hi! ;D happy almost valentines day! (whoever you are)

today i started drawing a new picture and it’s really cool! drawing makes me happy!

yaaaay! :}

I’M NEW. (: ;p ******* :^D I would like to learn how to build a model house.
PURPLE IS MY FAVE COLOR. PURPLE ROX!!!!! ;}

Hello Readers,Today was a wonderful class. We, firstly had free draw as a warm-up. I drew a picture in 3 major parts. One, a horrible pattern (I didn’t have enough time to finish it). Two, a signature “net”. And, finally, an elaborate pattern. Another person (who shall remain nameless, but if that person wishes, may reveal his or her name) drew two versions of “Robo Chicken”, and yet another drew a “Driftwood City”. After this, we ‘talked architecture’, for a couple of minutes. Then came the fun part. We split up into two groups, and each group was alotted a set amount of materials. Each group had to come iup with a design, and build, a fort. Unfortunately, I only know what my group did, so I will tell you that. My group built “Egypt”.Two long tables and one short table made the “True chamber”, as I’ve taken the liberty of calling it. Then using a series of chairs and carboard peice we built a tunnel, to provide extra space. to cover any gaps, we draped over the back, and fastened with chairs, a large white sheet. After this, we spruced up the place by making the gaps, which we named windows, at the top symetrical. Over all the only real problem with Egypt was space. I offer my special thanks for this project to Sam who did a fabulous job of photographing all of the pictures you see here today, and Winifred, who did a phenominal job of being scribe extraordinare. And of course, Andrew.PUN: Why was the man angry at the clown? It made a rude jester.TRIVIA: What is triskaidekaphobia?Still chronicling the daily events of Art Stars,AaronPostscript: The fear of the number 13.

The Eye and the Pyramid

Originally uploaded by Cooperative Not Collective

Hello, I wanted to announce a new feature to Fort Rochambeaus Web presence, which is our Flickr page! You will be able to see all the photos from class, cuz we are gonna take a lot, some of which you will see on the blog! Click on this link to visit our photos!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cooperativenotcollective/

This blog is a big adventure. One aspect of this adventure is how intimidating of a medium writing is for me. But I am pretty inspire by the posts that are going up so far. I initiated this project as a means to document my various youth-work practices. Already I sought out advice about this project by showing the site to various education friends. One piece of advice that these conversations have illuminated is the idea will shift and be re-molded so I should be clear about my intentions. So here goes:

• I want a space for my reflections on the various class projects we undertake.
• This blog is to be simultaneous a showcase for our community building projects and a collaborative project in itself.
• I hope that by putting tools for individual expression in the hands of these kids, we will all get new insights on the class.
• I hope that the opportunity of posting reflections about both my and the students experiences in this class will continue to build our observational and critical reflection skills.

For now, those are my hopes. . . As a final note I have taught with the bulk of these kids before, and it was that magnificent experience that inspired this project. I hope to identify the various factors at play that have enabled this unique opportunity to build forts and re-define our immediate environment together.

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Well, well, well. . .officially this is the conclusion to our third week of programming together. After our first five meetings we inaugurated our official in class blog! What a launch too. . . though not without some hiccups.

So here are some images of todays three mini forts -

The Flag is flying high on “Zitaly” in the background, while we can see Sam and the title placard of “The Hexagon” in the fore.

A blur of construction. . .

And the satisfaction of a completed nest. All pieced together in the final twenty minutes of class.

Readers,

This is my whopping second post on this fabulous web log. Today we started this phenomenal blog. It is truly, one of my favorite web sites now that I know how to properly use it. I would like to say that today, Joseph, Sam, and I each created our own forts. My fort was constructed of 9 cardboard pieces. Sam’s was called the hexagon (it held the ‘peanut gallery’) Mine was made in three segments, like two vertical pieces, and on to a horizontal flat “roof” Between the front and middle segments, in the small crack, I put in a “flag” composed of a pen, which sits in front of me now, and a small piece of paper, with symbols scribbled on it. I entitled my fort, Zitaly. In it was the movable bottom of the pen, or “dowel” to the flag. Also I had a library in it, that consisted of one book. Truthfully, it was very unstable, as it is solely made of cardboard, but, for cardboard, it was a miracle it stayed so well. Trivia: What was the first story typed on a typewriter? Pun: What the mathematician say, when he saw an angel? “It’s a sine!”

Aaron

Post Script: Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain (Samuel Clements)

Readers,

Hello. My name is Aaron. I go to a super fun program called Art Stars. I have been with this program since it began. Brief History: Session 1- We had a teacher called Candice. We made, among other things, a hat made out of shopping bags. Session 2- We had a teacher named Brad. We did the history of art, and made a “Cave Wall”, masks, soap carvings, and other pictures. Session 3- We had Brad again, and made a hilarious movie called ‘The Secret of Williams Well’. Session 4- We had our current teacher extraudinare, Andrew. We made, among other things, a puppet show, and books. Now, Session 5- Our current session. We are making this blog (Duh!), and we nare making forts out of simple materials, hence, the name Fort Rochambau. I hope to make the best forts that I can make. I would like to announce that I will have (at least) two features in this. Firstly, a trivia question. Secondly, a pun. Trivia Question: What was the first country to allow women to vote? Pun:Why did the mother scold the chicken: It used foul language.

Aaron

post Script: The answer - New Zealand.

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