new skill

everyone else probably already new how to do this. but finally i had a new high score so i could try it out. i used keith's instructions plus putting it in photoshop and cropping it to get rid of extra stuff. so here it is....my new high score.

what was cyn thinking?

it was partly my fault ... we were looking for a movie to show the first through fourth graders. when you see disney you think...okay that will work. wall-e is a very good movie. but........... it is a little to sophisticated for first through fourth graders. actually now that i think about it, i think it is more for grown up types. so about one fourth of the kids wound up at my table drawing. sigh.

what was I thinking?

another day with the after school program. i try to think of things to do that are educational, take only a small amount of time, don't use a lot of materials, and that are fun. the one thing that i do that i shouldn't is forget the age of the students. i tried playing the word game where you make up definitions to words to use with the real definition in order to bluff your opponents. what was i thinking? i got questions like....we can't do that, we don't know the definition of the word! i tried to get them to make up a def before looking it up. sigh. some wrote sentences, some stared at their paper, i wrote some, and i will never do that again.