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We love Big Shape Tracing activities to transition little learners from scribbles to writing letters and words. After lots of 'big arm' activities like chalking on walls and painting on easels your students can begin more formal 'handwriting' by attempting to trace big clear shapes and then internal pattern lines.  Our latest gum leaf tracing page is a perfect early kindergarten activity for Australian classrooms especially. It features one nice big clear shape to trace and  simple 'downstroke' internal pattern lines.  Teaching tip: tell your students the leaves fall down from the top of the tree to the ground and...

DALL·E is a 12-billion parameter version of GPT-3 trained to generate images from text descriptions, using a dataset of text–image pairs. We’ve found that it has a diverse set of capabilities, including creating anthropomorphized versions of animals and objects, combining unrelated concepts in plausible ways, rendering text, and applying transformations to existing images. Text prompt an illustration of a baby daikon radish in a tutu walking a dog AI-generated images View more or edit prompt Text prompt an armchair in the shape of an avocado […] AI-generated images View more or edit prompt Text prompt a store front that has the word...

Just in time for Christmas break from school we were given the gift of learning with Osmo! And we were thrilled about it! To be honest, I didn’t know too much about it, but when I would visit Mastermind Toys when the kids were smaller and first noticed it, it was very intriguing. At that time when I first came across it, my boys were much younger, so I kept it at the back of my head for the future. What great timing with Jax turning six in a matter of days after Christmas! The Genius Starter Kit by Osmo is ideal...

Step away from the socks and put down the Christmas ties. Instead, make their holiday merry and bright with one of these cool gifts for men. Whether you are shopping for a dad, brother, partner, or friend, you want to make sure you get them a gift that they will use and love. So, we’ve rounded up these cool gifts for guys to get you started. Cool Gifts for Men ThisWorx Portable Car Vacuum Cleaner (BEST CHOICE) Guys and cars have long been a match-made-in-heaven. And if the man in your life loves his car a lot, you can bet...

(Sarah Read is an author, editor, yarn artist, and pen/paper/ink addict. You can find more about her at her website and on Twitter. And check out her latest book, Out of Water, now available where books are sold!) Here we are at the end of 2020, with 2021 looming. Perhaps rather than a sparkling ball, we'll be dropping the other shoe. But, as Galadriel says, "Hope remains while the company is true" and there's no better company than the stationery community. A lot of us have sought solace and sanity in our hobby and in each other this year, and...