tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65739603589492603902024-03-20T04:33:04.793-07:00The Richest of FareJuliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00258980578104191450noreply@blogger.comBlogger502125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6573960358949260390.post-14295978945989947392012-07-12T15:19:00.000-07:002012-07-12T15:19:07.454-07:00Farewell to the WallpaperWell, this is hard to believe, but it seems that we have said good-bye to all of the wallpaper in our house. Most of you know that when we moved into our house, almost all of the walls (and many ceilings) had wallpaper on them. And while they say that wallpaper is making a comeback, I can guarantee you that this wallpaper is<b> not</b>.<br />
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I took some of it off myself, but soon wearied of the job and turned to other projects to fill my time. So when Jason asked if I thought we should hire painters for the last two wall-papered rooms, I jumped at the chance.<br />
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We first did our bedroom, which ended up a beautiful dark brown color. But those pictures will have to wait until another day because the "before" pictures are on the other computer.<br />
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However, I do have pictures of the computer room, which before looked like this:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mmmm-Hmmm. Love that blue wallpaper.</td></tr>
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The painters first painted over the wallpaper with an oil-based primer. Then they sprayed texturing all over the walls, to make it look like all of our other walls:<br />
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Needless to say, I love it. Because it's green, and because it's pretty, and because...it's not blue anymore!Juliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00258980578104191450noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6573960358949260390.post-74699867499464181052012-07-11T08:59:00.001-07:002012-07-11T08:59:22.123-07:00But There is Guilt in Blogland...My good friend Sandra once said to me that "There is no guilt in Blogland." My understanding is that she was told this by her friend Mike Cope. The idea I suppose behind this is that your blog is something that you voluntarily give to the world, and that unless you are paid to do it, there should be no guilt in <b>not</b> doing it.<br />
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But alas, I do not find this to be true. When I am away from my blog from long periods I <i>do</i> feel guilty. Perhaps it's because we live so far away from our families, and due to my lack of communication with them in general, the blog is usually the best way for them to find out what is going on with us. So perhaps (now that I think about it), the guilt has to do more with my general lackage of familial communications. But now I'm off wondering if "familial" is an actual word, so I've moved on to other worries...<br />
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Guilt or no guilt, lots of things have happened here in the last few months, which I plan to write about in more detail in the next few days. Here's quick rundown:<br />
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<li>Jericho is now driving all over the place - but still only with one of us.</li>
<li>Jacob is now taller than me, and is - (which gives him no small sense of satisfaction) - taller than his older brother.</li>
<li>I finished the school year successfully, even with a lot of end-of-the-stress and the death of my classroom tree.</li>
<li>We said goodbye to the last of the wallpaper in our house.</li>
<li>I said goodbye to lots of scrapbooking items.</li>
<li>I found out that I needed to go out and get a full-time teaching job in order to pay for the schooling that would enable me to have a full-time teaching job. If you ask me, something's wrong with that picture.</li>
<li>I also spent an hour downtown at the county Board of Education, the result of which was a receiving a paper that should turn out to be worth at least $15,000 to our family. I didn't even mind paying downtown parking after that.</li>
<li>Plus lots of other little things.</li>
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So, perhaps I can make up for the blog lull by catching up over the next few weeks. Starting tomorrow.</div>
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<br />Juliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00258980578104191450noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6573960358949260390.post-53756308425055836452012-04-24T17:53:00.000-07:002012-04-24T20:01:36.430-07:00Yes, The Mosaic Timeline is FinishedI haven't said anything about it lately, but yes, the Timeline Mosaic is finished. I cleaned a lot of grout from underneath my fingernails and ruined who knows how many rags, but yes, it is finished.<br />
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Right now the tiles look like this as they wait to be put on up the wall in the Children's Wing hallway:<br />
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But really, they look like this:<br />
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It's not that I <b>fed</b> them dog snacks of course. It just kind of...happened.<br />
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So it all went down like this. We have been having a series of dogs visit our classroom this week and last. All of these canine visits were supposed to happen last week when we had Pets week. However, since it was raining three out of the four days we were in school last week, we had to postpone some of the visits. This is because we hold all sanctioned (and non-sanctioned) pet visits outside on the grass in front of our room (since obviously we can't have dogs in the classroom). We ask the pet owners to bring the dogs about 15 minutes before our school day is over and keep them out on the grass. That way the Little People who want to visit with the dogs can, and those who don't can keep their distance.<br />
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For the most part, the Little People all wanted to visit with the dogs. Even with the biggest one - a Bull Mastiff about as large as they were. <br />
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Then other kids started getting treats for the dog, too, and he was all over this idea. "I want one," he said, daring to come quite close to get his. I was a little worried about this sudden burst of confidence from him when before he wouldn't even come out on the grass. "Um, you know that the treat is just for the dog, right?" I asked, imagining that he had abandoned all his dog fears in the hopes of picking up a little personal afternoon snack from Timmy's dad. <br />
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He nodded (perhaps in a crestfallen kind of way), and eventually ended up flinging it the dog's direction and fleeing with a holler as she approached him to take it.<br />
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The truth is that I was so concentrated on helping him have a chance to touch the poodle that I didn't even think to remind the other kids that these little bacon-looking morsels were just for the dog. So I was surprised when I looked over and saw little Sally chewing little, tiny bites, a look of complete disgust on her face. <br />
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"Did you know that was just a treat for the dog, Sally?" I said only to her as we headed back into the room. A look of embarrassment, realization and a degree of relief came over her face as she put two and two together. I'm not sure which feeling was more prevalent: embarrassment that she had tasted a dog snack, or relief that Timmy's father wasn't really giving out the <b>worst snacks ever. </b>She handed the treat to me, a tiny piece nibbled off of the corner. <br />
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Fortunately her dad was right there waiting to pick her up and had in fact watched the whole dog-visit scenario happen. So I just let him know what had happened with the treat and he just laughed and it was all good. Which was much easier that meeting him at the door after school and starting out, "Well, I need to tell you that Sally tasted a dog snack today..." which would have taken a <b>whole </b>lot<b> </b>more explaining than the first scenario.<br />
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So today was good. No dog snacks tasted, no parents to talk specifically to after school. Not even any dogs visiting. Just a regular day at preschool.Juliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00258980578104191450noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6573960358949260390.post-24908473507883323032012-04-05T10:45:00.003-07:002012-04-05T10:45:52.633-07:00Grouting<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I supposed it's not often that you might be sitting on your back porch and hear from the yard next door, "Oh, no. Jesus lost an eyeball." But that is the kind of thing that my neighbors get to hear - especially this week during Grouting Week.<br />
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Here are some of the mosaics all lined up on the back porch tables, waiting for grout. Aren't they beautiful?<br />
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I almost wanted to leave them like this - like a big, glass quilt. <br />
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However, the grout was waiting, so the boys and I got all of the grouting tools ready and set to work. I had them do the grout adhering/smearing, and I took responsibility for the removing.<br />
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I didn't take any pictures during the process because we were up to our elbows in grout and I couldn't touch anything without making a huge mess. Actually, I really made a huge mess without really touching anything extra at all.<br />
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The boys worked so well and hard that I enthusiastically told them to just keep going - grout them all!<br />
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And they did, which was a big mistake. I'm not sure if you know this, but you really have to wipe the excess grout off within a very specific time frame - or it hardens to basically concrete thickness. And of course, in my wow-I-have-such-good-help-here-they-<i>can-not</i>-stop zeal, I had them grout way more than I could wipe off in the still-wipe-able time period.<br />
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Just in case you ever want to try this, let me fill you in on the progression of wiping off grout as it progressively hardens:<br />
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First you wipe it gently off with a wet sponge, paper towel, or soft rag.<br />
Then you kind of rub it off with a plastic tool like you use to scrape food off of dishes.<br />
Then you start using a rough dishwashing sponge and apply some elbow grease.<br />
Next you move to scraping it off with a screwdriver/small picks.<br />
At the final, most desperate stage, you are using a hammer and screwdriver/chisel combination.<br />
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Not fun. And then your husband will come in and find you stooped exhausted and weary-eyed over a pile of mosaic tiles and ask, "But why didn't you get <i>help</i> with these?"<br />
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To which you will respond tearfully, "But I <i>l-l-love</i> to grout!"<br />
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All of that is basically true except for the tearful part. I really do love to grout - there is something really gratifying about discovering the beautiful glass pieces again after they've been covered up. <br />
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But not the screwdriving, chiseling, almost jack hammering part. Nope, not so much.Juliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00258980578104191450noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6573960358949260390.post-9270088063270698862012-04-03T10:19:00.004-07:002012-04-03T10:19:55.553-07:00And Then I Said...And then I said, "Okay, so let me put the DMV in the GPS. I know basically where it is, but I'm not sure what the cross streets are."<br />
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Then Jericho said, while looking at his phone: "I have it right here. It's on such-and-such street." (Naming a place <i>way</i> across town that was not at all where I expected to go.)<br />
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And that's when we discovered that a)there are several DMV offices where we live, and b)he had made his appointment at a far away one that we could not get to in the time we had allotted to get to the appointment.<br />
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So, he had to cancel his appointment via phone and make another one for today at the closer one. Because the handy iPhone also told us that the non-appointment wait time at the closer one was 1 hour, 5 minutes. <br />
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So we will try again today.<br />
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But he's still not driving home.<br />
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<br />Juliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00258980578104191450noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6573960358949260390.post-48681688370551212582012-04-02T13:07:00.002-07:002012-04-02T13:07:49.248-07:00To Which I Responded...Today is the long-awaited day when Jericho can go and take his written driver's test. He finished his online driving course several weeks ago, and has been waiting anxiously for the day that he could go and take the test which would begin the period in which he is able to begin driving with a grownup. Unfortunately for him he was slowed down a bit by his father's request that he get a haircut before he went and the fact that the DMV is only open on weekdays and mainly during school hours.<br />
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But today is the day. We're actually leaving to go there in about ten minutes. Yesterday after he made his test appointment online, he happily said, "And then I can drive home from the DMV!" <br />
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To which I responded..."Ummm, <i>no</i>. You who have only driven twice in your life, with both of those experiences being in a deserted parking lot. You who most likely has no idea how to get anywhere in this town because you most often have your head down looking at your phone while I drive. No, you're not driving home from the DMV." <br />
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Actually, I just said, "Ummm,<i> no</i>." <br />
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He seemed a little disappointed. But I'm sure soon enough he'll be driving around everywhere - with and without me.Juliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00258980578104191450noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6573960358949260390.post-2015949870566257132012-03-30T19:47:00.001-07:002012-03-30T19:47:16.127-07:00What I've Been Up To...Well, perhaps if one read my blog the last few months it appears as if all I have been working on mosaics and occasionally blogging about the Little People. However I've been doing some other things too. First of all, I've been slowly working my way through the maze of the Higher Educational system here to figure out what I need to do to complete my other teaching credentials in California. I've had to talk to several different schools, but now think I've found one that can help me get the classes I need to make myself more employable. All of this despite the fact that I completely love my current, albeit part-time job. However, since it seems that it would be best for the family to have a full time job, investigate I will. (And, of course I want to say that last part in my best Yoda voice.)<br />
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Somehow in the midst of all of that happening I started playing around with making some digital teaching materials. It turns out that are several sites out there (such as <a href="http://teachersnotebook.com/">Teacher's Notebook</a> and <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/">Teachers Pay Teachers</a>) that exist for the sole purpose of providing various teacher materials to teachers. I decided to put my recently-learned Publisher skills (developed during the Luke curriculum) to use to make a few things and set up a shop. <br />
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Now, I have always joked (if only to myself) that if I ever opened any kind of online store I would call it Duly Noted. This is because the thing I hear most often when I mention this type of business is that it never could possibly bring in any money. And perhaps that is true, and thank you so much for your opinion that has now been Duly Noted. <br />
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However, I did not name my teacher stores that (at least out loud). One is <a href="http://teachersnotebook.com/shop/julkalocke">here</a>, and one is <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Julie-Locke">here</a>. I've just listed a few items, but have a had a few sales - enough to make me want to list some more. The nice part about it is that I make the items, I list them, and then I go about my business. Then every so often I get an email that I've made a sale - hurray! There's nothing to package up or send off. <br />
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As I was starting my stores, I decided I needed a blog that would mainly provide ideas and other information to back up my stores, so I copied a bunch of articles about the Little People and moved them <a href="http://teachingthelittlepeople.blogspot.com/">here</a>.<br />
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So, that's what I have been doing. If you would like to hear more about the Little People and the details about what I have been doing with them, you can visit <a href="http://teachingthelittlepeople.blogspot.com/">Teaching the Little People</a> anytime you like. Or you can just stay here and more general Little People reports and a few others things as well.<br />
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<br />Juliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00258980578104191450noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6573960358949260390.post-4427860992864692222012-03-29T15:51:00.001-07:002012-03-29T15:51:12.676-07:00Worms and Eggs<br />
With this the last week of school before Spring Break (and Easter occurring during at the end of the break), we have been talking a lot about Bunnies and Baskets this week. Also about eggs, which go with baskets. <br />
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As a result, I got out the plastic eggs to play with on the playground. Needless to say, the Little People were thrilled when I poured the big bag of them out on the ground, and they got to do what they wished with them.<br />
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I kind of thought they would hide them, but they did not.<br />
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The first thing they did was throw them. It wasn't complete random throwing, but instead was attempting to throw them up on the tent/awning about the play structure (seen in the background of the picture below). They figured out a few months ago that because of the slanted angle of the roof, if they threw balls up on the tent, they would roll off again and they could try and catch them. Most of the time. Sometimes the thrown object got stuck, and then we would let them problem solve about how to get it down. <br />
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As this is their custom, I wasn't surprised when the eggs started being launched up on the tent roof. Actually, it proved to be quite a challenge to get them up there, since the eggs are so lightweight. However, this same lightweightedness prevented them from harming anyone as they fell off. We just called that area near the edge of the awning the "Danger Zone" so anyone playing there would be aware of the risks of falling plastic eggs.<br />
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The next step of play with the eggs was to fill them with things. Some tried to find smaller eggs to put in the larger ones, but most just put wood chips in them. And then some started digging up earth worms and putting them in the eggs. I almost put a stop to this, but one of them charmed me with her clever analysis of the situation: "Hey! Birds like worms! So we're just feeding them before they're hatched!" <br />
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However, I did have to put my foot down with the first two worm scenarios combined and they started launching wood-chip and worm-filled eggs on top of the awning. Because all of the sudden we had an egg-launcher shrieking, 'There's a worm on the roof! There's a worm on the roof!" And sure enough, if you stood under the awning and looked up, you could see the silhouette of a poor little worm wriggling around on the roof.<br />
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I used my own problem-solving skills on that one by getting one of the playground balls and throwing it up under the awning, sending a shower of wood chips, egg parts, and one stranded worm on the nearby onlookers. <br />
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Then I banned putting worms into the eggs. <br />
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Today they launched the eggs on the awnings, they put wood chips on the eggs - they even sat on a few of them perhaps hoping they would hatch - but they did not (to my knowledge) put worms in them. It might have upset the (hungry) unhatched baby birds, but I'm pretty sure it kept the worms happy.<br />Juliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00258980578104191450noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6573960358949260390.post-14173446677318314592012-03-22T20:26:00.001-07:002012-03-22T20:26:55.648-07:00A Sure-Fire Path to New Little People AppreciationSo, perhaps as a teacher you've reached a point in the school year when you're a little weary of your young students. Perhaps the cumulative effects of the recent time change, multiple changes of weather and general spring fever has made your little ones a little harder to handle. Perhaps you've heard "teacher, teacher, teacher" too many times after you've specifically talked about the best way to get the teacher's attention. Or perhaps you're just a little tired.<br />
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I too have felt this way, and in fact have found a solution to this problem. All you need to do is spend a morning in someone<i> else's</i> classroom substitute teaching <i>their</i> students, and suddenly you will develop a whole new appreciation for your own familiar Little People. <br />
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It will be like when you're feeling like your house is really small and then you invite a whole bunch of people over for a long party. When they leave - voila! Your house is quite roomy again.<br />
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So it will be after a morning with the Unknown Little People. Especially if you don't really know all of their names, how their daily routine goes, and what Weather song they sing. When they don't really listen to you like they should, and you can't even silence them at Circle Time with The Look, because they don't know that The Look really means business. Even more so after one of them pats your arm in a poking way at lunchtime and says, "Your arm is really flappy."<br />
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After this experience, when your own Little People arrive, you will just be happy. And appreciative. And all will be right in Preschool World again.<br />
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The Little People still are having lots of fun with the Rainbow Streamers. Because they are made with shower curtain rings, you can open then and attach them to various things. Once the kids figured this out, the decorating began. For two days in a row they have used them to create the"party" shown above and below. This kind of fun and creative play confirms two things to me. First, that it was a good idea to keep the streamers at school as opposed to sending them home with the kids as we have done with some of our other projects. Second, that an evening sitting in front of the TV making Rainbow Streamers was definitely worth it!<br />
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Here are a few that were just finished:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Someone at the Girls' Night Out Mosaic party started this one, and then I finished it. I loved how she put the little flecks of red in there for Naaman's sores. I made the mouth of the friend on the left, but every time I look at it, I think, "Hey, Naaman, what's wrong, buddy? You look<b> terrible</b>. But hey,enough about you - look at my sparkling white teeth!"</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Solomon builds the temple. Or rather, Solomon watches in his fancy clothes while the temple is built.</td></tr>
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<br />Juliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00258980578104191450noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6573960358949260390.post-37951781456876998002012-03-09T18:05:00.000-08:002012-03-09T18:05:51.371-08:00Rainbow StreamersThis week we had a great time talking about the Letter R and Rainbows with the Little People. Although we made all sorts of activities, my favorite was probably the Rainbow Streamers. <br />
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They were made out of strips of plastic tablecloths from the dollar store attached to curtain rings. They ran with them, they threw them, they attached them to bars on the playground and made a car wash out of the them. <br />
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They even gathered around one of them solemnly, place their hands on their hearts, and said the pledge beside one of them:<br />
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And while I realize that there might be issues involved with saying the pledge to a non-flag, I thought the association was pretty clever.<br />
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You just never know what these Little People will come up with...Juliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00258980578104191450noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6573960358949260390.post-14276801026425403682012-03-06T16:47:00.000-08:002012-03-06T16:47:32.440-08:00Picture of the DayOkay, here is my Picture of the Day for today. This appeared today after we set out some various die cuts that start with "R".<br />
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It's very interesting to me that this year's class enjoys the die cuts in the writing center so much. Last year's class really didn't pay attention to them at all. However, I am always seeing interesting creations made from them this year. The Little Person who made Mr. Rollerskating Stick Figure above is especially clever with them on a daily basis.<br />
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In fact, today she also gave me this to keep...<br />
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I love how the <strike>bunnies</strike> rabbits are holding hands.<br />
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This is really one of my favourite things about teaching the Little People. We set out a few random things, and they work on their own to make something clever.Juliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00258980578104191450noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6573960358949260390.post-70624975904895973642012-03-01T10:18:00.001-08:002012-03-01T10:18:26.802-08:00A Windy Wednesday<br />
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Yesterday was a windy, windy day. In fact, it was a "Windy Wednesday", which the Little People thought was a funny thing.<br />
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However, we didn't mind, since this unusual weather turned into a perfect opportunity to try out some plastic bag kites. I had actually thought of this activity last week when we were doing the Letter K, but the wind just wasn't on our side during those days.<br />
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However, yesterday it was perfect. To make a plastic bag kite you need a plastic bag and a piece of yarn around four feet long. Most of our bags were Target-type bags, but we also had a trash bag out there that worked really well. You tie one end of the yarn to each handle of the bag (or you bunch up sections of the trash bag to make "handles", and then voila! you have a kites. Once the wind catches the bags, they puff up beautifully and you can "fly" them to your heart's content.<br />
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Granted, giving Little People plastic bags attached to long strings can have it's problems. One child unfortunately let go of his string and away, away, away went his kite, over the fence and out of sight. Presumably it floated up over the school as well, since in a few minutes a few of the elementary kids brought it back to us from the playground on the other side of the school grounds.<br />
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And then of course you have the issues with "no strings around your neck" and "no plastic bags on your head", which became extra-tricky when it suddenly started to rain on us.<br />
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Last but not least you have your "yarn + bike" equation, which led to problems like this:<br />
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However, all in all it was an excellent lesson on wind and kites, and it cost us almost nothing. Plus, I think the Little People will be talking about the Plastic Bag Kites for quite some time.<br />Juliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00258980578104191450noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6573960358949260390.post-41416637395466043182012-02-23T09:47:00.002-08:002012-02-23T09:47:48.362-08:00Reporting vs. Tattling for the Little PeopleLook at this great sign that I found on Pinterest:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #76838b; font-size: 10px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Source: </span><a href="http://allthingskatiemarie.blogspot.com/2012/01/tattle-jar.html" style="color: #76838b; font-size: 10px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">allthingskatiemarie.blogspot.com</a><span style="color: #76838b; font-size: 10px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"> via </span><a href="http://pinterest.com/julkal/" style="color: #76838b; font-size: 10px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" target="_blank">Julie</a><span style="color: #76838b; font-size: 10px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"> on </span><a href="http://pinterest.com/" style="color: #76838b; font-size: 10px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" target="_blank">Pinterest</a> </td></tr>
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Isn't this fantastic? And boy, do my Little People need to read this. In fact, I might just teach them all to read early, just so they can read and process this information. Or, I suppose that I can just do my best to teach it to them anyway. Because our classroom lately is just a swarm of complaints and tattling. <br />
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These are the most common complaints that I am hearing these days:<br />
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<b>What I hear: </b>"Teacher, teacher, teacher, teacher..."<br />
<b>Me:</b> Yes, Sally.<br />
<b>Sally:</b> <i>(in a whiny and pseudo-tearful voice)</i> Teacher, I was lining up, and Suzie was behind me, but now Jenny is behind me!<br />
<b>Me:</b> Sally, you can not be in charge of who is behind you. All you can be in charge of is where you are in line, and you can talk to people who cut in front of you. It's not cutting if people change places <b>behind</b> you.<br />
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<b>What I hear: </b>Teacher, teacher, teacher - Suzie said she's not my friend anymore.<br />
<b>To which I respond (loud enough for Suzie to hear):</b> "Oh, Suzie must have forgotten how it hurts your feelings to hear that. Why don't you tell Suzie how you don't like it when she says that."<br />
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<b>What I hear:</b> Teacher, teacher, teacher - Stevie said that I'm not hot lunch today, but I <b>am</b> hot lunch today.<br />
To which I respond: You are the one who knows whether you are hot lunch or not. Is Stevie wrong about whether you are hot lunch?<br />
<b>Student: </b>Yes, because I <b>am</b> hot lunch.<br />
<b>Me:</b> Then don't worry about what Stevie says.<br />
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<b>What I hear: </b>Teacher, teacher, teacher - Bobby says that I'm sitting on the green row, but I sit on the blue row! <br />
<b>To this I respond:</b> Well, do you sit on the green row?<br />
<b>Student</b>: No.<br />
<b>Me:</b> Then don't worry about what Bobby says. Besides, I think Bobby just had a brain fog about which color your row is. <br />
<b>What I really want to say: </b>Um, sweetie, I'm pretty sure that Bobby still doesn't know which color is blue and which is green, so pay no attention to that. (Actually, I'm beginning to suspect that Bobby is color blind.)<br />
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<b>What I hear: </b>Teacher, teacher, teacher - Jonny pushed me with his foot when he sat down on the carpet.<br />
<b>Jonny</b> - I <i>said</i> I was sorry already.<br />
<b>To which I respond:</b> Oh, it looks like you don't need my help for that problem. Jonny accidentally pushed you with his foot, but then he said he was sorry. You don't even need to tell me about that problem at all.<br />
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I think that instead of all of these responses that take a huge amount of patience and careful wording, I will show them this chart (perhaps in a picture form) and then from then on respond to their complaints by referring to the chart:<br />
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<b>Are you trying to keep someone safe?</b><br />
<b>Do you need a grownup to help solve this problem?</b><br />
<b>Is what happened an accident?</b><br />
<b>Is what happened important? </b><br />
<b>Is someone in danger? Is someone sick? </b><br />
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If the answer is no, then I will ask them to try to solve it themselves.<br />
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Now to work on the picture version. Perhaps a flow chart would work...<br />
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<br />Juliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00258980578104191450noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6573960358949260390.post-54370859791686902992012-02-22T09:52:00.002-08:002012-03-18T18:14:11.796-07:00More MosaicsHere are a few more finished boards. At the moment, I believe we have 45 out of 65 done. So far, so good.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Have you ever wondered why it was only after the second trip up the mountain to get new stone tables that Moses came down shiny? Why wasn't he shiny the first time he came down? Was it perhaps just a build-up of shininess? I just don't know.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">All during the making of this one I was thinking it was Pharaoh being mean the the slaves (hence the angry eyes). However, when I got the original clip art to check how the bowed-down people looked, I noticed the caption said Joseph forgives his brothers. Whoops. Might have to remove the angry eyes and replace them with kinder, gentler, forgiving eyes.</td></tr>
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<br />Juliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00258980578104191450noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6573960358949260390.post-32274591982306124772012-02-15T15:23:00.001-08:002012-02-15T15:23:32.847-08:00Valentine's Day<br />
Well, another Valentine's Day is now behind us. Numerous valentines were passed out, goody bags were carted home, and who knows how many cookies and cupcakes were consumed. We graphed conversation hearts, made cards for family members, and practiced some fine-motor skills with popsicle sticks, sugar cookies, and frosting. All that is left from the day are some residual candies left after the boys commandeered my own Valentine's bag once I got home from the school.<br />
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This year we tried a new type of Valentine's bag. I decided that I wanted to try making bags out of two layers of clear Contact paper with tissue paper hearts in between the layers. The plan was to layer the items between the Contact paper, fold the paper in half, and then tape the edges to make it into a bag. It looked so cute and easy.<br />
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The first hint I learned was to <b>tape down the Contact paper </b>before the kids start putting decorations on it. I learned this the <b>really</b> hard way. At first I blithely thought I could just lay the Contact paper on the table sticky-side up and warn them to try not to touch the paper too much. Bless their hearts. I had one Little Person on the edge of tears as she desperately tried to get the sticky paper off of her hands, arms, clothes and ultimately out of her hair. I finally was able to wrestle it away from her without causing any Contact Paper Removal Abrasions and cover it with a second piece, trapping no less than three or four or her hairs in the process. Finally I shooed all of the children away while I took several deep breaths and started over by taping the contact paper securely to the table (sticky side up, of course).<br />
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The second hint I learned was to adhere the second sheet of contact paper on very carefully. I learned that it was best to first just peel back an inch or so of the backing paper on the second sheet all the way down one edge. Once this long inch of paper was exposed, I lined it up with the already-decorated sticky paper (which was still taped to the table) and pressed this small part together. Then I slowly pulled the rest of the backing paper off while running my other hand down the papers to seal them together. <b>Trust me</b>, this is much easier than taking all of the backing off of the second sheet and then trying to maneuver it right on top of the first sheet and then trying to adhere them smoothly together.<br />
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Now that I've figured out a few tricks to make working with the Contact paper easier, I might conquer these additional Contact paper ideas found on Pinterest. They might end up containing some air bubbles and a few stray hairs, but I'm sure they will be wonderful:<br />
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</div>Juliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00258980578104191450noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6573960358949260390.post-75245492310530574152012-02-09T08:00:00.000-08:002012-02-09T08:00:04.297-08:00The Classroom Tree in Spring Mode<br />
Well, believe it or not, we are seeing definite signs of spring here in California. Just today I broke off a couple of twigs from trees and took them in the classroom to show the Little People how new leaves were coming out of the leaf buds.<br />
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With onset of spring in mind, I spent some time wandering in the Dollar Tree today trying to find a way to make our classroom tree look spring-ish. I wanted it to have flowers (since it's supposed to be an apple tree, after all), but since I didn't give the tree flowers last year, I didn't have anything already planned or stored away for this look.<br />
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I went into the store thinking I might look at the bunches of artificial flowers with the goal of pulling the flowers off of the plastic stems and sewing them together on the sewing machine to make a flower garland. However, it quickly became apparent that it would take a <b>lot </b>of bunches of flowers to make any significant amount of garland.<br />
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But then at the front of the store I saw them: "Wedding" flower garlands<br />
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Each package had 12 feet of garland. Each white flower was separated with what appears to be a piece of clear drinking straw. Now that I think about it, this idea could easy to be replicated at home, but certainly not for the cost of a dollar.<br />
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And certainly not for $.50 each, which is what they rung up for when I took my eight garlands up to the cash register.<br />
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After school I began to drape the flowers up on the tree. I actually thought I got all eight strands on there, but then after I was finished I found one more strand that I had not put up yet. Then I went back to the Dollar Tree after school and bought 11 more strands. (I was a little worried that they had changed the price to a dollar in the three hours that I was away, but hooray, they had not.)<br />
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Here is the tree in the first stage of its spring look. As you can see, seven garlands hardly made an impact on the tree at all, but adding 12 more tomorrow should do the trick.<br />
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I wasn't really sure how to string the flowers up so I just randomly tried a few methods as I went along. However, after I was finished I could tell that I didn't like this "wraparound" method shown below...<br />
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...as much as the "group and clump" method shown here at the far end of these branches.<br />
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So tomorrow I'll be doing lots of "grouping and clumping", which of course are highly technical tree-decorating terms.<br />
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As you can see in the picture above, the garlands did have other things on them. They came as both flowers and holographic hearts, or holographic doves, but I went for the hearts. I took them off the garland and then added them to the Valentine's creative art center that was a choice today:<br />
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Actually, I almost feel like just the cool silver hearts were worth the $.50 alone. I think I'll take the ones that they don't use on their art and put some of my blank yard sale address labels on them and put them in the writing center for Valentine's Day cards.<br />
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So, a tree's worth of apple blossoms, plus over 100 large holographic hearts to use for various purposes for only $9.50. Not a bad deal at all.<br />Juliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00258980578104191450noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6573960358949260390.post-91011679255581512802012-02-08T16:19:00.000-08:002012-02-08T16:19:52.199-08:00#7 and #14Here are #7 and #14 with all their glass on:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here are the first set of plagues. I love how the person who did this one made the cow - very nicely done. I had trouble knowing what to do for the gnat, so they're made of beads. One smooth bead for the main body, and two faceted, shiny beads for the wings. </td></tr>
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<br />Juliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00258980578104191450noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6573960358949260390.post-55615217791760890372012-02-01T22:11:00.000-08:002012-02-01T22:11:00.370-08:00More FinishedHere are the mosaic boards that are recently finished:<br />
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My friend Carolyn wanted to write "What Happens Under the Golden Calf Stays Under the Golden Calf" on the altar of this one. But she did not. <br />
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After awhile, I took a break from gluing to do some highlighting. Here is how the list looks now:<br />
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I'm still not counting how many we still have to finish, but we're definitely getting closer...Juliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00258980578104191450noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6573960358949260390.post-27980541841340745362012-01-31T22:03:00.000-08:002012-01-31T22:03:00.285-08:00Getting the Boards ReadyYesterday I showed you how our Girls' Night Out went last week. <br />
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Before I took the boards there, I did a little bit of prep work to get a few of them ready. Mainly I put some face details on, because the faces can be a little daunting to newbie mosaicers. (Yes, I know that's not a word - at least to Mr. Spellcheck.)<br />
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First of all, I took a picture of all the boards waiting for transport to the church building...sort of as a farewell to those that were completed and would not be returned. (Sniff, sniff...)<br />
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Here are some of the ones that I left up at the building to be displayed in our new children's wing:<br />
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Here is Pharaoh just after the application of his angry eyes. I thought this was kind of a nice, serene picture.<br />
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Here is another board waiting in the sunlight...<br />
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Here is a closeup look of some eye application. Some of the eyes were done with beads, and some were done with little pieces of black. "Small black slivers", as the pencil writing instructs.<br />
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Here are Samson's "intense" eyes. Here you can also see what happens if you trace the pictures onto the board with something other than a permanent marker. Remember: waterbased marker + glue = big smeary mess.<br />
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I was kind of enjoying this guy as I was gluing his eyes on. He's really a captive being carried off to Babylon, but due to his kind-of point ears, I am fondly thinking of him as Legolas the elf/captive.<br />
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I had a little trouble deciding what to do on this Esther picture. As in several of the board, a slight tilt of the mouth or eyes can change the whole personality. And I wasn't sure about Esther. Was she stressed out and dismayed at suddenly being the queen (as shown below...)<br />
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...or perhaps was she pleased with it all? I decided to go with pleased, because I'm just a glass-half-full kind of person. Plus I like thinking that she kind of enjoyed all the good things about queenship (queendom) before all of her people became in jeopardy of extinction, etc, etc.<br />
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Tomorrow I'll show all the boards that are now finished after the Girls' Night Out (plus a busy weekend of mosaic-ing on my part).Juliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00258980578104191450noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6573960358949260390.post-38600143246962186482012-01-30T21:40:00.000-08:002012-01-30T21:40:19.668-08:00More Mosaics FinishedWell, we had a "Girls' Night Out" at church last week, and a bunch of ladies turned out to work on the mosaics! Here's what it all looked like:<br />
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Here are the squares that were completed when the evening began. I took them to encourage everyone about our progress:<br />
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Here are the containers of glass, all laid out for people to choose from:<br />
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Here are the ladies working away:<br />
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Here is another table of workers...<br />
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...and another table of workers! It was a great turn out, and we got lots done. Plus it was kind of like an old-fashioned quilting bee - there was lots of laughing and visiting while everyone worked.<br />
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Well, and there were some band-aids. Because as you know, glass is sharp.<br />
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I really am grateful that so many people came to help, and I'm excited that we're that much closer to finishing this project!Juliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00258980578104191450noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6573960358949260390.post-47931437468985897152012-01-24T08:23:00.000-08:002012-01-24T08:23:27.880-08:00#25 and #64 #25 and #64 just got <span style="background-color: orange;">highlighted.</span><span style="background-color: white;"> We're getting closer!</span><br />
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And #7, 45, 41, 22, 20, 32, 40, 30, 18 and 26 just got <span style="background-color: yellow;">highlighted in yellow (drawn).</span><br />
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