Author: Thomas Tomchak
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Spring Concert 2015 – Sydney
From Tornado to Dorothy.
Every spring the preschool does a performance of The Wizard of Oz and this year Sydney was Dorothy (well, one of two Dorothy’s). She was so excited and it’s so great to see her just get up there and belt it out without being nervous at all. We are so proud of her.
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The Global Classroom, With Skype
As seen on The Today Show today. What an exciting idea for kids to have this option.
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Andrew’s First YouTube Video
The kids have been obsessed with watching videos on YouTube. Videos of kids (sometimes created by kids) playing with toys, or showing a new toy, or talking about a new toy or opening a box that has a new toy… you get the idea.
Andrew has been wanting to create one of his own for awhile, so when he asked if we could do it one fine Saturday morning, I said “Sure son! Let me grab my cameras”.
I did my best to help him make a good video, but it turns out he was the expert on making videos. So I pretty much let him run the show on this one and gave him almost no direction. I decided we could do it his way first, and then maybe I could make suggestions for the next one. If he hasn’t already lost interest.
If you watch the first 30 seconds, you’ve pretty much seen it all.
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First Grade Culture Projects
I was so appreciative last month when the teachers let us know about the boys having a big homework project. The main idea was that each child would learn about some part of their own culture, research it and then create one of several possible projects to display their culture knowledge at a school fair (which is this Friday).
And then, 4 weeks went by without me doing a darn thing.
Well, it was due tomorrow so I spent about 2 hours with Maximus and Brenda sat with Andrew for about the same time and we produced two posters for the boys. Both of which I need to pickup from Kinkos at 6am tomorrow so that they have them in time for school.
So apparently a deadline can be so far in the future that you don’t even worry about it until it’s too late.
During the process not only did we talk about the different things that we learned, but the boys had a first hand look at some of what you can do with a computer and photoshop. For me personally that was part of my motivation to use the computer – I wanted to get them interested in being creative with it.
Here are the results of cramming for just under 2 hours.
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