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
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Lauds
Latin
Writing
History
Science
Piano lesson
Choir

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

Mesozoic
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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.