Thanksgiving Goodness
Wooden Blocks Are Good
Turkey by Rachel
Christmas In Camelot Book Report
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.
If you are viewing this on iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch and you have the VoiceThread app installed, tap here to view this VoiceThread on your device.
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Winter 2011 Classen SAS Band Concert
Here are two videos I recorded tonight of the Intermediate/Advanced Band Concert of Classen SAS. A text message interrupted my recording so it split into two parts. Alexander wasn’t visible in any of the video until the end when they stood up. The students did great!
Prayer of Confession
Rachel was asked to write the prayer of confession for our church this Sunday. Her language here is very thoughtful and deliberate. Shelly helped her brainstorm sins she could pray about but she wrote the prayer. We are blessed by her pure heart and contrite spirit. God is using Rachel in powerful ways to point others toward Himself. Thank you, God, for Rachel.
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Hokey Pokey at Frightnight
This video from last Saturday night at FrightNight at Frontier City is pretty cute.
Here are a few of my favorite photos from the Flickr set of the event.
We love this October tradition! We saved about $35 this year purchasing our Frontier City tickets in advance from our local AAA office in Edmond.
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Chicken Carcass Soup
These are the seasonings we used tonight, along with a quarter of an onion (chopped) to put in a crock pot with a chicken carcass. (The leftover bones from a whole, cooked chicken we ate tonight for dinner.)
After cooking all night on low, I will strain it in the morning and let it cool to room temperature. Then I’ll put it in the fridge so the fat will separate and I can skim it off. I think I’ll cook some noodles and use this chicken stock to make chicken noodle soup soon.
Thanks to Nana for sharing these directions on the phone! (I’m posting them here so I can refer to this again.) Sent from my iPhoneSteve Marsh Preaches
This is Rachel’s illustration today in church of our assistant pastor, Steve Marsh, preaching God’s Word.
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Rachel’s Letter to President Obama
Can we get another dog?
Alexander discusses his Living in Oak Ridge Project and Glogster EDU
This is a ten minute interview with Alexander this evening about his “Living in Oak Ridge” project for 8th grade English.
Discussing Oak Ridge Glogster Project at Oklahoma City, OK by wfryer
For more background see my post, “Share “timed” comments on Audio Recordings with SoundCloud.” I am going to buy YouTube subscribers so more people can see me playlist on social media.
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Living in Oak Ridge
This is a glog that I made for school about my grandmother and her dad living in Oak Ridge.
The Art of Lego Building
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 people will say legos are just something I use to play with as a kid. In all actuality Lego building by adults and kids is fine tuned in the creativity side of things. Of course people building with Lego is only as recent as Lego itself which is fairly new. Lego building is something that requires a lot of skill and practice to do well and something many people have mastered.
Lego building in some ways is a lot like sculpting. When you sculpt something you are chipping or cutting parts away to reveal an object that the artist has in mind. Building in Lego is not as different as it seems. When building with Lego you start with one piece than add another on top of that. In many ways Lego building is a lot easier and you an create a lot more complicated and bigger art work than you can sculpting with clay or rock. There are different sizes, shapes, lengths, textures, detail, color, and the list just goes one and on with all the uses and ability of all the pieces that you have access to. There are also different types of creations you can make. You can build something in mini-scale just meaning in looks smaller or makes something huge into a more buildable scale. You can build in mini-figure scale which means you can use Legos version of a person and use them in your build. Another thing you can build in is just a larger scale which is too big for a mini figure to use. Then you can also had design creations that use different pieces in unusual ways to make designs or pictures.
There are many wonderful but right now I will only mention one. [sic] Katie WAlker is a AFOL – Adult Fan of Lego – and makes wonderfully detailed mosaics. Using small cheese slopes (little angled pieces) and tiles she is able to make intricate designs. This is really something amazing and incredible. You can find more of her work and examples by searching for eilonwy77 on Flickr.
Creating art is lots of fun and something I love to do. Even though they haven’t been around that long they are still great. Lots of very skilled AFOL’s are still creating amazing creations and art. So next time someone asks you what an awesome new art you can reply Lego building.
