12/31/13

Story of the World, finished CD#8

ice skating, shopping and visiting and lunching with friends in town

12/30/13

FINISHED Thika

Story of the World, modern history

Swimming

Walking park trail

12/29/13

Thika, gotta get it done

Walk, whittling, drimmel, clean hamster cage, lots of listening to and reading books

12/28/13 pics (obligatory Christmas)

Made with yarn from Christmas

Fits with our previous links

New hamster

Comes with headphones

If a pool is not quickly available, snorkle how you can

Wore this and snow boots at the pool later

12/28/13

Link about hobo coins, which we have seen in a museum, links may have to wait for bandwidth

Einstein, Hayak, quiz

Thika

Mass

Library

Individual reading

Quiz 12/28/13

1.  Proverbs 17:5 says that “To mock the poor is to insult his c____________”.

2.  Einstein says massive objects curve s_________ and t__________.

3.  What shape are the orbits of the planets around our sun?

4.  Draw a picture of how the orbit of Mercury will change over centuries based on Einstein’s predictions.

5.  Hayak argues against the idea that technology makes m__________ inevitable (can’t be avoided).

6.  He claims that the idea that central planning becomes necessary as an economy gets more complicated is widely believed to be a fact, when it is an opinion – and one that Hayak disagrees with.

Why does he think people generally accept it as a fact?

7.  Hayak says that people don’t want an economy that is all centrally planned, but they think you can have some central planning and some free competition.  What does he think comes of this way of thinking, which sounds very reasonable?  Why?

8.  Does Hayak believe nations should follow a laissez-faire economic style?  Why or why not?

Extra Credit

1.  Why was Mussolini’s Italy well suited to the idea of central planning?  Be specific.

2.  We’ve read about a fifth of “The Road to Serfdom” so far.  Tell me where you think Hayak may be right and where you think he may be wrong.  Be complete and give examples where possible.  One point for each agreement, each disagreement, and each accurate example.

12/27/13

Day confused with working on co-op paperwork

One hour reading;  math -- youngest doing practice test, others Math Mammoth; pool; individual reading

12/26/13

Hayak, Einstein, Thika

Library trip

Story of the World, Modern Era

DO NOT USE GIF MAKER FROM 9/21

The GIF maker linked to earlier -- looks like it may have been hijacked, and there will be serious bad stuff on there if you let your kids click.  If you are using a safeguarded browser you'll probably be all right, but I can't guarantee it.

Trying to find my own post on it to delete it, don't think anyone is using this blog now, but hate to have it out there.

12/25/13

Merry Christmas!

12/24/13

Four hours amusement park, Mass

(not a school day)

12/22/13 12/23/13

Got behind on recording -- non school days
Mass for me, others sick
Reading, outside


Monday -- Thika, math, reading?  non school day

12/21/13

Hayak video, and answer questions

Oldest completed Red Cross training program, babysitting basic, online

Youngest King of Ireland's Son and Planets -- Venus

Two kids to town with dad, errands and Mass;  one kid sick.

Oops -- Mass off, snow made me nervous about them getting back too late.

Individual reading.

Icons, Orange

12/18/13, 12/19/13 Orange

Wild Boar
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Math
Editing 20,000 leagues diary
Reading Eagle
Co op
Finished icon!
Latin


Choir practice
Violin lesson
Fencing

Pig
---
Baking scones
Reading Madeline
Piano practice
Copywork
Finished icon!
Choir
Violin
Drawing

Piglet
------
Baking scones
Reading
Lego kit
Drawing

12/20/13

Links:

Ambrose Bierce, just the first two pages

Thika, Einstein, Hayak

page Math Mammoth, hour reading (Pride and Prejudice, Treasure Island, Adventures of Reddy Fox on the reader)

 Quiz (spaces removed here):

 

12/20/13 Quiz

1.  Tell me about the three women in “The Flame Trees of Thika”.  What kind of people are they?  What kind of women are they?  How are they alike?  How are they different?  Are some more sympathetic than others?  Less?  Do the characters change as the book goes on?

Don’t answer the questions one by one, give a complete answer describing and comparing the women, and evaluating them, and answer the questions within your essay.

2.  What is a “mission boy”

3.  Why is the district commissioner not to worried about one of the Kikuyu being imprisoned unfairly?

4.  Explain how scientists can measure distance using radar waves.

5.  When Einstein developed his theories, he could attempt to prove them mathematically but could not attempt to prove many of them experimentally.  Later, others were able to confirm his predictions using experiments.  Why did the experiments have to wait?

6.  Gravity affects light because light has m_______.

7.  Massive objects alter both s_______ and t_________.

8.  Light passing close to the sun, for example, will slow down / speed up as measured by a distant observer.  

9. Hayak doesn’t believe government should “plan” the economy in such a way that there is one central plan that governs every part of the economy and that people are coerced to follow;  but he does believe we should “plan” the economy in that we work in

such a way that the economy allows for as much useful c______________ as possible.

10. If you have competition, Hayak believes you will have better results, but he also believes there will be less government coercion.  What does coercion mean?

11.  Give one example of something Hayak feels the government needs to step in and do to protect the free market.

12.  Why did they burn Sammy’s hut?

Extra Credit

1.  What school is MIT?

2. Give me an example of an area where Hayak believes full, free competition will not work.

3.  It’s all right to make reasonable regulations that are a burden on a company as long as the regulation does what?

4.  Give a short description of individual animals we have “met” so far in Thika – one point per good description.

12/19/13

Flame Trees of Thika

non-school day otherwise, Christmas ball at night

12/18/13

Rube Goldberg

Sick kid, doctor visit

Video Mars Rover program

Flame trees of Thika

1 hour writing

12/17/13 Orange

Platter
--------
Book club meeting
Math
Violin practice
Wrote diary entry for 20,000 leagues adventure
Started The Eagle of the Ninth

Plate
------
Math (mammoth and 100 number chart)
Copywork
Narration- Samuel Champlain
Started Madeline to the Rescue
Violin practice
Baked cinnamon raisin bread

Saucer
--------
Reading
109 number chart messing around
Baked cinnamon raisin bread

12/17/13

One kid sick, one specialist appointment, trip to town

Library

Watched video on The Great Rift

12/16/13

Catch up on links

Figure skating

Figure skating

Amateur skating

Team skating, amateur, audience silliness, starts at 2 minutes

More pro, team

Looked up more skate stuff, Nanowrimo projects with friends

Flame Trees of Thika read, watched rest of Hanging Gale (very, very edited, be warned), math page, hour writing, hour reading

12/15/13 Pictures

One of the times it's nice to have pets.  Many times it's pretty not. . . .

Kids didn't help, but they got to know the alternator was being replaced and hear talk of it.

Molding and casting

Pancakes

12/15/13

Photos by Herbert Zumbach of Thika and other places

Siafu ants

Spend at least 15 minutes looking around this site on the Very Large Array

Masai history

Masai folk dance, compare to Irish dance we do

(warning, any time you look for images or video of anything traditional and African you get the shirtless National Geographic effect in the recommended videos after)

Watch few minutes of Kikuyu sermon for the language

More ants

And a few more ants

We avoided the ants eating moving, living things videos, but maggots and dead things are all right for us

Supposed to do Christmas choir performance, sick day -- probably soy reaction

Individual reading, cooking

12/14/13

Choir, practice for Christmas Cantata

Middle child, birthday party in town

Youngest, individual reading (Little Women), tried Abeka General Science book, not good for us

Oldest Christmas crafts

Individual reading

House cleaning, all but middle

Husband replacing alternator in truck

12/13/13 Orange

Battleship
Double Latin
Math

Schooner
Math
History
Writing- history letter
1/2 a narration

Tugboat
Neglected once again...
Reading
Legos
Piano fun
Banana bread making

Tom Sawyer read aloud.

12/13/13

Ice skating with friends.

Fix oil light on in car.

Finish writing hour with quiz.

Quiz from previous few school days (spacing removed for blog):

 

Quiz 12/13/13

1.  Describe how Almayer’s relationship with Nina changed over the years (or didn't), what his attitude was towards her and how he behaved towards her.  Start with her as a young child and continue to the end of the book; be complete.

2.  Name one story or poem that Rudyard Kipling wrote.

3.  What do the two friends mean when they call the new woman in the community “The Dowd”? 

4.  What does colonialism mean?

5.  In “The Hanging Gale”, do you think the new land agent is trying to help or not?  Do you think the tenants are being fair?

6.  Hayak is frustrated that socialists claim their opponents oppose their e____ (such as

equality and social justice) when in fact everyone agrees those are good things, and what

the opponents disagree about is the socialists’ m_______ (collectivism, redistribution).

7.  The bigger your radio telescope the better the information, but you can’t build one as big as a city.  What can you do instead that will do the same work for you?

8.  Some musical notation tells you when to pause and not play a note.  The are called

r______.

9.  What is the formula for the area of a circle?

10.  In “Flame Trees”, who are Robin and Tilly?

11.  What is “The Crash”?  What caused it?

Extra Credit

1..  Is the mother of the infant is not grateful to the Dowd for saving her child’s life.  Why not?  How is this similar to Kipling’s poem, “Mary, Pity Women.”

     

2.  “Almayer’s Folly” is about colonialism.  Explain what the main characters stand for and what the book is saying about colonialism’s goals, it’s hopes, and it’s affect on both the Europeans who are colonizing and the native inhabitants of the land they are occupying.  Three points.

3.   In “Flame Trees” the different characters, white and black, all have very different attitudes about race and nationality.  Give me some examples. One to five points.

4.  How is “Flame Trees” similar, so far, to “Letters of a Woman Homesteader”, or “Oh, Pioneers”, or “Little House on the Prairie?”  Give solid examples.  One to five points.

12/12/13 Orange

Co op

Bacteria
---------
Lauds
Latin
Writing
History
Science
Piano lesson
Choir

Virus
------
Lauds
Book club
Science
Reading
Piano lesson
Choir

12/12/13

Truck breakdown ate into day again

Flame Trees

Reading, writing, math

Library, dance

Individual reading

12/11/13 Orange

Paleozoic
------------
Math
Proofread, edited, rewrote history notes from yesterday
Drawing with chiaroscuro
Piano practice
Violin lesson

Mesozoic
-----------
Math
Copywork
Narration
Piano practice
Violin lesson

Cenozoic
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Reading
Legos
Heroes of the Middle Ages

12/11/13

Links from Orange 12/10, below


Flame Trees of Thika

Fred, Piano in a Flash, Einstein, Hayak

reading, math, writing


Individual reading

12/10/13 Orange

Good amount of time out in the first real snow

Amazon
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Art- caravaggio discussion
Using some links from
http://fisheracademy.blogspot.com/2010/11/artist-study-caravaggio.html
Also looked at Madonna of loreto, read about the Shrine of Loreto
Watched embedded video about chiaroscuro.
Drew blocks set up with contrasting light set up

Math
Grammar
Poetry review
History- K12 human odyssey
Notes taken on reading. (Need to be proofread, rewritten tomorrow)

Violin practice

Read about Mercury meteorite
http://news.yale.edu/2013/11/25/mercury-morocco-and-onward-yale-meteorite-s-tale

Watched part of national geographic shark show

Nile
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Math- math mammoth and
http://www.amazon.com/Math-For-All-Seasons-Mind-Stretching/dp/0439755379

Narration- Vasco da Gama from Heroes from the Middle Ages
Copywork
Coloring
Shark show
Violin practice

Mississippi
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Reading
Coloring, drawing
Matching game
Shark show

12/10/13

Snow pictures

Dental appointment, last fillings for youngest, errands

Library

Read Kipling's "Wee Willy Winkle"

Independent reading

12/9/13

Read up on washing -- all links

Kipling autobiography

Good Friday from Baltimore Catechism, in Almayer there is a curtain blown down by the wind at a low point in Almayer's life

Finished Almayer's Folly -- very harsh book, pre-read for sensitive kids

Read one Kipling story

Watched one episode of "The Hanging Gale"-- absolutely not to be watched without previewing, and probably edits;  but the story is compelling enough and the history relevant enough to make it worth the work -- although they do stereotype (all the kids have dirty faces).


two kids do maths, one reading

12/7/13

Oldest worked five hours at national park

Local Christmas event

Cut Christmas tree

Listened to radio dramas

Individual reading -- now reading with husband Brian's Hunt with oldest, The Giver with middle, Sans Famille with youngest

With me, finished The Two Towers with middle (and kind of youngest) and last Kristen Lavransdatter book with oldest (and kind of others).  Little Women didn't get to today.

12/6/13 Orange

Magnesium
Math
Grammar
Logic
Writing- finishing a flower's story from The Snow Queen
Christmas concert
Connections

Fluorine
Math
Copywork
Reading
Concert

Boron
Reading
Wild china on Netflix
Coloring

12/6/13

Non-school day -- Orthodontist appointment in town, other kids watched hours of Carmen SanDiego

Individual reading

Making of Christmas presents

12/5/13 Orange

Sequoia
Mass
Latin
Art- icon painting
Reading
Choir
Fencing

Oak
Mass
Book club- phantom tollbooth
Art- icon painting
Piano lesson
Reading
Choir

Japanese maple
Reading
Co op fun

12/5/13

Cold hits, snow, subzero temps yesterday

Dentist appointment today in town, took two hours to get there, almost as much back, so not a school day

Visit with friends in town

Grocery shopping, clothes, Christmas craft material

Individual reading

12/4/13

Lots of Almayer, trying to finish to get to Thika

Free astronomy study on youtube (looked up videos on youngest's suggestion) and ran quickly through Abeka reader while oldest does general science for co-op and makes lunch

On Pluto not being a planet (the NASA guy is wrong, though;  Pluto will always be a planet in this house).

Fun video of replacing the moon with planets -- I'm assuming they put the edge of the planet at the distance of the moon's edge from the Earth, not center/center

Fun video about rings

12/3/13

Watched Maths Challenge, number patterns and integers, working problems during show
Little Kipling
Independent reading

Went to friend's house for tea with couple families, got ready for storm

12/3/13 Orange

Bassoon
Dentist
Latin homework
Math
History- reading, spread of Islam
Latin
Violin practice

Oboe
Dentist
Math
History
Narration
Copywork
Violin practice
Hedgehog quill discussion
http://www.hedgehogcentral.com/quills.shtml

Clarinet
Dentist
Reading
Played piano

All had time outside
Started The Snow Queen

12/2/13 Pics

12/2/13 Orange

Jupiter
Art- icon painting
Book discussion
Science- colloids, microns, started vision
Mass
Math
Scout meeting

Venus
Art- icon painting
Choir practice
Mass
Science
Math

Mercury
Played food shop
Read
Legos
Little bit of writing

Finished starry river!

12/2/13

Verne illustrations

museum field trip, out of town, with friends

listen to Adventures in Odyssey

12/1/13

First Sunday of Advent

Lots of Hank the Cowdog, individual reading

Campfire with marshmallows and instruction in using hatchets on small sticks

Bike riding in the snow

11/30/13

Independent reading
Almayer
Cleaning gutters at grandparents' house
Library
Errands
Mass
Confession

Oldest finishes NaNoWriMo, 8,864 words.

11/29/13 Pics

Crochet hat, no pattern

Doll hammock

Fabric covered box -- all crafts self-directed, using craft books and sites

11/29/13

Lots of Connections, trying to get it back to library
Almayer
Kipling
Math Mammoth and Spectrum Math
independent reading, crafts, piano

11/28/13

Thanksgiving cooking, individual reading, lots of oldest crafting

11/26/13 Orange

Red giant

Math

Grammar

Memory work- why tigers can't climb,chesterton's a Christmas carol

Reading- good night sweet ladies

Read 

http://www.timesofisrael.com/archaeological-dig-uncovers-10000-year-old-building/

To both 

Yellow Sun

Math- math mammoth fractions, plus asked about decimals, so got a mommy lecture on that

Grammar

Reading

Dictation

Yesterday piano practice

White Dwarf

Started his own written narration of Jack and the Beanstalk. Drawing, too.

Reading

Much exercising- laps around the house 

Read aloud- 

http://www.amazon.com/Starry-River-Sky-Grace-Lin/dp/0316125954/ref=la_B001ITXP22_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1385502109&sr=1-2

11/27/13

Madonna and child

Napoleon 

Fred, Proverbs 22, Piano in a Flash, Kipling, Almeyer, Einstein, Hayak

Connections

Math Mammoth, 1 hour reading (Pride, National Geographic, Treasure Island), 1 hour writing.

2 hours outside, sledding, cutting wood

3/4 hour work with youngest, astronomy and King of Ireland's son, oldest Apologia general science

No hobby hour, but oldest knitted hat, made fabric-covered box, and made treasure box, all from library book and internet site suggestions

Looked up "the little corporal".

Piano

Indiv. reading (now reading Little Women, Lord of the Rings, and Kristen Lavransdatter still;  with dad reading another Brian book -- Brian's Winter, Nobody's Boy (Sans Familia), and Bartleby the Scrivener)


 Quiz

1.  Name one thing Proverbs says about being rich (there are many possibilities).

2.  Draw a whole note.

3.  Draw a half note.

4.  Draw a quarter note.

5.  Draw an eighth note.

6.  If a whole note is worth 4 beats, how much is a half note worth?

7.  A quarter note?

8.  An eighth note?

9.  Einstein’s theories had much to do with laws of gravity.  Who was the main scientist to describe laws of gravity before Einstein?

10.  Which British author did they compare Kipling to in this part of his autobiography?  Name one book by this author.

11.  “What has always made the state a hell on earth has been precisely that man has tried

to make it his ____________.”  F. Hoelderlin

12.  The first socialists, says Hayak, developed their ideas directly after what revolution?

13.  Hayak says the first socialists believed socialism could only work under what kind of government?

14.  Hayak says for socialism to appeal to people who liked democracy, socialists had to change the meaning of what word?

15.  Does Hayak believe fascism and communism are very different things (softball question!).

Extra Credit

1.   What is the formula for the area of a circle?

2.  Where were the Congressmen going to do Congressional investigations in Fred?  Why is that a joke?

3.  For #10 above, name as many other books by that author as you can.

11/26/13

Links for youngest's astronomy, galaxies

From AZ astronomy class page

same source on the Milky Way

Hubble pics

Typer Island youngest and middle, continue Red Cross class online for oldest

Kickback day -- lots of stalling about moving off the computer, complaining about getting down to work.

So altered plans to do a ton of book work, independently.

Oldest:  catechism chapter and questions,
first language lessons reading review (older version)
Spectrum math, four pages of review
grammar worksheets

Middle:  catechism with questions
grammar worksheets
three math mammoth and a spectrum math review
abeka health book (older version), read chapter and answer questions on nutrition

Youngest:
Sam's Club reading and math workbook, several pages
Math Mammoth page
copy work, alphabet


Quiz from yesterday:

11/26/13 Quiz

1.  Name one piece of advice Proverbs tends to repeat.

2.  On a treble clef, what are the letter names for the notes that lie on the lines?

3.  On a treble clef, what are the letter names for the notes that lie in the spaces?

4.  If you are going to  make 50 payments, does it make more sense for you (save you more money) if you start with a penny and double each payment or if you start with $100 and add $100 for each payment? 

5.  Classical liberal economists like Hayak, who oppose socialism and are for individualism, would consider it good to make laws against businesses acting as monopolies.  Why?

6.  Hayak wanted to point out that many American and British socialists thought their ideas were pretty new, when they had actually been discussed many years before in what country?

7.  Which did Einstein do first, develop his theories, or develop the math that demonstrates his theories?

8.  Light bends near a massive object because it tend to fall towards that object, but the

effect is doubled because the gravity affects both s_____ and t_______.

9.  When he was 24 years old, where was Kipling living?  (what country, and in about what kind of living quarters)

10.  What did he learn from where he lived, and how did it affect his writing?

11.  Why is Lakamba treating Almayer better than he had treated him before?

12.  Who is Babalatchi, the one eyed man, and why is Almayer irritated by him?

13.  What secret does Babalatchi go to tell his boss?

14.  What is Almayer preparing to do with his business?

Extra Credit:

1. (two points) In question 4 above, if you made the wrong decision, at which payment would you have started paying too much? 

2.  Einstein knew several years before he won it that he would probably win what prize?

3.   Kipling wrote “Mary, Pity Women” after conversation with whom?

4.  What did Kipling’s friend in his club tell him about groups and writers and how to behave towards them?

5.  Dain is probably interested in marrying Nina.  Who else has said he wanted to marry Nina?

 

11/25/13

No morning links

Murderous Maths, finished book #1
Proverbs 20, have settled on Jerusalem Bible
Play Piano in a Flash for Kids, couple pages
Hayak, finished chapter 1
Einstein, finished chapter 5?
Kipling, more of autobiography and one poem
Almayer's Folly

individual physiology reading

individual work on piano songs

 Santa letter and catalogue and internet search on dolls

Youngest studied Skywatcher galaxies chapter, internet pictures from Hubble, King of Ireland's son
While middle joined in or read fun book
Oldest did co-op catchup work in Apologia General Science

Math Mammoth, hour reading (Pride, Traveler), write (nanowrimo, just free writing)

11/22/13 Orange

11/22

Mountain

Grammar

Writing- rewrite paragraph changing tense

Math

Finished 20000 leagues

Thank you note

Hill

Grammar

Math

Reading

Molehill

Reading

Legos

Coloring, drawing

Almost done with 5 peppers...

11/21/13 Orange

11/21

Co op

Moose

Art- icon work

History- group discussion

Science- more light

Choir

Elk

Art

Book discussion- phantom tollbooth

Science

Choir

Math

Deer

Reading

Selfwriting

11/24/13

Neanderthals (some stupid risque jokes for no reason, but the rest is interesting)

Connections

Individual reading

Crafts

11/23/13

Math Mammoth
Individual reading
Middle finished Forge
sledding
Mass

11/22/13 Pics

Elk down the road

Pets' graves

From co-op class, blizzard in a bag

11/22/13

Forgot Typer Island and individual reading done yesterday

Links:

Thanksgiving poems, we'll read together

Poem

Philippines (fairly rough, use caution)

hour writing, painting West in the nineteenth century scenes from coloring book, Almayer, Kipling

Morning spent helping dad with truck

11/21/13

Fabulous end of semester co-op blowout, all classes gave presentations, and pizza.
Erranding and helping dad get home when truck is broken

11/20/13 Orange

Bass
Math- brief
Grammar- diagramming prepositions
Writing- read then rewrite The Frog Prince
Changed a tire
Violin lesson
Birthday card

Cello
Math
Copywork
Grammar- diagramming
Read
Violin lesson
Birthday card

Fiddle
Read aloud
Read
Birthday card
Goodness, Legos

11/19/13 Orange

C
Math- sent to figure area and volume of various objects
Grammar- diagramming
History- Human Odyssey K12
Notes taken on history reading
Violin practice
20,000 leagues reading

AA
Math- restarted Math Mammoth fractions
Proofread puffin poem writing, fixed mistakes
History- SOTW3
Read aloud- The Spanish Armada
Reading

AAA
Reading- aloud and to self
Legos
A few chores/tasks

11/18/13 Orange

Python
Art- icon work
Science- light, photoelectric effect as kidnapping and ransom
Book club
Reading
Scouts

Mamba
Art- icon work
Science- light, photoelectric effect as kidnapping and ransom
Reading
Memory work- puffin
Writing- puffin from memory

Garter
Reading
Card making
Twister

11/20/13

Colleges

Dolphin video

Math Mammoth for two, Almayer's, Einstein, Kipling, Hayak

One hour reading, Chains and Pride (not a fan so far)

school waylaid by pet death -- call it biology?  theology?

getting ready for end of semester co-op presentation tomorrow
 

11/19/13

living in borneo

kyrie



Leonardo da Vinci's piano

Dentist in town

Youngest visits with friend while two older do writing workshop run by co-op mom for work, with friends

Library time

Shopping for co-op performance clothes at consignment shop

11/18/13 PIcs

Our fun time -- rotating door at the library

To be fixed

Fixed

Placemat, impromptu project

Nanowrimo plan

Won prize at fair

Craft books used to make independent projects in spare time

Packing paper from Dad's business shipment becomes wall decoration

Requested copying Winter Pony cover for wall