CSCombo.mov

Fourth movie on a series of 4 movies made by first grader CS using FlipBoom.

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CS Blob Movie

Second movie on a series of 4 made by first grader CS using FlipBoom

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CS Ball Movie

This is the third movie in a series of movies made by first grader CS.

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initialsLP

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Initials Movie – Charlotte – First Grade

First attempt at animation by a first grade student using FlipBoom.

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Search Engines and Judgement

I thought it was really interesting that my 5 year old son Aidan, has been asking me to type in “Awesome Star Wars Poster” and other similar search phrases when we use Google Images to search for coloring pages and posters.  It’s a natural expectation, I suppose.  Of course, search engines do not have any capability for judgement at this time.  Will they someday?

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Family of William Heffernan of Salem, Massachusetts (1843-1883)

I recently started what I thought would be an fairly simple project to make a list of my cousins on my father’s side. There are 29 of us. I ended up doing a family tree since I quickly discovered that a genealogy program would be the best way to enter the data. It’s been fascinated to learn more about current and past family members. I have used ancestry.com to look at records going back to the 1800’s. I hit a dead end at Ireland but I am still plugging away. The family tree is at: http://jheffernan.com/oldsite/HeffernanFamily/Heffernan/index.html

Never volunteer to do a family tree for an Irish Catholic family unless you are retired!

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Moon Shine

Aidan said to me last week, “Dad, is the moon made of rocks?”

I said, “Yes, the moon is made of rocks.”

He said, “Then how can the moon shine?”

So I explained how the moon reflects the light of sun even though the sun is on the other side of the earth at night.

He was happy with that answer and was able to repeat it this week. I thought it was a smart question.

I also thrilled to see him reading Level A books using his finger to track the words with pattern, picture books. A thrill to see him starting to read!

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Agility Switch Problem

We had a lot of problems with the course on the right last Sunday at a practice. The course on the left is what we practice more at home. My theory is that the slant of the jumps/hoops and/or the way I tried to make a path in black were a problem for Wyatt. I wonder if the path in blue green would work much better. Also, probably just need to practice this variation of the straighter course.

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