8/22/13

Sent for morning reading to kids' emails:

Greek ruins -- an old house

Photoshopped surreal photos

Video of autistic man who draws from memory

Jude Simpson commissioned poem, "Not Cut Out for Religion"

Science:
Reading Usborne Book of Science, Physics section
Library videos on forces, gravity, sound


Literature:
Other half of reading yesterday, 39 Steps


Chinese Fairy Tales, Carle

Art:
Read and copy drawing library book

Paint from illustrations in chosen kids book



Inside work:  cut quilt squares, make thread magnets
Outside work:  collect wood, whittle

8/22/13 Pics

From the Assimil book

8/21/13

Pandora Station played for this segment in music built on:

Station Seeds

Sort by Artist Date

• Gregorian Chant
• Responsorium Graduale For Good Friday: Responsorium Graduale by Gregorian Chant
• Factus Est Repente: Factus Est Repente by Gregorian Chant
• Stabat Mater, For Double Chorus & Continuo In C Minor: Stabat Mater Dolorosa by Domenico Scarlatti
• Ubi Caritas by Connie Dover
• Parce Domine, After Jacob Obrecht: Parce Domine, After Jacob Obrecht by Pierre Attaignant
• Ave Maris Stella, For Double Chorus: II by Edvard Grieg
• Christus Factus Est, Motet: Christus Factus Est by Felice Aneri

Thumbed-up Tracks

Sort by Artist Date

• Missa Pro Defunctis, For Chorus: IV. Offertorium by Giovanni Francesco Anerio

   You will have to thumbs down many 17th century, etc. works to get back to Gregorian Chant -- check description for dates.

  One kid signed up for September class through Coursera, to substitute for one independent report

  
  Video about solar flares:
  
  From NASA
  
  
  Reports, made lists of 30 topics, narrowed to 5 in order, checked library sites to see how many resources available, painted cover of research notebook for easy finding
  
  
  Language: Cyrillic Alphabet
  
  also, go from here to page where you hear the pronunciation; it also gives you history of Saints Cyril and Methodius
  
  (another from a helpful friend)
  
  Get familiar with pen and ink to practice uncial
  
  Copy page onto card stock on basic strokes to make Chinese symbols, make many copies, use with pen and with brush and ink, from "Writing Chinese With Ease"
  
  Music:  One page of Usbourne Music Theory, quiz verbally after

  
  
  Read some history of Plain Chant and Gregorian Chant
  
  
  Play piece printed out from IMSLP, search Gregorian Chant, and this site helps show how to play it
  
  If you view Ave Mundi Spes Maria below, the singer shows sheet music with chant notation
  
  On piano, played a bit with the sheet music to see how it works, then got older girls to try to pick out the music on the piano based on listening to the Sissel "Ave Maris Stella" in the youtube videos below. Youngest just learned to sing the English with it. All read own books when not doing music: Youngest library books (Eric Carle), older read lit based on the country of their choosing ("The Importance of Being Earnest" and Pushkin stories).
  With younger in gaps, read Usborne "Sun, Moon, and Stars", watched NASA video above, read Chinese fairy tales book below.  Read story about brothers in law competing to see who could complete a poem with the starts provided, completed a couple ourselves, roughly.  Here are the starts:
  In the sky ___________________
  On the earth _________________
  On the table_________________
  In the room___________________
  Complete the sentences making the first and second and the third and fourth rhyme.
  
  Literature:  Read "The 39 Steps", with discussions on some of the race language.  Some girls have already read the "39 Clues" series and we've watched "Carmen Sandiego" in the conspiracy/travelogue tradition.
  Some cleaning up and making dinner, beef pot pie with prefab crust and leftover stew
  Outside practiced with the Daisy.http://www.daisy.com/
  

8/21/13 Pics

Field trip

Journal for not quite writers

Math Mammoth

Math Mammoth with fingers

Climbing

Math Mammoth with sticks

8/20/13

Outing Day

Emailed links for later in the week:

Cyrillic Quickly

Uncial Calligraphy

Chinese Writing and Supplies



Emailed links for morning listening:


Ave Maris Stella

Ave Maris Stella

Translation Ave Maris Stella  (with Latin link)

Ave Mundi Spes Maria

Veni Creator Spiritus


Building Pandora Station based on this list:

Gregorian Chant list

Emailed for fun:

"Friend" in various languages

Two hours at river with friends

While driving, listen to the Story of the World CD for modern times

Errands in town, including library run, to find

Movie, "Room with a View" to follow up reading book
Movie, "Maltese Falcon" to follow up listening to book

Physics video
Chinese children's stories
EMT book
CDs on Gregorian Chant

Confession

8/19/13

 Emailed to my oldest kids for them to read on waking up:

  Kurt Vonnegut's rules on writing
Murderous Maths puzzle box on left of page 
Art video to watch


Math:

Murderous Maths
Life of Fred, Apples and Fractions
Math Mammoth


Narration:

Lorica of St. Patrick

Journal

Typing:

Typing Instructor for Kids
(we use the software)

Programming:

Code Avengers

History:

The Killer Angels

Chinese Fairy Tales