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Church of the Epiphany is surrounded by waving palms.
There is a long history at my church, the Episcopal Church of the Epiphany, of palm cross making. Probably for close to 100 years, we have used palms from nearby Avery Island, home of Tabasco sauce. From the new fronds, we create strips and fold them into crosses. Everyone pins a cross on at the Palm Sunday service. When Katie was four years old, I taught her how to make the crosses. She is now 13. Yesterday, we made a YouTube video of the process. This was testing week, so I did not see my students. For DigiLit Sunday, Katie will be my stand-in.
The day school for Epiphany had a beautiful gala event last night at Avery Island. I took some pictures on the way of the palms growing there.
Palms growing on Avery Island.
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This is great – Katie did a super job! Can I share with my students? I want to give them various ideas for how to share their research coming up, and this is a great example. I’ll be linking up later in the day. 🙂
Katie and I would love if you shared. She was such a pro. We did 3 takes trying to get the lighting right. But it was fun. I love making my students (and my friends) feel special and famous.
Great way to show a “how-to”, Margaret. I tried Haiku Deck with a poem, wanted to see how it worked so I can suggest it to teachers. Thanks for doing this!
Katie was a great teacher! VIdeos are such a great learning tool and terrific for demonstrating how tos. I’d love to have a youtube channel for students to do this work but have school district restrictions on showing kids faces. Perhaps we can make it restricted for our school use only and share amongst our school community.
Restrictions do get in the way sometimes. After I did the video, I called Katie’s mother to get permission. Of course, she was delighted.