Today is the first "official" day of spring break at Dixie State! I cannot believe the semester is over half-way done! I've done a decent job of keeping up, and this semester I'm actually confident in most everything I'm doing!
I am on vacation, in SLC, and like most students, spring break offers me a chance to catch up on some homework and studying. However, on the dark-side, it presents a major distraction to me by being spring break; luckily, my golf game was rained out, and I'm left sitting by the fireplace warming my bones, waiting to go out to lunch with Harold.
Today hasn't been all fun and games. I helped teach a lesson to fourth-grade students in an elementary school in Tooele. The class had been studying art, and in particular, abstract art. When I was young, my brothers and sisters and I would play "squiggles". Squiggles is a game in which one person draws a few lines, or shapes, or scribbles, and another person creates a drawing based on the squiggles provided. So, I taught the class how to play squiggles.
After all the squiggles were competed, we made stories out of the 4 squiggles on their papers. Kids are pretty creative, and it was awesome to see some of the amazing things they had drawn, and written about.
Of course, like any kids, many of their ideas involved bodily functions, monsters, dying, bullying, and an innocent boyfriend-girlfriend relationship.
Which draws me to my next idea. Why not create an iWhatever app? The kids really seemed to take to the idea of squiggles. Of course, most of us have played games like this since we were kids, so naturally, I think that formatting it to match modern technology would be awesome!
I better not give too many of my ideas away though.
Well, I'm off to lunch. Thank you for reading. Keep you guys updated about my progress on the APP!
John
