Learning Signs

Cleaning up my laptop hard drive tonight I found this video my wife told me about last year but I’d never seen… I’m so glad it wasn’t deleted! This video shows my 2nd grade daughter’s class celebrating Spanish music listening to Juan Luis Guerra (from the Dominican Republic) while donning sombreros and dancing the conga. [...]

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Rachel and Sarah had a wonderful opportunity yesterday to visit Tinker Air Force Base by Oklahoma City and tour a Boeing E-3 Sentry (AWACS) aircraft with the first all-female crew in the history of the US Air Force. The girls spent about ten minutes in the cockpit checking out the controls and asking questions of [...]

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This afternoon I watched the TEDx talk, “Seth Shostak: ET is (probably) out there — get ready.” I totally agree with what Seth says about the statistical probability / near certainly of extra-terrestrial life and intelligence being “out there” in space. I also agree with his point that we need to focus on getting kids [...]

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I just showed Rachel this exciting Tweet from Club Penguin! She’s excited to create more! If you didn’t see the video Rachel made over the weekend, check it out: “How to make an igloo in Club Penguin.”

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I just made a 10 min. screencast today using Screenflow. It’s a ‘how to’ video for Club Penguin. It’s so cool!

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This is a book report Rachel wrote for Ms Moore’s 3rd grade class this year. Marie Curie changed the world through science. Marie and her husband discovered two new elements, polonium and radium. Marie and two other scientists won the Nobel Prize in physics. In 1910, she isolated radium in the form of a metal. Marie [...]

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In this screencast, 10 year old Rachel takes us on a guided tour of Club Penguin. I asked Rachel to do this because this morning, she shared how she had created an igloo to be like a funeral scene for a puffin in the game. The father of one of Rachel’s older sister’s friends died [...]

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Plant versus Zombies is a game that you can download to your smart phone or iPhone. It is a very fun game!

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This is an amazing essay Rachel wrote in class in September during their Rome unit in social studies. (CLICK TO VIEW LARGER VERSION)

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Rachel recorded this last night, following several discussions we’ve been having over the past few weeks about science and becoming a scientist. Last spring I took Rachel to Chris Simon’s classroom at Independence Elementary School in Yukon Public Schools, and she was VERY impressed with the STEM lessons Mr. Simon does with his students. She [...]

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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 and I recorded this 68 second video at Grand Prismatic Spring with an iPad2 in Yellowstone National Park yesterday. It was windy as a thunderstorm approached! Technorati Tags: yellowstone, grand, prismatic, spring

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Rachel and I recorded this 2.5 minute video, “Lunch at Mammoth Hot Springs,” today in Yellowstone National Park. Check out more photos from our wonderful two days in the world’s oldest national park in this Flickr collection. Also see my post, “Boiling River: Best Kept Secret In Yellowstone National Park,” for another video and more [...]

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A week or so before winter break, we had a cold snap in Oklahoma City. Rachel reported on some EXCITING sprinkler ice we saw walking home from school. Technorati Tags: oklahoma, sprinkler, ice, okc, city, report, reporting

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Rachel sang “Happy Birthday Jesus” at the Christmas Eve Service at our church this year. This was her rehearsal just before the service began. She did a GREAT job!

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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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Rachel made this video, “Santa Goes to Washington DC,” using the Puppet Pals Director’s Pass app on an iPad. Santa Goes to Washington DC from Wesley Fryer on Vimeo.

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Rachel used the VoiceThread app on our iPad tonight to create this book report about “Christmas In Camelot” by Mary Pope Osborne. Christmas In Camelot (4 pages) Click the link above to view and participate in the VoiceThread. Making comments is really simple and you can delete and re-record as many times as you like. [...]

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Rachel (2nd grade, age 8) wrote this letter to President Obama this week in class.

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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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In this podcast, Rachel (age 7) and Wesley discuss some questions about how stars are born. http://cinch.fm/wfryer/talkingscience/247407 Sent from my iPad Cross-posted to Talking Science!

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(direct link) More photos! Technorati Tags: ocean, starfish, california

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Last week was “back to school night” for primary grades at our elementary school. Rachel took some time to show and explain what she does in class with writing, art, math, and in other subjects in this eight minute video. I edited this with iMovie on my iPhone, but the final video was so big [...]

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