class class class

class class class, a photo by Argon[one] on Flickr.

What a great day. I started the day by talking to about 200 fourth graders about earth science, rocks, minerals and fossils. This is a great age. The kids are old enough to know a lot about a lot of things, but not old enough to think they know everything about everything. That will happen somewhere around the seventh grade. At least that's about how old I was when I though I had all the answers. I took about 150 mineral and fossil specimens to show the kids. They had an opportunity to pick them up and ask questions.

Then I taught the third in a series of photoshop classes at work. It's funny. It was almost like talking to the fourth graders, except most of the class was in their mid to late twenties. These students were eager to learn about photoshop and how they can use it to create background images for powerpoint presentations.

Then to top the day off, my wife and I taught an art class this evening. It was the third in a series of six classes. Tonight's class was contour drawing as a warm-up exercise and then on to drawing from photographs. Next week we will begin creating pen and watercolor wash paintings from tonight's drawings.

What a great day! Did I say that already.