Posted in Fun, math, Music, video on Jul 9th, 2011 2 Comments »
There’s a fun young woman named Vi Hart who created a couple of very different diversions I wanted to share today. First, she made this quirky video about binary trees and chopped heads here… And she also wrote a seven-movement piece about Harry Potter for her senior project at Stony Brook University. The first song [...]
Posted in art, freebies, history, holidays, Music, Worksheets & printables on Jun 9th, 2009 No Comments »
Here’s two wonderful freebies that CurrClick is offering this week. Get them while you can… This secular Baroque Era unit study is massive and comprehensive. It’s a PDF file with clickable links to streaming videos, printouts, interactive games and tons more. It’s designed to be used for multiple K-12 ages and is creative, interesting and [...]
Posted in Music, science on May 25th, 2009 No Comments »
Have you listened to the singing science songs? I love these and I used to nurse Anna and Jack to sleep with these playing in the background. They are so cute and do such a good job of teaching so many scientific concepts! If you don’t know about these treasures be sure to go take [...]
Posted in Fun, geography, math, Music, nature, plans for the day, science, social studies on May 19th, 2009 2 Comments »
We’re off to civilization for groceries, with a stop at the lake on the way. I’m miserably sick again (still) but I seem to always be sick these days and we need groceries. No rest for the wicked! Here’s some fun ways I’m going to try to work in a little learning along the way. [...]
Posted in cool sites, Music on Feb 22nd, 2009 No Comments »
I stumbled onto the Classics for Kids website and it looks like a really neat resource. Designed to teach kids about classical music, it has lots of really creative games and activities about music and composers, as well as tons of information, podcasts and lesson plans. I’ve been playing the podcast on freedom songs and [...]
Posted in Anna, Music on Sep 21st, 2008 No Comments »
Look what Anna’s got! I got it for her a few weeks ago. She’s in love. She takes it everywhere. It was fairly pricey but I wanted to get her a quality guitar and it’s an investment. She is such a musical child and she loves to play on the cheap Walmart children’s guitar [...]
Posted in geography, Music on Aug 18th, 2008 No Comments »
Our dear friend Polly lives in Scotland. She asked Daryl to teach the kids to sing “Flower of Scotland” since it’s considered one of their national songs and is so beloved. Daryl printed the words out and we’ve been singing it together in the car. It is a lovely song and it gets stuck in [...]
