Rachel, who is now a 9th grader, created this poster over the weekend for a geneology project assigned in her French 2 class at Casady. “The Family of Twilight” (CC BY 2.0) by Wesley Fryer She wrote and typed the script she will share in class tomorrow, and agreed to audio record it for me with English translations tonight. (And she agreed to
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9th Grade Posters for French 2 and English
Here are a couple posters Rachel created recently for her first week back at school, and first week as a high school freshman. Here’s a poster she created for French class about her summer holidays / vacation / break. That’s a great looking skyline of Seattle, Washington! “My Break (in French)” (CC BY 2.0) by Wesley Fryer Here is another poster she created,
The Oregon Trail
Rachel created this 2 minute video with a classmate for their 6th Grade History Day Project. Their topic was “The Oregon Trail.” She edited on her iPhone5.
Rachel Reports from the Volcano House
Today in my STEM class I showed an amazing video of eruptions from the Kilauea Volcano in Hawaii. This was one of our “curiosity links” for this week. In one class, student questions about how lava cools led me to discuss “lava tubes” and show this photo of a lava tube which I took in 2009 when our family visited
Saving Bruce the Shark
This short video, “Saving Bruce the Shark,” is a creative story told and created by Rachel yesterday using the iPad app, “ToonTastic.” Since we added a new iPad to our family collection, Rachel has inherited her own. Mom is encouraging her to use more apps for creative “making,” since her favorite computer activities continue to be WATCHING YouTube videos and playing
Bowling is Fun Enhanced eBook
A few weeks ago when Rachel and I were in Manhattan, Kansas, we went bowling with my dad. I took photos while we were bowling with the idea that we would later create an eBook together. We did (using Book Creator for iPad) and took turns narrating it. It is available as a downloadable EPUB, a PDF without audio, and
Snowflake Book Series Website Moved
Rachel: The old domain we’d bought for your first Snowflake eBook (MeetSnowFlake.com) expires tomorrow. Since we decided not to keep that domain, I moved the entire website and made a few small updates/changes to it. The new address is a “sub-domain” of your main website. You can find it on snowflake.rachelfryer.com. If you publish another Snowflake book, like you were talking
Classic Text Messages from Our Girls
Oh these make us smile as parents, for different reasons.
Rachel’s Veteran’s Day Project
This is Rachel’s Veteran’s Day Project she created in 4th grade this year. Original photo:
Oarfish Can Be Huge
Rachel, since you’ve been very interested in the Loch Ness monster lately I thought you would like this article. It is about a very large “oarfish” which was discovered dead off the coast of California. The article explains fish like this might be some of the reasons we hear stories about giant sea serpents in […]