Thursday, March 7, 2013

Schoolwork Accomplished:

Leanna:
*sketching
*outdoor play
*tons of dancing(music choice:kids only)
*exercise:

Justin:
*animal worksheet
*telling time worksheet
*Penguin abc order worksheet
*Subtraction game

Timothy:
*Starfall
*Computer play

Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Schoolwork Accomplished:

Leanna:
*Geography Lesson-Thurs, Fri. from last week,plus Mon.-Wed. for this week
*Watched the frog videos for our amphibians lesson
*life of Fred-one chapter
*Lifeskills-planning
*National Geographic Almanac 2013
*Music-kids channel
* lifeskills-dusting/house cleaning/lots of moving around
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Justin:
*Sight Words
*We read and discussed What's Smaller Than  A Pygmy Shrew? by Robert E. Wells.  They already knew a lot of the terms from shows like Cat in the Hat and Zoola Patrol and The Magic School bus.
*Amphibians lesson-we watched four frog videos on National Geographic (Grossed everybody out, except for the booty-shaking frogs), read the chapter on Frog Food, and Justin wrote the answers to the questions.

Timothy:
*Sight Words
*We read and discussed What's Smaller Than  A Pygmy Shrew? by Robert E. Wells.  They already knew a lot of the terms from shows like Cat in the Hat and Zoola Patrol and The Magic School bus.
**Amphibians lesson-we watched four frog videos on National Geographic (Grossed everybody out, except for the booty-shaking frogs), read the chapter on Frog food.
*Computer play

Jacob:
*He listened to most of our discussion on What's Smaller Than  A Pygmy Shrew? by Robert E. Wells.  They already knew a lot of the terms from shows like Cat in the Hat and Zoola Patrol and The Magic Schoolbus.

Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Schoolwork Accomplished:

Leanna:
* Cadette Meeting
*Cursive Handwriting book
*Colored a picture of the American Flag for Flat Stanley project
*Egypt lapbook
*Oral read aloud practice (read from Joke book for forever and  a day)

Justin:
*Place Value worksheet and discussion
*extra place value problems
*Amphibians review and new lesson

Timothy:
*Place Value worksheet and discussion
*extra place valude problems
*Amphibians review and new lesson

Jacob:

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Schoolwork Accomplished:

Leanna:
*Artist Trading Cards
*Reading Leonardo for Kids and Amazing Leonardo Da Vinci Inventions You Can Build It Yourself by Maxine Anderson
*Jokes and Handwriting book
*Silent Reading
*Cadettes meeting-made a video and poster.
*dancing

Justin:
*Skip Counting video (to help remind him)
*Math worksheet
*We read Snooping by Joy Berry
*Writing a story on his own

Timothy:
*Math Worksheets
*Writing his own math story problem
*We read Snooping by Joy Berry
*Worked on telling time (dollar store giant clock)

Jacob:
*Computer play
*Dancing

Monday, March 4, 2013

Schoolwork Accomplished:

Leanna:
*Cursive Handwriting book-4 pages
*Silent Reading: Little Town on the Prairie
*Art-
*field trip page
* national geographic book
*gym-hand clap, stair running,
*What Your 6th Grader Needs to Know-The Beat, the Western Musical Tradition, 
*Life of Fred-one chapter
*Khan Academy-multiplication, representing numbers

Justin:
*Outdoor Play
*Place Value-went over them together, doing it several different ways
*Sight Words


Timothy:
*Outdoor Play
*Guji  Guji read  by Robert Guillome
*Sight Words

Jacob:
*Outdoor Play
*Big and Little Letters
*Polar Bear Maze
*Tracing Lines
*We read A Children's Book About Snooping by Joy Berry

From Leanna:

From the author:

We think the "Mona Lisa" is a portrait of Lisa Gherardini, the wife of Francesco del Giocondo which is why the painting is also known by the title, La Gioconda.

2 months ago by Steven Zucker

Would it be possible for curators to scan the Mona Lisa into a computer and use it to change the colors to what they originally were? If so, how sure could we be that the product of this process would capture what was there when the painting was first made?

2 months ago by Ari Mendelson

This is such an interesting idea and there has been work done in this area but then color is so very tricky. Think about just a few issues out of many more: What is the baseline color? In other words, What color are we looking for? Pigments change over even short periods of time. Would we assume we want the color Leonardo saw when the painting was still wet, he was certainly aware of the ways that color changes over time. Would this set of colors be those before or after vanish is applied? In… (more)

2 months ago by Steven Zucker

This has actually been attempted, I'm linking you to a study done in 2006: http://www.lumiere-technology.com/Pages/News/news3.htm

Saturday, March 2, 2012

Schoolwork Accomplished:

Leanna:

*Field Trip to Blue Mountain 4 1/2 hours of snow tubing exercise 
*Silent reading: Little Town on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
*Khan Academy (earned badges)
*exercise
*music listening

Friday, March 1, 2013

Schoolwork Accomplished:

Leanna:
*Khan Academy
*journaling
*Silent Reading: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
*A bit of sketching

Justin:
*Khan Academy
*Outdoor Play
*Computer Play
*division.com

Timothy:
*Khan Academy
*Outdoor Play
*Computer play
Jacob:


Khan Academy
Kids National Geographic
Silent Reading: Little Town on the Prairie
Exercises