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[quote=Anonymous]The AART will have a slideshow with options. The options our AART showed (which I think were from the central office) included heiroglyphics a 3rd grader created, art with a detailed description of the symbolism by a 5th grader, and I forget what all else. Note on the art it wasn't the well-done drawing that the AAP office liked, but the fact that there were clear symbols. Symbolic thinking is one of their traits.

For my own 3 kids who all got in to AAP I did:

- A song with lyrics composed by my child for the Reflections Art Contest, along with the artist statement for the contest explaining how the song met the theme 
- A short story written for Reflections by another child, again with write-up.
- A poem written for Reflections by the third child, again  with write-up.
- A complex math problem from NRICH Math that requires more than just worksheet level thinking
- A math problem my child made up and "bored-solved" in class (I like that PP).
- Pictures of how one my kids would make up entire civilizations out of toys in our house with a description by my child of the structure of the civilization and what was going on in the pictures.
- Pictures of a math game a different kid made up with the rules of play as written by my child. This kid was/is board game obsessed.
- A dictionary for a language my kids made up, as written by the one who came up with most of it, with sample sentences in their language. No, they didn't make it up for the AAP application. Yes, they still use it.
(There's more than 6 here because for my oldest you could submit 4 samples)

Reflections is great because your child does a write-up for the contest explaining in 100 words how their art meets the theme, which is exactly the kind of thing the committee wants to see. We stuck to to the more "acadmic" parts of Reflections that involved writing, but I don't know that you have to.

Our AART told us repeatedly that the most important thing was to have your child write a brief explanation of the why and thinking behind the sample.[/quote]

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