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Post by doghouseriley on Dec 29, 2020 21:27:30 GMT
The youngest of our four grandchildren are fourteen and ten, all four kids are quite artistic.
As they live 200 miles away, they e-mailed these photos.
Over Christmas the eldest of the two made a cat and a pig in needlepoint
The youngest made this coach out of the kit we sent her, It came as sheets of plywood where you press out the components and assemble it. No glue or screws required. The pig's in the coach.
The two are inseperable, sharing the same interests they spend a lot of time together.
T Last year they were into making stop action videos on an iPad.
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Post by Jasmine on Dec 30, 2020 8:38:29 GMT
Clever girls! That stop/start video making must be a skill on the IT curriculum at school now, higher up than I teach! Very clever!
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Post by doghouseriley on Dec 30, 2020 10:30:37 GMT
Clever girls! That stop/start video making must be a skill on the IT curriculum at school now, higher up than I teach! Very clever! Thanks for that.
Their IT skills come from the fact that their father owns an IT and facilities company. His company is usually involved in installing IT systems in new builds, particularly for companies moving from an old building to a new one. It means staff can leave their desk in the old building on one day and carry on where they left off in a new building the following day.
They were always ahead of the class when it came to computers, however, they are just as happy writing and drawing. From an early age they "acted" little plays they'd written. They'd hide behind the sofa and act them out on the top of the back rest with their toys. Then they were into putting these stories into book form with an illustration on the facing page, like most kids books. The eldest who sells IT systems for a different company, she was "head hunted" from her previous employer, occasionally traveling to Europe and America, keeps a diary. But she prefers it to be hand written rather than on her phone or an iPad. None of them let computers rule their lives, the fourteen year-old has only just been given her first mobile phone.
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Post by Jasmine on Dec 30, 2020 10:36:08 GMT
They've been saying for years at school that we spend too long focusing on handwriting when IT will take over. I don't see it at the minute. Writing can be private and personal (like a diary), nothing on a computer will ever be private and personal, someone will always be able to access it.
I am always constantly amazed by our IT department at school, the stuff they can do!
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Post by doghouseriley on Dec 30, 2020 11:25:28 GMT
They've been saying for years at school that we spend too long focusing on handwriting when IT will take over. I don't see it at the minute. Writing can be private and personal (like a diary), nothing on a computer will ever be private and personal, someone will always be able to access it. I am always constantly amazed by our IT department at school, the stuff they can do! Our eldest granddaughter says that one of the reasons she keeps a written diary/journal was that a few years back she felt that she was "loosing the ability to write," in that her handwriting was becoming really bad.The grandkids were given access to a compouter from a very early age and given "games" to play on them which were really designed to help them with maths and spelling.They've always sent handwritten "thank you" letters for birthday and christmas presents, usually including little drawings. |
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