Tag: homeschool
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Some Georgia Aquarium pics
Went to the Georgia Aquarium today. It is quite an outing. A brother’s wife was with their daughter and picked us up. Then a sister of mine joined us down there with her children. So we were three adults and 8 children. One has to first make reservations. And if you are planning an outing…
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Guess the song
Boingboing has a link to a video of San Francisco Ballet principal dancer Muriel Maffre performing “Ballet Mori”…conducted by the earth. It’s a “musical composition modulated line in real time by the fluctuations of the Earth’s movement as measured by a networked seismometer at the Hayward Fault”. The 3 minute dance was in commemoration of…
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First library book
Yeah, I know, all other homeschoolers have their kids using the library like crazy, but until this year H.o.p. firmly believed in never a lender or borrower being. He would have nothing to do with it. Not the library, but the idea of lending and borrowing. What’s yours is yours and what’s mine is mine.…
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And we talked about Paul Bunyan
Paul Bunyan with gun Digital painting based on photo by artiist 20 by 13 inches approx Copyright J Kearns 2006 Enlargement Detail. [clear] The photograph on which the painting is based was taken back in the early 90s and I can’t remember where but it would have been either Colorado or Wyoming (definitely someplace with…
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And so we discuss Hitchcock (a little)
Most of the animations at the Super Shorts Festival are for adults but there are a few appropriate for children, such as The Stalking, directed by Andrew Johnson, which H.o.p. is crazy about because it is reminiscent of Wallace and Grommit. I tell him that it is a take-off on Alfred Hitchcock’s horror films. He…
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Look up at the solar system's backbone
The Zodiacal Lights are said to be viewable now in the northern hemisphere. When you see Zodiacal Lights, you’ve seen the backbone of our solar system. Zodical Lights are sunlight reflected from interplanetary dust. The pale glow, therefore, traces the dusty plane through which all planets orbit, known to astronomers as the ecliptic plane. Early…
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Lengthy post on dead artists, musicians and authors. Kind of. Kind of not.
This is a post about dead artists and writers, kind of, though it won’t seem to be at first because it’s kind of and kind of not. Walked out of one flu/cold and right into another. At least H.o.p. came down with another one, wham, and this time he felt painfully bad at the beginning.…
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The defective red hot
In The platelets rise to the top post I exhibited the results of mixing together red hots, lima beans and lentils in karo syrup, as instructed to do in the R.E.A.L. Science book, something about learning something about blood composition. Our (or my) natural inclination is to let things like this sit a few days…
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Homeschool activities we will not be doing for St. Patrick's Day
Another one of those posts where I confess my befuddlement over activities that are purported to be worthwhile enough that people actually do them, and yes I know some things are just supposed to be fun. St. Patrick’s Day. I don’t care. I know I should. Marty’s got a lot of Irish blood and I”ve…
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The platelets rise to the top
The other day I reported there were suggested science activities we wouldn’t be doing to supposedly learn more about blood. Like the mix the red hots (1/2 cup red blood cells) and lima beans (5 white blood cells) and lentils (1 tablespoon platelets) in 1 and 1/2 cup karo syrup (plasma) activity. Well, guess what…
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H.o.p.’s review of "The Tortoise and the Hare"
H.o.p. has this to say about the Center for Puppetry Art’s production of “The Tortoise and the Hare”. It’s about this ship and it wrecked on an island and a bunch of animals came out of the ship, like a fox and a mouse and a tortoise and a rabbit and a crow with cheese…
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Activities we likely won't be doing that are supposed to help you learn about blood
What we’re using for science right now. We used to do science with me scouring the web for things to feed H.o.p. And he has his Brain Pop that give nice primers on subjects. H.o.p., amazingly enough, has recently discovered that he likes tests. At least the way mom does them. If you look up…