Learning Signs

Here is a english assignment I did: The voice of Saruman is very hard to resist, and if you don’t you’ll soon find yourself agreeing with what he is saying; and thinking that it is very wise. Even though the group is very pronounced with their thoughts and beliefs they still have a hard time [...]

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Here is a german assignment that I did: George Frideric Handel was a great man and composer. He was born on Feb. 23, 1685 in Halle, Germany and died on Apr. 14, 1759 in London, England. He lived to be 74. Handel was raised by his mother, Dorothea Taust, and father, Georg Handel, who was [...]

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“The Night Before Valentine’s Day” is a four page book my six year old wrote today. She is REALLY into writing, and I want to encourage her as an author / illustrator as much as possible. After she shared this with us tonight, we snapped four pictures of the pages using my iPhone, uploaded those [...]

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Sarah created the following digital story today before school using VoiceThread about the book, “Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief.” She role-played Annabeth Chase in a video we shot last Wednesday in St Louis using my iPhone. This is the first VoiceThread we’ve created which includes an embedded video and not just still [...]

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This was a short video I took from our front porch in January, when we received another blast of winter weather! Technorati Tags: edmond, flickr, oklahoma, snow, video, weather

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Rachel shared the following safety tip as a drawing on her bedroom easel: Don’t blow in a pencil sharpener! She did recently, and the results were not pleasant for her. Technorati Tags: safety, pencil, sharpener, blow

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Rachel loves drawing on the easel in her bedroom. This is a recent drawing she made of “a bowl of fruit.” Awesome to see her language skills developing. How wonderful she LOVES to write!!! She has probably written 4 books in the past few weeks. Technorati Tags: art, drawing, writing, rachel

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I received an email from Facebook today that I’d been tagged in a photo…. taken (most likely) around 1980 in Columbus, Mississippi! Whoa! I wonder what my dad and I were looking at?!

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