10/18/13 Blue

Eldest
20,000 leagues essay about three characters (essay, yeah, that's it)
Popcorn shilling
Outside- beautiful weather
Birthday party
Tomorrow- 2 choir jobs- first at a Mass with the cardinal, then at a concert fundraiser

Middle
Grammar
Math
Reading
Outside
Birthday party

Youngest
Reading
Cleaning up
Outside
Birthday party

10/18/13 Quiz

Having some issues with attention, and test taking is always a challenge for home schoolers because they are usually evaluated without tests more than public school kids, so two birds with one stone, we're quizzing some days until it sorts out better.

The quiz:

 

10/18/13 Quiz

Piano:

In musical notation, the little circles are called note h________.

Sometimes, they have sticks attached to them called note s_______.

Notes are divided into sections called m_________, the lines that divide measures from each other are called b_____ lines.

At the end of the last measure you are shown the song is over because there is a double ____________.

Spelling

So far, we have learned two techniques for learning problem spelling words.  Briefly tell me what those two techniques are, about 25 words.

Math

When you use division to change a fraction into a decimal, that decimal will always

either t______________e or r__________t.

Name one decimal number that doesn’t do either one, so cannot be converted into a fraction.

Proverbs

False s_____ are an abomination to the Lord, but a full weight is his delight.

Einstein’s Universe, Chapter 2, Part 1

If an astronaut travels at high speed past the Earth, from his point of view what is happening?

True or false – the laws of physics are the same even though the same event may be seen differently depending on the speed of the observer.

The first place people noticed that they didn’t feel forward motion even at high speeds

was on sh_____;  later, it became very clear when people started traveling on tr_____,

and then they found that pulling into a station they couldn’t tell ____________________

_______________________________________________________________________.

The Doppler Effect can apply to s_________, that travels through a medium, and to

l______, which does not.

Circle higher or lower

With the Doppler Effect, sound waves have higher/lower frequency when the object is traveling towards the observer, and higher/lower frequency when the object is traveling away from the observer.

With the Doppler Effect, sound waves have a higher/lower frequency when the observer is traveling towards the object making the sound, and higher/lower frequency when the observer is traveling away from the object.

The Doppler Effect tells us that a luminous object traveling at high speed towards the

earth will show a __________, and a luminous object traveling away from the earth will

show a _______________.

In physics, which is hotter, blue or red?

Which travels faster, light or sound?

10/16/13 Blue

Eldest

Math

History- read up through Constantine, chapter review questions. 

Grammar- pronouns as predicate nominatives

Violin lesson

Middle

Dictation (from yesterday) 

Math

History

Narration (history) 

Violin lesson

 Youngest

Playing

Reading 

Drawing

10/17/13 and 10/18s links

Doppler Effect

Doppler Effect

Doppler Effect

Doppler Effect 


Doppler Effect (good, with blue/redshifts)


Blueshift/ Redshift

Sonic booms

Recommended to me, Octonauts 

For my middle who likes the idea of flying planes over stuff  and who likes the middle of nowhere

Co-op day


10/18/13

Links above that weren't done 10/17

Einstein's Universe, Murderous Maths, Fred, Math Mammoth, Play Piano in a Flash , Six Minutes a Day to Better Spelling, Proverbs, Quiz

10/16/13

No links.

Einstein's Universe.

Math Mammoth, Proverbs, Piano in a Flash, 6 Minute to Spelling

Library

Little playground time

Demonstrated Doppler Effect by driving down the road with the horn on, then doing same with the girls in a fixed position by the side of the road, halfway through the length

10/15/13 Blue

Eldest
History, reading ch. 4 light to all nations
Note taking from history reading
Math
Fencing
Violin practice
State park rock formation hiking

Middle
Grammar
Math
Soccer practice
Violin practice
State park rock formation hiking

Youngest
Reading
State park rock formation hiking
Made shields and torches for the foyer/castle

10/14/13

Murderous Maths, Math Mammoth, Fred, Proverbs

Youngest, Math Mammoth, finished knights book, pictures in castles book, story in Chinese Fairy Tales book

Silent reading, youngest own choice, middle Usborne physics, oldest short stories of Chekhov

Began Einstein's Universe

Middle, two units of Coursera dinosaur course

Oldest, Red Cross babysitting course online, continued

Youngest, free reading

Dance, grocery

10/15/13

Music morning link -- made a new Pandora station using the following Renaissance composers, emailed station to kids

Thomas Tallis
Josquin des Prez
Pierre de la Rue
Claudio Monteverde
William Byrd
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Orlando de Lassus
Giovanni Gabrieli

Watch a bit of this video on the magnetic field of the sun and "climate change"

Then this one on eyelash mites (there's a dressing scene and a kissing scene, all domestic)

Story on Jack London, middle daughter is a fan

Keats' Ode to a Nightingale, because the oldest likes the book of Ruth

Amazing dragon teapot


Math Mammoth, Murderous Maths, Proverbs, Fred, little Einstein's Universe

10/13/13 Pics

Rope Swings, pipe cleaner rings, barrel cactus

10/13/13

Sunday -- Mass was Saturday

Individual reading

Put up swing, cleaned hamster cage, bicycling, most of day outside

10/12/13

Visit with grandparents

Finished Glory

Youngest more Carmen San Diego

Story of the World in the car

Individual reading

Typer Island