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Baby steps are those tiny, teetering steps that are so celebrated when little ones take them — and so reviled when a big person tries them.

Growing up in the far eastern edge of the Central Time Zone has set my body clock to surprisingly different expectations about light and dark and time. AND people here start things later or have them go later. Quilt guild meeting was still going at pm! I had to sneak out. Replacing buttons has been historically difficult to me — so teeny little seed beads were intimidating as heck. YET — I made myself just try.

I sat one whole evening playing. Oh my happy artist baby — getting to play — having it be ok if the beads were all higgledy-piggledy. That gives me enough time — and actually coincides with my triathlon training goals. For me running and quilting go hand in hand. I was even brave enough to go in, buy a few things, and introduce myself. Yay me! While there, I saw a notice on the bulletin board looking for someone to be a marketing intern for a local artist.

She is and has long been one of my very favorites. For a nanosecond I considered applying as a way to meet her. I just love your work. She lives close by. She might give workshops. I love it here. Diversity is valued. Community is considered important.

Art is everywhere. People are outside and together. July 4, by Calyx Meredith. The excitement of starting a new grade, being old enough to learn new things, having the chance to see my friends again — all of it thrilled me to the tips of my newly shod toes.

Perhaps, though, the thing I liked best about the start of school was the clarity, the blank slate, the clean start. I know now that anxiety runs deeply throughout my family and that perfectionism is often a panic-born, coping mechanism gone amok.

I look back and see that the fresh start of each school year was a time when I was momentarily free from the harping of my internal critic, a time when my perfectionism was quiescent. I had breathing room and hope and the chance to create a structure anew for myself that, with a little luck, would carry me through the rougher parts of the year.

My most successful classes all had one thing in common: I was able to devise from the get go a study pattern, note taking system, or mental structure for processing the class. No mental clutter had a chance to build up and I had access to my own understanding of the subject matter. Once I started mentally piling things in corners, it was all over for me — I rarely caught up enough to do particularly well.

I also vividly remember the sinking feeling I had the first few days of Chemistry. I had been looking forward to taking Chemistry for two years. I was fascinated by the articles on brain chemistry my grandmother had sent me.

Chemistry and I were going to get along! Much to my dismay, my enthusiasm, electric blue notebook, new set of highlighters and colored pens for notes mattered not. The first night I eagerly read the first chapter in the text book. Baffled, I re-read it. Then I went back and read every word of the introduction to see what I had missed. Frantic, I read the next two chapters thinking that they might give me information that would make the first chapter make sense.

From the first day of that year — I had a mess of information that I had no way to process. To this day, Chemistry feels like an undigested rock in my mental gut. Do you think my brain has a gut? The obvious clean slates are rare. Yes, yes, every day is a new day blah, blah, recovery talk, blah — but more often than not each new day brings with it a continuation of a situation, event, or mindset that is already muddied, mixed, and has strings attached. My recovery, my commitment to my creative self requires that I reach through the inspirational, sappy talk — through the mixed-up, integrated mess that is daily life — to demarcate clear zones WITHOUT unhealthily compartmentalizing my self.

It is such a balancing act! I was tickled to have come up with such a potentially useful idea, right here at the beginning of my quilt blogging ways! It gave me a huge rush of that back to school feeling. I have a fresh start and enough time to develop just what I need to create a system that works for me. I want to cultivate that in all aspects of my artistic life.

I have to keep reminding myself that I am the only one putting obstacles in the way of that! July 3, by Calyx Meredith. Burned Blossom. Delayed by business appointments, art dates, and rain — I finally got up in the tree today. I did not find the luscious, glorious magnolia blossom I was looking for.

I found a burned up, bug-ridden blossom mid-collapse. Interesting, somewhat scary, and waaaay less pretty. I was going for pretty.

I realize that there is an element of artistic immaturity in plain ole pretty. I LIKE pretty. The somewhat scary threw me. The less pretty is making me rethink. The image is growing on me. Whatever shape they land on, is the one that they trace and color on their quilt. Encourage students to identify the shape by saying its name. The 1st one who completes their quilt, or the one with the most shapes colored in when the timer rings, is the winner. The rest of the players complete their quilts too.

I've included a black and white spinner, as well as one in color, plus both options, with shape- word labels. Students can color they shapes any color that they want I encourage children to use lots of colors or they can color the shape to match the one on the spinner. Thanks for visiting today. Feel free to PIN away. If you've enjoyed the teaching materials and would like to donate even a dollar to help me with the cost of running TWM, I'd be grateful.

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Objectives Students will learn about changes that occurred in the New World and Old World as a result of early exploration. Older students only. Besides strange people and animals, they were exposed to many foods that were unknown in the Old World. In this lesson, you might post an outline map of the continents on a bulletin board. On the bulletin board, draw an arrow from the New World the Americas to the Old World Europe, Asia, Africa and post around it drawings or images from magazines or clip art of products discovered in the New World and taken back to the Old World.

You might draw a second arrow on the board -- from the Old World to the New World -- and post appropriate drawings or images around it.

Adapt the Lesson for Younger Students Younger students will not have the ability to research foods that originated in the New and Old World. You might adapt the lesson by sharing some of the food items in the Food Lists section below. Have students collect or draw pictures of those items for the bulletin board display.

Students might find many of those and add them to the bulletin board display. Notice that some items appear on both lists -- beans, for example. There are many varieties of beans, some with New World origins and others with their origins in the Old World.

In our research, we found sources that indicate onions originated in the New and sources that indicate onions originated in the Old World. Students might create a special question mark symbol to post next to any item for which contradictory sources can be found Note: The Food Timeline is a resource that documents many Old World products. This resource sets up a number of contradictions. For example: Many sources note that tomatoes originated in the New World; The Food Timeline indicates that tomatoes were introduced to the New World in