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The month of letters challenge
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Little signs of spring. For the coming months, each day will usher in new growth, novel greens, and signs of tender, budding life. Learning at home with the kids gives spring an entirely new intensity and marvel for which I am so grateful.
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Introduction to symmography: A tutorial.
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Making a popsicle stick thumb piano.
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Concrete poetry can be slightly intimidating until you are comfortable enough to play around with it and experiment. To introduce Max to concrete poetry, I showed him how words can be manipulated to form shapes- and how those shapes lend meaning to words, which, in turn, add new meaning to the words. Enter Tagxedo (go to "Creator"), which allows you to make pictures from words.We played around with Tagxedo for a while this morning, observing how shapes lend impact to words and make them more powerful. A few of our creations:
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Sometimes you just have to say it with a smile.
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Make a star tutorial. Great valentine gift with a little note saying, "You are the star in someone's sky."
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Over 50 Valentine's Day Ideas! Including: countdowns, treats, cards, printables, banners, service ideas, classroom ideas, husband ideas, crafts, love coupons, shower love notes, and more!
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Making Macrame Plant Hanger Instructions
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follow the line crafts with found objects
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Comparing and contrasting currencies to learn more about cultures.
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Jazz guitar and Django Reinhardt. Free mp3s so you can share with your kids. The perfect sunshine conversed with a chatty breeze this morning- a morning so golden, an air so sonorous, not even new books could keep us inside. Eventually, the books came up in conversation, and Max wanted to read, so we each took our place in the puddles of sunlight and read Django: World's Greatest Jazz Guitarist by Bonnie Christensen.
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We discovered poems in magazine articles. "Found poetry". Poetry made from words which emerge from a periodical page and arrange themselves magically into a poem.
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If your students have access to a cell phone (or any digital device i.e. iPad, laptop) that can take and send/email pictures, they can make and publish their own books quickly and easily using Flickr. This is a great way to bring student books to life by publishing them digitally in a format that can be easily shared with the world or printed as a book for the classroom or school library.
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From January 21st to February 21st, I will be hosting a Diamante Poem Party. On February 22nd, based on your votes, one person under 20 will win the Diamante Prize, a certificate and children's poetry book mailed straight to their door. It's your turn to try. So take an hour and write a diamante poem, decorate it, paint it, or take a photo of something that inspired it or just a nice portait of the poet and link up! Part of learning about poetry involves reading poetry, so take the time to read and enjoy the poems of other poets.
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Join Tinkerlab's next Creative Challenge (open Feb 6-29, 2012): Make something with your kids, using at least one paper bag. Related contest will award a generous gift card and 3-month subscription to @Kiwi Crate. Click the link to learn more. Please join us!!
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Can you cut and paste without getting your hands dirty? You sure can! With Camille's diorama, you can make a diorama on your own computer, without scissors or paste. You start by looking at paintings by Vincent van Gogh and finding pieces that you can use. Camille will tell you how. Are you ready for a very special activity? If you want to show your diorama to other people, Camille will put it in his online Diorama Museum. You can also send the diorama in an e-mail.
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Mudheads: Folk art, readings, and a podcast.
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Cultivated plants versus wild plants: An exploration of the amaryllis.
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Light painting: A whole new medium.
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Feeling the possibilities of Hurricane Creek: An exercise in quiet awe. "For the child. . . it is not half so important to know as to feel. If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow. The years of early childhood are the time to prepare the soil. Once the emotions have been aroused - a sense of the beautiful, the excitement of the new and the unknown, a feeling of sympathy, pity, admiration or love - then we wish for knowledge about the object of our emotional response . . . It is more important to pave the way for a child to want to know than to put him on a diet of facts that he is not ready to assimilate." Rachel Carson
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Stories about animals, plants, and wild places can be a big part of helping kids connect to nature. We’ve created this special section to help you enrich your nature discovery with stories old and new…and even stories told by kids themselves.
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Would you like to help take kids on the Real Bread journey from seed to sandwich? On Monday 23 January, Real Bread Campaign ambassador and star of Channel 4's The Fabulous Baker Brothers, Tom Herbert sows the Bake Your Lawn challenge for schools around Britain: grow your own loaf! If you’re a teacher or work in a community youth group, read on for details of how to get hold of a handful of organic wheat and our free grassroots guide on how to grow it, mill it, bake it, eat it.
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A book no adult or child should miss: The Mysterious Benedict Society.
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Books fill our hearts and our heads on a daily basis. While not all of these books have been blogged, I thought I'd share the 25% which do appear on this blog, as well as a few of the unblogged favorites. An * indicates overwhelming love for a book.
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This page is a constant work in progress. Containing everything useful for birding with young children. From homemade bird feeders, bird books, binoculars for kids and field guids to songs and games. Below you will find links to all the amazing birding references!
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106 beautiful illustrated books every child should experience.
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100 books about the world around us: Nature, science, math, and applied crafts. Many of these books are available for free online.
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a zillion free audiobooks for children....classics!
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The Knowing Nature Challenge. Try it with your kids.
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What to do if your son is better naturalist than you with a side reference to privet.
or thousands of years, people all over the world have told fantastic stories of mythic creatures through music, dancing, plays, and art. You can too! Create your own masks and puppets and bring the mythic creatures to life in a performance. How does your creature act? What happens to it?
Horses have played an important role in history. For thousands of years—and around the world—horses have changed how people work, travel, trade goods, play sports, and even wage war. Throughout time, people have dressed horses in different ways. Depending on the culture, this gear has been used for practical reasons, to reflect status or wealth, or both. Play with paper cutouts of six riders and styles of horse gear from different world cultures
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