Our Santa Teacher Ornament
is a 6 inches tall Christmas Ornament. The Teacher Santa Ornaments are wearing a brown coat, green slacks, black shoes and a red stocking cap with white cuff and a white fur pompom. The Santa teacher is holding a small chalk board. These Unique Christmas Ornaments are standing beside a stack of apples. The Santa teacher ornament hangs from a 3 inch long red satin ribbon. Select to see a complete listing of our Christmas Decorations Ideas.

Apple Facts.
The apple is the most valuable of all the fruits that grow on trees. It is also more widely grown than any other. Apple trees grow everywhere except in the very hottest and the very coldest regions of the world. They bear their juicy, crisp fruit in Europe, South America, Africa, Australia and in Asia from India northward into Siberia. Apples are grown in nearly all the states of the Union and in all the provinces of Canada.
The apple came to America as an immigrant, along with the earliest white settlers. People now cherish it as a typical American product.
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Apples and Their Relatives.
Among the closest relatives of apple trees are pears, cherries, peaches and plums. All these trees, like apple trees themselves, are members of the rose family. Apple blossoms are much like wild rose blossoms. The fruits of the rose ad the apple are also much alike in form. Apples are much larger than the dry, seedy fruits of the rose.
There are between twenty five and thirty kinds of wild apples. Seven kinds are found in the United States. Most wild apples are crab apples with small, sour, hard fruit. The ancestor of many cultivated varieties is the common wild apple of Europe and western Asia. Some are also descended from the wild crab apple of Siberia. Select this link to view our Glass Ornaments.

Information on Chalk.
Chalk is a soft, fine grained white limestone. It was formed as a mud on the bottom of an ancient sea. It differs from many pure, fine grained lime stones only in still being soft and easily rubbed off. That is, it did not change into hard rock.
Chalk consists largely of tiny shells ad crystals of calcite. Both of these materials are made up of the compound calcium carbonate. The white cliffs of Dover are thick layers of chalk. This gave the name Albion to England. Albion probably means white land. Chalk deposits I western Kansas contain the preserved skeletons of extinct sea serpents, flying reptiles, birds and fish.
Most deposits formed during the Cretaceous Period. The Cretaceous Period got its name from the Latin word for chalk, creta.
chalk is made into whiting, a substance used to manufacture rubber goods, paint, putty, soft polishing powders and tooth powder. Industry also uses chalk, like any other limestone, in making Portland cement and as a top dressing for soil. Chalk is also used to make crayons for writing on chalkboards. Select this link to view our People and Baby German Christmas Ornaments.

History of Pencils.
The ancient Egyptians and Romans used pencils that were really made of lead. Today, however, there is o lead in a lead pencil. Graphite is used instead, because it is softer and makes a much darker mark than lead. Graphite is a mineral of native carbon, but it can be manufactured. It was first used for pencils around 1500.
Most pencils were made in England, Germany and France until the nineteenth century. William Monroe produced a few pencils commercially in Concord, Mass., in 1812. In 1856 a German manufacturer opened a branch in Yonkers, N.Y., which became America’s first pencil factory. The United States now leads the world in pencil making.
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