February has been a bit of a whirlwind, what with a flurry of field trips and new projects and activities. The blog has been fallow for the last few weeks, so we're going to play catch-up with new posts over the next couple of days.
First up, a few scenes from school from this week:
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| Nick and Imogen preparing for a French presentation. |
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| Keira and Sam discussing the properties of angles. |
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Frigid temperatures kept us indoors for PE, but everyone had a good time doing cup stacking. Did you know that "sport stacking" is a thing? It's good for hand-eye coordination, cooperation, and ambidexterity. Read more here. Speaking of cooperation, they were pretty pleased with themselves after building this creation. (They were equally delighted when they knocked it down.) |
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| There was some cooking in Mandarin today. |
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| I (Jason) run an after-school comics and cartooning club once a week. A couple of months ago, Oliver started creating a stick figure comic book each week, often featuring the exploits of Guy Wiz. Guy Wiz is a simple idea: A wizard-type fellow battles his enemies by casting spells that are increasingly ridiculous. For example, Guy Wiz might shout "Pig Spell!" during a brawl, which then causes a pig to inexplicably fall from the sky to vanquish his opponent (and they get much weirder than that). It's a fun little comic. I mention it because Oliver has been cranking out issues of Guy Wiz. He showed up the other day with twenty issues, each more ridiculous than the last. It's fun to see him taking a simple, silly idea and really running with it, and you can really see his creativity exploding. He's also pretty pleased to have such a body of work, and his classmates (and teacher!) were delighted and impressed. |
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