From Roscoe to Bill Elliott's field mice you can rediscover the world and sing for your family this month and help two nonprofits reach kids.
If you listen carefully you might hear the sound of Christmas on the Edudesigns website, in the sounds of your holiday season you might practice for the office party by listening in or order a book or book servies from this the wonderful, innovative site featured below:
Check out EduDesigns.org:
You will not only hear a holiday carol on a beautiful educational website, but you will find a new possibility for Christmas gifts. A new book that will make you a hit at parties, touch home school on in school arts classes for year round, but help you organize multi-age level and quiet Holiday fun. "Try it, use it, all you need to add is you." Acclaimed Disney Animator Ollie Johnston said " You've got all the stuff you need to learn in this book!"
Meet your instructor a generous author and professional who is dedicated to empowering learners of all ages:
Ruthie Elliott illustrator and cartoonist, mom, and course designer will not only change lives, but heal focus, build coordination skills, build storytelling and humor into your holidays. She has put an entire life of drawing and all its secrets into everyone's hands with her philosophy of putting "the tools on the lowest shelf for the youngest to find".
With her new book, you will develop the skills to see and draw Nature, our built structures, learn Math, and learn to illustrate anything and more.
Look at the table of content and don't miss Roscoe:
Follow the pages that link vision, thinking, insight, and brain development into pleasing hearts and minds. Follow the method that this animation illustrator, publisher, mother, and her pet squirrel, Roscoe layout for you. Take a new look at art and turn around the "I can't draw, but I'd really like to" complaint. No more waiting, this book is a secret RX for a brave new worldview. Day by day your attitude will become "Yes, I can and I will!"
Give a gift that keeps on giving:
Find this reference book that will show you that you can you entertain, educate and discover what a line, a circle, a box, triangle can do for your mood, self-esteem, and for a story long waiting to be told with baby sitting, birthday parties, family dinners, autobiographies….even studying local wildlife using citizen science!
Use national learning standards to awaken a way to reflect and find a voice:
You can click to find out about Ruthie's marvelous professional background and the Common Core and Next Generation Science Standards that easily explain how to use this useful and informative resource book to build student comprehension.
Teachers and homeschooling or arts integration instructors or hobbyists will:
Looking at the pages, you will find lesson plans, practices and worksheets that take daily classwork and transform it into a folding pyramid, a rolling cube, a perspective lesson that can be used on a placemat, with the GLOBE.gov Earth Observer app and the treescampaign, to a fine art live drawing class. It is classical to contemporary and applicable to drawing in daily life, in career objectives, and for communication. You can buy it for yourself, for your classes, or for your friends and family.
Besides finding See what you are looking at, art from a new point of view, ISBN:0-0795017-7-6 narrated page by page by Roscoe the Squirrel:
You will be able to hear a new holiday Christmas Carol to "listen" sung by the field mice in William Elliott's adaptation of Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. You can gather with friends and sing along as you look at sample drawing pages. You can learn a sweet new holiday carol as a holiday standard that will sooth your nerves and download song sheets for everyone planning to sing house to house or in a home holiday party. All donations will fund arts and music instruction for public school students in Southern California.** The CD won Parents Choice Gold. This Christmas scene was sung by 6thgraders for your pleasure.
How you can give and gain:
Besides Educdesigns.org 's gorgeous, meltingly beautiful layout that will bring family fun and arts and sciences together, you will be able to hear the music, see Grahame's 1909 book cover, be invited to be the first home in your neighborhood to sing this jewel of a new traditional song. Each donation for $4.00 will give you the sheet music and each three copies of "All Hearts are Home for Christmas" or $12.00 will sponsor one class for a child bringing either an Arts or Music enrichment program from your donation.
Whether seeing a beautiful book or classroom (4 pack- Teacher Guide and books 1-3 for students) or coming away with drawing exercises, or a carol to hum or share. You will find Roscoe, Ruthie Elliott, and (featured William Elliott's carol) are worth your time.
Call Ruthie Elliott for a program, order the book(s) online, find out what EducDesigns.org is creating for children, parents, families and teachers.
EduDesigns is well worth it. This holiday draw, learn and sing. You'll want to come back again and again. Or better invite Ms. Elliott work with your school.
Learn from Expert:
Ruthie Elliott- Emmy Award Winning Animation Artist and Founder of EduDesigns
Using basic shapes to make the connections between Art, Language, Symbols and the spatial reasoning of Mathematics.
The Concept:
Hands-on Lessons that give students independent practice in each lesson
EducDesigns: A nonprofit building brains and hearts through the arts
Find out more about "seeing what you are looking at" from going to their site: www.edudesigns.org
Find out about how Roscoe can connect you to trees, art, GLOBE observer app, and plantings:
www.CommonGroundNI.org
Sing the William Elliott (The Wind in the Willows show song) for your holiday season knowing your order of the songsheet or learning the song from the wav file might save the day! and support arts programs to be subsidized to serve more children and change lives while building young minds and arts: www.edudesigns.org/blog/all-hearts-are-home-for-christmas
You can follow So Cal's hot to cold to wet weather and do GLOBE protocols at home or in the classroom with the buds up, Climate storybook, snow measurement, aquifer refill and so much more: www.globe.gov (Storybooks and Teachers Manuals in multiple languages)
Buy it on Spotify or at Original Cast Albums, take it out from your library, and read THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS by Kenneth Grahame, to sing, read, talk and now draw with Roscoe and the Mice through practicing with her wonderful new series of books:
https://open.spotify.com/album/2mEFq7p1wCgijk3NeFVkJx
Send us pictures of you singing the song round the world and we'll post it on our sites!