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I had known about the Mi'Kmaw game of waltes for many years but I had never seen it played. Today at the Port Royal Habitation we were offered the opportunity to learn how to play this ancient game. Waltes is played with a wooden bowl and six two sided dice. The player bangs the bowl to make the dice jump and tries to get five matching dice to open the game. Play continues with various combinations of dice needed to score. In a very nice touch, a hand is swept over the bowl after each failed turn to remove your bad luck. The sticks are used to keep score.
A little girl watching her mother outside their shop in Mauritius. This was shot as I passed them in a taxi!
Saturday, 18 June 2016
The beautiful Moat Garden will be the setting for our biggest family event ever: a festival to celebrate The Queen's 90th birthday. Join us for a full day of events, including storytelling with our popular storyteller Olivia, telling tales of The Queen, live 1950s music, knights, soldiers, a local school band and children's entertainers. Bring your own picnic and come dressed in your best party clothes to take part in the children's costume parade after each storytelling session and claim a memento of the day.
*Storytelling sessions: 11:30, 13:00, 14:30, Moat Garden. Each storytelling session will last approximately 30 minutes and will end with a Children's Parade. Please bring a waterproof rug to sit on.
*Live music throughout the day by Windsor Jazz and the LuLaLas, Moat Garden
*Family Picnic (weather permitting), Moat Garden and Bandstand
*Meet a Military Knight:13:00-16:00, The Dean's Cloister (at the exit to St George's Chapel)
*Soldiers and military vehicles including a Panther armoured vehicle and a light tank with tracks:12:30-16:30, Parade Ground
*The Queen's Six:12:00-12:45, The Waterloo Chamber
*The Windsor Upper Schools Music Department: 11:30- 16:00, Bandstand and Chapter Grass, St George's Chapel
*Children's Entertainers:11:00-15:00, Castle Precincts
Cusi Travel is supporting education at the village where our Quechuas (porters) come from by providing an English teacher. These children are eager to show us how they can count to 20 in English!
Exploration Works Learning Garden at YMCA in Helena, Montana
I am working on a detailed blog post of our project -- I will post a link here as soon as the post is online. Thanks for your interest.
There are lots more progress photos and description on my landscape-design-business account, Native Design. It's a set called "Helena Growing Communities"
Nomads (pastoralists) usually follow the herds of animals they care for and eat. They need to have dogs, weapons and not much else; most of their lives revolve around having pastures and water for their lifestyle.
Congratulations to the Avondale Regional Branch Library teens for all the reading they completed this summer! They're celebrating an end of Summer Learning with super snacks, silk-screening, gaming, and prizes galore!
Counselors Katelyn Corsino, Justin Robinson, and Kyra Kennedy along with volunteers Karinelis Ayala, Rainey Cox, Sara Rosenburg, and Tony Perez celebrate with their team The A-Team.
A few months back I was trained to become a high school mentor for the YMCA. I don't really want to go into the details of mentoring (it's something that every twenty-something should try it) and truthfully, I don't have much to offer to this 15 year old girl other than my attentive ear and a few practical jokes. Her personal family issues and quirks aside, she's really just your average teenager with the average teenager problems. She's not one to regale the winter ball or talk about boys. She nervously anticipates getting slammed with a wave of homework assignments. She can't stand it when her older brothers pick on her. Her only companion is her beloved cat, who glares and snarls at every guest.
In the past two months, I've learned a lot from my mentee about friends, family, and problems. It's funny to hear her stories from school and see that there are some elements from high school that really never change in adulthood. When I hear her complain about the mean girls in school, I think about the mean girls in my life who have been bossy, overbearing, and critical. And when you're doling advice to a 15 year old, telling them that "you don't have to be their friend", it makes you rethink your own friendships as well.
This is the general outline I am using to train my teachers about breaking down large projects into parts using web 2.0 tech. Popplet is collaborative up to 10 users. We love it. It can do so much more than what is seen here.
Me at Pittsburgh's Cathedral of Learning...the original from which I made my Librarian Trading Card.
This is part of a photo shoot for a not for profit organization for documenting their innovative methods for teaching and learning in a school for under-privileged girls - the main focus of teaching method is encouraging children to tackle problems through group analysis and discussion instead of handed down learning. The class rooms are redesigned so that groups of girls face each other. The subject teachers are trained to introduce the topics but thereafter take a less active role,; mainly acting as a facilitator to the students in finding their answers through a dialectic process
Seedy Saturday is a great place to learn more about gardening, both from the exhibitors and from the many experts who give talks.
Photo by Janice Hayward, Photojournalist
Metropolitan Learning Center Monday June 6, 2016. Alice and Sadie Gustavson, Cassius and Laslo. © 2016 Portland Public Schools / www.fredjoephoto.com