Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Some movies and updates

Zoe's reenactment of Emily Dickinson's poem The Lost Thought

Zoe singing Pi Day at the math party

Community Research Project on Exploding and Collapsing Boxes (of numbers)

Other recent fun learning:

Science - Biology, Creative Thinking, Greenhouse Effect, Evolutions, Bacteria, Genetic Mutations, Basic Electronics, Cell Turnover, Optimization/Maximization, Opportunism, Ecosystems,

The start of the American Revolution - The Boston Massacre, The Battle at Lexington and Concord, Sam Adams, Thomas Paine, Patrick Henry, Paul Revere, and The John Adams HBO mini series

Reading - Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, Enders Game by Orson Scott Card, Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett, Emily Dickenson Poems, The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane and other fiction and non-ficiton.

Math - Programming JAVA, Quadratic Equations, and Fractional Bases

Music - Piano

Music History - Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov, Pushkin, Wagner and The Ring Cycle, Liszt, Opera - Puccini, Verdi, Giselle, Chopin, Mendelssohn

Language Arts - Greek and Latin word roots, aesthetics, analogies, Spanish Cognates, synthesis, divergence, analysis, evaluation, and intuition.

Dance - preparing for recital in June

Other - writing a couple books, a shot movie, songs for the movie, chatting, Skyping, playing, watching three versions of Hamlet and Looney Tunes.

1 comments:

  1. wow! what an update. You guys have been learning things all over the place. Do you normally take a break for summer or will the fun just continue :)

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