I'm trying to give the kids more interesting things to do other than the regular school work they do. So, in the excitment of Easter coming up we cut some egg shapes out of card stock and covered them with foil. Then... we got to the fun part - painting them!
Well, I tried to link them here but look in my photo gallery and you can see some of their works of art. :)
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Back in grade school all those times you were asked to draw a picture, what did you draw? I remember always drawing myself being surrounded by flowers. Now at the age of 21, if you ask me to draw a picture, I would still have myself surrounded by flowers. To me, they're not just pretty and smell nice. Flowers are just a form of beautiful life. During the spring and summer they stand up tall and proud. They battle through hardship and fight to survive during the winter. And they, some, pop right back on their roots and stand firm, tall and proud once again in the spring. That's the way I have learned to be.
I attended the Frida Kahlo exhibit tonight, as part of a college press event. It was really interesting. I was there for only a few hours, but I walked out as though I knew this woman all my life. Even just taking a quick glimps at her paintings, I was moved.
She, too, did a lot of self portraits. She wasn't surround by flowers like me. Instead she was drowing in pain, passion, sorrow, love, hate, and death. She painted people wearing masks, but I think she was wearing it herself...in fact, many masks. There wasn't just two sides of her as proclaimed in The Two Fridas. I saw a soft side of her as well as a strong side. I saw her loving and nurturing side as well as her dark, ugly side. I also saw her both full of life and lifeless.
She knew she deserved someone more worthy than her husband, but she held on tight to him and I say that's what killed her. Sure she was ill and in pain. But the lack of a bond to another being was what took her life. To not have a my husband's love and not bear children would certainly break my heart deep enough to make me jump off a cliff.
Look into her eyes. That's what took me into her world. Look deep into her eyes and you will hear her speak. Look deep into her eyes and you will feel her heart beating. When you feel the tingle down your spine and the hair on your arms stand up, it is at the moment where you will say "I understand". It is at that moment where you wish you could pull her out of the painting and embrace her, thank her, pray for her, and cry with her.
Do you dare let her speak to you?
Do you dare to listen?
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When the art gallery opened up, I thought Empresario had a slight advantage because majority of the patrons were steered in the direction of their displays by Omarosa.
Once again, Piers called in his heavy hitters and they did not disappoint him. What a beating they gave Empresario, $164,000 to only $7,000 in Sales. Hydra clearly selected the right artist because there were some pieces available in multiple quantities which enabled more people to purchase the same piece of art. I guess Empresario wasn't able to find this info out for themselves or the outcome may have been different.
Since Omarosa went 0-3 as project manager, she was definitely the front runner to be fired for this task. However, I do agree with Don jr's comments that Stephen being a New Yorker should have been able to have heavy hitters come to this event and purchase some art pieces from him.
Hydra clearly works well as a team. I hope they keep up the great work. I look forward to next week's show.....Ricky3107
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Have you heard about the new way of testing students with technology known as Audience Response Technology?
ART clicking is sweeping the nation as schools in NY, California and more are investing in this fun and competitive way of testing all students, and not just those who dominate in the classroom.
The clickers are part of an increasingly popular technology which has been used for everything from surveying game show audiences to polling registered voters.
They record data from individuals and transmit that information through wireless technology to a computer program that can instantly display results, tally them and present them in elaborate spreadsheets and eye-catching graphics like spaceships or “Jeopardy!”-style boards.
This technology can also track the percentage of correct answers received for each question as well as the participation rate among all users.
What a great idea!
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"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"
by William Wordsworth
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed---and gazed---but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:
For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.
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