Trapeze Arts Thursday

STANDING PYRAMIDS AND THE CIRCUS BIKE
Today was a remarkably productive session at trapeze arts with Stephan. The class listened carefully and followed directions in order to perform all the slated stunts. After a session of stretching and building standing human pyramids, the "Circus Bike" came out. Even our most timid of souls raced at the chance to ride this contraption. We adults may clamor for a seat or five when the gas price gouging reconvenes. Two things amazed and thriled our brave young acrobats the most: 1) "We're riding a bike inside!"; and 2) "There are six kids on there with Stephan!" The photo doesn't do it justice, but if you have any calliope music on hand, you'll get the idea. As with all images here, you can click on the picture to enlarge.

TODAY'S STORY
Action Alphabet, by Marty Neumier and Byron Glaser. The cleverness of this book is in how the letters of the alphabet are represented. Each letter is used pictorially to illustrate a descriptive or functional word that relates to its shape, size or orientation. In this way, the development of visual literacy (descriptive) matches the more common verbal literacy. There will be much more on visual literacy in future posts.