASA. It‘s easy for students to understand and a great book for teaching perseverance and problem-solving
“Katherine loved to count. She counted everything.”
“Katherine yearned to know as much as she could about numbers, about the universe – about everything!”
This would be a good supplement for students when they are doing a research project in your classroom.
pickThis book presented information about an inspiring lady in history in an engaging way, perfect for elementary age. The book showcased Katherines interest and success in math which lead her to doing great things for NASA.
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Today‘s haiku is inspired by this picture of the moon I took on Monday night. A waxing crescent moon signifies new beginnings, setting intentions & growth. 🌙
Waxing crescent moon
Glowing softly in the night
New beginnings bloom
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so-soThe good: there is some interesting information about the Soviet space programme.
The bad: the author is deeply, deeply biased against the Soviets. He can't admit that they ever did a single thing right.
Also, he snidely dismisses Wally Funk's space flight in a paragraph in which he gets the facts wrong. He claims she was below the threshold (the Kármán line, 100km), but Blue Origin peaked at 107 and WAS above the Kármán line.
This... is very anti-Russian, in a way that feels like being anti-Russian is a principle for him. Like I get their space programme was an omnishambles, but there's just this air of total contempt about it that doesn't feel limited to hatred of incompetence. Not sure if I will finish it.
