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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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 […]
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. […]
Rachel learns to draw new things on Art Snacks
Today Rachel used a video by John Steven Gurney on the Art Snacks learning community to draw a reversible face. This is the “man version:” Turned upside down, this is the “baby version!” Rachel recorded an explanation of how she used Art Snacks to learn how to draw this, using iPadio on my iPhone. Here’s […]
A Bowl of Fruit
Rachel loves drawing on the easel in her bedroom. This is a recent drawing she made of “a bowl of fruit.” Awesome to see her language skills developing. How wonderful she LOVES to write!!! She has probably written 4 books in the past few weeks. Technorati Tags: art, drawing, writing, rachel
Rachel’s writing and drawing skills developing
It is amazing to see how fast our 5 year old is growing up. Last night before Rachel and I watched the movie “WALLE” together, she drew the following picture on our living room whiteboard. If you click on this image and view it on Flickr, you can read the annotation notes I added with […]