Millie pros

Millie has been wonderful with a friend who just met her.  Normally she runs and hides from anyone she doesn't really know.    But with this friend, she hung around in the living room the whole time.  Behind the chair much of it, but with us never the less.

Millie also does not bark and start a dog chorus in my neighbourhood....  like the dozens of dogs around here.

And though her poop stinks, she does her best to hide it and once I scoop it, stink is gone...

I have had some stress at work.  We ran out of clay when my kids had just started the second coil project of the 3D third marking period.  I had to have them scrap the work and had to quickly whip up another project idea.  I usually do tunnel books, but I changed it a bit.  I now have them doing a pop up construction based on a fairy tale.  They hated it at first, but they seem to like it now.  I did a few demos, left my work out, and told them to try it on their own.  I refused to help them as much as usual.  I want them working more independently.  They were able to figure out the problems themselves and were quite proud.  They actually seem to be liking this substitute project.  Phew.

Photo III wants to keep printing the large format negatives and two of them re-shot.  So...  I changed the lesson plan and am adding another week.  The negatives are great... The prints need a bit more vibrance, greater range of value.  However I am still proud of them.

This week I introduce a new project to Photo II:  Community Zine.  I am using ideas from the workshop I went to last year (and paid for out of my pocket).  I have been reading zines for so long and no high school kid I have ever taught really knows what they are.  Ugh....  Time to introduce some independent counter culture publishing to them!