Learning Signs

We had a great time at Divine’s house for Thanksgiving this year! Technorati Tags: thanksgiving

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Sarah: One of my students created this excellent VoiceThread about stopping bullying. I thought you’d enjoy this and might want to share it with others. Technorati Tags: bully, bullying, education, ethics, school

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Rachel, I’m thinking the following resources would be of interest to you since you are very interested in animals and helping animals. Pet Finder is a website that shows pictures of animals available for adoption. The Social Animal is a website and group created by Emily Garman of Oklahoma City to promote adoption of pets. [...]

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I’m not sure when this is scheduled to begin. I don’t have a costume (yet.) Just saw this today on the girls’ whiteboard / easel. I’m glad hair is required. That may rule grandaddy out, however, from formally entering. Sent from my iPhone

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9 days ago Rachel started watering her iGrow Santa. His hair growth is amazing us all! After Thanksgiving Rachel is considering giving him a haircut. She is talking about giving him a mohawk. Stay tuned for mor iGrow Santa updates! Sent from my iPhone

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Award winners for the Creative Oklahoma Student Creativity Contest were announced today. Alexander, Sarah and Rachel didn't win anything in any categories. http://stateofcreativity.com/events/cwf/creativitycontest/ PRIZE WINNERS: Overall Grand Prize Winner: Brian Andrew Powell, Grade 11,  Teacher- Tillanie Franks, Yukon High School Grand Prize Winner (7-12): Chandni Raman, Grade 8, Teacher- Jill Willhoite, Oakdale Elementary School Grand Prize [...]

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Shelly hasn’t been able to explain this yet.   Download now or listen on posterous Memo.m4a (238 KB) Sent from my iPhone

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A nice thing that my church does is we have a concept called yellow cards. What you do is you get a yellow card and write either an encouraging word to ….. or write on the prayer chain. Also in the bulletin they have a special section just for the people who need prayer. I [...]

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We had some pretty good looking trick or treaters in our family this year! Rachel and I were in Manhattan, Kansas for Halloween. Shelly posted two photos of Sarah and Alexander in their costumes, so we were able to see them when we were in Kansas, even if we didn’t get to trick or treat [...]

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This is a self-portrait Sarah drew in the summer of 2010 at our church fine arts camp. She's underwater!

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This is a video of the Children's Sermon on November 14, 2010, at First Presbyterian Church in Edmond, Oklahoma. Linda Birsner shared the message, and 5th graders Josh and Sarah played the roles of the lost motorist and GPS unit. The quality of Sarah's British accent is reflected in the question of at least one [...]

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This video is an interview with Dr Brent Benkelman, as he supervised the final preparations of the 120th pig he’s cooked in his life. Brent co-hosts an annual pig roast potluck for friends in Manhattan, Kansas. See more photos from my Flickr set of this weekend’s festivities, which included the disappointing loss of KSU to [...]

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Each fall our family looks forward to carving pumpkins into jack o’lanterns in advance of Halloween. This year we did it pretty early in October, and unfortunately the weather was so warm the jack o’lanterns molded before Halloween! These were our creations this year! As you can see, lots of fun was had by all. [...]

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It was great to see my good friend and college roommate, Brad Ball, in Memphis this past September. I was in town for the Martin Institute’s fall conference. I’ve uploaded more photos to a Flickr set for the weekend. Technorati Tags: micon, brad, bradley, ball, micon10

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Sometimes the best photos are candid shots. These were a few pics we took in September on a Sunday when we went to Furrs downtown. I’d won a Furrs gift card and we used it well. Yum! Technorati Tags: family, photos, furrs

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Sarah just posted a new video to YouTube. It was created using SonicPics on Dad’s iPhone. You can check it out at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tdjmpw0KXS0 http://www.sonicpics.com Sent from my iPhone

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These are some photos from Alexander’s first debate tournament at Moore High School, in Oklahoma. He was in novice division as a 7th grader, and faced mostly 9th graders. The Lincoln Douglas debate topic currently is: Resolved: The abuse of illegal drugs ought to be treated as a matter of public health, not of criminal [...]

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Sarah’s 5th grade teacher asked her to write a letter about her academic performance and school behavior to her parents, as if SHE was the teacher.

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By Rachel Hey, check out this video I created using Storyrobe, a digital storytelling application now available on your iPhone or iPod Touch. http://app.storyrobe.com/tmp/phpJw6JZC-11_13_10.mp4 Visit iTunes and buy it today http://itunes.com/apps/storyrobe Sent from my iPhone

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Created on my iPhone with Storyrobe Sent from my iPhone

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The 2010 Creativity World Forum is coming to Oklahoma City in two weeks. In advance of the event, Creative Oklahoma is sponsoring a Creativity Contest for Students, who are challenged to: … show us your creative ideas for improving communities, schools and businesses so that Oklahoma remains a creative frontier. We invite all forms of [...]

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