Zane has new artwork

Description from Artsonia:

"The students first painting experience and first Artist introduction was through the Dutch artist, Piet Mondrian. This lesson looks simple but we cover a lot in the introduction. The students are introduced to the Artist by looking at a book of his paintings. The children observe how he changed from a Realistic style to an Abstract style. We defined that Abstract means something does not appear real. The paintings we did were totally Abstract and just an arrangement of line, color and shapes. The children were then asked to draw "Horizontal" lines, and "Vertical" lines. Most of the students knew what "Diagonal" lines were, but they did not know the other two directional lines. The last element was the addition of Primary colors: Yellow,Red and Blue."

Zane has new artwork

Description from Artsonia
"The students sponge painted a snowman with white tempera paint to get the texture of snow. We added a scarf, boots, buttons, hat and arms to make a charming version of a snowman. We topped it off with learning how to fold and cut a small snowflake. This project challenged the students cutting, gluing and listening skills."

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Zane has new artwork

Description from Artsonia:

"The first graders made stuffed turtles, similar to the formed Name Cloud lesson, that would build on what they knew. We talked about form when something is stuffed and is three dimensional, and we talked about the shapes we would use to build the turtle (Free-form or organic shapes and Geometric shapes) The students added patterns to the shell of the turtle using various Geometric shapes. The class practiced their drawing, cutting, crayoning and gluing skills for this project."

Zane @ Pump It Up Party

This was Zane's school friend's birthday.  Huge slides, a jump house, air hockey with pizza and cake.  Dad and Zane had a blast. We had done something similar with MOMS Club in GA.

Christmas Class Parties

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Zane's Reindeer Hat

Zane came home from school so excited yesterday.

Look what he & his 6th grade buddy made!

It has definitely taken some getting used to,

having the kids in school so late/close to Christmas.

Today is their last day/class parties!

*UPDATE*

Zane's Teacher, Mr. S., posted some pictures

of this day in his online gallery here.

Record December Snow Hits Philly

this is a short video of Jon & the big kids playing out in the snowbelieve me when I say that this vid doesn't do it justice(plus, I took it from the warmth of our bedroom window!)they went out twice on Saturday, December 19thhere's a link to a local news story about the snow(we called a personal family snow day yesterday for Church)we got a very early phone call saying that school will have a delayed start todayaccording to this link in said news story,our official snow total isABINGTON 13.2 1100 PM 12/19

Gingerbread House Fun

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This was the *perfect* activity to do yesterday while it was

snowing & snowing & snowing outside.

If you want more details, see post on food blog here.

Short Report of Friday, December 18th

in which this sweet sweet sweet little face

got Rudolph'd when he tripped coming down the back sidewalk

and this was about the closest I could get to see

the Z-kids' Christmas Concert . . .

sorry about the lame picture.

& no, I totally didn't take any video.

There are *A LOT* of music programs

@ our new school, which I love!

Sure missed Jon, who had been around Tue-Thu of last week,

but had to go back to school to give a final

on the very last day of finals too, of course!

But it sure makes for a very very very long day when

I had to wake poor little wounded E from his nap to go,

E was wrangled from the backpack carrier for ~1 hour,

& Z-kids performed almost @ the very end!

Z-kids did great though!

I'm so proud of them!

Zane has new artwork

posted in his Artsonia Gallery.

Feel free to leave him any comments here.

Thanksgiving Celebration

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Zane Learning Karate

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Paws to Read

The elementary school that Zoe & Zane currently attend has a wonderful librarian & a beautiful space for their library.  They have this program called "Paws to Read" where the kids get to read to pets.  Here are the pics that the librarian sent home recently.  The kids totally love this program!

Zane Singing School Song

So, our school does a Book Fair @ the local B&N, instead of on campus.
Zane, with his fellow 1st graders, got to perform during a bit of it.
This is their school song. That's his teacher playing guitar.
In case you can't tell, Zane's the one in the solid red shirt with logo on the front, middle of the frame, kinda.

Sorry about the poor quality. Taken on my phone.
I was wearing Eli in the backpack, so had to stand near the back.
You get the idea, though.
Jon couldn't be there because he had class.

This second song was "cute".
Zane didn't realize that it was a "commercial".
That was an interesting conversation . . .

09 Late Fall Y Session

We are so blessed to have been awarded "scholarships" @ our local Y.
The kids are able to get 50% off their lessons. What a great deal!
The current session started the beginning of November & will continue to Christmas.

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Swim pictures taken by me. Karate pictures taken by Jon.
Eli absolutely LOVES being in the water! He was the only one that didn't get lessons while we were living in Lubbock. The trick is to make sure he doesn't "drink the pool"!

09 Leaves

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Before the Plague, there was a Sparkly Witch, a Mutant Turtle, & a Cute Frog

So, this is the one lone pathetic picture that I was able to capture on my phone from our Ward's Halloween party/Trunk-or-Treat on Oct 27th.  (Jon couldn't come because he had class that night.)  Not sure if you can tell, but Zoe's hanging on to Eli as he tries to make a run for it!  He's not leaning into her like that by choice.  Zoe had just barely gotten over her fever.  Unbeknownst, to me, I was just starting the fever bit--Happy Birthday to me!  After this night, we went into complete quarantine/lock down mode--even on actual Halloween night.  This was just the start.  Zane, then Jon, & finally Eli all got the fever.  Between Zoe & Zane, they missed a whole week of school.  Zane even missed his class Halloween party--so sad.  It's been 2-3 weeks, & we're finally starting to get back to whatever normal is for us.  Here's to our continued health!

Outing to get . . .

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It's been *forever* since I've created/posted a Smilebox, so enjoy!
I love how you can see Eli's little shoes poking out in one of the pics. He looks so little in the big salon chair. His haircut makes him look much more boy that baby.

In case anyone's wondering, I stayed home with Zoe, who woke up this morning with a fever & had to miss her fun Church/Stake Activity Day! :(

Artsonia Art Museum :: Artwork by Zane405

Artsonia Art Museum :: Artwork by Zane405

This is something new that the Art Teacher @ our school's done.
I'll try to update whenever they post new stuff.
Let me know if you would like to be added to his Fan Club.

09-10 School Open House

Zoe & Zane had School Open House last night, Sep 24th, 09.

It was so nice to *finally* meet their teachers.
Having met them--they're *wonderful*
--I have no idea why I was so anxious. :)

Zane's teacher created the following video presentation.

Hope you enjoy.