Learning Signs

Here are some photos from “Back to School Night” this evening at Quail Creek Elementary School in Oklahoma City Public Schools. Rachel recorded a short “Narrated Art” message with AudioBoo on my iPhone and described the first piece of artwork shown below. listen to ‘Name Art by Rachel’ on Audioboo I volunteerted tonight to be [...]

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Rachel is now in the habit of creating illustrations during the sermon each Sunday in church. Here are some of her recent drawings. This was the drawing she made on Sunday when she took communion for the first time. Rachel is taking away a lot of ideas from church each week and I think it’s [...]

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This is an Art History Paper Alexander wrote for his 8th grade art class. (His teacher asked him to hand write it, so dad is typing it for him so we can document it here on Learning Signs.) ART HISTORY PAPER The art of Lego building is not known or recognized by most people. Many [...]

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Rachel drew this picture of Smaug the Dragon for Sarah’s diorama she created as an English class assignment. – Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

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This is Pretty post. I drew it on Brushes. I hope you like it! From, Rachel Fryer Sent from my iPad

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Rachel drew this using Kevin Honeycutt’s tutorial video on Art Snacks. Sent from my iPhone

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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 a treat to see this amazing sculpture exhibit of mustangs today in Las Colinas, Texas. There is a similar sculpture in Oklahoma City down on the river near Bricktown. These are photos I took this summer on the river boat ride. I’m not sure if the same artist is responsible for both, but [...]

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This afternoon my girls and I were able to have LOTS of fun with my sister and nephew, making art at Kaleidoscope in Kansas City. In these two videos, Rachel explains how she is making a puzzle, and you can see the puzzle cutting process. This was some magnet art I created on the whiteboard. [...]

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Today Rachel used a video by John Steven Gurney on the Art Snacks learning community to draw a reversible face. This is the “man version:” Turned upside down, this is the “baby version!” Rachel recorded an explanation of how she used Art Snacks to learn how to draw this, using iPadio on my iPhone. Here’s [...]

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This is a picture of Rachel’s stuffed animal cat, “Mittens,” which she drew on TuxPaint. Technorati Tags: draw, paint, cat, kitten, computer, tuxpaint

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This morning during our carpool into Oklahoma City, Sarah (age 9) drew the following “fingerpaint” drawings using the program Brushes on my iPad. I uploaded these directly from the iPad to Flickr using PixelPipe. Technorati Tags: art, ipad, draw, drawing, brushes

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Rachel drew his picture of fruit on her bedroom easel.

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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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It is amazing to see how fast our 5 year old is growing up. Last night before Rachel and I watched the movie “WALLE” together, she drew the following picture on our living room whiteboard. If you click on this image and view it on Flickr, you can read the annotation notes I added with [...]

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Rachel is exploring half notes and quarter notes. I am not sure where her awareness of musical notation came from, I will have to ask her about this. She has been going to “big church” with us more instead of the church nursery, and the hymnals we use might be the source.

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Younger sister drew the following picture for our retired neighbor across the street, Mr. Wayne, last week. This is the first time she has ever spelled out someone else’s name by herself, phonetically, in a drawing or other piece of written work she has created. Good job little sis! Technorati Tags: drawing

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