5 1/2 Years: Celebrating Tegan's Birthday Sharing the Photo Album of Tegan's Early Years...
 One Second Every Day... from 1 to 5 years! Opening Up the Box with a Table Setting Clue Inside...
The Table...
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 During our Portfolio Review afternoons we will not be posting to blog, with the exception of our special Mystery Guest on Wednesday the 22nd and Tegan's birthday celebration on Thursday the 23rd...
Mystery Guest Presents: |
 Hover your iPhone camera or QR code reader over the QR codes (or click the Title links) to watch the movies together at home | Thank you so much for joining us at the Tucker Room Film Festival and for helping us spread the joy! The children remarked specifically on the effort, creativity, and enthusiasm that they expressed during the making of this project and we are thrilled that we were able to share it all with you and the whole St. John’s community. Hugh asked, “How can we make this go public?”…independent movie-maker awards?! |
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Second Screening: Movie-Along with our Brown and Rainey Room Friends
and that's a wrap!
Tucker Room Film Festival Tomorrow!
And a Movie-Along to follow at our usual Sing-Along time!
"I really like how they're all different." -Dagny  |  |
Adding Audio:
| "The Animals" |  |
| "The Crocodile Family" |  |
| "The Seal Rescues" |  |
Finishing touches...
...And delivering invitations to Brown and Rainey Room for ourTucker Room Film Festival sing-along.
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Getting Ready for the Tucker Room Film Festival
| Filming is complete and the film festival invitations are ready to hand out to our Brown and Rainey Room friends  Reviewing all three movies together to gather notes for final editing |
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Finishing up Filming:
"Did you finish filming?" -Maisie
"It's fun. I think it's really fun." -Dagny
Mystery Guest: Making Pasta with Tegan's Grandparents
"I don't know what comes next. I haven't done it in awhile." -Tegan
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"The dough is resting a little bit." -Valerio
"It's a pretty little ball, a round little ball." -Abby
Valerio comes from Italy and brought us pasta making as our Mystery Guest. The children watched and learned by helping make the dough that became the pasta!
"Is Italy in Antarica?" - Hugh "I've been to Italy, and pizza comes from Italy." -Tommy
Thank you to Tegan's Grandparents for a full day of fun!
***Spoiler Alert!***
"It really looks like the tropics!" - Hugh
 | This morning "The Seal Rescues" and "The Crocodile Family" worked on filming more scenes for their movies. "This is just so fun!!!" - Dagny |
| Meanwhile, Tommy and James worked on completing their story board for the "Animals" film.  |  |
T-minus 5 days until the Tucker Room Film Festival!
A Welcome Message for the New, Incoming Brown Room Children
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From the thoughtful input for a welcoming sentiment to the physical task of writing the letters, along with the cognitive process involved in letter recognition and spelling, the children created a beautiful message for incoming BR children.
"Maisie, you have to tell me what the letters are!" -Tegan
Dagny takes reads letters aloud to Tegan as she writes them out. "S..." -Dagny
"Can I just show you the difference between an S and a 3... A 3 goes a 'c' and then a 'c' that goes the same way and then an 's' goes a 'c' and then 'c' the other way....
I never realized that." -Tegan
"Can I just show you the difference between an S and a 3... A 3 goes a 'c' and then a 'c' that goes the same way and then an 's' goes a 'c' and then 'c' the other way....
I never realized that." -Tegan
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Movie making work continues....
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"It's the end of the week tomorrow." -Dagny
The children have the day off on Friday!
We'll see some of you at the New Parent Reception tomorrow!