Learning Signs

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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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This evening Rachel and I read “A birthday at the lighthouse” by Robin Robilliard on my iPad. It’s a free book in the International Children’s Digital Library. Rachel was pretty surprised to learn the family had to make their own clothes, give themselves haircuts, and didn’t appear to have any television or computer access. We [...]

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Hello. This is going to the zoo. I hope you love it! I made this from Story Patch on the iPad. Story Patch created the story when I answered the questions. Then I put in pictures. Download now or preview on posterous Going to the zoo.pdf (1940 KB) Sent from my iPad

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Today Rachel invited Shelly and I to share a short presentation in her 1st grade class, because this week she was “Pooh’s Special Friend.” We were asked to share some information with the class about what we do in our jobs, and especially if we use reading and math in our jobs. This was our [...]

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Sarah and Rachel recorded this fourteen minute Cinchcast with me today discussing their initial experiences learning how to create with Scratch software from MIT. They discussed learning how to move Sprites, about costumes, loops, coordinate geometry basics, and more. Download Scratch for free from scratch.mit.edu. Scratch resources from my Fall 2010 undergraduate course, “Computers in [...]

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Rachel played Oregon Trail yesterday on dad’s iPhone and shared some of her lessons learned using Cinch.

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

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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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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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