tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24008180172416108172024-02-06T20:31:31.729-08:00The 3 Imagination LearnersA new year of home learning adventures! Mariah and Makayla are exploring grade 5 and Samantha is discovering kindergarten...stay tuned for all the treasures, surprises, and challenges this year holds...Leannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06025187887866513342noreply@blogger.comBlogger31125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2400818017241610817.post-79905427716040604862014-01-11T12:38:00.001-08:002014-01-11T12:38:15.343-08:00Some more videos....<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhwclbl2MVM" target="_blank">Samantha's video about science</a><br />
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This is a portrait of Mom, Makayla, Mariah and me. I just
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My second one, yup, is a kind of a person. I designed in on
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What I like about this one is I drawed my way. I like that I
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Leannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06025187887866513342noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2400818017241610817.post-65065876357120412802014-01-11T12:24:00.004-08:002014-01-11T12:24:33.199-08:00funny charms by Mariah<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgd2EDgzF6sdTjI3VJ3oVGGdmxFYo3-odePR2kCUUWaV4OG4Q2xanfbklrNesmBf1WcMyKpflxNDM2eNcKXmqvzbzTmkv6ylH-oSf1k7R6D9dkDVKYDytLyoxweKvcF2ZdYJwr_dZkznUw/s1600/IMGP5734.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgd2EDgzF6sdTjI3VJ3oVGGdmxFYo3-odePR2kCUUWaV4OG4Q2xanfbklrNesmBf1WcMyKpflxNDM2eNcKXmqvzbzTmkv6ylH-oSf1k7R6D9dkDVKYDytLyoxweKvcF2ZdYJwr_dZkznUw/s1600/IMGP5734.JPG" height="240" width="320" /></a>This week I made some clay charms with my grandma. I had so much fun molding the charms into little animals or into smiley food. The first charm I made was an octopus with a top hat and a mustashe.<br />
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I made ten charms my favorite was the flying pig. the flying pig was really fun to make because it was fun to have some imagination and to create a flying animal that does not usually fly.<br />
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<br />Leannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06025187887866513342noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2400818017241610817.post-16014782812009759192014-01-10T11:37:00.001-08:002014-01-11T12:26:43.324-08:00Are we baking food or clay???????? by MakaylaFor the first day of school mom bought us a kit to make clay charms! Mariah and i have been dying to make them so finally mom said why dont you do your clay charms with grandmak so we asked grandmak would do are clay charms with us!!!!<br />
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Leannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06025187887866513342noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2400818017241610817.post-37664141156671952442014-01-03T15:50:00.003-08:002014-01-03T15:50:35.484-08:00Adventures with video games - by Mariah<div style="text-align: center;">
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Leannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06025187887866513342noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2400818017241610817.post-73176017597259177502014-01-03T15:46:00.002-08:002014-01-03T15:46:39.865-08:00Where did my teeth go? by SamanthaOver the Christmas holidays I lost a tooth - on Christmas Eve. And then on the day after boxing day, I lost another one! 'Cause the second one had to come out because it was sideways.<br />
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My next teeth that are wiggly are my top two front teeth. I'm working on them!Leannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06025187887866513342noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2400818017241610817.post-75816226114380254372014-01-03T12:31:00.005-08:002014-01-03T12:31:56.620-08:00I have a job! by MakaylaOver the Christmas holidays I painted two paintings for my relatives who bought them!<br />
It was surprising how little work that had to be done on a small painting compared to the big ones!<br />
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The paintings that we painted were Peter Rabbit and a Ted Harrison painting! Mariah and I both worked on the paintings! I designed the bottom of the the Ted Harrison painting and I designed the background of the Peter Rabbit painting! ( Except the big tree!)<br />
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<br />Leannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06025187887866513342noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2400818017241610817.post-57356329053382296982013-11-25T08:59:00.001-08:002013-11-25T08:59:41.227-08:00Some videos of our learning...<div style="text-align: center;">
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Leannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06025187887866513342noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2400818017241610817.post-69421959855130067212013-11-25T08:41:00.000-08:002013-11-25T08:41:06.317-08:00Very Wooly - by Makayla<div class="MsoNormal">
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liked all the art that was for sale. The gallery was even more astonishing. How
people made fabric art – you could add just a dot of fabric and it was
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like a search and find – cause I got to look for her art – her name is Phyllis
Lysionek. I really liked these fabric flowers that you could pin
anywhere you wanted. I also liked pin cushions. I really liked this owl fabric
picture – it was a landscape with an owl hunting. It was cool. I was inspired to make some fabric arts – in
fact, I am working on a fabric art piece – I am making a picture of an owl out
of different fabrics and I will sew them together. My grandma K is helping me
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At the gallery I felt inspired, excited and calm. I
learned about owning an art gallery –
the curator was there and answered questions mom had. I heard that it can be
busy and then sometimes quiet. But when a customer comes in, you can talk to
them about the art, especially if you have an art show. It is not a great place
to do your own art, but you can do your own art at home. The art gallery’s
owner was an artist as well and she had somethings in the show. They were
really pretty.</div>
Leannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06025187887866513342noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2400818017241610817.post-41572599007776988242013-11-25T08:38:00.000-08:002013-11-25T08:38:34.968-08:00Massively Miniature Art - by Mariah<div class="MsoNormal">
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Massively Mini Art Show on display. We found out about it from our friend Angie
who put some of her art work in it. And she told us that it was really cool. So
today we went to look at it and there was some really cool stuff there! We saw
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I was amazed at this one artist did 5
or 6 paintings of the exact same bird with just different backgrounds – 6
times! I just couldn’t believe that – and 3 of them got bought. At first I
thought “Why would someone do the same art and put it in the same gallery –
make different pieces!” But I also thought “these paintings are cool”. Now, I
think it’s a pretty cool idea to do the same art over again with different
backgrounds because they are good at that drawing and you want to make other
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My favourite piece was
Angela Menzies piece – it was a cat with a crown (in the photo - orange background and blue crown) – I really liked that one
because it was really beautiful and inspiring at the same time with all the
amazing colours. </div>
Leannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06025187887866513342noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2400818017241610817.post-64568540625905812052013-11-25T08:32:00.000-08:002013-11-25T08:32:00.741-08:00Family drawing - by Samantha<div class="MsoNormal">
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family with Cocoa in it. I wanted to draw it because I felt happy and I wanted
to draw so badly. What was easy was the humans I did. The snowflakes weren’t
easy because they are new for me to draw. But I did the sun great. Mom and I
are wearing toques. I like that it’s my whole family in the sky and I like that
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Leannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06025187887866513342noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2400818017241610817.post-48916613554897973102013-11-06T10:50:00.002-08:002013-11-06T16:06:49.202-08:00Film Artists!This week Mariah, Samantha and Makayla have made really funny, fun videos.<br />
Our funniest video was when we had someone sing in the background and the person in the video lip sync. For example, we had Samantha lip sync while Mariah sang in the background.<br />
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<span style="background-color: magenta;"><span style="color: white;">We also sang some Mariah Carey songs like "All I want for Christmas is you" and Makayla lip synced while Mariah sang in the background. Which I am really good at that! </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: magenta;"><span style="color: white;">We have been exploring video and picture this week and it has been very fun. The app we did it in is called Photo Booth and there are many settings you can put it on. We made quite a few with mirror. Our favourite is mirror.</span></span></div>
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<li><span style="background-color: red;"><span style="color: white;">read here if you want to make a video. </span></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: orange;">theres three different ways to make the picture or video you can make one picture into four or </span><span style="background-color: yellow;">take a picture or make a video.</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: lime;">when you pick what your using you are ready to pick what setting you use.</span></li>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Here is the second video:<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y0IaxEEEgw&feature=youtu.be" target="_blank"> click here</a></span><br />
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<br />Leannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06025187887866513342noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2400818017241610817.post-14541334363133956162013-10-26T23:23:00.002-07:002013-10-26T23:23:41.481-07:00Science Experiments! by Makayla<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The science workshop was really fun. I learned how to make a
lava lamp and Goo (known as flubber). All you need to make the lava lamp is a
big pop bottle and cooking oil and water and food dye and alkaseltzer. We tried
an experiment to see if hot water makes the lava lamp more bubbly. My
hypothesis was right: the hot water makes the lava lamp more bubbly. But we
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ingredients, I wrote down my hypothesis and I wrote down my conclusion. We keep
our science books at Niki’s home. First you pour the hot water (or cold water)
into the pop bottle (1 dry measuring cup); then you pour the oil up to where
you want your lava lamp to be; then you wait for it to settle; then you put the
food dye in – what ever colour you want; then you stir it around with a stick
(a stick that you can get dye on); then add the alkaseltzer and it will explode
(don’t worry – it won’t explode on your table!) – it actually brings bubbles up
to the top of your oil and it doesn’t get out of the bottle (you don’t have to
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excited doing it and watching it. I really like hanging out with the other kids
at science workshop (2 other girls aged 9 and 10 and one older brother who is
13).</div>
Leannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06025187887866513342noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2400818017241610817.post-67992305586862751482013-10-26T23:18:00.000-07:002013-10-26T23:29:38.534-07:00Haida mask - by Mariah<div class="MsoNormal">
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This week we went to Angie’s for an art class. It was a lot
of fun. We made some masks and my mask is a First Nations mask. It is the
raven, half sun. It is a Haida First Nations mask. I chose the Haida mask
because Angie had a few Haida books because her husband is Haida. And I thought
the raven and the sun were cool. I felt quite excited and joyful and I also
felt questionable – in case it wasn’t going to turn out. It was nice problem
solving with an adult because Angie knows a lot of math (we used a lot of math
to figure out what measure I needed to make it round and perfect) and she knows
a lot about art. I am most proud about how much work I put into it and how much
I love first nations art – I like when they say it’s amazing : )</div>
Leannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06025187887866513342noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2400818017241610817.post-18544249711905642052013-10-26T23:14:00.001-07:002013-10-26T23:14:07.940-07:00Halloween Drawing Workshop - by Samantha<div class="MsoNormal">
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and that is me! My students were Mom, Mariah, and Makayla. I wanted to teach
them how to draw a Dracula (see photo). The Dracula came from a cupcake – hee
hee hee! I tried drawing it at Uncle Jeff’s birthday – I was having fun with
Dan – he didn’t teach me, I
just copied it; he was drawing a bat for me and that gave me the idea to draw! My
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The drawing workshop day, I did my vampire, my
vampire is good and bad – the head is square and it should be circle; I like
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The drawing workshop went really really good! I did a story
out of another picture I drew. (see photo). It was a headless horseman and it
has a buddy with no head and it has a horse – a princess horse. It is rain and
clouds and ghosts and a bat and pumpkins and a tree. You can make any stories
out of it! </div>
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Leannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06025187887866513342noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2400818017241610817.post-14163011396006602552013-10-20T19:52:00.000-07:002013-10-20T19:52:09.670-07:00A Salmon Graveyard - by Makayla<div class="MsoNormal">
This week we had my friends over and went down to the river to see the salmon spawning. I really liked seeing the fish that close up – you could
touch them if you had arms like my dad! It was really cool – we had races with
them: we would see whichever one would make it across this really hard rapid.
None of the fish that I voted for got through it. I named one Sharon – I sure
hope she made it! It was a joke that I named her Sharon because Kahlil and I
were ‘sharing’ her!! I really liked doing it with my friends and seeing the
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Bones, spines, skulls, guts, flesh</div>
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Leannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06025187887866513342noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2400818017241610817.post-16302750569913684522013-10-20T19:47:00.000-07:002013-10-20T19:47:28.933-07:00Trying Picasso out - by MariahThis week I learned about Picasso and his drawings. And how he did lots of cubist art. We were inspired by that art and we tried it. That process was quite interesting...how art can actually look crazy and strange and beautiful and insane.<br />
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I chose to do a cat first because Mom was doing a cat and in case I got a bit mixed up I could ask her. It only made sense to me to do a cat. Once I got the concept then I did a portrait of myself! It was a bit hard but it made sense to me. I like how it looks. I look a bit strange but I got used to it. It's a new piece of art - I hadn't seen that kind of style before.<br />
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We got books from the library on Picasso and we read some of those - I liked the stories told about him. I also copied one of his sketches that wasn't cubist.Leannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06025187887866513342noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2400818017241610817.post-43120840823412450392013-10-20T19:33:00.003-07:002013-10-20T19:33:31.280-07:00Garden Club - by Samantha<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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So, there is this club and it is called Garden Club. So we
made bird feeders out of milk cartons – so we put some holes in it and cut some
windows out – I had 4 windows. And we put a stick through so a bird can stand
on it. And we decorate the bird feeder – I put on bird on the front and a bird
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made apple juice – there was this great big machine and we put apples in it and
more and more till it made apple juice! Then we turned it and turned it and
then we stopped. And then we drank some apple juice. The end! My favourite part
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Leannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06025187887866513342noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2400818017241610817.post-29658664672436639832013-10-06T18:35:00.002-07:002013-10-06T18:35:57.053-07:00Racing Internet - by Makayla<div class="MsoNormal">
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Today I learned how to search the internet for something I
needed. I wanted to unlock some characters on Mario Kart Wii. I asked mom on
the phone how do you search for Mario kart information? She told me the steps
on the phone [open Safari; go to File and open new window; then type in on
Google specific what you want] and I looked It up and then I watched a video on
how and then I read how to! Then I went to set up the wii but the wii didn’t
set up properly. So then I waited until Mom came home, but while Mom was still
out I was looking Mario Kart on my ipod – looking at Apps and searching for
Mario Kart – and then I found an app that told me how to unlock characters,
worlds, and different cars and other stuff that I don’t even know about yet! </div>
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I felt really excited looking up the info and proud. I was a
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on the computer. I didn’t mess anything up. And I learned way more than I was
looking for! I wonder what I will look up next….</div>
Leannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06025187887866513342noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2400818017241610817.post-32684286388190819202013-10-06T18:12:00.004-07:002013-10-06T18:12:36.152-07:00Greek mythology adventures - by Mariah<div class="MsoNormal">
This week I went to a Greek workshop. I was invited by my
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One of the games was to make a marshmallow cage for this ‘elixir of life’ which
was a hacky sack. Then the hacky sack ball could not be touched by a mortal
hand! So we had to work together to work with strings and pull and move side to
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– the workshop leader told everyone to close their eyes and one person was
chosen to be the Minotaur and the rest of the players would be goddesses – they
would hop on one foot to get to the other side of the backyard, and the
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fun! I learned I’m really really good at being a leader and a follower. I like
learning with others. I am a very good runner too.</div>
Leannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06025187887866513342noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2400818017241610817.post-29971612050882551992013-10-06T18:10:00.000-07:002013-10-06T18:10:40.397-07:00Samantha is starting to read! - by Samantha<div class="MsoNormal">
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Leannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06025187887866513342noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2400818017241610817.post-194701518548019332013-10-02T12:14:00.003-07:002013-10-02T12:28:26.778-07:00The Vet Pals - by Makayla<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Leannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06025187887866513342noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2400818017241610817.post-20553013889126949052013-10-02T12:09:00.002-07:002013-10-02T12:34:22.445-07:00Choir is so much fun! by Mariah<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-G0Ok8dCzo&feature=youtu.be" target="_blank">Choirs songs to watch</a> (click on link)<br />
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I love choir because you get to have a lot of fun and you get to express your feelings in the songs too.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 25px;">We entered our dog in a pet parade. And she was a cheshire cat. And we walked around the building two times and my friend Amara was there. I saw a hamster - it was really little and in a cage. Our friend Paige was also there and there was another dance girl too. I would give a trophy to Cocoa cause she was the cutest costume there! And our uncle's dog Abbey also came with us and I wanted a ribbon so bad and I got one after Mariah and Makayla. I was dressed up as Alice, Mariah was the runaway rabbit, and Makayla was dressed as the Mad Hatter, and Abbey was dressed up as queen of hearts. I loved it! But we had to do a lot of waiting.</span>Leannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06025187887866513342noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2400818017241610817.post-78975733891530070072013-10-02T11:43:00.002-07:002013-10-02T12:37:11.374-07:00Having Fun in the Fort - by Makayla<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlaCXZUFpAM" target="_blank">Makayla's describing her fort</a> (click on this link)<br />
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I love how it feels like we're roughing it outside - using some nails and a big ol' rock!<br />
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