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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You don't want samples from school - the school will already be providing the best things they have.  You want to document the things your kid does for fun in pursuit of their own interests.  So, stories or plays or comics they've written.  Games they designed.  If they build complicated little worlds and tell you about them, take pictures and write up the story.  We just held on to that kind of stuff for a month or two and picked from them.[/quote]

Of the list above, between 3 kids, we used:

- games they designed (it was a math game, so it counted for math)
- stories/poems/songs they wrote (depending on kid)
- complicated little worlds with pictures and the story (kid was constantly inventing own civilizations).

Not on the list above, we used:

- a "dictionary" of a language my kid had been inventing
- math puzzles from NRICH Maths
- some math one of my kids made up for fun when they were bored in class - the AART seemed underwhelmed by this one when she reviewed the packet for me, probably because it was on the basic side. The puzzles went over better.

One of my kids applied back when they still took 4 samples from home, hence how many samples we've used over the years.

For the kid with the complicated little world we didn't submit a math sample at all. Kid was still accepted. But generally the guidance is one math, and one language arts. It's even better if you can have one single thing cover multiple subject areas. So for example the math game my kid made up was kind of like The Ladybug Game in that it showed what she knew about an animal, but with math. [/quote]

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