Sarah’s letter to her parents (as Mrs Horn)
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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Rachel, Sarah and Alexander Reflect on Creativity in our Oklahoma Schools
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 creativity including, but not limited to, essay, video, photography, drawing, or mixed media.
Here are our entries!
Rachel, 1st Grade (Age 7) – The Importance of Art Class at School and Creativity
Sarah, 5th grade (Age 10) – Laptops, Creativity, and Trusting Students
Alexander, 7th grade (Age 12) – Legos, Creativity, and Schools
This was Rachel’s first take, which we are NOT submitting to the contest.
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Dancing at Fright Night
We’ve got some good dancers in our family! And some brave kids!
Check out lots more pics from Saturday’s fun at Frontier City’s “Fright Night” in this Flickr set. Also check out episode 5 of “The Zebra Print,” which Sarah and Rachel recorded LIVE from the top of the ferris wheel at Frontier City Saturday night!
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Happy Halloween from the Fryers (JibJab fun!)
Kudos to my mom who created (and purchased) the following video on JibJab. Happy Halloween! Did you know members of our family are so talented?!
Announcing a new web show: The Zebra Print!
This summer Sarah and Rachel wanted to start their own iCarly-style webshow, and decided to name it, “The Zebra Print.” I helped them register the domain name (www.thezebraprint.com) and get the site launched. We created a YouTube channel for the show as well as a Twitter account. Sarah selected the WordPress blog theme and made sidebar customizations, I helped her add a ClustrMap and add Feedburner chicklets. We published the first episode in June, but busy schedules have prevented us from publishing the rest. We still need to publish episode #3, which was recorded in Washington DC at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History. For now, however, there’s three episodes for you to watch. It’s going to be exciting to see the girls develop their on-camera communication skills. (Some of us certainly have an apparent flair for the dramatic.) Enjoy!
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American Girl Pet Look-Alike Contest
Sarah is entering the American Girl Pet Look-Alike Contest. This was her choice, from the series we took today.
Wildcat’s Pilot Helmet
Sarah and Rachel enjoyed trying on Wildcat’s old Air Force pilot helmet today. 🙂
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Cartwheels pano style
Today at Union Station in Kansas City, the girls asked me to take composite photos of them doing cartwheels using Pano. The results turned out pretty good for a first try!
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Fun with art at Kaleidoscope in Kansas City
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.
What a fun place to create and have fun!
Lots more pics are available in our “Fun in Kansas City” Flickr set!
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Vote Your Favorite Twilight Characters
I am just interested about what other people like about the twilight characters. I will only have 4 characters but I know there are more.
I have never seen Twilight or any of them but I have heard a lot about it so I know some things about it.
Enjoy this Survey!!
Replace your audience response systems with Poll Everywhere
*Feel free to comment why you chose this person or may I say celebrity*
Photos of Sarah in Twice Upon a Time
Sunday was the 9th performance for Sarah in the Oklahoma Children’s Theater performance, “Twice Upon a Time.” The theater group had a professional photographer take pictures during the shows, and we collected fifteen of the images which include Sarah in this Flickr set. Way to go Sarah! Here are some of my favorites of our howling wolf!
What a talented young actress we have in our family! Check out the full set!
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Sarah’s Birthday List
Sarah’s Bread and Humidity Experiment
Today was the science fair at our local elementary school, and Sarah shared what she learned about humidity and the science of baking bread. I brought my iPhone and interviewed her (using iPadio) at her exhibit in the cafeteria, and took several photos as well.
It took about three minutes to upload this almost-four minute audio podcast to iPadio with my iPhone over 3G from the school cafeteria.
It’s great to have opportunities to talk about what the students have learned as a result of DOING science. I really enjoyed the opportunity to not only visit with Sarah but also several of her classmates about their projects and learning.
(Cross-posted to Wesley’s Posterous)
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Sarah’s iPad Fingerpainting with Brushes
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.
Trampoline Jumping Fun
Yesterday members of our family became owners of a new trampoline, and much of my afternoon / evening was spent putting it together. Let’s hear it for opportunities to be OUTSIDE and get lots of EXERCISE jumping and playing!
Video recorded with my iPhone 3GS and uploaded to Flickr via PixelPipe.
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