In Our Feeds: Reading makes you happier, 100-year-old chalk drawings, and a teacher who can dance!

Kristen Joerger  //  Jun 12, 2015

In Our Feeds: Reading makes you happier, 100-year-old chalk drawings, and a teacher who can dance!

Every Friday, we share a handful of links that we found funny, provocative or just plain cool. We call it In Our Feeds. Have a great weekend!

Quite a few OOMers were fascinated by the story of the nearly 100 year-old chalkboards that were discovered in an Oklahoma school this week. Still intact with drawings and lessons from 1917, the chalkboards had been covered with a newer set of boards, which preserved them!

Remember playing Oregon Trail as a kid? Here a 9 myths the game taught us (and the facts about how things really were back then!).

Ask anyone in our office if reading makes you happier and you will be met with an enthusiastic "YES!", but now there may be scientific evidence that reading makes people happier!

Here's a way to NOT go quietly into retirement! A 60-year-old teacher surprised students with a choreographed dance to celebrate her retirement, and she has serious moves!

Kids say the darndest things, which is why a new Instagram account called Live From Snack Time shares funny things overheard in a preschool.

Today kicks off the "Week of Making" at the White House. Last year the White House hosted its first ever Maker Faire and will now continue to encourage makers from across the country to be creative!

Finally, an interesting article about how libraries can get involved in hosting conventions that are fun and educational for young people.