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Tap Cancer Out
This past weekend my children Element and Landyn participated in their first Brazilian Jujitsu tournament at Coppermine Sport center to raise money to Tap Cancer Out! Element and Landyn have been training since February at Zero BJJ in York. The coaches and community at the gym is supportive and knowledgeable. Tap Cancer Out Landyn raised…
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Teaching One Year Later
March 13th marks one year since we stopped teaching from our classrooms, and stepped into the virtual world. One year ago I was excited and eager to head to Minneapolis for the NAEA conference. My students were beginning some amazing personal projects in class. The green club had just been approved to go on a…
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Fierce Courage
Another thoughtful creative challenge… the word mood comes from the old English root word for MIND, or Fierce courage… perhaps when we get in a mood it is to remind us to have fierce courage. Mood… mind… I see this one as realizing that everything comes from within. Our mood is set by our mind……
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Illustration
A recent creative challenge word for my students was Illustration. After looking into the root of the word, I was fascinated that it comes from the world for illumination! Spiritual or intellectual enlightenment. As I thought more about the context of this word and its meaning, which is … a picture illustrating a book, newspaper,…
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2020
Such an interesting number … 2020. An interesting year it was for sure! A lot was documented in the first half of the year… and then fall came… and school started back up virtual, and then we bought a house. Things have been in a constant state of motion. 2020 was like the winding up…
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6th Grade Early Entry
Today we had 6th grade early entry for new students to our school. Since I teach art, we have two groups of students… A day and B day students. Today we met with the A day students for 15 mins on google meets for a team building activity! Usually in normal circumstances, I would have…
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Sacred Retreat
Retreat: from Latin retrahere ‘pull back’, to withdraw to a quiet, or secluded place. Withdrawing from the world around us, into a sacred space.
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