If any of you have kids that like Star Wars, you may have come across the Origami Yoda series. In it the kids in a middle school make origami (and other material) finger puppets from Star Wars to help them deal with your stereotypical school woes.
My son has decided it's time to form a Rebel Alliance! He's recruited a few friends and I asked him what he was rebelling against. His answer floored me: Common Core. Understand, my son is 9, severe AD/HD with Asperger traits. He's in the 4th grade, in self-contained special ed to work on social controls but has the goal to be main-streamed next year. He's advanced academically but when he gets on a train of thought only the end of the line will end the conversation and tangent questions. I suggested he blog about what his group is doing it and am going to help him with it. I'm going to be the "holocron recorder" (he's making me Qui Gon finger puppet, he's General Grievous) and together we'll be writing up posts and scanning pictures of finger puppets and their interjections. I look at this as a way for him to get a better understanding of communication, organizing his thoughts and expressing his views. He's also going to get an understanding of debate (yes, I'm going to allow comments but plan to filter the garbage before he gets it) and explaining his position intellectually. Why am I putting this here? For one, I wanted to share it... it's awesome in my mind that my son is doing this on his own. Second, I need ideas for a domain... the title's a mouthful. I'm not sure if this is going to be a blogger.com site or if I should host a WordPress (I could always migrate). Third, if anyone (or their kids) want to join us you'll need a finger puppet! Until Later! C. Hatton Humphrey http://www.eastcoastconservative.com Every cloud does have a silver lining. Sometimes you just have to do some smelting to find it. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:372967 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
